conclusions if medical treatment gets started early in the course of empyema, prognosis would be excellent. besides, there was no significant difference in short- and long-term outcomes between medical or surgical interventions. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the duration of admission, duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy, time to response to treatment, and outcomes of me...

Temporary decortication induced by acute cerebral ischemia or insulin coma reinstated the initial syndrome of emotional hyperreactivity in rats fully recovered from septal forebrain lesions. The effect was virtually the same as observed earlier with the use of spreading cortical depression. Surprisingly it was found that insulin coma induced during the acute phase of the septal syndrome but not...

Berman, Berman and Prescott (1974) documented that paleocerebellar decortication but not neocerebellar decortication transformed an adult pathologically violent mother deprived monkey into a peaceful, social and inquisitive monkey. The paleocerebellum has primary connections with the brain stem and limbic system; the neocerebellum with the cerebral neocortex. http://www.violence.de/berman/artic...

In newborns and adults of a number of species including humans, exposure to acute hypoxemia produces a "regulated" decease in core temperature, the mechanism of which is unknown. Considering that various cortical areas participate in autonomic regulation including thermoregulation, the present experiments were carried out to test the hypothesis that the cerebral cortex plays a role in modulatin...

A case of acute staphylococcal pericarditis with constriction of the heart is reported. The response to antibiotics and simple pericardial drainage was poor. Pericardiectomy and decortication of the heart was performed on a moribund patient. Marked improvement followed surgery combined with intensive antibiotic therapy. At follow-up eight months later, the patient was a normal active 6-year-old...

Method A prospective, comparative and randomized trial was conducted in 37 patients who underwent pleuro-decortication in a empyema. Since May-Dec 2014. Male 27, female 10; mean-age 48years. We compared the use of digitals devices with the current analogue version. The digital and analogue group had 18 and 19 patients, respectively. The surgery was indicated when the empyema was 5-7grade (Light...

Hooded rats were operated to achieve maximum removal of cortical tissue (decorticationDC). DC was achieved which was later confirmed by serial histology. The rats and well matched controls were studied as to their reproductive cyclicity using vaginal smear technique, and their ability to achieve functional oestrus and mating – including pregnancy. From histological demonstrations, two groups of...

parapneunomonic effusion is a common accompaniment of bacterial pneumonia and mostly is resolved with medical management. we studied the etiology and possible underlying causes of complicated parapneumonic effusion and timing of pulmonary decortication. a descriptive study on 34 patients with postpneumonic empyema which required decortication carried out. post surgical and post traumatic empyem...