Background: Severe immunosuppression occurs after large thermal burn and probably contributes substantially to patient morbidity and mortality.In this study we investigated the range and distribution of T-lymphocyte. Subsets CD3 (T cells) CD4 (T helper/inducer cell,.th ), CD8 (T suppressor /Cytotoxic cells ,TS/C), CD3 CD4/CD3CD8 ratio, CD19 (B cells) and CD16 (NK cells ) in patiens following th...

studies have shown that there are psychiatric patients who tend to aggressively mutilate themselves; they burn or in most cases attempt to burn themselves, attempt to severely damage their genital organs (especially amputate their penis), castrate themselves, axtract their own eyes, amputate their own hands, or commit suicide. this report introduces two psychiatric men, aged 40 and 47, who had ...

Phillip J. Finley, PhD –#Corresponding Author 3 Rhy Norton, MS 4 Cindy Austin, MS 5 Amber Mitchell 6 Sara Zank, FNP 7 Paul Durham, PhD 8 9 10 1 Mercy Hospital Springfield 11 Division of Trauma & Burn Research 12 1235 E Cherokee, 7H 13 Springfield, MO 65804 14 15 16 2 Jordan Valley Innovation Center 17 Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences 18 524 N. Booneville Ave. 19 Springfield, MO 65806 20 ...

background and objectives: incidence of hospital-acquired diarrhea has increased rapidly and burn patients are at high risk of getting it. infection with c. difficile is the most common cause of antibiotic associated diarrhea. the aim of this study was to determine the baseline characteristics and clinical presentation of hospital-acquired diarrhea and compare c. difficile and non- c. difficile...

Ninety-seven of 763 patients admitted to a burn center during a 3-year period had histologically confirmed bacterial or fungal burn wound invasion. Nine of these 97 patients survived and 88 died. Burn wound infection was the principal cause of death in 57 patients and was diagnosed perimortem in an additional 31 patients but was not judged to be the primary cause of death. Pseudomonas aeruginos...

The benefits of the Integra Dermal Regeneration Template in the management of extensive burn injuries have been well documented. Integra can reduce donor- and graft-site scarring and has been reported to be capable of vascularizing over small areas of exposed bone and tendon. Given these potential advantages, we have used Integra for a variety of other reconstruction applications. We performed ...

background and goal: burn is an irreparable event, which results in numerous physical, psychological, social, and economic complications. the burned patients should be merely treated in a professional burn center due to vast clinical range of these patients. since, a percentage of mortality in burned patients is for the patients’ transportation from other centers; this study has aimed to invest...

From the Burn Unit (R.L.S., S.F.) and the Departments of Radiology (P.W.S.), Pediatrics (M.W.), and Psychiatry (F.J.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital; the Burn Unit (R.L.S., S.F.) and the Departments of Psychiatry (F.J.S.) and Prosthetics (B.M.), Shriners Hospitals for Children; the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (J.C.S.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital; Department of S...

Accidental injury due to burns is a serious and common, but preventable, occurrence in children. To analyze the characteristics of pediatric burns in the south of Liaoning province of China, a retrospective review was conducted of information, including general characteristics, demographics, etiology of burns, anatomical areas burned, and severity of injuries, obtained from medical records of p...