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1,800 | 5,180 | Practicalities of lipids: ICU patient, autoimmune disease, and vascular disease.
Although the use of lipids should be individualized, certain generalizations are appropriate.
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Lipid infusion should be limited in the fulminately septic patient to 10% of total calories in an effort to reduce immunosuppression.
2.
... | C20 |
1,801 | 3,418 | Perinatal infection of human T-lymphotropic virus type I, the etiologic virus of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. DNA amplification of specific human T-lymphotropic virus type I sequences.
A gene amplification technique, polymerase chain reaction, was used to detect human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), the etiol... | C20 |
1,802 | 2,711 | Relationship between anesthetic procedure and contact of anesthesia personnel with patient body fluids.
We recorded the frequency with which anesthesia personnel came in contact with patient body fluids in order to provide an empirical basis for the recommendation of relevant precautions.
Anesthesia personnel complet... | C20 |
1,803 | 75 | Selective regulation of the activity of different hematopoietic regulatory proteins by transforming growth factor beta 1 in normal and leukemic myeloid cells.
The viability of normal bone marrow myeloid precursor cells induced by interleukin-6 (IL-6) or IL-1 alpha and the ability of IL-6 and IL-1 alpha to induce the f... | C20 |
1,804 | 9,290 | Prevalence of occupational asthma and immunologic sensitization to psyllium among health personnel in chronic care hospitals.
Psyllium is a high molecular weight laxative that can cause occupational asthma among health care workers who prepare this product for chronically ill patients.
The prevalence of immunologic s... | C20 |
1,805 | 3,190 | HIV-1 infection of lung alveolar fibroblasts and macrophages in humans.
We have studied the infected cell populations in the lungs of four human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) seropositive patients suffering from lymphocytic alveolitis or lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis.
Adherent cells were obtained by br... | C20 |
1,806 | 8,276 | Effect of continuous-infusion zidovudine therapy on neuropsychologic functioning in children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Neuropsychologic function was assessed in 13 children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus disease (Centers for Disease Control Class P2), ranging in age from 1... | C20 |
1,807 | 326 | Growth abnormalities in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Growth abnormalities in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can be divided into two groups: local and systemic.
Local disorders of growth often result in increased bone length and bone age or in marked decreases in longitudinal growth due to immobilizatio... | C20 |
1,808 | 7,630 | Masqueraders in clinical allergy: laryngeal dysfunction causing dyspnea [published erratum appears in Ann Allergy 1991 Jan;66(1):22]
The allergist may be called upon to evaluate patients with dyspnea that is labeled "refractory asthma." In some patients, the site of origin of their dyspnea is the larynx.
The diagnosi... | C20 |
1,809 | 7,789 | Disseminated strongyloidiasis with central nervous system involvement diagnosed antemortem in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and Burkitts lymphoma.
A 45-year-old man presented with central nervous system involvement as the initial manifestation of disseminated infection with Strongyloides stercorali... | C20 |
1,810 | 2,798 | Epidemiology of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria IX. Evidence for two DNA homology groups among small plasmids in Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and Mycobacterium scrofulaceum.
A 12.9 kb plasmid, pVT2, from a clinical Mycobacterium avium isolate, MD1, was cloned and radiolabeled for use as ... | C20 |
1,811 | 7,366 | Otologic disease in AIDS patients: CT correlation.
The contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CT) scans of the temporal bone and brain in 18 patients with otologic disease and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were retrospectively reviewed.
Seven scans revealed middle ear and mastoid disease; three scans wer... | C20 |
1,812 | 6,729 | Computerized tomography in the evaluation of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a destructive disease of the lung characteristically associated with central bronchiectasis.
This study was designed to determine if high-resolution computerized tomography (CT) coul... | C20 |
1,813 | 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... | C20 |
1,814 | 7,961 | Insulin-mimicking anti-idiotypic antibodies in development of spontaneous autoimmune diabetes in BB/E rats.
BB/E rats spontaneously develop a form of autoimmune diabetes resembling insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in humans.
IDDM results from central destruction of the insulin-producing beta-cells of the pa... | C20 |
1,815 | 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 ... | C20 |
1,816 | 9,920 | Clinical significance of antibodies to a 68 kDa U1RNP polypeptide in connective tissue disease.
In a series of 163 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and/or systemic sclerosis and/or mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), the presence of antibodies to a 68 kDa U1RNP associated polypeptide was more predi... | C20 |
1,817 | 7,676 | Lymphomatoid granulomatosis presenting as ulcerodestructive gastrointestinal tract lesions in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. A new association.
We describe cases of severe odynophagia, extensive oral ulcerations, and bowel perforation in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection that ... | C20 |
1,818 | 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... | C20 |
1,819 | 4,742 | Causes of death in hospitalized intravenous drug abusers.
The authors reviewed at autopsy the causes of death of 274 patients with evidence of intravenous drug abuse who had been admitted to a large public hospital.
There were 127 who died from diseases unrelated to intravenous drug abuse, and in 41% of these, chroni... | C20 |
1,820 | 83 | Expression of transcobalamin II receptors by human leukemia K562 and HL-60 cells.
Plasma membrane receptors for the serum cobalamin-binding protein transcobalamin II (TCII) were identified on human leukemia K562 and HL-60 cells using immunoaffinity-purified human TCII labeled with [57Co]cyanocobalamin.
The Bmax value... | C20 |
1,821 | 8,289 | Vaginitis emphysematosa. A report of four cases.
It has been hypothesized that vaginitis emphysematosa is a manifestation of trichomonal or Gardnerella infection.
In support of this etiologic concept, four cases of the disorder are described showing the apparent curative effect of treating the associated infection.
... | C20 |
1,822 | 7,870 | Risks of human immunodeficiency virus infection to patients and healthcare personnel.
The risk of nosocomial human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among hospitalized patients comes almost exclusively from transfusion of fresh blood products.
Current estimates of the risk of HIV infection from the transfusion o... | C20 |
1,823 | 403 | Formoterol in the treatment of nocturnal asthma.
Formoterol fumarate is a new beta 2-adrenergic agonist with a long lasting effect.
The bronchospasmolytic effect of 12 micrograms of formoterol was compared with that of 200 micrograms of albuterol (salbutamol) in a single-center, double-blind, randomized within-patien... | C20 |
1,824 | 314 | Immunologic abnormalities of juvenile arthritis.
Many immunologic abnormalities have been found in children with all forms of chronic arthritis, but few are clinically useful or well understood.
However, in children with arthritis it is important to distinguish among those with rheumatoid factor, antinuclear antibodi... | C20 |
1,825 | 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... | C20 |
1,826 | 7,777 | Transfusion-induced graft-versus-host disease in patients with malignant lymphoma. A case report and review of the literature.
A case of transfusion-induced graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occurring in a 31-year-old female with Hodgkin's disease in complete remission is reported.
Clinical features are similar to 19 ... | C20 |
1,827 | 7,896 | Pathologic dependence of oxygen consumption on oxygen delivery in acute respiratory failure secondary to AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
Oxygen consumption is pathologically dependent on oxygen delivery in ARDS and sepsis.
We asked whether oxygen consumption is dependent on oxygen delivery in severe acut... | C20 |
1,828 | 8,497 | Use of inhaled corticosteroids in patients with mild asthma.
A double blind, parallel group study was carried out to investigate the effect of inhaled budesonide in a moderate (200 micrograms) and a low (100 micrograms) twice daily dosage compared with the effect of placebo in 103 adults with mild symptomatic asthma.
... | C20 |
1,829 | 7,271 | Isolation of HIV-1 from the blood of seropositive adults: patient stage of illness and sample inoculum size are major determinants of a positive culture. The Walter Reed Retroviral Research Group.
Results of HIV-1 blood cultures from 609 seropositive adults across all stages of illness at the Walter Reed Army Medical ... | C20 |
1,830 | 853 | Platelet activating factor-induced clinical and histopathologic responses in atopic skin and their modification by the platelet activating factor antagonist BN52063.
The clinical and histopathologic responses to intradermal platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether) in atopic subjects, without evidence of atopic dermati... | C20 |
1,831 | 4,464 | Normal responsiveness of superficial hand veins to alpha- and beta-adrenergic stimuli in allergic asthma: effects of terbutaline and prednisolone on beta-adrenergic responsiveness.
Impaired function of the adrenergic-receptor system has been postulated to contribute to the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma.
Using the ... | C20 |
1,832 | 3,411 | A randomized comparison of methotrexate dose and the addition of bleomycin to CHOP therapy for diffuse large cell lymphoma and other non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Cancer and Leukemia Group B study 7851.
In 1978, Cancer and Leukemia Group B initiated a randomized study to determine the usefulness of the addition of bleomyci... | C20 |
1,833 | 5,505 | Myelin basic protein-specific T lymphocyte lines from MS patients and healthy individuals.
We derived a total of 146 T lymphocyte lines specific for human myelin basic protein (MBP) from the peripheral blood of 20 MS patients and from a control group of 12 healthy donors, and determined the reactivities of T cell line... | C20 |
1,834 | 8,370 | Epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus infection in women in the United States.
From 1981 to 1989, the number of women with HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) increased rapidly.
Most women were infected through intravenous drug use or sexual contact with an infected man.
Most children ... | C20 |
1,835 | 6,485 | Protein A-gold immunoelectron microscopic study of amyloid fibrils, granular deposits, and fibrillar luminal aggregates in renal amyloidosis.
Glomeruli of archival renal biopsies, stored frozen at -70 degrees C, from three patients with amyloid were examined by protein A-gold immunoelectron microscopy.
In one with bo... | C20 |
1,836 | 8,043 | Late pulmonary allergic responses in actively but not passively IgE-sensitized rats.
Previous studies suggested that although rats that were passively sensitized [monoclonal murine immunoglobulin E (IgE)] would respond to pulmonary antigen challenge with an immediate increase in resistance, they exhibited no late incr... | C20 |
1,837 | 7,203 | A novel X-linked combined immunodeficiency disease.
A novel X-linked combined immunodeficiency disease was found in five living males in an extended family in the United States.
The age of the affected males ranged from 2.5 to 34 yr.
The most prominent clinical abnormalities were a paucity of lymphoid tissue; recurr... | C20 |
1,838 | 2,983 | Spontaneous pneumothorax in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome treated with prophylactic aerosolized pentamidine.
Spontaneous pneumothorax is a known complication of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
To evaluate the possible pathogenesis and natural ... | C20 |
1,839 | 7,639 | Anaphylaxis to grand keyhole limpet (abalone-like shellfish) and abalone.
We report five patients who developed moderate to severe anaphylactic reactions induced by the ingestion of grand keyhole limpet (GKL) and abalone.
Specific IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to these shellfish was demonstrated by history, prick ski... | C20 |
1,840 | 9,359 | Pulmonary malakoplakia in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Differential diagnostic considerations.
Malakoplakia is an unusual inflammatory condition characterized histopathologically by accumulations of benign macrophages, or von Hansemann's cells, that are associated with diagnostic intracellula... | C20 |
1,841 | 9,204 | The course of the HIV epidemic among intravenous drug users in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
To determine if behavioral changes in intravenous drug users in Amsterdam have retarded the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic in this group in recent years, we report that: HIV-antibody seroprevalence in annual samples... | C20 |
1,842 | 2,988 | Desensitization in the management of vancomycin hypersensitivity.
Vancomycin is the preferred antimicrobial agent in the treatment of methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections.
One of the well-known hypersensitivity reactions to this agent is the "red-man syndrome," which is believed to involve drug-induced his... | C20 |
1,843 | 2,898 | Transfusion-associated graft-vs-host disease in patients with malignancies. Report of two cases and review of the literature
Graft-vs-host disease can develop in immunosuppressed individuals who receive blood-product transfusions that contain immunocompetent lymphocytes.
We report two cases of fatal transfusion-asso... | C20 |
1,844 | 9,918 | Anti-RNA polymerase I antibodies in the urine of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Urine samples from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (n = 80), patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (n = 21), and healthy controls (n = 36) were analyzed by radio-immunoassay (RIA) for anti-RNA polymerase I (... | C20 |
1,845 | 9,319 | A national study of AIDS and residency training: experiences, concerns, and consequences
OBJECTIVE: To examine residents' experiences in the care of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and to examine factors that may influence their attitudes about such care.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional, self-ad... | C20 |
1,846 | 810 | Autoantibodies to the HLA-B27 sequence cross-react with the hypothetical peptide from the arthritis-associated Shigella plasmid.
We previously reported elevated serum antibody levels to a peptide representing the HLA-B27 polymorphic region (B27 peptide) in HLA-B27(+) ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients.
A plasmid (p... | C20 |
1,847 | 3,062 | Echographic features of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome represents a spectrum of bilateral panuveitis with associated central nervous system and dermatologic manifestations.
The diagnosis is based on clinical and angiographic findings, but some of the characteristic features may... | C20 |
1,848 | 81 | A new monoclonal antibody (CH-F42) recognizes a CD7- subset of normal T lymphocytes and circulating malignant cells in adult T-cell lymphoma-leukemia and Sezary syndrome.
We describe a new rat immunoglobulin M monoclonal antibody (CH-F42) that recognizes a subset (1.5% to 8%) of normal peripheral blood T lymphocytes.
... | C20 |
1,849 | 395 | Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis associated with Pneumocystis carinii. Ultrastructural identification in bronchoalveolar lavage in AIDS and immunocompromised non-AIDS patients.
Pneumocystis carinii (PC) has been recognized as frequently responsible for most opportunistic pulmonary infections occurring in immunocompromis... | C20 |
1,850 | 8,322 | Bronchodilator, cardiovascular, and hypokalaemic effects of fenoterol, salbutamol, and terbutaline in asthma.
The airway response and cardiovascular and hypokalaemic effects of fenoterol, salbutamol, and terbutaline given in multiples of standard doses from metered-dose inhalers were studied in ten patients with mild ... | C20 |
1,851 | 6,719 | Bronchial responsiveness to histamine in infants and older children
Normal infants have been shown to respond to a relatively low concentration of inhaled histamine.
However, those studies used partial maximal expiratory flow volume (PMEFV) curves to assess lung function.
In order to directly compare responsiveness... | C20 |
1,852 | 4,445 | Basophil histamine release by platelet-activating factor in aspirin-sensitive subjects with asthma.
Histamine release induced by platelet-activating factor (PAF) from leukocytes of aspirin-sensitive subjects with asthma was higher than that from normal control subjects, despite the similarity of anti-IgE-induced hista... | C20 |
1,853 | 3,629 | Anaphylactic shock associated with chymopapain skin test. A case report and review of the literature.
The allergic response to chymopapain intradiscal therapy has been well documented.
The most serious of these reactions is anaphylactic shock, which may result in death.
Various screening methods, including skin test... | C20 |
1,854 | 3,083 | Binding of anti-DNA antibodies and inhibition of glomerulonephritis in MRL-lpr/lpr mice by heparin.
Heparin was found to inhibit the DNA binding of antibodies eluted from kidneys of both humans and MRL-lpr/lpr mice with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Treatment of MRL-lpr/lpr mice with low doses of heparin significantl... | C20 |
1,855 | 4,578 | In vivo immune selection of a Moloney murine leukemia virus-induced tumor results in the loss of viral- but not tumor-associated antigens.
A protocol of in vivo immune selection has been used to isolate a variant of the Moloney murine leukemia virus (MuLV)-induced tumor MBL-2.
Characterization of the tumor variant in... | C20 |
1,856 | 5,504 | Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in multiple sclerosis.
Regional in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy provides quantitative data on selected chemical constituents of brain.
We imaged 16 volunteers with clinically definite multiple sclerosis on a 1.5 tesla magnetic resonance scanner to define plaque-co... | C20 |
1,857 | 3,773 | The malignancy-sarcoidosis syndrome.
In a retrospective review of six patients with malignancy preceding sarcoidosis, we found four cases of malignant lymphoproliferative disease (LD) and one case each of ovarian cancer and breast cancer.
The median interval from onset or relapse of malignancy to sarcoidosis was nine... | C20 |
1,858 | 3,044 | No evidence for human T-cell leukemia virus type I or human T-cell leukemia virus type II infection in patients with multiple sclerosis.
The involvement of human T-cell leukemia viruses (HTLVs) in the pathogenesis of 18 Hungarian patients with multiple sclerosis was investigated.
No antibody to HTLVs could be detecte... | C20 |
1,859 | 2,524 | Sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus infection among women with pelvic inflammatory disease.
Both human immunodeficiency virus infections and pelvic inflammatory diseases are sexually acquired illnesses of great consequence to women.
This study was undertaken to determine if women hospitaliz... | C20 |
1,860 | 3,597 | Diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis: long-term observations in patients treated with ancrod.
Twenty-two patients with histologically demonstrated diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis (DPLN) and glomerular thrombosis received a 14-day course of ancrod, followed in most by nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine hydrochlor... | C20 |
1,861 | 5,631 | Immunoglobulin G subclass deficiency and predisposition to infection in Down's syndrome.
Serum immunoglobulins and IgG subclasses were measured in 26 children with Down's syndrome using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and monoclonal antibodies.
Eighteen (69%) of the children had increased susceptibility to infec... | C20 |
1,862 | 226 | Angiotropic (intravascular) large cell lymphoma. A clinicopathologic study of seven cases with unique clinical presentations.
The authors recently reported the antigenic phenotypes of three cases of so-called "malignant angioendotheliomatosis" and suggested that angiotropic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a more appropr... | C20 |
1,863 | 4,645 | Activation of the complement system in human immunodeficiency virus infection: relevance of the classical pathway to pathogenesis and disease severity.
In vitro studies implicate classical and alternative complement pathway activation in the pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
To ascertain t... | C20 |
1,864 | 4,390 | Serial Doppler echocardiographic follow-up of left ventricular diastolic function in cardiac amyloidosis.
A spectrum of left ventricular diastolic filling abnormalities noted on Doppler echocardiography has been demonstrated in patients with cardiac amyloidosis.
To determine how these filling abnormalities evolve ove... | C20 |
1,865 | 4,722 | Unusual lymphoproliferative oropharyngeal lesions in heart and heart-lung transplant recipients.
Three unusual cases of oropharyngeal lympho-proliferative lesions were seen in recipients of heart and heart-lung transplants.
Two caused acute upper respiratory obstruction necessitating urgent ENT intervention.
All pat... | C20 |
1,866 | 7,788 | Splenic rupture in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient with primary splenic lymphoma.
Splenic rupture presenting as primary malignant lymphoma of the spleen is a rare event.
We report such an occurrence in a young man who had a primary B-cell immunoblastic lymphoma of the spleen and was found to be HIV-po... | C20 |
1,867 | 5,339 | Primary central nervous system lymphoma in patients with and without the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. A retrospective analysis and review of the literature.
Twenty-two cases of PCL were reviewed, in which 9 patients had AIDS and 13 did not.
A review of the literature identified 247 cases of AIDS-related PCL.
... | C20 |
1,868 | 8,742 | Five year prospective study of HIV infection in the Edinburgh haemophiliac cohort
OBJECTIVE--To identify measures of immune state that reflect the course of HIV related disease in order to predict deterioration of symptoms and assess response to treatment.
DESIGN--Five year longitudinal clinical and laboratory study... | C20 |
1,869 | 7,387 | Toxoplasma gondii retinochoroiditis and optic neuritis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Report of a case.
A 29-year-old man with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was found to have a retinochoroiditis and optic neuritis of his left eye.
Results of fundus examination showed inflammatory and hemorrhagic... | C20 |
1,870 | 2,379 | Merkel cell carcinoma metastatic to the testis.
Tumor metastases to the testes are rare and are usually found incidentally at autopsy or after orchiectomy for prostatic carcinoma.
It is even more unusual for testicular metastases to be clinically detected or symptomatic.
The authors report two cases of clinically de... | C20 |
1,871 | 9,934 | Diclofenac induced immune thrombocytopenia.
We describe a patient with scleroderma who developed immune thrombocytopenia secondary to diclofenac on 2 occasions.
Platelet count returned to normal with cessation of diclofenac and institution of prednisone. | C20 |
1,872 | 3,180 | Macrophage tropism of HIV-1.
Both in vivo and in vitro studies clearly demonstrate that cells of the mononuclear phagocyte lineage are major hosts for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication.
Presumably these cells play a key role in the pathogenesis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
To f... | C20 |
1,873 | 5,278 | Infective dermatitis of Jamaican children: a marker for HTLV-I infection
In Jamaican children infective dermatitis is a chronic eczema associated with refractory nonvirulent Staphylococcus aureus or beta-haemolytic streptococcus infection of the skin and nasal vestibule.
14 children between the ages of 2 and 17 year... | C20 |
1,874 | 6,997 | Asthma and eczema in children born to women with migraine.
Migraine and asthma have been reported to occur in the same person more commonly than would be expected if they are independent.
The large Collaborative Perinatal Project provided an opportunity to see if children born to women with migraine or with the group... | C20 |
1,875 | 9,917 | Defective expression of p70/75 interleukin 2 receptor in T cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a possible defect in the process of increased intracellular calcium leading to p70/75 expression.
Phytohemagglutinin (PHA) stimulated T cells from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) showed hy... | C20 |
1,876 | 7,678 | Intrahepatic cholestasis due to hypersensitivity reaction to procainamide.
Hypersensitivity reactions to procainamide involving liver dysfunction are rare.
We describe a patient who developed liver dysfunction after procainamide administration, manifested by fever, jaundice, elevated bilirubin concentration, and alka... | C20 |
1,877 | 3,202 | Rash after treatment with anistreplase.
A palpable purpura developed on the legs and lower abdomen of a woman of 54 five days after she was treated with anistreplase anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex (APSAC) for an acute myocardial infarction.
Histological examination of a skin biopsy specimen t... | C20 |
1,878 | 2,857 | A clinical triad to diagnose paraneoplastic retinopathy.
Two elderly men developed photosensitivity and light-induced glare, transient visual symptoms, and progressive visual loss several months before small cell carcinoma of the lung was discovered.
Both patients had impaired visual acuity and color vision, ring sco... | C20 |
1,879 | 5,389 | A newly recognized fastidious gram-negative pathogen as a cause of fever and bacteremia
BACKGROUND.
We identified a motile, curved, gram-negative bacillus as the cause of persistent fever and bacteremia in two patients with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection.
The same organism was subsequently recov... | C20 |
1,880 | 5,259 | Type-specific antigens for serological discrimination of HTLV-I and HTLV-II infection.
55 HTLV-I (human T-cell lymphotropic virus) and 45 HTLV-II carriers, confirmed by HTLV-type specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR), were distinguished by western blot assays with recombinant HTLV I or II envelope glycoproteins.
R... | C20 |
1,881 | 7,879 | Predicting the need for hospitalization in children with acute asthma.
In an attempt to identify factors which influence the decision of physicians to admit patients with acute asthma to the hospital, we studied prospectively 200 children (age 5.6 +/- 3.1 years, mean +/- SD) presenting to our emergency room with acute... | C20 |
1,882 | 4,134 | Effect of sleep and sleep deprivation on ventilatory response to bronchoconstriction.
To characterize ventilatory responses to bronchoconstriction during sleep and to assess the effect of prior sleep deprivation on ventilatory and arousal responses to bronchoconstriction, bronchoconstriction was induced in eight asthm... | C20 |
1,883 | 59 | Skin exudate levels of interleukin 6, interleukin 1 and other cytokines in mycosis fungoides.
The role of locally released cytokines in inducing lymphocyte activation and infiltration in the skin lesions of mycosis fungoides has been investigated.
The levels of selected cytokines were measured in chamber fluid sample... | C20 |
1,884 | 3,374 | A phase I study of a new cisplatin derivative for hematologic malignancies.
DWA2114R (DWA) is a new derivative of platin compounds that is currently being used in Phase II studies of solid tumors in Japan.
The dose-limiting factor is myelotoxicity with mild extramedullary toxicity.
This Phase I study consisted of ad... | C20 |
1,885 | 9,403 | Genomic divergence of an HIV-2 from a German AIDS patient probably infected in Mali.
The complete nucleotide sequence of an HIV-2 isolate derived from a German AIDS patient with predominantly neurological symptoms is reported.
The HIV-2BEN sequence is highly divergent from those of previously described HIV-2 and SIV ... | C20 |
1,886 | 4,547 | Aberrant regulation of IL-1 expression in macrophages from young autoimmune-prone mice.
IL-1 is a multifunctional, immunoregulatory polypeptide produced by many cell types.
Because activated macrophages are a major source of IL-1 and have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease, we investigated... | C20 |
1,887 | 9,909 | Epidemiology of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in persons aged 50 years or older.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has afflicted persons of all ages, yet only recently has attention been devoted to AIDS in older persons.
To examine the epidemiology of AIDS in persons greater than or equal to 50 years o... | C20 |
1,888 | 8,369 | Biology of retroviruses. Detection, molecular biology, and treatment of retroviral infection.
Although human retrovirology can trace its roots to the early part of this century, it has been within the last decade that the field has seen its greatest advances, including the description of the first human retroviruses, ... | C20 |
1,889 | 5,779 | Transforming growth factor beta and noncytopathic mechanisms of immunodeficiency in human immunodeficiency virus infection.
This study examines the contribution of transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta), one of the most potent endogenous immunosuppressive factors, to the development of immunodeficiency in human im... | C20 |
1,890 | 826 | Tartrate resistant acid phosphatase positive splenic lymphoma: a relatively benign condition occurring in a time-space cluster?
Conventional light and electron microscopic studies, together with cytochemical and immunocytochemical staining procedures, were carried out to ascertain whether the lymphomata of four elderl... | C20 |
1,891 | 6,814 | MY7 monoclonal antibody for diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Infiltrate in cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) is composed mainly of CD4 helper cells with a phenotype very similar to that of benign cutaneous lymphoid infiltrate.
MY7 (CD13) is a monoclonal antibody that is normally expressed on peripheral granul... | C20 |
1,892 | 9,409 | Differences in knowledge of and risk factors for AIDS between Hispanic and non-Hispanic women attending an urban family planning clinic.
Risk factors for AIDS, contraceptive use, seroprevalence of HIV, and level of knowledge before and after an AIDS education session were assessed for 657 clients attending a family pl... | C20 |
1,893 | 7,274 | Seroprevalence of HIV-2 infection in Greece (Crete).
The seroprevalence of HIV-2 was evaluated in 20,407 consecutive normal blood donors, 100 homo- and/or bisexuals, and 7,020 heterosexuals presenting for an HIV test using an EIA test.
Sixty-seven sera were revealed to be repeatedly positive.
Analysis by Western blo... | C20 |
1,894 | 4,686 | Serum immunoglobulins E and G anti-Aspergillus fumigatus antibody in patients with cystic fibrosis who have allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
Patients with cystic fibrosis frequently have pulmonary colonization with Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) and develop anti-Af immunoglobulin E (IgE) and IgG antibodies.
The d... | C20 |
1,895 | 2,380 | Global and molecular hemostatic markers in acute myeloid leukemia.
Patients with acute myeloid leukemia have multiple hemostatic and thrombotic complications, which may or may not result from disseminated intravascular coagulation.
Previous studies incorporating routine coagulation analyses failed to detect any clini... | C20 |
1,896 | 4,353 | Miliary tuberculosis presenting as skin lesions in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Acute miliary tuberculosis of the skin is an extremely rare infection that occurs in immunocompromised persons.
We report an intravenous drug abuser with human immunodeficiency virus infection in whom erythematous pa... | C20 |
1,897 | 9,973 | Rectourethral fistula caused by Kaposi's sarcoma.
A 35-year-old man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related complex was evaluated for a persistent urethral discharge, pneumaturia and watery diarrhea.
Radiographic and endoscopic procedures established the diagnosis of a rectourethral fistula.
Perineal exp... | C20 |
1,898 | 4,895 | Needlestick injuries among resident physicians.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency and causes of needlestick injuries in medical and surgical housestaff.
DESIGN: A retrospective survey.
SETTING: Urban university teaching hospital.
PARTICIPANTS: 386 housestaff; 221 responded.
INTERVENTION: Survey questionnaire.
MA... | C20 |
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