PURPOSE An increasing number of thoracic decortications have been performed in Manitoba, from five in 2007 to 45 in 2014. The primary objective of this study was to define the epidemiology of decortications in Manitoba. The secondary objective was to compare patients who underwent decortication due to primary infectious vs non-infectious etiology with respect to their perioperative outcomes. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Renal cysts have a high prevalence in the general population, and their estimated incidence increases with age. Renal cyst aspiration (usually with sclerotherapy) or open/laparoscopic decortication is a generally effective and safe method in the treatment of symptomatic simple renal cysts. The success rates of laparoscopic decortication and percutaneous aspiration-scle...

Stanley contends that G.R. Gillett, in the last paragraph of an otherwise excellent article, "Why let people die?" (Journal of Medical Ethics 1986 Jun; 12(2): 83-86), is "fiddling about" with the definition of death when he argues that the patient in a persistent vegetative state is, in an ethical sense, no longer alive as a person; that what remains is a body in which the former patient has no...

Until recently, information on antibiotic pharmacokinetic properties in infected human lung tissue was limited. We therefore studied a microdialysis-based approach for measurement of the penetration of meropenem into the extracellular space fluid of human pneumonic lung parenchyma. The lung penetration of meropenem was determined for seven patients with pneumonia and metapneumonic pleural empye...

Since the advent of antibiotics, pleural e&lsion bas become a rare complication of pneumonia, but it remains a serious one that can resalt in prolonged hospitalization. A five-year (1963-1968) retrospective and prospective study of this problem in young men free of other disease was undertaken. The case material consists of the 49 patients requiring thoracentm from the entire 6,000 cases of pne...

Rhinophyma (rhis: nose, phyma: growth) is a rare, disfiguring disease characterized by a progressive hypertrophy of the softtissues of the nose with its increased volume, mainly in the lower half, and often associated to an end-stage of severe acne rosacea. The cause of rhinophyma is unknown, but it is believed to be the end stage of acne rosacea. The diagnosis is easy to ascertain based on the...

We treated five patients with a past history of tuberculous pleural infection that led to chronic, quiescent, loculated empyema. Reactivation of TB was associated with formation of BPF and recovery of drug-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum. All patients had recurrence of positive sputum cultures that yielded tubercle bacilli resistant to drugs they were receiving. The lungs dem...