Cefadroxil Use for Musculoskeletal Infections in an Academic Pediatric Hospital.

Forty-nine of 52 (94.2%) children with musculoskeletal infection (MSKI) were successfully treated with cefadroxil dosed at 30 mg/kg/day over a 10-year time period. Two failures were associated with poor medication adherence.

Self-Perceptions of Value, Barriers, and Motivations for Graduate Education Among Dental Hygienists.

Increasing the knowledge base of its practitioners through formal education is vital to advancing the dental hygiene profession, ensuring practitioners' readiness for participation in future health care workforce models, and preparing future dental hygiene educators. The aim of this study was to discover the value of, barriers to, and motivations for graduate education among dental hygienists as a first step toward establishing ways to stimulate enrollment and facilitate program change. A qualitative pilot study design was used, with focus groups used for data collection.

The prevalence of hypertension in a dental school patient population.

Objective: A study of the prevalence of hypertension in the patient population was conducted at the University of Mississippi, School of Dentistry.

Method And Materials: The 3,665 records reviewed represented patients treated by undergraduate dental students from 1993 through 1997. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of hypertension by a physician or presentation with a systolic reading of greater than 140 mm Hg or a diastolic reading of greater than 90 mm Hg.

Evaluation of blood pressure in children and adolescents: a review.

Hypertension in children has received minimal attention in the dental literature; this may be the result of comparatively low interest in the subject by the medical community. It is now believed that the processes causing cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality begin early in life. The implication for prevention is that screening and intervention should commence in childhood.

A method for determining patient oral care skills: The University of Mississippi Oral Hygiene Index.

The plaque control record (O'Leary index) appears to be a commonly used oral hygiene index for assessing oral health skills. This index provides sufficient information for patient education; however, the time involved in data collection reduces its value. Most other indices limit the number of teeth and surfaces and function well for researchers, but are limited for patient education.

[Porphyria cutanea tarda in a 4-year-old child with uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase deficiency].

A 4 years old girl presents a typical case of patent form of cutaneous late porphyria with a reduced activity of the erythrocyte, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD) genetically transmitted over 3 generations; a multifactor inheritance (HLA A3, a normal phenotype of alpha 1 antitrypsin, exogenous toxins, or viral infections) is discussed.

[Renal manifestations of severe human aphthous diseases (author's transl)].

Renal manifestations of severe human aphthous diseases are seldom mentionned in the literature. The authors report on a case of Behçet disease associated with microscopic haematuria and intermittent proteinuria. Renal biopsy showed circumscribed "necrotizing" vascular lesions.

[Shulman's syndrome: eosinophilic fasciitis (author's transl)].

A detailed report is made of the clinical, histological, biological manifestations of eosinophilic fasciitis, i. e. the Shulman's syndrome, about a 53-year-old man.

[Arteriographic study of the hand in 52 cases of Raynaud's phenomenon of varying aetiology (author's transl)].

Digital occlusive arterial disease was demonstrated in all cases in which there was a precise aetiology and in many cases in which an aetiology could be suspected. However, the arteriogram was most often normal in cases of Raynaud's disease. Whilst the arterial lesions seen were not specific to a precise aetiology, their presence in a patient with Raynaud's phenomenon should lead to a search for a systemic disease, first and foremost scleroderma in view of the fact that it is the most common condition.

Defective leukocytotaxia and recurrent staphylococcal infecion: deficiency of leukocytotaxia and abnormal granulocytes associated with increase serum IgE levels in an adult with recurrent staphylococcal infection.

A man who was suffering from recurrent staphylococcal infection had antecedent symptoms of severe pruritus. Laboratory investigations showed leukocytosis with eosinophilia, hyperimmunoglobulinemia of all fractions, but particularly of IgE, and a deficiency of cell-mediated immunity on in vivo testing. Phagocytosis and bactericidal activity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes were normal, but a cellular and serum-associated defect in leukocytotaxia was present.

[Cutaneous symptoms of ulcero-haemorragic rectocolitis and of Crohn's disease (author's transl)].

The association between ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and various abnormalities of the skin is reviewed. Erythema nodosum and pyoderma gangrenosum are the most specific external manifestations and thereby the ones of greatest diagnostic value. Erythema multiforme is probably a manifestation of drug hypersensitivity.