(1) In 17 patients with femoral neck fractures who were between 15 and 40 years old the incidence of aseptic necrosis in patients followed more than 2 years was 18.7 per cent.
(2) A pulsatile flow was used in an organ preservation system under aseptic conditions.
(3) The activity patterns in self- and cross-reinnervated flexor digitorum longus (FDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles were examined during natural movements in awake, unrestrained cats in which electromyographic (EMG) electrodes, tendon-force gauges, and muscle-length gauges had been chronically implanted under anesthesia and aseptic conditions.
(4) Twenty-five patients with aseptic nonunion of the humeral shaft, treated by a combined therapeutic procedure, are reported.
(5) Severe iritis which occurs within the first five days after cataract extraction may be categorized as (1) bacterial endophthalmitis, (2) toxic iritis, or (3) aseptic iritis.
(6) Aseptic loosening is the most common mode of failure for total knee replacements.
(7) A rare case of aseptic tenosynovitis from oxytocin injection in the vicinity of a tendon causing spontaneous rupture of the extensor digitorum communis tendon is reported.
(8) The result is a very satisfactory isolation of the wound, eliminating faults in aseptic technique but requiring fresh sterilisation for each new procedure.
(9) It allows pieces of bone from cadavers to be harvested several hours after death, without special aseptic precautions.
(10) We suggest that all cases of discitis after discography are initiated by infection, and that a very strict aseptic technique should be used for all injections into intervertebral discs.
(11) Mollaret's recurrent aseptic meningitis is a rare disease of unknown etiology and excellent prognosis, characterized by short attacks of meningeal irritation, fever and pleocytosis with first polymorphonuclear, then mononuclear predominance.
(12) The authors report 7 cases of septic and aseptic pseudoarthrosis in the humerus, with or without tissue loss, treated with the Ilizarov apparatus.
(13) The immune response within the CNS in aseptic meningitis seems to be dominated by synthesis of IgG with lambda light chains.
(14) The reduction in the rate of aseptic loosening of the socket in our series, compared with the higher rates reported in similar long-term studies in which other acetabular components were used, supports the conclusion that there is enhanced longevity of acetabular fixation when a metal-backed acetabular component is used in cemented total hip arthroplasty.
(15) We favor the opinion that idiopathic aseptic necrosis of the sesamoid one of the big toe in adults is seldom a primary condition and that other predisposing factors should be taken into consideration.
(16) On post-mortem examination characteristic haematoxylin-staining, broad, aseptate fungal hyphae were found in the right eye, orbit, and lung.
(17) Infectious meningitis in adults was reviewed to establish the frequency of meningitis due to each causative agent and to reexamine the laboratory parameters that help to distinguish aseptic, bacterial, and mycobacterial meningitis.
(18) Condensing osteitis of the clavicle, better defined as aseptic enlarging osteosclerosis of the clavicle, is a rare and benign idiopathic lesion.
(19) Long-term cultivation with medium replacement is easy and efficient and addition of isotopes or other materials may be done aseptically.
(20) A total nutrient admixture composed of 5% amino acid injection, 20% dextrose injection, and 3% intravenous fat emulsion was prepared aseptically in four 2-L ethylene-vinyl acetate bags.
Sepsis
Definition:
(n.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
(2) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(3) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(4) Fifty per cent of Group I patients died from sepsis and MOF.
(5) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(6) Sepsis-induced pulmonary artery hypertension (SIPAH) causes an increase in right ventricular (RV) afterload, dilatation of the RV, leftward shift of the interventricular septum (IVS), and therefore decreases left ventricular compliance (LVC).
(7) The early death of PL mice is related to generalized debilitation from prolonged distal colonic obstruction resulting in a decrease in immunologic integrity and an increased susceptibility to sepsis.
(8) Antimicrobial effectiveness and effect on survival of single-dose vs. multiple-dose aminoglycoside antibiotic therapy (with and without steroid) for lethal sepsis were evaluated.
(9) Inhibiting growth of those bacteria which reach the wound, by means of perioperative antibiotics, further reduces the incidence of joint sepsis.
(10) The most common infections in these patients were pneumonia, septicemia, peritonitis and wound sepsis.
(11) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
(12) The six patients who died of bacterial sepsis after transplantation all had pretransplant surgery.
(13) The efficacy rates were 100% in sepsis, 62.5% in suspected sepsis, 80% in pneumonia and 73% in all cases.
(14) 1)"Nomal secundinae" or "physiological leucocytosis at ruptured chorionic membranes": there are but a few cases (3 to 5%) of amniotic infection syndroms or morphological signs of an aspiration of infected amniotic fluid and fetal sepsis.
(15) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(16) Four patients had sepsis and the median duration of hospitalization was 39 (22-58) days.
(17) Efforts to improve microcirculatory blood flow during sepsis may lead to more effective treatment or prevention of multiple systems organ failure.
(18) The E. coli patients had a significantly higher incidence of neurotoxicity, pancreatitis, and life-threatening sepsis (4%, 2%, and 20%, respectively) when compared with the Erwinia group (2%, 0%, and 18%).
(19) Generalized reticuloendothelial hyperplasia associated with heavy-chain disease is a poorly recognized complication associated with rheumatoid arthritis and may be mistaken for underlying sepsis in these patients.
(20) To prevent sudden infant deaths, all sick newborns should be treated for neonatal sepsis.