Biomedical subjects

A Daoud

Publications and source records attributed to A Daoud.

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PubMed1979

[Is treatment of C.D.H. by progressive reduction by traction still advisable? (author's transl)].

The authors analyse the results that they have obtained in the treatment of C.D.H. either by conservative or surgical methods. The prevention of osteochondritis remains the main worry. However traction leads to long-lasting immobilization and sometimes it is not sufficient. The authors think that osteochondritis may be related to hyper-pressure on the femoral head or to lesions of the vascular pedicle and that in some cases shortening of the femur or tenotomies may allow a decrease of the plaster cast period. The indications on capculotomy, rotation osteotomy, salter osteotomy are discussed. It is concluded that the periods of traction and plaster cast immobilization should be lessened as much as possible.

Age Factors↗

PubMed1979

[The treatment of chronic haematogenous osteomyelitis (author's transl)].

The authors have operated on 106 cases of chronic haematogenous osteomyelitis. On 83 occasions the surgical procedure was on the bone itself and in 23 only on the soft tissues. After a one-stage bone drilling with sequestrectomy and saucerisation the results wee satisfactory in 60 p. 100 of cases. Healing was achieved in 93 p. 100 of cases after a second, third or fourth surgical procedure. An analysis of the results has led to the following conclusion; the prognosis is better in girls, in the humerus, when the onset of the disease was subacute or when it had been present for less than 1 year.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1978

Identification and quantitation of adenine deoxynucleotides in erythrocytes of a patient with adenosine deaminase deficiency and severe combined immunodeficiency.

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Adenine Nucleotides↗

PubMed1978

Overproduction of adenine deoxynucleosides and deoxynucletides in adenosine deaminase deficiency with severe combined immunodeficiency disease.

The deoxynucleotide, dATP, is elevated 50- to 1,000-fold above normal in erythrocytes, lymphocytes, and bone marrow from a child with adenosine deaminase deficiency and severe combined immunodeficiency disease. The child, when 17 mo of age, was also excreting approximately 30 mg of deoxyadenosine per day in urine (normal is less than 0.1 mg/day). Urinary excretion of uric acid was decreased. Elevated dATP levels in lymphocytes and bone marrow, and increased urinary excretion of deoxyadenosine, persisted despite hypertransfusion of the child with irradiated erythrocytes from a donor with normal adenosine deaminase. Overproduction of deoxynucleotides by increased salvage of adenosine appears to be the primary metabolic abnormality in patients with adenosine de aminase deficiency.

Adenosine↗

PubMed1977

[Nitrous oxide analgesia in myocardial infarction (author's transl)].

Inhalation of the equimolecular mixture N2O - O2 rapidly achieves good analgesia in cases of coronary occlusion. This mixture was used with 51 patients (37 to 85 years old) with beneficial results on pain in 4 cases out of 5. This effect can be improved by giving a small amount of pethidine with the inhalation. In this way the respiratory depression of the full dose of narcotic analgesics is avoided. In halation of the mixture does not produce undesirable cardio-circulatory or respiratory changes. The oxygen content of the mixture increases patients' PaO2 without the risk of hyperoxia.

Adult↗

PubMed1977

[Conservative treatment of osteoarticular tuberculosis of the elbow].

The authors have applied conservative treatment in 21 cases of tuberculosis of the elbow with 12 months of specific chemotherapy and antibiotics and plaster immobilization for 3 montths followed by rehabilitation. Four elbows were ankylosed at the end of treatment. Seventeen elbows had useful joint mobility. In thirteen cases, there was more than 70 degrees of movement in flexion but the results were not so satisfactory as regards pronation and supination. The authors believe that conservative management gives better results than surgery by arthrodesis or resection.

Antibiotics, Antitubercular↗

PubMed1976