Bone Lesions in Infective Diseases

The Preventive Treatment of Infective Surgical Diseases

Echocardiographic documentation of vegetative lesions in infective endocarditis: clinical implications.

Eighty-seven patients with the clinical syndrome of infective endocarditis were examined by M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography. Patients were divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of echocardiographically detected vegetative lesions. Group 1 consisted of 47 patients with one or more vegetations. Group 2 consisted of 40 patients without evidence of vegetations. Group ...

Granulomatous Lesions in Bone Marrow

RANULOMATOUS LESIONS have been found iii paraffin sections nlade from particles of bone marrow removed by aspiration from patients w’it-h tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, brucehlosis, sarcoidosis, infectious mononucleosis, malignant lymphomas or miscellaneous and indeterminate disorders.19 In a previous paper,4 I discussed the significance of granulomatous lesions foiits(l in sections made from bo...

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IN CHILDREN

A total of 14 cases of infective endocarditis (IE) in children aged 6 months to 10 years were seen from December 1987 to December 1992 at the pediatric unit of Ayatollah Taleghani Medical Center. The majority of patients (12 of 14) were between 5 and 10 years of age. Acyanotic congenital heart disease was known to preexist in 78.6% and rheumatic valvular heart disease in 21.4% of cases. Or...

Granulomatous lesions in bone marrow.

RANULOMATOUS LESIONS have been found iii paraffin sections nlade from particles of bone marrow removed by aspiration from patients w’it-h tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, brucehlosis, sarcoidosis, infectious mononucleosis, malignant lymphomas or miscellaneous and indeterminate disorders.19 In a previous paper,4 I discussed the significance of granulomatous lesions foiits(l in sections made from bo...