bronchopneumonia/headache

The use of cefaclor advanced formulation (cefaclor AF) in the treatment of pneumonia caused by susceptible organisms was investigated in a multi-center trial conducted in the United Kingdom and the United States. A total of 266 patients were enrolled in this double-blind, double-dummy, randomized,

OBJECTIVE A prescription event monitoring (PEM) postmarketing surveillance study was carried out to examine the safety of zafirlukast as used in general practice in England. METHODS Exposure data were obtained from the first National Health Service (NHS) prescription dispensed for patients whose

Aprotinin aerosol has been previously shown to have protective effects in experimental influenza- and parainfluenza-induced bronchopneumonias in animals. This paper presents the results of controlled clinical studies to evaluate the therapeutical efficiency of aprotinin aerosol in natural influenza

A man aged 64, with a history of chronic trichloroethylene intoxication, presented early headache, impairment of memory, and "stehende Redensarten", later on mental deterioration with muteness and oral tendency. He died of bronchopneumonia. The brain was studied by light and electron microscopy.

BACKGROUND Systemic vasculitides constitute heterogenous conditions affecting many organs and systems through blood vessel inflammation. Although there are some classifications for vasculitis, several vasculitides are "unclassified" because they cannot be clearly assigned to one of the

A-16-year old boy was admitted with fever, headache, dysuria, and brown-colored urine. The patient presented with hemorrhagic cystitis and bronchopneumonia. Infection with adenovirus was confirmed by detection of viral DNA in the patient's urine by the hybridisation technique.

We report two cases of a rapidly progressive fatal overwhelming pneumococcal infection. Patient 1 was a 67-year-old man with a 24-h history of fever and malaise and was transferred to our department. He was severely ill, tachypneic, and felt a chill. A purpuric discoloration with ecchymosis of the

A 25-year-old man suffered from a sudden severe headache followed by loss of consciousness on 29 March 1993. Cranial computed tomography was performed at a local hospital and arteriovenous malformation was suspected. An open biopsy was performed on 7 July 1993 and malignant melanoma was discovered.

The patient was a 61-year-old man who initially complained of skin pigmentation. He was diagnosed as malignant acanthosis nigricans associated with gastric cancer (IIc advanced) in March 1981. Surgical excision of the stomach was performed in May 1981. In July 1981 he experienced headache, vomiting

A case of an acute intracranial subdural haematoma occurring shortly after spinal anaesthesia is reported. A 67 year old poorly controlled hypertensive man, ASA II, underwent removal of a prostatic adenoma under spinal anaesthesia. He complained of postural headache on the third day after surgery.

A 64-year-old man was admitted for a neck pain, posterior headaches, fever (39°C), and an inflammatory syndrome lasting for six weeks (persistent elevation of C-reactive protein, around 200 mg/l). Because of a dry cough, a bronchopneumonia was firstly suspected: antibiotics were inefficient. The

Acute petrified myocardium associated with septic shock, diagnosed by autopsy has rarely been described. A 15-year-old adolescent male was diagnosed with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus. One year later, he was hospitalized with fever, myalgia, headache, arthritis, vomiting, dyspnea and

Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of scrub typhus, is an obligate intracellular bacterium and characterized by dramatic genetic diversity. To elucidate the genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi populating in patients in Shandong Province, a new epidemic zone in China, we sequenced partial of the

A man aged 56 years, previously healthy, developed asthenia, hypersonnia, apathy, later polydipsia and bulimia, headache and episodes of unconsciousness. There was temporary improvement with steriod therapy, but ever-deepening stupor appeared till death due to bronchopneumonia. All blood chemistry

BACKGROUND Intraventricular tumors represent a diagnostic problem, due to a wide range of differential diagnosis, with an important variability of tumoral histological types in adult and pediatric population. Patient, RESULTS Our case is represented by a patient, aged 48 years, without any history