Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in typhoid fever.
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recommend that the PaO, should be checked about two hours after starting the first period of therapy and the flow rate adjusted accordingly. Follow-up of patients for up to two years has shown that they are still asymptomatic and free of disease (P. Forgacs, personal communication). For many years the aetiology of pneumatosis coli has been a matter for debate. The introduction of oxygen as a successful form of therapy leads us to suggest that the cysts are created and maintained by a fastidious anaerobic gas-forming organism which produces gas at a rate which exceeds the rate of absorption until an equilibrium is reached. The high tissue PaO2 achieved with oxygen therapy kills the organisms and the gas is then reabsorbed in the same way as gas contained within any natural or artificially created space in the body. Hence, the cysts do not recur. We are currently undertaking studies with the electron microscope in an attempt to substantiate this hypothesis. We thanik Mr. J. 0. Robinson for permission to report this case and Dr. A. G. Stansfield, iMr. P. Crocker, and Mrs. P. Tisbury for their help and encouragement in the preiparation of this paper.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 1 5956 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1975