A retrospective study of Scottish hospital inpatients aged 15 years or less has revealed, over a 4-year period, 36 cases of venous thrombosis or phlebitis. Of these 10 were considered to have deep venous thrombosis; 2 cases were associated with obvious pulmonary embolism and 2 cases developed chronic venous insufficiency. change in the coding allocations are proposed. There are "high risk" situ...

In evaluating patients with abdominal pain, physicians and surgeons have increasingly relied upon CT scanning of the abdomen and pelvis. Diagnostic accuracy in treating a wide variety of abdominal and pelvic conditions is facilitated by CT scanning. In this article we will review our experience treating two patients discovered to have septic phlebitis of the inferior mesenteric vein when they w...

Cephapirin sodium, a cephalosporin for parenteral use, was evaluated in vitro and in 27 patients. Cephapirin had activity equivalent to cephalothin against 25 strains each of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, and Staphylococcus aureus; 10 strains each of Diplococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas species, and Enterobacter species; and 8 strains of Proteus species other than P...

The objective of this study, conducted at Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, was to compare the cost of treatment of Gram-positive infections with teicoplanin and vancomycin under normal conditions. Using a prospective observational study design for drug utilization and economic assessment, we evaluated the comparability of the sample, adverse events, features of treatment with teicopl...

Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) has been recently found to be associated with slowly progressive myelopathy. We have seen 12 patients with HTLV-I associated myelopathy (HAM), three of whom showed retinal vasculitis. In addition two patients had ocular symptoms of vitreous opacity. Retinal vasculitis in these patients appears to be phlebitis and sheathing of retinal veins in the perip...