Clinicobacteriological study of anaerobic diabetic foot infection and its management

Fifty patients with diabetic foot infection and gangrene were studied to find out the prevalence of nonsporulating anaerobes and their correlation with the clinical, vascular and neuropathic presentations. Selected lines of management were evaluated

Anaerobes in breast abscess: clinico bacteriological study

Fifty patients with acute breast abscess received in the casuality were studied clinicobacteriologically. They were 45 lactating and 5 non. The highest incidence of abscess was found in the 3[rd] decade of life, in the 1[st] trimester of lactation, in primiparae, on the right breast in the upper outer quadrant and of the intramammary multilocular type. Anaerobes were met with in 20% of abscess 60% of which were in a mixture and 40% in pure culture. Inverted nipple, foul pus and recurrence on the same side and site were exclusively prevalent in anaerobic breast abscesses

Structural changes in the veins in Arterio-Venous Fistulae [AVF] and primary varicose veins of the lower extremity histological and histochemicat studies

Histological and histochemical studies were carried out on 36 specimens taken from veins of the leg: Five normal, one from chronic traumatic AVE and 30 from primary varicose veins. The study showed that the structural changes in the wall of varicose veins were not unlike those found in traumatic AVF. In addition degenerative changes in the form of accumulation of acid mucopoIysaccharides and choesterol esters were also demonstrated. These degenerative changes seem to be responsible for venosclerosis characteristic of long-standing varicose veins