(a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(2) Medium molecules have been detected by two methods, gel filtration and screening technique, in patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis and with chronic renal insufficiency.
(3) The unit was used to treat 110 patients with chronic purulent middle otitis.
(4) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
(5) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
(6) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(7) Two complications were observed: one case each of pneumothorax and purulent peritonitis.
(8) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
(9) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
(10) The inside of the abscess contained a purulent exudate with polynuclear cells and necrotic material.
(11) Under study was the kinetics of changes in the kinin content, the activity of kininase and blood proteolytic activity in acute purulent peritonitis in 63 patients.
(12) The authors report on a case of purulent cholangitis and hepatic abscess developing 5 years after choledochoduodenostomy, diagnosed by means of ERCP.
(13) In 91 patients with generalized purulent peritonitis, peritoneal dialysis (in 44) and laparotomy with programmed lavage of the abdominal cavity (in 47) were performed.
(14) Acute purulent inflammations in the tissues of the brain, kidneys and myocardium developing at early periods after the infection were replaced by granulomatous reaction and fibroplastic processes.
(15) In the absence of other contraindications such as a grossly evident purulent infection, an abdominal aortic aneurysm infected by C. fetus may represent a subset of infected aneurysms that can be treated successfully with an anatomically placed prosthetic graft and antibiotics.
(16) It was established that the vacuum treatment of purulent wounds was effective but after surgical treatment.
(17) This group was isolated only from purulent vaginal discharge and aborted foeti.
(18) Cefprozil (CFPZ, BMY-28100) granules were administered to 20 children with bacterial infections: acute tonsillitis 8, acute bronchitis 10, purulent lymphadenitis 1, urinary tract infection 1.
(19) Partial necrectomy was found possible in the majority of cases with the surgical treatment of the purulent focus; therefore to prevent dissemination of the inflammatory process and liquidate it as soon as possible surgery had to be performed against the background of the maximal permissible antibiotic concentration in the adjacent tissues.
(20) Staphylococcus aureus was identified in cultures of the purulent material which was surgically drained.
Pyogenic
Definition:
(a.) Producing or generating pus.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of 20 cases of pyogenic liver abscesses seen from 1971 through 1976 is presented.
(2) Specific antibodies against G streptococcal binding proteins prepared in chickens inhibited binding of 125I-Hp to group G and group A streptococci, but not to Actinomyces pyogenes.
(3) The resistance to cephalosporins of 48 heterogeneous methicillin-resistant strains ("RH" mutants) of Staphylococcus pyogenes var.
(4) Pyogenic granulomas accounted for five (9%), epithelial inclusion cysts for four (7%), chronic inflammation for four (7%), and oncocytomas for two (4%) of all caruncular masses.
(5) Abscesses were pyogenic in four of the patients and amebic in one.
(6) The immunohistochemical distribution of IgG, IgA and IgM in granulomatous lesions caused by Actinomyces bovis, Actinobacillus lignieresi, Actinomyces (Corynebacterium) pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium bovis was studied.
(7) The effects of cellular subfractions of S. pyogenes on phagocytosis from neutrophils were studied.
(8) Fifty-nine (58%) of 101 amebic abscesses displayed low echogenicity and homogeneous internal echoes with high-gain settings compared with nine (36%) of 25 pyogenic abscesses (p less than .04).
(9) In an attempt to locate the region of fibronectin recognized by LTA and group-A streptococci, fibronectin was cleaved with thermolysin and the fragment mixture absorbed with Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes.
(10) The organisms isolated from infected patients were almost exclusively pyogenic and enteric bacteria, and our patients had no history of serious viral or fungal infections, documenting the importance of the neutrophil in normal host defense against extracellular but not intracellular pathogens.
(11) The major pathogens causing acute otitis media (AOM) are Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, with Moraxella catarrhalis, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus less frequently isolated.
(12) Three patients who had cysts complicated by pyogenic infection were treated with tube drainage.
(13) A case of paracholecystic pyogenic abscess of the liver discovered intraoperatively in a patient with calculous cholecystitis is reported.
(14) Poly(glycerophosphate) lipoteichoic acids from 24 Gram-positive bacteria of the genera Bacillus, Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Listeria, Staphylococcus, and the streptococcal pyogenic and oral group were analyzed.
(15) Identified causative organisms were 12 strains of Streptococcus pyogenes, 4 of Haemophilus influenzae, 5 of Haemophilus parainfluenzae, 1 of Escherichia coli, and 1 of Salmonella.
(16) CHS mice have an increased susceptibility to pyogenic infections, which is not due to immunoglobulin deficiency.
(17) All rabbits surviving the acute phase of infection developed a non-pyogenic, non-granulomatous anterior uveitis during the "viraemic" stage of infection.
(18) The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of the antibiotic for S. pyogenes grown aerobically and anaerobically did not differ markedly, negating the hypothesis that oxidative phosphorylation is involved in the mechanism of action of this antibiotic.
(19) OKM5 reacted intensely with benign hyperplasias in pyogenic granuloma, while barely reacting with proliferating parts in Kaposi's sarcoma, suggesting the difference in staining patterns can be used to distinguish vascular proliferation or malignancy.
(20) Although the condition is common in the tropics, an acute pyogenic psoas abscess should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of pain in the hip region.