(1) Infection in IHMs included omphalitis (2 infants), pneumonia (4), and sepsis with or without meningitis (6); INMs had cellulitis (1) and sepsis (1).
(2) During a 3-year study period, 33 neonates with omphalitis (with proven cultures) were encountered; aerobic and anaerobic cultures were obtained.
(3) Associated illnesses were present in 33 (54%) of the patients, the most common being pneumonia (9), bronchiolitis (7), meningitis (6), conjunctivitis (4), and omphalitis (4).
(4) Differential diagnosis of the omphalic stone includes the so called umbilical cholesteatoma, an accumulation of crumbling, fetid masses in the umbilicus, often times accompanied by seborrhea which may lead to abscess formation.
(5) It is suggested that this possibility should be considered in cases of resistant or recurrent omphalitis.
(6) The combination of the symptoms: delayed separation of the umbilical cord, omphalitis, impairment of wound-healing and extreme leukocytosis led to the diagnosis of LFA-1 (leukocyte function antigen)-deficiency, which was confirmed by monoclonal antibodies.
(7) At the time of diagnosis 4% of infants with EOD were asymptomatic, 54% had respiratory disease, 27% had sepsis without a focus, 15% had meningitis and 1% had urinary tract infection or omphalitis.
(8) The patients studied included 5 with pneumonia and 1 each with urinary tract infection, omphalitis, suspected meningitis, periproctal abscess and suspected septicemia.
(9) Nevertheless, only 1 (5%) minor complication was observed, in the form of omphalitis, which recovered in 2 days.
(10) The results obtained with a wide variety of infections (such as omphalitis, aspiration of amniotic fluid with broncho-pneumonia, phlegmons of the galea, and also pyelonephritis and mucoviscidosis with pulmonary complications) can be described as good, with a success rate of 85%.
(11) Twenty-five patients were diagnosed to have clinical illness--omphalitis (11), conjunctivitis (10), and pustulosis (5).
(12) The embryonic and foetal venous systems were filled with thin barium sulphate through the umbilical and omphalic veins.
(13) In this paper we report a review of the omphalic pathology that was admitted to our hospital from january 1973 through december 1990.
(14) Three isolates were from flocks with colisepticemia; one was from a flock with omphalitis; and one isolate was a non-pathogenic control.
(15) Six neonates are described with a gangrenous omphalitis, a disease not reported for many years.
(16) In decreasing order, the most common NIs were diarrhea, bacteremia and "suspect bacteremia", omphalitis, conjunctivitis and phlebitis associated with intravenous cannulas.
(17) Omphalitis was found more frequently in the early onset of septicemia, whereas, NEC and skin infection were found more in the late onset group.
(18) Congenital abnormalities were present in 12 out of 30 (40%) children with extrahepatic portal hypertension of unknown cause, but in only 2 out of 17 (12%) children with extnahepatic portal hypertension secondary to umbilical vein catheterization or omphalitis.
(19) The newborn presented with persistent high white blood cells after Proteus mirabilis omphalitis.
(20) Fifty-one had omphalitis, two infected circumcision wounds, and one each had meningitis, primary peritonitis, and conjunctivitis.
Umbilicus
Definition:
(n.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.
(n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
(n.) The hilum.
(n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
(n.) Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
(n.) One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
(n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemically isolated separate preparations of the non-aggregating protein-chondroitin-keratin sulphate (PCKS) fraction from the hyaline cartilage and hyaluronic acid (HUA) of the vitreous body and of the umbilicus were investigated by electron microscopy.
(2) Cultures were collected from the external ear, throat and umbilicus of all infants within 5 minutes of birth and at day 4 of life.
(3) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(4) Faecal specimens were cultured daily for E. coli as were swabs from the rectum, groin, umbilicus, head, hands und mouth.
(5) The only consistent pattern distribution was that mff were recovered from all 10 hides at four sample sites along the ventral midline near the umbilicus.
(6) A lace used in obstetrics for ligation of umbilicus served as the tourniquet.
(7) Cultures were taken from the catheter tips and from the umbilicus at the time of withdrawal of the catheter.
(8) Plasma arginine vasopressin was more than 5 times greater 15 min following birth than immediately prior to clamping the umbilicus, and it fell progressively over the ensuing 2-5 h to levels not significantly different from before birth.
(9) The masculinisation of the external genitalia begins as early as day 47 by a rapid increase of the anogenital distance: on day 60, the penis opens under the umbilicus and the scrotum is well differentiated.
(10) A pooling of contrast medium (8 X 2.5 cm) under the umbilicus was detected by a fistelography from the umbilicus, and a low density mass was detected under the abdominal wall between the umbilicus and the dome of bladder on a CT scan.
(11) Complete removal of the skin and fat between the umbilicus and the pubis is always possible if the operating table is put in a proper position for closure.
(12) Two additional trocars were inserted at the level of the umbilicus at the anterior axillary lines.
(13) Massive hepatomegaly (below the umbilicus) was demonstrated in 18 patients.
(14) In one case a mass was localized to the bladder wall and immediate juxtavesical region; in the other case an advanced locally invasive lesion was seen to engulf and fisulize loops of small bowel and extend through the umbilicus.
(15) The defect concerned the lateral thoracoabdominal area, on both sides of the umbilicus, jointed with a fine linear communication, and have the classical butterfly wind-like shape.
(16) The ligamentum teres hepatis connects the umbilicus to the left lobe of the liver, and thus a hepatic lesion can spread through the ligament to the umbilicus and the anterior abdominal wall.
(17) The skin at the bottom of the umbilicus and the abdominal fascia under the umbilicus were excised round.
(18) Our procedure uses a single flap or brings two flaps together, to form a three-dimensional structure with a single or double suture line, so that the umbilicus will retain its depth over a long period of time.
(19) The umbilicus was not reconstructed because of the danger of recurrence.
(20) Necropsy of the fetuses revealed serogelatinous edema in the SC connective tissue of the ventral abdominal region (especially around the umbilicus), exaggerated amounts of serohemorrhagic fluid in the abdominal, pleural, and pericardial cavities, and hemorrhagic kidneys, with diminished consistency.