Treament of Ozena

Ozena with Leprosy: United States, 1980

The three cases of fetid ozena from two Africans and a Saudi Arabian immigrant reported from Minnesota by Yelenich-Huss and others reminded me of polymicrobial sinus infections among leprosy patients seen in Carville, LA, in the 1980s. Klebsiella pneumoniae ozaenae grew mostly as a commensal from the upper respiratory tract of lepromatous leprosy patients with rhinorrhea. Klebsiella pneumoniae ...

Skull base defect in a patient with ozena undergoing dacryocystorhinostomy

Ozena, which is often used interchangeably with atrophic rhinitis or empty nose syndrome, is a progressive and chronically debilitating nasal disease that results in atrophy of the nasal mucosa, nasal crusting, fetor, and destruction of submucosal structures. Although the etiology is not completely understood, infection with Klebsiella ozaenae is widely believed to contribute to the destructive...

On the problems of computer-assisted treament choice

The diagnostic process is often considered the acme of the physicians skill and greatest attention is given to it in computer simulation. In practice, however, the diagnosis is only the first stage of medical care to which the next stage is linked up, the treatment choice. Decision making does not finish with the making of diagnosis, on the contrary, it rather begins. There even are situations ...

Magnetic resonance imaging of arterial thrombi and its possible correlation to fibrinolytic treament.

For 13 patients with subacute and 4 patients with chronic occlusion, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of occlusive arterial thrombi in the superficial femoral artery were performed in vivo. The patients with subacute occlusion were treated with catheter-directed thrombolysis. The frequency of MR signal intensity and its distribution in thrombi were studied for 11 successfully and 2 unsuccessful...

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