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Endophthalmitis occurred three months following completion of therapy for documented staphylococcal septicemia in two patients on long-term hemodialysis. The indolent course of the endophthalmitis, and its excellent response to systemic and subconjunctival antibiotics and subconjunctival and topical corticosteroid therapy, suggest the possibility that the acute fulminating clinical course of metastatic bacterial endophthalmitis may be modified in this population of patients. The reason for this modified clinical picture is probably the immune incompetence associated with uremia, which favors both the development of metastatic endophthalmitis as well as altering its clinical presentation. While funduscopic examination is suggested in all dialysis patients with eye complaints, this procedure becomes mandatory following episodes of sepsis.
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PMID:Endophthalmitis following staphylococcal sepsis in renal failure patients. 30 34

The tracheas of 37 tracheostomized patients (31 men and 6 women) were studied in connection with obduction. Twenty-six patients had been intubated before tracheostomy and 29 of the tracheostomized patients were treated with a respirator. At autopsy, the damage caused to the tracheal wall by the cuff was studied macroscopically; the finding was photographed for later investigation and samples were taken from the damaged area for microscopic examination. The purpose of the study was to determine the damage caused to the tracheal wall by the low-volume cuff we have used during the last 4 years. The cuff diameter was nearly the same as that of the trachea. The injuries were grouped according to their extent and depth as mild, moderate or severe, and the groups contained, respectively, 5, 12 and 20 patients. It seemed that cuff pressure played a greater part in causing damage than the duration of cuff strain. Factors in the clinical condition of patients, like hypotension, uraemia, respiratory infections, sepsis and use of steroids, may have had an effect on the development of damage. The injuries caused by the cuff used are so severe that there is every reason to use instead the low-pressure, high-volume cuff, which has been shown to cause less damage, whenever long-term treatment is involved.
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PMID:Post-mortem findings of tracheal injury after cuffed intubation and tracheostomy. A clinical and histopathological study. 42 16

The results of 97 autopsy cases of lymphogranulomatosis showed the causes of death to be either progression of the disease (78 cases), complications of treatment (12) or other diseases (7). The immediate causes of death in the progression of the disease were toxicity (29%), pulmonary insufficiency (22%), pulmonary-cardial insufficiency (12%), hepatic insufficiency (21%), peritonitis (3.4%), sepsis (5.8%), uremia (3.4%), posthemorrhagic anemia (1.7%), cerebral edema (1.7%). The immediate causes of death in complications of therapy were secondary infection (5 cases), posthemorrhagic anemia (3), pulmonary insufficiency (3), cerebral edema (1). In 7 observations death was not due to lymphogranulomatosis: in 2 cases it was caused by disseminated hematogenic tuberculosis, in 2 pneumonia (with cured lymphogranulomatosis, in 1 myocardial infarction, in 1 uremia (aterosclerotic nephrosclerosis) and 1 patient died accidentally.
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PMID:[Causes of death in lymphogranulomatosis]. 45 24

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia and postdiarrheal hemolytic-uremia syndrome (HUS) developed in a 15-month-old boy after he ingested unpasteurized goat's milk. The epidemiology of this organism and the disease states caused by it are discussed with the suggestion that an association between it and some cases of the HUS might be found if sought.
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PMID:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia. 57 75

Two cases with different and not previously described fatal renal complications during treatment with penicillamine are reported. A man with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis with features of systemic lupus erythematosus was treated with penicillamine for six months and developed a mild membranous glomerulonephritis and a severe renal vasculitis leading to uremia and death. A woman with primary biliary cirrhosis was treated with penicillamine for nine months and developed a nephrotic syndrome, the renal biopsy showing minimal change glomerulonephritis. The nephrotic syndrome responded to prednisone but the patient died, probably from septicemia. Penicillamine may thus cause glomerular damage without deposition of immune complexes. A restricted use of the drug is recommended.
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PMID:Fatal renal vasculitis and minimal change glomerulonephritis complicating treatment with penicillamine. Report on two cases. 76 Apr 1

Stephens and Smith have recently described a urethroanal connection through which urine was passed preferentially into the otherwise normal rectum at the pectinate line. Other authors have reported similar deformities. The term "congenital 'H-type' anourethral fistula" was proposed for this rare anomaly by deVries and Friedland in 1974. In this communication, we describe two examples of the "H-type" urethroanal fistula (Fig. 1). Each patient also had tracheoesophageal fistula. One patient (R.P.), now 11 yr of age, has had successful correction of the anomaly. The other patient (T.McC.), a small premature baby whose uroanal deformity was investigated radiographically, died of sepsis and uremia. The anatomical relationships in this baby were investigated histologically in the autopsy specimen by means of serial sections. From this study, it has been possible to determine the sphincteric anatomy and to suggest a possible pathoembryology of the defect.
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PMID:"H-type" urethroanal fistula. 83 18

Eleven out of a series of twenty-nine patients (37-9%) with acute copper sulphate poisoning developed acute renal failure. Intravascular haemolysis appeared to be the chief factor responsible for renal lesions in these patients. Histological lesions observed in the kidney varied from those of mild shock to well established acute tubular necrosis. In one case, granulomatous lesions were seen in response to tubulorrhexis. Renal failure was the chief indication for dialysis in ten patients, whereas one patient was dialysed primarily for removal of copper. Notwithstanding the adequate control of uraemia by dialysis, only six of the eleven patients recovered. Septicaemia was responsible for death in three, hepatic failure in one and methaemoglobinaemia in another. It is postulated that release of copper from haemolysed red cells during acute haemolytic episodes may initiate, or contribute to, the development of renal damage.
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PMID:Acute renal failure following copper sulphate intoxication. 87 9

A 29-year-old female, with chronic renal failure and chronic bilateral emphysema, was admitted with severe uremia and septicemia secondary to multiple abscesses in the right kidney. Her condition improved after right nephrectomy. Pulmonary function studies showed marked obstructive and restrictive lung disease consistent witht the diagnosis of primary emphysema. On biochemical and histological examination, the liver was found to be normal. Alpha1-antitrypsin could not be demonstrated in the patient's serum at normal pH by any of the known techniques, but protein molecules with alpha1-antitrypsin antigencity were found at pH 4.8; this suggests a pH-dependent structural difference in alpha1-antitrypsin protein. Starch gel electrophoresis gave a multibanding pattern not previously described. A new form of apparent total alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency is postulated.
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PMID:Apparent total alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency: report of a case. 97 22

The mortality in 25 patients suffering from post-combat injury acute renal failure (ARF) was 64%. Abdominal injuries were present in 17 patients with a mortality rate of 64.7%. Respiratory insufficiency occurred in 14 patients, jaundice occurred in 13, and septicemia in 10. The mean period of oliguria was high, 24.1 days per survivor, and the number of hemodialyses averaged 21.6 per survivor. It is concluded that the high mortality is primary due to the severity of the underlying injury itself and not due to the renal failure, that the ARF is more severe than in civilian injuries, as evidenced by a prolonged oliguric phase, and that frequent and intensive hemodialysis regimen is necessary for the elimination of deaths from uremia per se.
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PMID:Acute renal failure in combat injuries. 107 59

Resistance to bacterial infection, particularly septicemia and pneumonia, is decreased in patients with uremia. Tests of monocyte function in 21 patients with chronic uremia and in 21 normal healthy subjects showed an increase in attachment rate, spreading activity and Nirtoblue-tetrazolium reduction in the uremic subjects. In contrast, phagocytosis of IgG-coated red cells was impaired.
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PMID:Impaired phagocytic activity of human monocytes in respect to reduced antibacterial resistance in uremia. 115 44


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