pyuria/diarrhea

A previously unrecognized autosomal dominant syndrome affecting oral, nasal, vaginal, urethral, anal, bladder, and conjunctival mucosa with cataracts, follicular keratosis, nonscarring alopecia, and terminal lung disease is described in a four-generation kindred of German extraction. Severe

Cefmenoxime (CMX) was intravenously administered to 106 patients with complicated urinary tract infection at a daily dose of 2-4 g for 5 days. An excellent response in overall clinical efficacy was seen in 15 cases (18.3%), a moderate response in 46 cases (56.1%) and poor response in 21 cases

We studied 182 sick, febrile (temperature greater than 38 degrees C) infants less than 3 months of age, who presented at our Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, during a one-year period, to determine the relative causes of fever in this age group. Blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, nasopharyngeal

BACKGROUND Appendicitis is uncommon in children <6 months old, with few observational studies reporting cases of children younger than 5 years old with the diagnosis. The classic periumbilical pain that migrates to the right lower quadrant, followed by the onset of fever and vomiting, is present in

Sixteen patients with an unusual and distinct symptom complex were encountered during a four-year period. Principal features of this syndrome are (1) fever lasting more than seven days; (2) conjunctival injection; (3) changes in the mouth consisting of erythema of the oropharynx, "strawberry

Cinoxacin was administered to 30 outpatients with chronic complicated urinary tract infection for 57.3 days (average) and the following results were obtained. Clinical efficacy based on decrease of pyuria were "excellent" in 44.8%, "good" in 31.0%, "fair" in 24.1%, and "poor" in 0%; and, overall

We conducted a randomized double blind comparison of cefamandole (CMD) and cefmetazole (CMZ) in the treatment of 193 patients with complicated urinary tract infections. The patients received 1 gram of CMD or CMZ twice a day intravenously by drip infusion over 1 hour for 5 days. Pretreatment urinary

OBJECTIVE To assess the applicability of a short-course regimen of antibiotics for managing catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). METHODS Randomized, controlled, noninferiority trial. METHODS Medical center. METHODS Patients with SCI who had

The case is a boy who developed progressive dyspnea and had since been followed over a long period time as a case of unknown fever without respiratory symptoms. He showed mucosal symptoms such as intraoral aphtha, eosinophilic pyuria and diarrhea and was clinically diagnosed as hypersensitivity

Three children were diagnosed as having acute renal failure due to acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) associated with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection. The kidneys were observed ultrasonically during the disease course. The subjects presented with remittent fever, vomiting or diarrhea,

At present, no universally-accepted effective treatment for cutaneous gnathostomiasis is available. At the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Mahidol University, albendazole 400 mg twice a day for 14 days is commonly prescribed for patients diagnosed with cutaneous gnathostomiasis. The efficacy of

Antibiotic-associated colitis is known to occur with temporal and geographic clustering. During 1979 a marked increase in the incidence of this disease was noted at our institutions. The clinical, epidemiological, and endoscopic features are reported. Typical features included the acute onset of