(n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
(v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clostridium septicum is a bacterial species associated with gas gangrene in both humans and animals.
(2) This paper details the first case report of a patient with fulminant, gangrenous, ischemic colitis caused by polyarteritis nodosa which was successfully treated surgically.
(3) Phenol chemical lumbar sympathectomy is an additional aid in the management of ischaemic rest pain and incipient gangrene.
(4) Most of the patients were delayed cases showing mild to severe degrees of trophic, sensory and motor disturbances in the limbs without gangrene.
(5) Fournier gangrene is a disease which primarily affects adults.
(6) Our experience indicates that the lower gastrointestinal tract should be considered as a possible cause of infection in all cases of synergistic gangrene of the scrotum and penis.
(7) CAA is now thought to play a key role in several multiple etiology disease syndromes; hemorrhagic syndrome; aplastic anemia, gangrenous dermatitis, hemorrhagic anemia syndrome, hemorrhagic aplastic anemia syndrome, anemia dermatitis and blue wing disease.
(8) Two of the three patients (both females) in whom clott migration occured in only one limb developed below-knee gangrene of the affected side.
(9) Patients with sigmoid volvulus with no clinical evidence of gangrene were selected for study, and all were given a trial of non-operative reduction by proctoscopy and passage of a rectal tube.
(10) Acute cholecystitis was found at operation in 33 patients (28%), empyema in nine (7.6%), gangrene of the gallbladder in three (2.5%), and 24 patients (20.3%) were found to have common bile duct stones.
(11) A 28-year-old man developed gangrene of a foot leading to a below-the-knee amputation.
(12) The prognosis was better in patients with gas gangrene after trauma than in patients with gas gangrene resulting from vascular insufficiency or malignant tumours.
(13) Three successfully managed cases of Fournier's gangrene, all with diabetes, are reported.
(14) In six of the ten patients, the presenting complaints were ascribable to incipient gangrene of the toes and several of these patients additionally developed occlusion of tibial and larger arteries while under our observation.
(15) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
(16) Lumbar sympathectomy appears to be most beneficial in the management of gangrene of the toe with a limb salvage rate of 75 per cent.
(17) A case is described with multiple gangrene of the fingers of a female, aged 55, with confirmed cirrhosis of liver and diabetes mellitus.
(18) The positive effect of the Defluina-medication on the initial--partly severe--varicose ulcera, with gangrenous alterations, has to be pointed out.
(19) Eleven patients had bacterial gangrene of the foot; two of these patients were less than 23 years of age, and five patients were not known to have had diabetes previously.
(20) Five year cumulative primary patency was 71% overall, 75% in patients with disabling claudication, 61% in those with rest pain and 46% in those with gangrene.
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.