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A case of toxic shock syndrome associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus parotitis in a 13-year-old male is presented. He was initially diagnosed with left-sided parotitis by his primary care physician, was started on sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and became severely ill the
A 90-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic exploratory laparotomy for evaluation of suspected mesenteric ischemia. She was promptly extubated postoperatively and transferred to the intensive care unit, where on the first postoperative day she developed hypoxemia necessitating initiation of
In order to assess the importance of pertinent perinatal risk factors in causing hearing loss (HI), a retrospective evaluation was made of the records of 146 affected children born in the city of Göteborg between 1970 and 1979. The incidence among six-year-olds born between 1970 and 1974 was 3.8 per
The authors report a 56-year-old woman with Ramsey Hunt syndrome with multiple cranial nerve paralysis and acute respiratory failure. Five days before admission, she experienced right otalgia and right facial pain and consulted an otolaryngologist of our hospital, who diagnosed the illness as acute
After a brief review of the anatomic and physiological features of the microcirculatory system, the Authors describe a new interpretation of skin edema in acute diffuse infantile glomerulonephritis, in Henoch-Schönlein's purpura, in epidemic parotitis and in Kawasaki's disease. They attribute the