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10,100 | 8,366 | Sensorineural hearing loss: a reversible effect of valproic acid.
We report 2 patients over the age of 70 who, while on valproate (VPA) for complex partial seizures, developed sensorineural hearing loss.
Following discontinuation of VPA for nonaudiologic reasons, the patients reported improved hearing which was confi... | C10 |
10,101 | 6,094 | Progressing cerebral infarction in relation to plasma glucose in gerbils.
We studied neurologic morbidity and its evolution during hyperglycemia induced immediately after permanent unilateral common carotid artery ligation in Mongolian gerbils.
A total of 60 animals were divided into five groups: one experiencing sev... | C10 |
10,102 | 3,235 | Cerebral effects of sevoflurane in the dog: comparison with isoflurane and enflurane.
The cerebral effects of sevoflurane were compared in dogs with those of enflurane and isoflurane.
Initially, the minimum alveolar concentrations (MAC) of sevoflurane and enflurane were determined and the electroencephalographic (EEG... | C10 |
10,103 | 7,674 | Cystocerebral syndrome. Acute urinary retention presenting as confusion in elderly patients.
The diagnosis of acute mental status changes in the elderly patient is often very difficult.
Many causes are possible, and there is often little history obtainable.
The physical examination occasionally provides the essentia... | C10 |
10,104 | 8,353 | Indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis.
Fifty-six board-certified neurologists with interest and expertise in myasthenia completed a survey of indications for thymectomy in myasthenia gravis.
Thymectomy was advocated for virtually all patients with thymoma, for a variable subset of patients with generalized ... | C10 |
10,105 | 6,803 | Polyneuropathy, ophthalmoplegia, leukoencephalopathy, and intestinal pseudo-obstruction: POLIP syndrome.
We describe 5 individuals (from three separate families) with a progressive neurological disorder characterized by sensorimotor peripheral polyneuropathy, cranial neuropathies (external ophthalmoplegia, deafness), ... | C10 |
10,106 | 6,800 | Increased MEPP frequency as an early sign of experimental immune-mediated motoneuron disease.
Intracellular recordings of miniature end-plate potentials were performed in extensor digitorum longus muscles from guinea pigs with experimental immune-mediated motoneuron destruction.
In the early stages of the disease, th... | C10 |
10,107 | 8,495 | Pharyngeal shape and dimensions in healthy subjects, snorers, and patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.
To characterise the relation between pharyngeal anatomy and sleep related disordered breathing, 17 men with complaints of snoring were studied by all night polysomnography.
Ten of them had obstructive sleep apnoe... | C10 |
10,108 | 271 | Hospital admissions from the Surgical Day Care Centre of Vancouver General Hospital 1977-1987.
The admissions to Vancouver General Hospital from its Surgical Day Care Centre were reviewed for the period 1977 to 1987.
The overall mean rate of admission for the period was 0.28 per cent, for surgically-related admission... | C10 |
10,109 | 6,798 | Myasthenic thymus and thymoma are selectively enriched in acetylcholine receptor-reactive T cells.
We compared T-cell proliferative responses to acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and to purified protein derivative (PPD) (of tuberculin) of hyperplastic thymus, thymoma, and blood cells from patients with myasthenia gravis (... | C10 |
10,110 | 4,775 | Herpes simplex virus type 2 meningitis without genital lesions: an immunoblot study.
Two sexually active female patients presented with acute meningitis.
The CSF abnormalities were severe and persistent.
In spite of the absence of genital lesions, serological studies revealed a primary infection by herpes simplex vi... | C10 |
10,111 | 7,918 | Epidemiology of epilepsy in Guaymi Indians from Bocas del Toro Province, Republic of Panama.
This cross-sectional study was conducted to describe the epidemiology of epilepsy in Guaymi Indians residing in Changuinola, a small town on Panama's Caribbean coast near Costa Rica.
We randomly selected households and attemp... | C10 |
10,112 | 7,504 | Emergency portosystemic shunt in patients with variceal bleeding.
Thirty-five patients for whom emergency sclerotherapy or conservative treatment, or both, failed to arrest variceal bleeding, or who had early rebleeding and required emergency portosystemic shunts (EPSS) were studied.
EPSS permanently controlled the v... | C10 |
10,113 | 3,013 | Physiologic responses to prolonged electrically stimulated leg-cycle exercise in the spinal cord injured.
This study determined the physiologic responses to prolonged functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) leg-cycle exercise in seven quadriplegic and seven paraplegic subjects.
Each subject completed 30 minutes of... | C10 |
10,114 | 391 | Resolution of the adult respiratory distress syndrome following colectomy and liver transplantation.
A 32-year-old woman with liver failure from end-stage cirrhosis and ulcerative colitis developed septicemia and severe ARDS.
Subtotal colectomy and a successful liver transplantation resulted in complete resolution of... | C10 |
10,115 | 8,851 | Effects of a multidisciplinary management program on neurologically impaired patients with dysphagia.
Dysphagia is a major problem in patients with neurologic disorders.
Aspiration pneumonia and impaired nutritional status are consequences of dysphagia that result in high morbidity and mortality rates.
Assessment an... | C10 |
10,116 | 6,999 | Temporoparietal cortex in aphasia. Evidence from positron emission tomography.
Forty-four aphasic patients were examined with (F18)-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in a resting state to determine whether consistent glucose metabolic abnormalities were present.
Ninety-seven percent of subjects showed m... | C10 |
10,117 | 4,837 | Massive increases in extracellular potassium and the indiscriminate release of glutamate following concussive brain injury.
An increase in extracellular K+ concentration ([K+]c) of the rat hippocampus following fluid-percussion concussive brain injury was demonstrated with microdialysis.
The role of neuronal discharg... | C10 |
10,118 | 9,640 | Gallbladder surgery following cholecystlithotripsy: suggested guidelines for treatment
Twenty-three of 229 symptomatic patients undergoing cholecystlithotripsy underwent surgical intervention: 22 of the patients had cholecystectomy performed (five also undergoing choledochotomy) and one patient had a cholecystostomy.... | C10 |
10,119 | 5,503 | Kearns-Sayre syndrome presenting as renal tubular acidosis.
Renal tubular acidosis and tetany were the 1st manifestations of Kearns-Sayre syndrome in a 5-year-old child.
Subsequently, he developed progressive external ophthalmoplegia, ptosis, retinopathy, heart block, and endocrinopathy.
There was a 7.5-kb deletion ... | C10 |
10,120 | 7,604 | The deja vu experience: remembrance of things past?
The deja vu experience is a common phenomenon, occurring in pathological as well as nonpathological conditions.
It has been defined as any subjectively inappropriate impression of familiarity of a present experience with an undefined past.
The authors discuss the ... | C10 |
10,121 | 2,970 | The influence of age vs peak serum concentration on life-threatening events after chronic theophylline intoxication.
To identify risk factors for the development of seizures and cardiac arrhythmias after chronic, unintentional theophylline intoxication we monitored the clinical course of 72 consecutive patients referr... | C10 |
10,122 | 9,663 | Crico-tracheal disruption and common carotid artery occlusion: a case of blunt trauma.
A case of blunt trauma to the neck is presented.
While driving an all terrain vehicle (ATV), a 20-yr-old male was struck across the anterior neck by a cord suspended between two poles.
Initial findings were suggestive of an isolat... | C10 |
10,123 | 5,677 | Confusion.
The term confusion describes a plethora of possible cognitive deficits and behavioral manifestations.
A subjective assessment of confusion must be followed by an objective systematic evaluation to develop the cognitive-behavior profile.
Because of age-associated physiologic and pathologic changes, elderly... | C10 |
10,124 | 8,038 | Effect of age on the efficacy of blood pressure treatment strategies.
To study whether the proportion of excess cardiovascular events attributable to various levels of systolic blood pressure varies with age, we calculated the population-attributable risk of all-cause mortality, fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular event... | C10 |
10,125 | 3,046 | Apneic oxygenation in apnea tests for brain death. A controlled trial.
We performed a prospective controlled study of apneic oxygenation on 15 patients undergoing apnea tests for brain death.
All patients were preoxygenated with 100% oxygen at existing respirator settings.
During the 10-minute apnea tests, nine pati... | C10 |
10,126 | 6,326 | Physical features of Prader-Willi syndrome in neonates.
A retrospective study of 16 patients was undertaken to identify physical features that may typify neonates with Prader-Willi syndrome.
Several features known to be typical of Prader-Willi syndrome in early infancy were confirmed, including hypotonia and genital ... | C10 |
10,127 | 2,416 | Accidental death from a black-powder rifle breech plug.
Authentic black-powder muzzle-loader weapons and replicas are used today primarily for hunting game such as deer and hogs.
The following is a case presentation of accidental death from cerebral trauma caused by a .45-caliber black-powder-rifle breech plug implan... | C10 |
10,128 | 4,658 | Bacterial meningitis in the United States, 1986: report of a multistate surveillance study. The Bacterial Meningitis Study Group.
A prospective, laboratory-based surveillance project obtained accurate data on meningitis in a population of 34 million people during 1986.
Haemophilus influenzae was the most common cause... | C10 |
10,129 | 9,335 | Peripheral neuropathy associated with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
In 1989, the Centers for Disease Control recognized the existence of an epidemic illness characterized by myalgia and eosinophilia in individuals taking preparations containing L-tryptophan.
We evaluated 3 patients with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome... | C10 |
10,130 | 9,833 | Sphenoid sinusitis, a cause of debilitating headache.
We present a case of sphenoid sinusitis resulting in a debilitating headache refractory to both oral and intramuscular analgesics.
Despite an aggressive evaluation in the emergency department, the correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment were delayed.
Recognit... | C10 |
10,131 | 2,853 | Relation of hyperglycemia early in ischemic brain infarction to cerebral anatomy, metabolism, and clinical outcome.
We studied the relation of serum glucose level measured in the first 12 hours of symptoms to the clinical findings, results of computed tomography (CT), and patterns of cerebral metabolism in 39 patients... | C10 |
10,132 | 2,614 | Depression in dementia of the Alzheimer type and in multi-infarct dementia.
The authors used the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and a rating of depressed mood to investigate the prevalence of depression in 55 patients with Alzheimer's disease, 37 patients with multi-infarct dementia, and 30 nondemented compariso... | C10 |
10,133 | 7,536 | Aqueductal (pencil) glioma presenting as neurogenic pulmonary edema: a case report.
A case of neurogenic pulmonary edema due to hydrocephalus, without initial neurological deficit, is described.
Computed tomography demonstrated a ring enhancing lesion in the tectum of the mesencephalon obstructing the aqueduct of Syl... | C10 |
10,134 | 9,367 | Fetal homotransplants (ventral mesencephalon and adrenal tissue) to the striatum of parkinsonian subjects.
Fetal ventral mesencephalon and fetal adrenal tissue grafted to the caudate nucleus of four and three parkinsonian patients, respectively, have been shown to be an alternative treatment for the amelioration of th... | C10 |
10,135 | 5,447 | Chronic Lyme disease with an expansive granulomatous lesion in the cerebellopontine angle.
Expansive granulomatous lesions in the posterior cranial fossa are rare and have not been reported in conjunction with Lyme disease.
We report a patient with verified Borrelia burgdorferi infection who developed a tumor in the ... | C10 |
10,136 | 2,771 | Brain water content, brain blood volume, blood chemistry, and pathology in a model of cerebral edema.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The objective was to correlate regional changes during brain water content with alterations in blood chemistry and cerebral pathology during hypo-osmotic edema.
PARTICIPANTS: Sprague-Dawley male adu... | C10 |
10,137 | 2,125 | Cerebral cysticercosis.
We studied 143 cases of cerebral cysticercosis over a 30-year period.
In 46 there was hydrocephalus due to cysts obstructing the cerebrospinal fluid pathways, with signs of hydrocephalus and cerebellar dysfunction.
In 97 there were cysts in the cerebral parenchyma, causing symptoms of intracr... | C10 |
10,138 | 5,452 | Occult vascular malformations of the optic chiasm: magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis and surgical laser resection.
Angiographically occult vascular malformations of the optic nerve and chiasm are extremely rare.
Before the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it was difficult to diagnose these lesions preop... | C10 |
10,139 | 9,018 | The influence of warning signal timing and cognitive preparation on the aversiveness of electric shock.
Many medical and dental procedures are noxious.
Finding an optimal way of warning patients concerning the aversive procedures could help them to cope better.
A model for the effective use of a warning signal in co... | C10 |
10,140 | 7,880 | Systemic hypertension in sleep apnea syndrome. Relationship with sleep architecture and breathing abnormalities.
To examine the possible relationship between systemic HT and SAS we compared 21 hypertensive (HT+) and 29 normotensive (HT-) patients for morphologic characteristics, sleep disturbances and respiratory even... | C10 |
10,141 | 4,101 | Swimmer's migraine.
Three cases of sudden, severe headache occurring during swimming are described.
A 51-year-old female had been engaging in a swimming exercise for about 20 minutes when she suddenly experienced a pulsating headache in the parietotemporal region, accompanied by nausea.
A few days later, she experie... | C10 |
10,142 | 3,896 | Gene mapping and other tools for discovery.
Genetic mapping provides a means of understanding the molecular basis of inherited diseases whose biochemistry is unknown.
Adequate pedigrees, informative genetic markers, and accurate identification of the disease phenotype are necessary.
For dominant inheritance, mapping... | C10 |
10,143 | 4,844 | Epithelial cyst of the fourth ventricle. Case report.
A case of epithelial cyst in the fourth ventricle of a 4-year-old child is described.
A single epithelial layer with a clear basement membrane lining the cyst wall was observed.
There were no prominent histological findings to suggest a pathogenesis for this cyst... | C10 |
10,144 | 2,937 | Analysis of prognostic factors and clinicopathological staging of thymoma
The prognostic value of four clinical variables (age and sex of patients, association with myasthenia gravis, and clinical stage) and histological type was analyzed in 83 consecutive patients with thymoma, histologically classified as cortical,... | C10 |
10,145 | 6,548 | South American blastomycosis: ophthalmic and oculomotor nerve lesions.
A case of South American blastomycosis began with an oropharyngeal lesion which was followed by a granulomatous uveitis.
The patient was treated with Amphotericin B and showed a clinical regression.
Four months later, he developed a right 3rd cra... | C10 |
10,146 | 491 | Myasthenia gravis.
Myasthenia Gravis is a disorder of neuromuscular function resulting from an immunologically based premature destruction of acetylcholine receptors.
The disease is characterized clinically by variable weakness accentuated by repetitive muscular activity and usually responding to the administration o... | C10 |
10,147 | 4,106 | A study of the seasonal variation of migraine.
Available evidence supports the contention that migraine involves a disturbance in serotonin function.
Several parameters of serotonin function in humans have been found to vary seasonally and may underlie the seasonal fluctuations observed in many clinical neuropsychiat... | C10 |
10,148 | 5,439 | Posterior interosseous nerve palsies.
One hundred seventy patients with radial nerve disorders were reviewed at the Louisiana State University Medical Center over a 15-year period.
Of these, 32 had involvement of the posterior interosseous nerve exclusively.
Findings included weak wrist extension with a radial drift... | C10 |
10,149 | 4,760 | Articulatory impairment associated with tardive dyskinesia.
The speech of two patients with tardive dyskinesia was studied, and one neuroleptic-treated patient having no signs of overt tardive dyskinesia served as control.
A structured interview, including reading, repetition of sentences, and spontaneous conversatio... | C10 |
10,150 | 4,102 | Platelet monoamine oxidase activity in female migraine patients.
Platelet monoamine oxidase activity (MAO) in a group (n = 17) of white, female migraineurs during an acute migraine attack was similar to both the values obtained for the same group of patients two to three weeks after the headache episode (pain-free per... | C10 |
10,151 | 960 | Prevalence and characteristics of multiple analgesic drug use in an elderly study group.
With few exceptions, use of multiple analgesic drugs achieves dubious increases in analgesia while placing elders at increased risk of the many potential adverse effects of analgesic drugs.
The potential for duplication of analge... | C10 |
10,152 | 3,054 | Adjuvant chemotherapy for primary lymphoma of the central nervous system.
Ten immunocompetent patients with primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the central nervous system were treated by the neuro-oncology service at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).
After undergoing surgery for biopsy or removal of... | C10 |
10,153 | 6,695 | Distinguishable types of dyspnea in patients with shortness of breath.
Dyspnea frequently accompanies a variety of cardiopulmonary abnormalities.
Although dyspnea is often considered a single sensation, alternatively it may encompass multiple sensations that are not well explained by a single physiologic mechanism.
... | C10 |
10,154 | 5,428 | Structure, expression and function of a schwannoma-derived growth factor.
During the development of the nervous system, cells require growth factors that regulate their division and survival.
To identify new growth factors, serum-free growth-conditioned media from many clonal cell lines were screened for the presence... | C10 |
10,155 | 4,351 | Severe lidocaine intoxication by cutaneous absorption.
A severe lidocaine intoxication by cutaneous absorption is described.
Data are presented to show a significant absorption of lidocaine through diseased skin when lidocaine cream is used as a local anesthetic.
Awareness of this route of intoxication might be impo... | C10 |
10,156 | 6,425 | The "stuck twin" phenomenon: ultrasonographic findings, pregnancy outcome, and management with serial amniocenteses.
Thirteen consecutive twin pregnancies affected by the "stuck twin" phenomenon were reviewed to determine the potential benefit of serial amniocenteses.
The fetal survival rate for the eight pregnancies... | C10 |
10,157 | 5,613 | Antinociception and cardiovascular responses produced by electrical stimulation in the nucleus tractus solitarius, nucleus reticularis ventralis, and the caudal medulla.
In experiment 1, quantitative regional comparisons of the antinociceptive and cardiovascular responses produced by electrical stimulation in the caud... | C10 |
10,158 | 726 | Evaluating oxygen delivery and oxygen utilization with mixed venous oxygen saturation monitoring: a case study approach.
Three cases studies are presented to demonstrate clinical application of mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) monitoring in critical care nursing practice.
Examples of critically ill patients are ... | C10 |
10,159 | 8,720 | Are myotonias and periodic paralyses associated with susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia?
Excised muscles from patients with myotonia or periodic paralysis were subjected to the in vitro contracture test for susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia (MH).
In a group of 44 patients, this standard test gave four po... | C10 |
10,160 | 6,011 | Synchronous Hodgkin's disease and myelofibrosis terminating with granulocytic sarcoma and acute megakaryocytic leukemia.
Our patient had stage IIIAI Hodgkin's disease with synchronous myelofibrosis and myeloid metaplasia.
A slowly progressive myeloproliferative disease developed over 9 1/2 years and terminated in a p... | C10 |
10,161 | 8,621 | Calcium antagonists in the management of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a review.
Cerebral arterial vasospasm and infarction is the leading cause of death and disability among patients who reach a major medical center after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
Recent evidence suggests that two... | C10 |
10,162 | 8,259 | Magnetic and electrical stimulation of cervical motor roots: technique, site and mechanisms of excitation.
Cervical motor roots and the brachial plexus were excited transcutaneously with magnetic (MagStim) and electrical stimulation (ElStim) applied dorsally over the spine and over the supraclavicular fossa (Erb's poi... | C10 |
10,163 | 6,105 | Pharmacology of recovery after stroke.
Laboratory research during the past decade has begun to provide insights into the neurobiologic basis of functional recovery after brain injury.
It is clear that drugs influencing specific neurotransmitters also can influence the recovery process.
Some of these drugs may be ben... | C10 |
10,164 | 681 | The auditory P300 event-related potential: an objective marker of the encephalopathy of chronic liver disease.
Recently many variants of electroencephalogram-evoked responses have been studied as potential diagnostic aids in the detection and evaluation of hepatic encephalopathy.
This study assesses the value of the ... | C10 |
10,165 | 4,805 | Questionable role of CNS radioprophylaxis in the therapeutic management of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma with meningeal extension.
A series of 15 consecutive children with head and neck nonorbital rhabdomyosarcoma (RMSA) with meningeal extension were prospectively treated with chemotherapy consisting of Adriamycin (doxor... | C10 |
10,166 | 4,020 | Pain on common bile duct injection during ERCP: does it indicate sphincter of Oddi dysfunction?
The reproduction of a patient's biliary-type pain upon initial injection of contrast material into the common bile duct during diagnostic ERCP is a dramatic experience for both patient and physician.
The significance of th... | C10 |
10,167 | 7,888 | Clinical dysautonomia in patients with bronchial asthma. Study with seven autonomic function tests.
Fifty asthmatic patients and 20 healthy control subjects, carefully age- and sex-matched, were subjected to seven standardized tests to evaluate their autonomic status.
Due care was taken to remove factors which could ... | C10 |
10,168 | 4,784 | Treatment of chronic relapsing inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy by cyclosporin A and plasma exchange. A case report.
A patient with chronic relapsing inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy was successfully treated with plasma exchanges and cyclosporin A (CsA).
Dynamometric measurements of hand force durin... | C10 |
10,169 | 5,480 | Paraplegia after a routine lumbar laminectomy: report of a rare complication and successful management.
Arachnoid cysts of the spinal canal are relatively common lesions that may be either intra- or extradural.
These cysts are usually asymptomatic but may produce symptoms by compressing the spinal cord or nerve roots... | C10 |
10,170 | 8,260 | Eosinophilic meningitis: cause of a chronic pain syndrome.
Three tourists developed eosinophilic meningitis after visiting the Fijian Islands.
Two had a severe and long lasting illness with chronic intractable pain.
In one patient electrophysiological studies and MRI scan of the brain were abnormal and provided evid... | C10 |
10,171 | 4,921 | Prevention of cardiovascular disease: risks and benefits of aspirin.
Aspirin has been tested for its benefit in preventing cardiovascular disease in randomized trials in three categories of patients.
In secondary prevention among those with a history of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke or transient cerebral ischemi... | C10 |
10,172 | 6,757 | Carotid endarterectomy for elderly patients: predicting complications
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the complication or death rate from carotid endarterectomy can be predicted from hospital and physician structural variables, such as the hospital's teaching status or the number of endarterectomies done by the surge... | C10 |
10,173 | 9,011 | Treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with topical capsaicin. Case report.
A 31-year-old woman with intractable reflex sympathetic dystrophy experienced nearly complete, though temporary, resolution of pain following 3 weeks of topical capsaicin.
We propose that capsaicin may be a useful treatment for reflex symp... | C10 |
10,174 | 236 | Primary leptomeningeal B-cell lymphoma in a 8-year-old child.
A case of primary leptomeningeal B-cell lymphoma in an 8-year-old, previously healthy child is described.
The child was found to have hypogammaglobulinemia, and the Epstein-Barr virus genome was identified in cultured tumor cells despite blood serology bei... | C10 |
10,175 | 5,672 | Acute pain relief.
Pain is a multidimensional psychophysiologic phenomenon.
Systematic multidimensional assessment is an essential first component of an effective plan to relieve the pain.
Nurses are key to effective pain management because of the close, 24-hour-a-day relationship with the hospitalized patient.
It ... | C10 |
10,176 | 5,627 | Thrombocytosis after pneumonia with empyema and other bacterial infections in children.
Thrombocytosis is seen in association with many conditions, including infectious diseases.
We studied thrombocytosis after severe bacterial infections, particularly pneumonia with empyema in children.
A systematic survey of the p... | C10 |
10,177 | 6,692 | Erythromycin failure with subsequent Pasteurella multocida meningitis and septic arthritis in a cat-bite victim.
We report the case of a 75-year-old woman who developed Pasteurella multocida meningitis and septic arthritis while being treated for a cat-bite wound infection with erythromycin.
Review of the literature ... | C10 |
10,178 | 5,673 | Chronic pain.
Understanding of the etiology of chronic pain is growing rapidly as researchers seek to integrate physiologic and psychosocial mechanisms.
When nurses assess clients with chronic pain, they should make their assessments using both verbal and nonverbal methods and realize that no one instrument is compre... | C10 |
10,179 | 8,639 | Survey of adolescents with severe intellectual handicap.
A diagnostic survey was undertaken of children aged 11 to 19 years in Tameside with severe learning difficulties (intelligence quotient less than or equal to 50).
Eighty-two children were identified and their medical records reviewed.
A specific diagnosis for ... | C10 |
10,180 | 9,016 | Transcranial electrical stimulation with high frequency intermittent current (Limoge's) potentiates opiate-induced analgesia: blind studies.
Transcutaneous cranial electrical stimulation (TCES) with high frequency (166 kHz) intermittent current (100 Hz: Limoge current) has been used for several years in cardiac, thora... | C10 |
10,181 | 7,638 | Type I hypersensitivity to rubber.
Seven patients with type I hypersensitivity reactions to rubber are reported.
Radioallergosorbent testing with crude latex antigen was positive in 6/7 patients.
Five patients had coexisting spina bifida, and all had undergone surgery before the development of rubber allergy.
Rubbe... | C10 |
10,182 | 3,582 | Obstructive sleep apnoea in children undergoing routine tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.
Sleep screening was used to discover the incidence of sleep apnoea in 50 children undergoing routine adenotonsillectomy for recurrent upper respiratory tract infections, randomly selected from the waiting list.
Preoperative asses... | C10 |
10,183 | 9,339 | Alpha 1-antichymotrypsin as a possible biochemical marker for Alzheimer-type dementia.
We measured serum alpha 1-antichymotrypsin levels in 38 patients with Alzheimer-type dementia, 89 control subjects, 2 subjects with Down's syndrome, 20 with vascular dementia, 18 with Parkinson's disease, 14 with spinocerebellar deg... | C10 |
10,184 | 3,351 | Abdominal wall pain: an alternative diagnosis.
The cause of abdominal pain need not necessarily reside in the viscera; the abdominal wall is another source of symptoms.
Some causes of abdominal wall pain are obvious, e.g.
hernias, but not so others such as nerve entrapment syndromes.
This review is concerned with c... | C10 |
10,185 | 3,017 | Manual stretch: effect on finger movement control and force control in stroke subjects with spastic extrinsic finger flexor muscles.
This study evaluated the effects of manual stretch of extrinsic finger flexor muscles on finger extension movement control and force control in 16 spastic hemiparetic subjects.
These su... | C10 |
10,186 | 453 | Irritable bowel syndrome in women having diagnostic laparoscopy or hysterectomy. Relation to gynecologic features and outcome.
We identified irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 47.7% of 86 women having diagnostic laparoscopy for chronic pelvic pain, 39.5% of 172 women having elective hysterectomy, and 32.0% of 172 contr... | C10 |
10,187 | 6,400 | Serum aldolase isozyme levels in patients with cerebrovascular diseases.
A subunit specific radioimmunoassay was developed for the quantification of human aldolase A, B, and C.
The method used was a double antibody radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated purified aldolase A, B, or C subunits as the ligand, specific chi... | C10 |
10,188 | 5,620 | Heritability of symptoms in an experimental model of neuropathic pain.
Male and female rats underwent transection and ligation of the sciatic and saphenous nerves, and the development of autonomy was monitored.
The deafferented animals were then interbred, always selecting males and females that expressed relatively ... | C10 |
10,189 | 7,627 | Steroid anabolic drugs and arterial complications in an athlete--a case history.
Serious side effects and complications have been attributed to anabolic and androgenic steroids when used for medical reasons or when taken in sports in hopes of increasing strength and, hence, performance.
The author presents a case of ... | C10 |
10,190 | 6,103 | Molecular biology of atherothrombotic brain infarction.
Because reduced high density lipoproteins may contribute to atherothrombotic brain infarction, we performed molecular biologic and metabolic studies to characterize high density lipoprotein metabolism with respect to its role in reverse cholesterol transport, to ... | C10 |
10,191 | 2,903 | Magnetic resonance imaging in neurological disorders.
To investigate the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in neurological disorders, 115 children were studied in two groups.
Group A (78 patients) was studied by paired computed tomography and MRI cranial scans.
Group B (37 patients) was studied by paired comp... | C10 |
10,192 | 2,902 | Richner-Hanhart's syndrome. Electron microscopic study of the skin lesion.
The plantar hyperkeratotic skin lesion in a case of Richner-Hanhart's syndrome was investigated using ultrastructural examination.
Light microscopic examination showed remarkable hyperkeratosis and some aberrant keratinocytes with multiple nuc... | C10 |
10,193 | 761 | The modified Schollner costoplasty.
The modified Schollner costoplasty is a cosmetic procedure for the correction of rib prominence deformity in scoliosis.
We present the results of the procedure in 21 patients who had previously undergone spinal fusion for scoliosis.
We found the procedure to be well tolerated with... | C10 |
10,194 | 8,634 | Short stature, mental retardation, and hypoparathyroidism: a new syndrome.
Eight children (four boys and four girls) with extreme failure to thrive, dysmorphic features, developmental delay, hypoparathyroidism, and abnormal skeletal survey were studied.
They were the products of seven consanguinous marriages, two of ... | C10 |
10,195 | 3,339 | Mastalgia refractory to drug treatment.
Management of the patient with mastalgia who fails to respond to first line therapy is a difficult problem and there is a group of patients who do not respond to any therapy.
A group of 126 patients with mastalgia who failed to respond to first line therapy and completed furthe... | C10 |
10,196 | 7,924 | Cerebral glucose utilization during sleep in Landau-Kleffner syndrome: a PET study.
Three right-handed male children (aged 5, 6, and 11 years) with signs, symptoms and/or history of the syndrome of acquired aphasia-epilepsy (Landau-Kleffner syndrome) were studied during drug-induced, electroencephalographically (EEG)-... | C10 |
10,197 | 5,283 | Auditory-evoked responses in benign intracranial hypertension syndrome.
In this study, auditory brainstem-evoked responses were conducted on 28 patients with otologic symptoms (pulsatile tinnitus, hearing loss, aural fullness) secondary to benign intracranial hypertension syndrome.
Abnormalities consisting mainly of ... | C10 |
10,198 | 9,345 | Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease without periodic EEG activity.
Four members of a kindred with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are reported, in whom myoclonus did not develop and in whom serial electroencephalograms performed late in their illness failed to show periodic sharp wave complexes.
Otherwise, the patients' dis... | C10 |
10,199 | 6,427 | Pregnancy in a patient with treated Wilson's disease: a case report.
Pregnancy should have a successful outcome in a patient with treated Wilson's disease if complications are excluded before conception.
Chelating treatment must be maintained, although there is some concern about its teratogenicity.
We describe the ... | C10 |
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