Progressive angular deformity of an extremity due to differential physeal arrest is the most common late orthopaedic sequela following meningococcal septicaemia in childhood. A total of ten patients (14 ankles) with distal tibial physeal arrest as a consequence of meningococcal septicaemia have been reviewed. Radiological analysis of their ankles has demonstrated a distinct pattern of deformity...

Lockwood. Pp. 138. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland. 1896. The book is a reprint of the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons last year. It deals exhaustively with the various forms of micro-organisms, which produce such diseases as septicaemia and septic peritonitis, their modes of infection, and the result of their growth in the tissues. A case of angina Ludovici, in which...

ed signs of suppuration on April 28th and four ounces of pus were let out by incision. "On May 2nd,symptoms of pneumonia appeared and he coughed up frothy blood. He died on May 3rd, fourteenth day from the commencement of the attack. Medical opinion was divided over this case, some holding that it was a case of ordinary septicaemia,and others that it was plague septicaemia. Taking into consider...

Streptococcus agalactiae is presently the commonest beta-haemolytic streptococcus isolated from clinical material in this hospital. Between October 1974 and March 1975, 81 patients with such infections were seen. Seventeen had urinary tract infections, six had septicaemia, and one neonate had meningitis. Three of those with septicaemia were neonates and two died. The organism was also found to ...

We present a case of septicaemia and compartment syndrome of the leg in a diabetic patient, following acupuncture to his calf. An emergency decompression fasciotomy was performed on the patient and gram-positive cocci were grown from the posterior compartment wound swab cultures and group A streptococcus from his blood cultures. He remained in the Intensive Therapy Unit postoperatively, requiri...

INTRODUCTION We report 2 cases of Shigella septicaemia in adult patients. CLINICAL PICTURE Two 57-year-old women presented with non-bloody diarrhoea and fever. The first patient was an inmate of a long-term care facility who was schizophrenic and the second patient was a diabetic who recently travelled to Medan, Indonesia. Both patients were febrile, hypotensive and dehydrated. The first pati...