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Acute transmural myocardial infarction - coronary vasospasm, thrombosis or coronary embolus? A case report

Przybojewski J.Z. (1984)

A very fit 28-year-old Coloured athlete presented with an acute transmural anteroseptal and non-transmural anterolateral myocardial infarction (MI). He had no apart from moderate cigarette smoking. Cardiac catheterization ...
Anaesthesia for congenital lobar emphysema resection. A case report

Payne K. Van Zyl W. Richardson M. (1984)

[No abstract available]
Anaesthetic management of cerebral artery aneurysms at Tygerberg Hospital, 1980-1982

Erasmus F.R. Du Toit H.J. Rose-Innes A.P. (1984)

Forty-seven patients were operated on for intracranial artery aneurysms at Tygerberg Hospital, Parowvallei, CP, between January 1980 and December 1982. Problems related to anaesthesia which are peculiar to this condition ...
An unusual case of uterine rupture. A case report

Nel J.T. (1984)

An unusual case of uterine rupture in a primigravida, in which the left leg of the infant ruptured through the posterior fundal part of the uterus, is presented. No definitive predisposing cause could be found. Some of the ...
An unusual presentation of carcinoma of the colon in a child. A case report

Heydenrych J.J. Warren B. (1984)

A patient with carcinoma of the large bowel who presented with a subphrenic abscess is reported. This case emphasizes two important facts relating to colonic cancer in childhood: (i) premalignant disease of the large bowel ...
A review of 367 triplet pregnancies

Deale C.J.C. Cronje H.S. (1984)

Questionnaires were sent to 452 hospitals in the RSA and SWA/Namibia requesting information on triplet pregnancies over a 10-year period. Information on 367 sets of triplets from 150 hospitals was adequate for analysis. ...
Blood lead levels in people exposed to exhaust fumes

Grobler S.R. Maresky L.S. Rossouw R.J. (1984)

[No abstract available]
Buerger's disease. A case report and review of the literature

Du Toit D.F. Maritz J. Klompje J. (1984)

A case of thrombo-angiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) in a 30-year-old man is reported. Irremediable gangrene necessitated amputation of both legs, and distal amputation of the fingers and thumb of the right hand.
Chronic splenic abscess: A case report

Tredoux J.G. Hough F.S. Adams G. (1984)

A 16-year-old girl had had a splenic abscess for approximately 20 months with minimal symptoms and signs. Progressive elevation of the left hemidiaphragm could be traced on chest radiographs from 20 months before admission, ...
Clinical trial of a milk formula for infants of low birth weight

Thom J.C. De Jong G. Kotze Van T.J.N. (1984)

An infant milk formula specially designed to meet the specific needs of the small premature infant was compared with a modified infant milk formula in common use. Healthy infants of very low birth weight were fed with ...
Computed tomographic diagnosis of intrathoracic lipoma: A case review

Loxton A.J. Piek C.J. (1984)

A case of intrathoracic lipoma in a child is presented. The diagnosis was made before operation by means of computer-assisted tomography, a non-interventional procedure.
Coronary artery bypass surgery in a patient with symptomatic ventricular arrhythmia. A case presentation and review of the literature

Przybojewski J.Z. (1984)

A 42-year-old White man suffered from recurrent symptomatic ventricular tachycardia but not angina pectoris. Cardiac catheterization demonstrated a normally contracting left ventricle and coronary angiography delineated ...
Diagnostic hysteroscopy after postmenopausal uterine bleeding

Cronje H.S. (1984)

Hysteroscopy was done immediately before diagnostic fractional curettage in 93 patients with postmenopausal uterine bleeding, as well as in 84 control patients with premenopausal abnormal uterine bleeding. About 13% of ...
Double pylorus and pyloroduodenal fistulas: Twos case reports with a discussion

Keet A.D. Bezuidenhout D.J.J. (1984)

Congenital double pylorus is extremely rare; only 2 cases have been found in the English and French literature. Acquired double pylorus occurs more often; up to 1982, 66 cases had been reported. During 6,810 consecutive ...
Endogenous immunoreactive digitalis-like substance in neonatal serum and placental extracts

Beyers A.D. Spruyt L.L. Seifart H.I. (1984)

Therapeutic levels of digoxin in the serum of untreated neonates delivered to mothers who had not received the drug prenatally were detected by radio-immunoassay. Digoxin levels in neonates should be interpreted with care ...
Ergometrine-provoked coronary vasospasm on angiography without angina or ischaemia on ECG. A case report

Przybojewski J.Z. Ellis G.C. (1984)

A 32-year-old White man suffered a large transmural inferoposterior myocardial infarction (MI). Coronary vasospasm is strongly suspected of having caused this MI since the ergometrine maleate provocation test gave rise to ...
Experimental paraquat poisoning - histological, electron microscopic and autoradiographic changes in the lung

Rossouw D.J. Chase C.C. Engelbrecht F.M. (1984)

Paraquat is a potent and widely used herbicide which acts as a specific pulmonary toxin and causes lung fibrosis in man and animals. Some controversy still exists concerning the details of the morphogenesis of the pulmonary ...
Extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm: A case report

Du Toit D.F. Van Zyl J.A. Laker L. Groenewald J.H. (1984)

A patient with an asymptomatic, right-sided internal carotid artery aneurysm is reported. The entity was accurately located and diagnosed pre-operatively by utilizing a duplex ultrasonographic scanner. Treatment comprised ...
Familial dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy. Occurrence in two brothers and an overview of the literature

Przybojewski J.Z. Van Der Walt J.J. Van Eeden P.J. Tiedt F.A.C. (1984)

Two young White brothers had dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy. The elder came to autopsy after a chronic course of congestive cardiac failure; the younger underwent repeated cardiac catheterization and transvenous right ...
First-pass determination of the right ventricular ejection fraction using two regions of interest and the right anterior oblique view

Wasserman H.J. Otto A. (1984)

The right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) was determined on the right anterior oblique view in 9 patients during the first pass of a bolus of technetium-99m employing a gamma camera with high count-rate capability. ...