Revue médicale de Liège
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Shoshin is a fulminating form of cardiac beriberi developing in a few hours in a young alcoholic. Without specific treatment it evulers, toward death by cardiogenic shock and metabolic acidosis. Treatment by thiamine and alkalinisation permits a spectacular and fast recovery.
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Revue médicale de Liège · Feb 2001
[Emergency medicine: general principles governing the hospital management of victims of multiple trauma].
The management of the trauma victim admitted to the emergency department must be rapid and efficient. Within the first hour, vital functions must be stabilised while a systematic survey of all injuries is carried out. This survey must be as complete as possible, and depends on the patient's status and response to initial resuscitative measures. ⋯ This systematic approach, which follows a seven step sequence, can only be carried out by a well-trained team. Because at this time emergency and SMUR are often staffed with general practitioners, and because the trauma centers do not yet exist in Belgium, the application of the treatment protocol presented in this paper is a pre-requisite to quality of care for these patients. It is the only means to end, once and for all, the improvised or intuitive, and often erroneous, approach to these patients.
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Revue médicale de Liège · Dec 2000
Case Reports[Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a child without immunodepression].
We report the case of a 5 1/2 month baby with an atypical pneumonia. The PCR revealed a Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. ⋯ We will discuss the aetiology, physiopathology and treatment of Pneumocystis carnii pneumonia, particularly in cases without immunosuppression. We will also recall the importance of this disease in AIDS.
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Revue médicale de Liège · May 2000
[Guidelines for the management of Helicobacter pylori: recent opinion of the French National Society of Gastroenterology].
Guidelines for management of Helicobacter pylori are in constant evolution since its discovery in 1982 by Marshall and Warren. This article presents and comments recent guidelines developed under the auspices of the "Société Nationale Française de Gastroentérologie".
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Revue médicale de Liège · Jan 2000
[Place of the Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft) in aortic valve surgery].
The pulmonary autograft operation consists of an aortic replacement using the autologous pulmonary valve. The pulmonary valve is substituted by a cryopreserved pulmonary homograft. ⋯ The pulmonary autograft has superb hemodynamic features and very low thrombogenicity. The report of a selected observation offers the occasion of defining the current indications of this operation in aortic valve surgery.