The relationship between extravascular lung water and oxygenation in three patients with influenza A (H1N1)-induced respiratory failure.

This case series reports the correlation between extravascular lung water (EVLW) and the partial arterial oxygen pressure/fractional inspiratory oxygen (PaO(2)/FiO(2)) ratio in three patients with severe influenza A (H1N1)-induced respiratory failure. All patients suffered from grave hypoxia (PaO(2), 26-42 mmHg) and were mechanically ventilated using biphasic airway pressure (PEEP, 12-15 mmHg; FiO(2), 0.8-1) in combination with prone positioning at 12 hourly intervals.

Vibrio cholerae non-O1 septicaemia in a patient with liver cirrhosis and Billroth-II-gastrectomy.

This report deals with the first diagnosed case of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 septicaemia in Austria. After a vacation in Tunisia, a 51-year-old male patient with liver cirrhosis and Billroth-II-gastrectomy was admitted to hospital because of abdominal pain, growing ascites, and jaundice. Four days later, the patient developed a single peak of high fever (39.

[Liposarcoma of the uterus].

Fat cell tumors of the uterus are extremely rare; they occur with an incidence of 0.03-0.2%.

Intraperitoneal cholelithiasis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy--behavior of 'lost' concrements and their role in abscess formation.

Unlabelled: In two experimental studies we sought preliminary information about the behavior of concrements lost in the peritoneal cavity during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Materials And Methods: In study 1, human gallstones were analyzed using X-ray diffraction, classified in three groups and examined with an ultramicroscope; then they were implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats. After 8 weeks or 6 months, the animals were sacrificed and the concrements analyzed again as before.

Systemic phlebitis of visceral veins with intramural giant cell granulomas--a new entity?

We report a case of granulomatous giant cell poly-phlebitis of the mesenteric veins in a 38-year-old man, resulting in a segmental infarction of the ileum. Multiple epithelioid granulomas with giant cells of the Langhans type were situated in media/adventitia of small and middle-sized mesenteric veins with subsequent thrombotic occlusions. No involvement of arterial vessels could be detected.