(n.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
Example Sentences:
(1) A varying percentage from 40 to 60% of patients having lymphoplasmacytic dyscrasias with a monoclonal component shows a clinical or subclinical polyneuropathy.
(2) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
(3) The granulocytopenia was the most common type of blood dyscrasia, comprising 51.0% of all cases.
(4) The rate of O-CAP use in the dyscrasia-group was approximately equal to that in the population as a whole.
(5) Electrophysiological findings in 10 patients with polyneuropathy and nonmalignant IgMk plasma cell dyscrasia are reported.
(6) Drug induced blood dyscrasias, leukocytopenia, thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia were observed in 7% of 643 adverse drug reactions registered by drug monitoring in Bern, Switzerland, in the period 1970-1973.
(7) The ultrastructural characteristics of these storage cells were found to be identical to those of pseudo-Gaucher cells found in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and distinctly different from those previously reported in other non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or plasma cell dyscrasias.
(8) The deposition of amyloid fibrils has been associated with a diversity of pathologies including plasma cell dyscrasias, chronic inflammatory diseases, and several types of neurological diseases including Alzheimer's disease.
(9) Common symptoms of various blood dyscrasias are discussed.
(10) The reactions were associated with bacterial infections, neoplasms, hepatorenal failure, acute metabolic disorders and non-malignant blood dyscrasias.
(11) Multiple myeloma is a distinctive form of plasma cell dyscrasia which often manifests itself in Otolaryngology.
(12) The relation of laboratory evidence of connective tissue dyscrasia in the mother to the congenital A-V block in the child is discussed.
(13) P component levels in selected groups of patients demonstrated a 1.5 fold elevation of the mean level in 15 patients with high erythrocyte sedimentation rates, no difference in the mean level of 23 patients on warfarin or 16 patients with plasma cell dyscrasia or chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and a depression of the mean level to one fourth of normal in 14 patients with alcoholic liver disease.
(14) Rashes were most frequent, followed by fever, lymphadenopathy, eosinophilia, abnormal liver function tests, blood dyscrasias, serum sickness, renal failure, and polymyositis.
(15) Streptokinase should not be used after major surgery, in patients with blood dyscrasias, or when there are neurologic deficits secondary to the arterial ischemia.
(16) Primary systemic amyloidosis (AL), a disease involving the deposition of immunoglobulin light chains in tissue, is caused by a plasma cell dyscrasia.
(17) It is suggested from this study that drug-induced blood dyscrasia is not uncommon in Okinawa.
(18) We studied a patient with POEMS syndrome (plasma cell dyscrasia with polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal [M]-protein, skin changes) who was also found to have renal enlargement and microangiopathic glomerulopathy.
(19) A rare form of plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by associated polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M protein and skin changes has been termed the POEMS syndrome.
(20) None of the patients developed any blood dyscrasia, liver damage, diarrhea, or colitis.
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.