"Catastrophizing"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=11083273[uid]
The "Cef is bad, bad, medicine"
study by Lenny the
Catastrophizer Sigal:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00018860.htm
The real result was 0.8%
maybe
had a problem.
These were pseudo-gall stones and did
not require surgery.
There were 1352 hospitalized
patients??
Sigal does not state how many of
the 11 surgical patients had soft and greenish pseudogallstones- which
is would be malpractice to operate on, since the manufacturer of Rocephin
states that pseudogallstones may occur, and that the treatment of the
pseudogallstones is to remove the drug for a while..
"Twenty-five (2% of the cohort)
case-patients were identified, with a
median age of 12.0 years (range: 3-40
years); 84% were female. All had
received intravenous ceftriaxone within
90 days preceding the onset of biliary
symptoms. Daily dosage of ceftriaxone at
the time of onset of biliary symptoms
averaged 57 mg/kg (range: 27-96 mg/kg)
in 17 case-patients for whom information
was available in inpatient medical
records. The median duration of
treatment with ceftriaxone in the
treatment course immediately preceding
the onset of biliary symptoms was 28
days (range: 4-170 days) in 21
case-patients for whom information was
available in medical records. Of the 25
patients, 14 (56%) underwent
laparoscopic cholecystectomy; 12 of
these 14 patients were less than or
equal to 18 years of age.
"In 11 of these
14 surgical cases, pathology reports
described gallbladder calculi (often
multiple) of 2-10 mm in diameter and in
some cases soft and greenish in color.
In two surgical cases, the gallbladder
was acalculous; in one, it contained
fine gravel."
11/1352 patients with a maybe
problem equals 0.8%.