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Southern Medical Journal. 103:25-30
Background Postoperative infection following posterior instrumentation of the spine is not uncommon and is a potentially catastrophic complication. Removal of the instrumentation is ideal for eradicating infection. However, removal is not always poss
Publikováno v:
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 53:289-292
A retrospective chart review was performed on 54 patients with positive urine cultures during a 1-year period to assess the clinical significance of Aerococcus urinae. Based on predetermined criteria, patients were classified into 2 groups: those wit
Publikováno v:
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 25:872-887
An extensive, although largely forgotten, literature addresses the utility of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in the management of tuberculosis. Corticosteroid therapy probably improves neurological outcomes of, and decreases mortality due to, tube
Publikováno v:
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 276:1589-1594
Appendicitis is a common cause of abdominal pain for which prompt diagnosis is rewarded by a marked decrease in morbidity and mortality. The history and physical examination are at least as accurate as any laboratory modality in diagnosing or excludi
Autor:
John L. Carpenter
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 70:828-833
Background The costs of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and other patient-centered examinations have not been well established. The published literature contains cost estimates ranging from $21 to over $1,000 per examinee. This wid
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Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 5:79-85
The use of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to evaluate the clinical abilities of second‐year medical students at the end of an introduction to clinical medicine course in 2 successive years is reported. Due to the large number o
Autor:
Najma Parvez, John L. Carpenter
Publikováno v:
Southern medical journal. 102(8)
Adult onset Still disease is an unusual multisystem inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology and pathogenesis. Among its protean manifestations is pericarditis which occurs in approximately 30-40% of patients. Cardiac tamponade is a rare complicatio
Autor:
James M. Parks, John L. Carpenter
Publikováno v:
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 13:789-796
The experience with Mycobacterium kansasii infections in patients who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas is presented, and the literature on such infections is reviewed. The absolute and relat
Autor:
Douglas L. Hurley, Miguel Sierra-Hoffman, John K. Midturi, Richard Winn, John L. Carpenter, Alan Howell
Publikováno v:
Medical mycology. 43(7)
Aspergillus scleritis is a potentially devastating ocular infection difficult to treat because of poor scleral vascularity. Most Aspergillus cases occur following ocular surgery, but others have been associated with trauma or intravenous drug use. No
Publikováno v:
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases. 37(3)
We present a case of Fusarium osteomyelitis attributed to innocuous trauma in a patient with significant peripheral vascular disease and diabetes mellitus type 2. Fusarium species have been reported to cause an increasing number of infections, partic