A child born without lower limbs

An Account of a Child Born without Organs of Generation

Dry gangrene of lower limbs in a child: an adverse drug reaction to chloramphenicol

Drug induced vasculitis is a potentially life and limb threatening complication which can be precipitated by intake of virtually any pharmaceutical agent. It is a diagnosis of exclusion as definitive diagnostic and laboratory criteria have not been defined. Withdrawal of the offending agent is the definitive therapy but use of antithrombotic, vasodilatory and anti-inflammatory agents has been p...

Arteriography of the Lower Limbs

syncope5 and suppuration in the groin after extra-vascular injection.6 The great danger, however, is that it is radioactive : ill results from this have been reported.9 Sodium iodide is likely to produce severe reactions and much pain, but it is still used for the aorta.10, 11 Organic iodides are the substances now usually employed. The most favoured is diodone (diodrast, Pyelosil). It is prepa...

Peripheral muscle dysfunction in COPD: lower limbs versus upper limbs.

In patients with COPD, the degree of functional impairment appears to differ between the upper and lower limbs. Significant dyspnea and fatigue have been reported by these patients when performing tasks with unsupported upper limbs and two mechanisms have been proposed to explain this fact: neuromechanical dysfunction of respiratory muscles; and changes in lung volume during such activities. Th...

Arterial embolectomy in lower limbs.

Arterial embolisms in the lower limbs occur frequently, and are of great interest to the vascular surgeon. The authors studied 159 cases of arterial embolisms in lower limbs from January 1991 to July 1993. Ages varied from 12 to 98, with a mean of 58. Eighty patients were male and 78 were female. In most cases, etiology of the embolus was well-established, and mainly caused (78 percent) by atri...