(n.) Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spinal changes in 13 cases included vacuolar myelopathy (7 cases), HIV myelitis (1 case) and ganglio-radiculitis (1 cases), cytomegalovirus myelo-radiculitis (1 case) secondary spread from a lymphoma (1 case) and spinal infarcts due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (1 case).
(2) To our knowledge, this is the second report of myelitis in the course of visceral larva migrans.
(3) A rare case of transverse myelitis caused by schistosomiasis of the spinal cord during pregnancy is presented.
(4) This paper includes a review of the 46 cases of transverse myelitis and SLE published so far with regard to diagnosis, treatment and results, a comparison with the case under study, and the conclusions drawn.
(5) In this study oxcarbazepine was given orally in doses of 300-2700 mg daily to one patient with transverse myelitis and to two patients with multiple sclerosis, all of whom had clinically disabling spasticity in the form of difficulty in walking, lower limb rigidity, spastic contractions of the lower limbs and ankle clonus.
(6) The diagnosis may be overlooked, however, when calcific myelitis is the only manifestation.
(7) The central form is that of diffuse CNS involvement, predominantly with myelitis or cerebellar involvement with or without cranial nerve palsies.
(8) The fact that tranverse myelitis developed late after zoster and was followed by facial nerve palsy is stressed.
(9) We conclude that there is strong association between transverse myelitis in SLE and the presence of aPLA.
(10) baclofen on chronic, dysesthetic, and spasm-related pain (SRP) among patients with spinal spasticity [i.e., multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injury (SCI), transverse myelitis (TMy)].
(11) Human immunodeficiency virus myelitis was evident in 8% of cases.
(12) The benign clinical evolution, under corticosteroid therapy, the negativity of biohumoral examinations of the cerebrospinal fluid and the improvement of the NMR pictures allow the diagnosis of acute spinal myelitis.
(13) In disk space infection with osteomyelitis and in retrospinal abscess, MR images showed characteristic findings, whereas in myelitis, MR images demonstrated nonspecific abnormalities.
(14) Three methods of treatment of acute transverse myelitis are presented.
(15) Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) were studied on 38 optic myelitis (OM) and 16 of myelopathy with definite abnormal VEP.
(16) The author describes a 71-year-old woman in whom cutaneous cervical herpes zoster was complicated by the development of cervical myelitis.
(17) The common postirradiation complications are: radiation myelitis, trismus, and otitis media.
(18) Increased CK activity was most frequently associated with a diagnosis of equine protozoal myelitis; CK activity was not increased in 11 horses with cervical compressive myelopathy.
(19) On the contrary, ESR was increased on the suffered body areas in patients with active myelitis.
(20) Human immunodeficiency virus myelitis was associated with HIV encephalitis in 65% of the cases.
Pyelitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiological changes consistent with chronic pyelitis were found in 4 out of 14 persons with microfilaruria who were examined by retrograde pyelography.
(2) To evaluate the clinical efficacy of carumonam (CRMN, AMA-1080), the drug was used in the treatment of 10 patients including 4 with pneumonia and each with acute tonsillitis, chronic bronchitis, Mycoplasma pneumonia, primary atypical pneumonia (PAP), chronic pyelitis, and acute cystitis.
(3) The possibility of interpreting the supravesical bacteriurias as a sign for pyelitis rather than pyelonephritis is discussed.
(4) In a group of six animals preimmunized with E. coli 02:K2ab:H1, five developed pyelonephritis and one pyelitis, as determined by histological examination.
(5) Histopathologic features of pyelitis and nephritis permitted culture-positive kidneys to be categorized as exhibiting colonization only, pyelitis only, or pyelitis plus frank nephritis and demonstrated that some culture-negative kidneys exhibit signs of pyelitis and nephritis.
(6) The incidence of pre-eclampsia, hypertension, pyelitis of pregnancy and operative delivery was higher in overweight patients than in an equivalent number of patients of average weight also studied.
(7) Two cases of chronic cystitis, two of chronic ureteritis, one of chronic pyelitis and two transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary tract showed glandular metaplasia or focal mucin production.
(8) A patient with severe undiagnosed and untreated pyelitis developed mural masses in the renal pelvis and in the infundibulum of the upper pole calyx.
(9) Direct radionuclide cystography in a computerized method as described by Willi and Treves was used in adults with recurrent pyelitis but without evidence of obstruction.
(10) This is so common that it has been given a special name, "pyelitis of pregnancy".
(11) Two of 30 rats in the control group had similar changes associated with chronic pyelitis.
(12) It is termed emphysematous pyelitis when gas is confined to the collecting system, or emphysematous pyelonephritis if it also involves the parenchyma with or without the perirenal space.
(13) Of 5 dogs euthanatized at 3 to 4 months after surgery, 4 had bilateral pyelitis, and 1 had unilateral pyelonephritis.
(14) Twenty five patients with chronic urogenital infections (cystitis, pyelitis and prostatitis) were treated with Solco urovak infection which is active against Escherichia coli, Proteus, Klebsiella and Streptococcus fecalis organisms.
(15) Furthermore we noted a higher frequency of pyelitis gravidarum in this group.
(16) Emphysematous pyelonephritis is seen primarily in diabetic patients, whereas emphysematous pyelitis is recognized most often in association with urinary tract obstruction.
(17) In patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction or megaureters, reflux began early during the bladder filling and attained higher volumes than in those with uncomplicated pyelitis, who had minor reflux appearing mainly during voiding.
(18) Although pyelitis was present, extension into the outer medulla and renal cortex seemed to be confined to nephropyelostomy tracts.
(19) There were 3 cases of complications due to preexistent disease (usually the indication for abortion) and 13 cases of nongenital complications (thrombophlebitis, thromboembolism, pneumonia, pyelitis).
(20) 3) Cefamandole was given to 22 children with acute pyelitis (1 case), acute pneumonia (19 cases), and meningitis (2 cases).