(a.) Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of 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.
Obstruction
Definition:
(n.) The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
(n.) That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
(n.) The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(5) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(6) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(7) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(8) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(9) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(10) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(11) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) Tubal obstruction could be demonstrated in only one of these patients.
(14) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(15) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(16) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
(17) Comparison with 99Tc-pyrophosphate uptake in infarcted dog heart, induced by selective obstruction of a coronary artery, suggest that the 111In-labelled F(ab')2 localizes specifically in infarcted myocardium only.
(18) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(19) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
(20) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.