RAPID DILATATION AND CURETTING.

Curiosities of Curetting

Rupture of an infected aortic aneurysm with rapid dilatation.

An 87-year-old normotensive man was admitted to our hospital due to symptoms of general fatigue. His body temperature was 37.3°C, his C-reactive protein (CRP) level was 22.6 mg/dL and his white blood cell count (WBC) was 16,000/mL. Although a computed tomography (CT) scan did not reveal any infections, we detected Klebsiella pneumoniae in a blood culture. Following the administration antibiotic...

An Unusual Case of Abortion Treated by Curetting

By D. R. LEWIS, m.b., f.r.c.s. (Edin.) Civil Surgeon, Maubin A Burmese woman, aged 39, was brought to the civil hospital, Maubin, at 8 p.m. on the 17th March, 1938, with the history that she had had vague pains in the lower abdomen for the past 6 weeks and that there was slight loss of blood per vaginam during all this period. She was said to be in the fifth month of her eleventh pregnancy. It ...

Hyperbilirubinemia and Pelvicaliceal Dilatation

Dear Editor Sir, the recent publication on hyperbilirubinemia and pelvicaliceal dilatation is very interesting. Akil et al concluded that “hyperbilirubinemia might not have a direct effect on outcome of the pelvicaliceal dilatation [1].” There were several problems on this work that limited the conclusion. The few subjects and no control of confounding factor (such as genetic disorders that can...

Hypertension, hypertrophy and dilatation.

ANYONE who has taken part in joint clinicopathological investigations will be aware of the discrepancies that often exist between the clinical and functional estimates of disease and the histopathological findings. In cardiovascular disease the pathologist encounters cases in which the morphological changes in the myocardium at necropsy are minimal, but the functional changes in life were gross...