Clinical Experience

Gastrointestinal anthrax: clinical experience in 5 cases

Background: Bacillus anthracis may usually cause three forms of anthrax: inhalation, gastrointestinal and cutaneous. The gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax develops after eating contaminated meat. Thus, in this paper were report 5 cases of intestinal anthrax. Case Presentation: We report a case series of intestinal anthrax, with history of consumption of raw or poorly cooked liver of sheep. One pati...

Clinical Experience

Rick Gray, MD, FSIR Director, Interventional Radiology, Washington Hospital Center; Washington, D.C., June 2007 FIGURE 1 Initial contrast study reveals 8 cm high-grade venous anastomosis stenosis with intragraft mural and luminal residual thrombus. FIGURE 2 High-grade wellcollateralized subclavian stenosis. FIGURE 3a Angioplasty with 8 mm by 8 cm ConquestTM balloon showing long-segment resistan...

Clinical Experience with Aureomycin.

AWBATTM: Early Clinical Experience

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to describe the early clinical experience with AWBAT. METHODS Burn patients requiring (1) donor sites or (2) treatment of a superficial burn wound injury were treated. A total of 45 patients with 69 distinct wounds were included. AWBAT-D was evaluated in donor sites and AWBAT-S was evaluated in superficial partial-thickness burns. Days to healing, pain...

Bisphosphonates: clinical experience.

Bone is a preferred site of metastasis for many solid tumors, and the complications associated with bone metastases can result in significant skeletal morbidity including severe bone pain, pathologic fracture, spinal cord compression, and hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM). Bisphosphonates are the current standard of care for preventing skeletal complications associated with bone metastases. Cli...