was attributed to the broncho-pneumonia, but against this explanation was the fact that the administration of oxygen failed to abolish or decrease the cyanosis, whereas the cyanosis usually accompanying bronchopneumonia can be relieved or abolished easily by adding some oxygen to the inspired air." He suggested, on the evidence that he gave, that the haemoglobin was in the form of methaemoglobi...

At death this male child was six years old. Since the age of six months he had suffered from attacks of vomiting which appeared immediately after food. Intervals of ten days to three weeks occurred in which this did not happen, and once for six weeks he was free. For four weeks before admission to hospital he vomited immediately after every kind of food or drink; a few days after admission to h...

their spleens by " spleen puncture." Certainly, most of the patients whom we see are sent to us . from the Medical College Hospital Out-patient Dispensary and by local practitioners because they have symptoms which suggest kala-azar. On the other hand, of the patients who are eventually diagnosed kala-azar in the Medical College Hospital, more than half have been admitted not as kala-azar patie...

165 The total number of births registered in 1920 in the Federated Malay States was 36,566, while deaths of children under a year of age was 6,920 giving an infant mortality rate of 194 per 1,000 live births. Convulsions, the cause assigned to 3,460 deaths for that year, was actually not a disease but a symptom. Most of the deaths were probably caused by gastro-intestinal troubles reportedly th...

Two patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that developed serious infectious complications following anti-TNFalpha therapy (infliximab) are reported. Patient 1 developed tuberculosis with high fever, refractory diarrhea and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Trans-bronchial needle biopsy was useful to confirm the diagnosis. Patient 2 showed sudden onset of dyspnea with diffuse bilateral lung infiltr...

E. R., set. 6, the child of a dock labourer, was admitted into the Children's Hospital, under my care, with the following history: For the last six months she had been gradually losing her voice, and her breathing had become bad. She had no cough in the daytime, but at night would get attacks of dyspnoea and coughing. She never had suffered from croup, but three years ago had a sharp attack of ...

Abstrak : Pneumonia Komunitas Pada Penderita TB Kasus Kambuh dengan DM tipe 2 (Laporan Kasus). komunitas adalah peradangan akut pada parenkim paru yang didapat di masyarakat. Insidens pneumonia meningkat orang penyakit komorbid antara lain diabetes mellitus dan tuberculosis. Seorang wanita berusia 54 tahun datang ke RS keluhan sesak nafas, demam, nyeri dada sebelah kiri terutama saat batuk, naf...

Diagnosing bacterial infection (BI) remains a challenge for the attending physician. An ex vivo infection model based on human fixed polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) gives an autofluorescence signal that differs significantly between stimulated and unstimulated cells. We took advantage of this property for use in an in vivo pneumonia mouse model and in patients hospitalized with bacterial p...

More than three-quarters of deaths related to major burns are a consequence of infection, which is frequently ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP). A retrospective study was performed, over a five-year period, of ventilated children with major burns. 92 patients were included in the study; their mean age was 3.5 years and their mean total body surface area burn was 30%. 62% of the patients sus...