SMJ // February 1967, Volume 60 - Issue 2
Book Review
Nursing Education in Community Junior Colleges
Acknowledgment
BOOKS RECEIVED
Editorial
CONTROVERSY IN INTERNAL MEDICINE
Original Article
Gentamicin Sulfate in the Treatment of Extra-Urinary Infections Due to Gram-Negative Bacteria
The authors believe this drug to be very effective in the gram-negative infections of wounds, burns, peritonitis and other lesions. Little toxicity was encountered.
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Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery
The recognition of this not uncommon congenital anomaly has a practical importance. Its presence explains several diagnostic aberrations. For the surgeon who is to operate in the cervical region, knowledge of its presence is to be forewarned for the avoidance of surgical accidents.
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Medical Grand Rounds from the University of Alabama Medical Center
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The Prognostic Value of the Trimethaphan Test
This test proved to be of no value in predicting the occurrence of hypotension during anesthesia.
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Testicular Tumors Following Orchiopexy
This represents the review of possibly the largest collection of testicular tumors in existence. The question may be raised whether, however, it may justifiably be concluded that correction of the abnormality should be undertaken before age six years.
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Congenital Heart Disease in Adults
Only the minority of those having congenital heart disease live into the middle years of life. This number will decrease as more and more of the defects are corrected in childhood. The authors review their cases of this form of heart disease as to prognosis when operated upon.
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Bacterial Endocarditis: Pathogenesis and Racial Susceptibility
Fatality rates in the Negro were twice those of whites seemingly as the result of more severe degrees of underlying heart disease and a greater tendency to perforation of valve leaflets. The study included considerations of the infecting organisms.
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Some Psychiatric Considerations in the Care of College Students
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One Year’s Experience in the Isolation of Atypical Mycobacteria at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston: Epidemiological and Clinical Inferences
The atypical acid-fast organisms identified in recent years are of interest from several viewpoints. Of especial interest and for study has been the relationship of these organisms to pathologic entities and disease. The authors relate these acid-fast organisms to chronic pulmonary disease and compare the epidemiologic peculiarities with those reported…
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Postauricular Subperiosteal Abscess in Chronic Otitis Media
Subperiosteal abscess of the mastoid process is a rare complication of otitis media. Three cases of this disorder are described and a program of treatment outlined.
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Lincomycin Therapy of Pneumonia: Clinical Experience with 50 Patients
The authors present their experiences with this new antibiotic which is effective against gram-positive organisms. It offers an alternative treatment if a patient cannot tolerate penicillin.
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Cardiovascular Effects of Gastric Hypothermia
Though the clinical use of hypothermia for duodenal ulcer has "come and gone," a study of the effect of cold contiguous to the heart is of interest "for the record."
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Parotid Tumors
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Clinical Evaluation of Thyroid Scanning with Particular Emphasis in Detection of Cancer
The authors review this technic and its application. They then analyze their results in using this method of studying the thyroid gland and its functions.
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Electrocardiographic Recognition of Left Ventricular Overwork
The authors believe that the electrocardiogram can point quite accurately to the diagnosis of overwork of the left ventricle. They use specific criteria to establish such a diagnosis not in the vague terms of "hypertrophy" and "strain" as used in the past.
Original Article
Fibrinolysis
Because of the importance of this subject in both surgical and nonsurgical clinical conditions, a review of what is known about it as of this date should be of interest. It would seem probable that at some future date, possibly not too distant, thrombolytic treatment may move from the experimental…
Original Article
Use of Allopurinol in Gout, Hyperuricemia and Uric Acid Lithiasis
The usefulness of this new drug in the management of gout and hyperuricemia has been demonstrated by a number of authors during the past several years. The authors add a confirmatory experience.
