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J Nippon Med Sch. 2000 Oct;67(5):330-4.
Clinicopathological analysis of premature infants treated with artificial surfactant.
Shima Y, Takemura T, Akamatsu H, Kawakami T, Yoda H.
Department of Premature and Neonatal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tateishi, Tokyo, Japan. shima-ms.ac.jp
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to obtain new information about the relationship between infant responses to surfactant replacement therapy and histopathological changes in vital organs. STUDY DESIGN: To accomplish this, the autopsy findings and clinical backgrounds of 41 very low birth weight infants (gestational week 25.6 +/- 2.3; birth weight 806.4 +/- 251.6g) who had died after receiving surfactant replacement therapy were reviewed, and those who responded to therapy were compared with those who did not. Responders were infants in whom the required FiO(2) declined by > 20% or mean airway pressure declined by > 20% within six hours of instilling surfactant (n=18); non-responders were infants who did not meet those criteria (n=23). RESULT: Gestational age, birth weight and time at treatment were similar in responders and non-responders, but survival was significantly longer in responders. The incidences of hyaline membrane disease, pulmonary interstitial emphysema, hemorrhagic necrosis and parenchymal degeneration of the liver and kidney were all higher in non-responders, whereas the incidences of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and pneumonia were higher in responders. Prior to treatment, acidosis and hypothermia were significantly more severe in non-responders, and perinatal complications, such as fetal distress and intrauterine infection, were observed more often in non-responders. Substantial degradation of vital organs had already occurred during the early post-natal or intrauterine life of the non-responders, which would be expected to interfere with the clinical response to instilled surfactant. CONCLUSION: It is anticipated that in the future improved monitoring of immature fetuses will be indispensable to improve intrauterine fetal management and to achieve better control over the timing and mode of delivery.
PMID:_11031361
Arch Fam Med. 2000 Sep-Oct;9(9):933-5.
Improving quality or shifting diagnoses? What happens when antibiotic prescribing is reduced for acute bronchitis?
Hueston WJ, Slott K.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun St, PO Box 250192, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. huestonwusc.edu
BACKGROUND: A quality improvement project in an academic practice demonstrated a reduction in antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis. However, it was unclear whether this represented a reduction in antibiotic use or whether physicians assigned new diagnoses to the same patients to avoid scrutiny and continue to use antibiotic therapy. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether a substantial amount of diagnostic shifting occurred while antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis decreased during a 14-month period (from January 1, 1996, to February 28, 1997). METHODS: All patient diagnoses of acute bronchitis, acute sinusitis, upper respiratory tract infection, and pneumonia were determined for the 14 months of the acute bronchitis intervention. The relative distribution of patients among these 4 diagnostic categories was compared to determine if the percentage of patients with acute bronchitis decreased while those with acute sinusitis and pneumonia increased during the acute bronchitis intervention. RESULTS: The percentage of patients with the diagnosis of acute bronchitis remained unchanged during the 14-month period while antibiotic use for this condition decreased from 66% of cases to less than 21% of cases. Instead of the patients being assigned a different diagnosis such as acute sinusitis so that antibiotic prescribing would not be scrutinized, as we hypothesized, the relative number of diagnoses for acute sinusitis compared with acute bronchitis actually declined during the 14 months. No change was noted in the relative frequency of acute bronchitis cases compared with pneumonia cases. CONCLUSION: During a 14-month period when an intervention was successful at reducing antibiotic use for acute bronchitis, there was no evidence that physicians shifted patients from the diagnosis of acute bronchitis to other diagnoses.
PMID:_11031404
Klin Lab Diagn. 2000 Aug;(8):17-8.
[Detection of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis species specific antigens and antibodies to alpha-toxin in the blood of patients with pneumonia]
[Article in Russian]
Chernukha MIu, Tolovskaia KR, Akatov AK, Chernukha TIu, Tokmachev IuK, Vinogradova ID.
Test systems for indirect hemagglutination (IHA) test for detection of S. aureus and S. epidermidis teichoic acids and S. aureus alpha-toxin in patients' sera have been developed on the basis of immunoglobulins isolated from monospecific sera. Test system for IHA test for detection of antitoxin in donor and patients' sera has been created on the basis of highly purified alpha-toxin. Thirty donor sera and 61 sera from patients with pneumonia were analyzed. Low antibody levels in the patients may be due to the fact that the sera were collected during the first days of disease. Group of patients with high content of staphylococcal antigens and antitoxin in the blood was particularly interesting. These patients developed severe pneumonia, among whose etiological agents were S. aureus and S. epidermidis. Diagnostic analysis of patients' sera by IHA test for detection of staphylococcal antigens was more effective, accurate, and rapid in comparison with the bacteriological method; moreover, it confirmed the significance of staphylococci in the pathogenesis of pneumonia.
PMID:_11031427
Lik Sprava. 2000 Jul-Aug;(5):88-94.
[The characteristics of secondary pneumonia (the clinical, pathogenetic and bacteriological aspects)]
[Article in Russian]
Asauliuk IK.
The analysis of 857 medical histories of patients presenting with different bodily afflictions and traumata that had come to be complicated by secondary pneumonia (SP) and of more than 2700 protocols of pathoanatomic studies made in those deceased in 35 percent of whom there had been identified morphologic changes in the lungs that presented a clinical picture of SP suggest to us that there are reasons to believe that in many instances, SP diagnosis is made difficult because of a grave condition of the patient, especially during the terminal period or the period of administering treatments when the underlying trouble symptomatology come forth rather than manifestations of pneumonia. The information secured in the pathoanatomical investigations permitted finding out that the clinical diagnosis of SP had come to be in agreement with the pathoanatomical one only in 70 percent of cases, with hypodiagnosis having come to 30%. Practitioners in their everyday work, should entertain a possibility of SP development in somatic troubles, extensive surgical interventions, traumata, wounds/injuries, burns, intoxications, and septic conditions, and they are supposed to actively prevent any possibility of origination and development of pulmonary complications.
PMID:_11031461
Rev Esp Salud Publica. 2000 Jul-Aug;74(4):341-50.
[Comparison between several standard populations for age-adjusting]
[Article in Spanish]
Llorca Diaz J, Prieto Salceda D, Dierssen Sotos T, Delgado-Rodriguez M.
Catedra de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Publica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander. llorcaedi.unican.es
BACKGROUND: To analyse the effect the choice of reference population has on different indicators derived from mortality rates age-adjusting. METHODS: The mortality rates for different causes of death in Spain from 1971 to 1992 were adjusted by using four reference populations: Spanish populations from 1971 and 1992, the Standard European population and the standard world population. The results obtained with the four populations were compared by applying three indicators: difference between the rates of 1992 and 1971, ratio between the rates of 1992 and 1971 and annual percentage change between 1971 and 1992. RESULTS: In the majority of the causes of death studied, including the total, ischemic heart disease and almost all of the tumours, the ratio between the rates and the percentage of annual change are similar regardless of the standard population used. However, the difference in rates is very noticeable in relation to the reference population. In the infectious diseases and testis cancer, the opposite occurs: the different in rates is steadfast while the ratio between the rates varies with the standard population. Finally, the mortality due to pneumonia, Parkinson's disease and encephalic cancer show changes all three indicators used. CONCLUSIONS: An analysis of the specific rates by age must be made before proceeding with their adjustment. This analysis will enable us to ascertain whether the adjustment by age is correct and which indicator (difference, ratio or percentage change) will be appropriate for making comparisons.
PMID:_11031842
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