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5,200 | 2,065 | The absence of nephrotoxicity and differential nephrotoxicity between tobramycin and gentamicin.
We conducted a prospective, double-blind, randomized trial of gentamicin and tobramycin to evaluate differences in nephrotoxicity.
We evaluated levels of creatinine, creatinine clearance, beta 2-microglobulin, and N-acety... | C12 |
5,201 | 8,648 | Indomethacin responsive hypercalcaemia associated with a renal sarcoma.
An infant presented with a non-metastatic renal spindle cell sarcoma and hypercalcaemia, which resolved after treatment with indomethacin.
There was in vivo and in vitro evidence that hypercalcaemia was mediated by circulatory prostaglandins. | C12 |
5,202 | 9,426 | Shortening of the hemodialysis procedure and mortality in "healthy" dialysis patients.
The influence of shortening chronic hemodialysis on mortality was studied by following cumulative survival in "ideal" nondiabetic dialysis patients, who had no other diseases besides their renal disease when beginning dialysis.
It ... | C12 |
5,203 | 5,098 | Role of nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy for clinical stage B2 prostate cancer.
To examine the role of nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy in patients with clinical stage B2 prostate cancer we reviewed the first 77 such patients in our series since we adopted the nerve-sparing technique.
A total of 47 patients (61... | C12 |
5,204 | 9,990 | Endourological experience with cystine calculi and a treatment algorithm.
Between May 1984 and January 1988, 18 patients (31 pyeloureteral units) with documented symptomatic cystine stones were treated.
Stone size ranged from 5 to 56 mm.
in largest diameter, with an average of 21 mm.
All pyeloureteral units were tr... | C12 |
5,205 | 8,771 | Serum levels of sex hormone binding globulin and oestradiol in patients with testicular cancer.
Serum testosterone (T), oestradiol (E-2) and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) were measured in 84 orchiectomised testicular cancer patients before further treatment and 4 to 6 and 12 to 15 months after therapy.
Patients... | C12 |
5,206 | 6,925 | Diagnostic testing and return visits for acute problems in prepaid, case-managed Medicaid plans compared with fee-for-service.
Enrollment of Medicaid recipients into capitated, case-managed systems of health care has been advocated as a means to control costs.
We studied the effect of such systems on care for urinary... | C12 |
5,207 | 6,847 | Prognostic determinants in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure in newborns.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is becoming an accepted therapeutic modality for newborn respiratory failure, but there is little information available regarding the prognostic determinants with this techniqu... | C12 |
5,208 | 2,240 | Renal abscess in children.
Three cases of renal abscesses in children are described to illustrate the variable presenting features.
An additional 23 pediatric cases, reported over the past ten years, were reviewed for clinical features and therapy.
Fever, loin pain, and leukocytosis were common presenting features, ... | C12 |
5,209 | 4,959 | Stress incontinence and low urethral closure pressure. Correlation of preoperative urethral hypermobility with successful suburethral sling procedures.
Forty-eight women with genuine stress incontinence and low urethral closure pressure were treated with a suburethral sling procedure using polytetrafluoroethylene.
Al... | C12 |
5,210 | 5,036 | Patient acceptance of and satisfaction with an external negative pressure device for impotence.
Patient acceptance of and satisfaction with an external negative pressure device as a treatment for impotence were retrospectively analyzed among 100 men.
The over-all satisfaction rate was 68%.
Reasons for dissatisfactio... | C12 |
5,211 | 2,219 | Laboratory studies for the detection of carcinoma of the prostate.
Acid phosphatase and prostate-specific antigen are extremely useful markers for the management of patients with prostatic carcinoma.
Prostatic acid phosphatase, because of its relatively low sensitivity and specificity, as well as analyte instability ... | C12 |
5,212 | 4,728 | Screening diabetic patients for microalbuminuria.
Abnormal rates of urinary albumin excretion have been shown to predict the development of nephropathy and may signal atherosclerotic disease in diabetic patients.
This study demonstrated the feasibility of measuring microalbuminuria in diabetic patients from a large f... | C12 |
5,213 | 809 | Induction of renal growth and injury in the intact rat kidney by dietary deficiency of antioxidants.
We report induction of renal growth and injury in the intact rat kidney using a diet deficient in vitamin E and selenium.
This diet was imposed in 3-wk-old male weanling rats, and after 9 wk, enhancement of growth, ch... | C12 |
5,214 | 233 | Myxoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the bladder.
Although the most common soft tissue sarcoma of adulthood, malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is an extremely rare tumor of the urinary bladder.
Only three well-documented cases have been reported in the world literature.
The patient presented in this report re... | C12 |
5,215 | 7,464 | Vicarious contrast material excretion in patients with acute unilateral ureteral obstruction.
Radiographs of 45 patients with evidence of acute unilateral ureteral obstruction at intravenous urography, obtained at least 24 hours after injection of contrast material, were retrospectively studied.
Vicarious contrast ma... | C12 |
5,216 | 9,520 | Long-term experience with Swan Neck Missouri catheters.
The Swan Neck Missouri catheters are designed to reduce major complications including 1) exit/tunnel infections, by a downward directed exit hole; 2) pericatheter leaks, by placement of the deep cuff in the rectus muscle; 3) catheter tip migration, by caudal dire... | C12 |
5,217 | 9,521 | A prospective randomized evaluation of chronic peritoneal catheters. Insertion site and intraperitoneal segment.
The insertion site (midline or through the lateral rectus muscle) and type of chronic dialysis catheter (straight or spiral intraperitoneal segment) were evaluated in a prospective randomized trial.
Dialys... | C12 |
5,218 | 7,940 | Changes in sperm antibody test results when spermatozoa are subjected to capacitating conditions.
Cytotoxic and immunobead-binding antibody assays were used to document possible changes in antigenicity after the spermatozoa were subjected in vitro to capacitating conditions.
Serum and seminal plasma immunobead-bindin... | C12 |
5,219 | 6,357 | Tubulointerstitial changes in systemic vasculitic disorders: a quantitative study of 18 biopsy cases.
Tubulointerstitial alterations were studied in 18 biopsy cases of systemic vasculitis.
To evaluate the changes more objectively, two indexes, the number of interstitial inflammatory cells and tubulitis percentage, we... | C12 |
5,220 | 5,027 | Extravesical versus Leadbetter-Politano ureteroneocystostomy: a comparison of urological complications in 320 renal transplants.
The urological complications of 320 consecutive renal transplants performed at our institution between October 17, 1985 and November 10, 1989 are reviewed.
The Leadbetter-Politano technique... | C12 |
5,221 | 5,123 | In situ hybridization of prostate-specific antigen mRNA in human prostate.
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) mRNA was detected by in situ hybridization utilizing a 428 base pair [35S]-labelled cDNA probe from the 3' noncoding region of the PSA gene.
Thirty six fresh surgical specimens were collected from patients under... | C12 |
5,222 | 7,231 | Adverse mortality experience of a southwestern American Indian community: overall death rates and underlying causes of death in Pima Indians.
As part of an ongoing epidemiologic study, the death rate and causes of death during 1975 through 1984 were determined in Pima Indians who resided in the Gila River Indian Commu... | C12 |
5,223 | 3,914 | Psychological assessment and follow-up after in vitro fertilization: assessing the impact of failure.
The present study was conducted to assess the immediate psychological impact of failed in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Emotional status and marital functioning were also examined pre-IVF, and both demographic informati... | C12 |
5,224 | 5,103 | Management of children with myelodysplasia: urological alternatives.
Recent reports have suggested that the prophylactic use of clean intermittent catheterization in selected infants with myelodysplasia and with normal upper tracts may prevent their deterioration.
The selection of these patients at risk depends on ur... | C12 |
5,225 | 2,245 | Improved early detection of recurrence in prostatic carcinoma following hormonal therapy. Combined use of palpation and fine needle aspiration cytology.
Fifty-nine hormonally treated prostatic carcinoma patients were prospectively followed by rectal examination and fine needle aspiration cytology at six-month interval... | C12 |
5,226 | 9,621 | Urinary tract dilatation in constipated children.
Abnormalities of the upper urinary tract were sought retrospectively in 180 children with constipation who had been investigated surgically over a 5-year period.
Of those in whom an intravenous urogram had been performed, the incidence of dilatation of the upper renal... | C12 |
5,227 | 7,436 | A new surgical approach in genital lymphedema.
A new surgical approach has been used in a case of genital lymphedema.
After resection of the lymphedematous mass, U-shaped flaps were made from the suprapubic region anteriorly and the posterior scrotal skin posteriorly.
The denuded penis was transposed to its original... | C12 |
5,228 | 7,466 | Renal artery stenosis: evaluation with color Doppler flow imaging.
Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is the most common correctable cause of hypertension.
The current study was undertaken to evaluate the usefulness of color Doppler flow imaging as a screening examination in the detection of significant RAS.
Fifty-five kid... | C12 |
5,229 | 702 | Development of hypertension from unilateral renal artery stenosis in conscious dogs.
The renal and systemic changes after stenosis of the left renal artery (n = 5) or sham stenosis (n = 6) in conscious dogs were studied sequentially over 25 days.
Stenosis produced a prompt rise in arterial pressure, which was at all ... | C12 |
5,230 | 9,444 | Non-heparin hemodialysis with oral administration of newly developed antiplatelet agent.
Non-heparin hemodialysis (HD) was successfully done in anuric dogs with the oral administration of a newly developed antiplatelet agent, 4-cyano-5,5-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-pentenoic acid, (E5510, Eisai Pharmaceutical Co., Japan).
... | C12 |
5,231 | 3,598 | Disappearance of renin-induced proteinuria by an ACE-inhibitor: a case report.
A 55-year-old man developed renovascular hypertension that was characterized by high plasma renin activity.
This was accompanied by nephrotic range proteinuria.
Treatment with nifedipine and furosemide lowered the blood pressure to normal... | C12 |
5,232 | 3,417 | The significance of low-grade prostate cancer on needle biopsy. A radical prostatectomy study of tumor grade, volume, and stage of the biopsied and multifocal tumor.
Twenty-one cases showing only low Gleason grade prostate carcinoma on needle biopsy were identified.
In 15 cases radical prostatectomy was performed wit... | C12 |
5,233 | 8,760 | The encased ureter: bullet and bodkin pattern, a reliable radiographic sign.
Among the causes of constricted ureter is benign or malignant encasement.
The diagnosis of ureteric encasement is frequently overlooked, even by well informed clinicians and radiologists.
The most common benign cause is retroperitoneal fibr... | C12 |
5,234 | 8,520 | Perirenal candidial abscess.
Perirenal candidial abscesses are rare, with few well-documented cases in the literature.
We describe a case of a perinephric abscess treated with amphotericin B and nephrectomy. | C12 |
5,235 | 7,935 | A randomized, controlled trial of clomiphene citrate and intrauterine insemination in couples with unexplained infertility or surgically corrected endometriosis.
This study was initiated to test the hypothesis that treatment with clomiphene citrate (CC) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) results in increased fecundit... | C12 |
5,236 | 3,622 | Total knee arthroplasty in diabetes mellitus.
A retrospective study was done of 59 total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) in 40 patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.
The overall infection rate was 7%, with an overall revision rate of 10% and an average follow-up period of 4.3 years.
Wound complications were present i... | C12 |
5,237 | 9,969 | Bladder outlet obstruction due to pelvic lipoma: computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and radiographic evaluation.
We report an unusual case of long-standing bladder outlet obstruction due to pelvic lipoma in a 31-year-old white man.
The mass was evaluated by plain film, computerized tomography and mag... | C12 |
5,238 | 5,105 | Renal scintigraphy in the diagnosis and surgical management of a patient with caliceal colic: a case report.
A patient with persistent renal colic and a caliceal stone is presented.
Furosemide renography, commonly used to differentiate functional stasis from mechanical obstruction of an entire kidney or duplicated co... | C12 |
5,239 | 2,252 | Transitional cell carcinomatous meningitis after M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin) chemotherapy.
The M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin) regimen has been utilized at our two institutions to treat 17 patients with advanced stage transitional cell carcinoma of the bl... | C12 |
5,240 | 5,120 | Cell injury associated calcium oxalate crystalluria.
Renal tubular cell damage, resulting in membranuria, was induced by the administration of subcutaneous gentamicin to male Sprague-Dawley rats.
One group of rats received gentamicin only, while a second group was given gentamicin plus ethylene glycol in drinking wat... | C12 |
5,241 | 2,472 | Effects of calcium antagonists on renal hemodynamics.
Recent attention has been focused on the effects of calcium antagonists on renal function.
When administered in vitro to the isolated perfused kidney, calcium antagonists exhibit consistent actions permitting characterization of actions permitting characterization... | C12 |
5,242 | 7,864 | Effect of calcium entry blocker nitrendipine on renal function after renal vascular occlusion.
The ability of the Ca entry blocker nitrendipine to improve postischemic renal function was studied in nine groups (n = 70) of rats.
After anesthesia, nitrendipine was administered for 15 min through the femoral vein.
The ... | C12 |
5,243 | 9,688 | Gastric mucosal PGE2 levels in gastric non-ulcer and ulcer patients with chronic renal failure or without renal diseases and in healthy subjects.
PGE2-like immunoactivity in mucosal specimens from gastric corpus and antrum was measured in individuals with chronic uremia or without renal diseases in absence or presence... | C12 |
5,244 | 9,998 | The fate of residual fragments after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy monotherapy of infection stones.
We reviewed 53 patients with infection stones treated by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL*) monotherapy to determine the long-term rate free of stones and the stone recurrence rate as correlated with ... | C12 |
5,245 | 9,987 | Immunotherapy of murine bladder cancer by irradiated tumor vaccine.
This investigation explored the efficacy of irradiated autologous mouse bladder tumor (Ir-MBT2) as an active specific immunotherapeutic agent and as adjuvant therapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) against a subcutaneously transplanted murine blad... | C12 |
5,246 | 4,204 | Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms.
In a series of 517 operations for abdominal aortic aneurysm from 1971 to 1988 there were 45 cases (8.7%) with an inflammatory aneurysm with a typical thick glistening whitish fibrous layer.
Almost two-third of the patients had rather severe chronic or acute progressive pain in... | C12 |
5,247 | 2,393 | Confronting cisternae presenting as intracytoplasmic inclusions in monocytes.
Small gray-blue intracytoplasmic inclusions were noted in the peripheral monocytes and neutrophils from a patient with renal failure.
Ultrastructural analysis revealed confronting cisternae within the cytoplasm.
The authors submit a case r... | C12 |
5,248 | 7,104 | Psychological outcomes of different treatment policies in women with early breast cancer outside a clinical trial
OBJECTIVES--To assess outside a clinical trial the psychological outcome of different treatment policies in women with early breast cancer who underwent either mastectomy or breast conservation surgery de... | C12 |
5,249 | 9,511 | Evaluation of plasma sodium concentration during hemodialysis by computerization of dialysate conductivity.
Kinetics modeling based on sodium mass balance and changes in conductivity at the dialysate outlet compared to that at the dialysate inlet, led to predicting the plasma water conductivity of the blood inlet.
Co... | C12 |
5,250 | 2,217 | Digital rectal examination in the early detection of prostate cancer.
Screening using digital rectal examination improves the clinical stage distribution of prostate cancer and prolongs survival.
Unfortunately, digital rectal examination may not be sensitive enough to detect the small-volume tumors that are most amen... | C12 |
5,251 | 8,175 | Defective oral tolerance promotes nephritogenesis in experimental IgA nephropathy induced by oral immunization.
Oral tolerance, an important feature of the mucosal immune system, appears to protect against immune-mediated disease by blunting production of systemic IgG and IgM antibody directed toward immunogens chroni... | C12 |
5,252 | 511 | A portable digital data recorder for long-term monitoring of scrotal temperatures
The application of a new, miniaturized portable digital data recorder "Thermoport" (Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Munster, West Germany) for continuous determination of scrotal temperatures revealed great variations of scrotal te... | C12 |
5,253 | 6,155 | Influence of high-energy shock waves and cisplatin on antitumor effect in murine bladder cancer.
The potential application of high-energy shock waves (HESW) for control of experimental bladder cancer was investigated.
Subcutaneous 3-d murine bladder cancer (MBT-2) in C3H mice were exposed to HESW alone (250 to 1,500 ... | C12 |
5,254 | 9,989 | Surgical management and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma invading the vena cava.
A total of 44 patients with renal cell carcinoma and vena caval tumor thrombus underwent surgical resection.
Of these patients 27 had primary tumor confined within Gerota's fascia, negative lymph nodes and no distant metastases (stage T... | C12 |
5,255 | 3,608 | Uremic pruritus in patients on hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). The role of plasma histamine and skin mast cells.
Fifty-four uremic patients (26 patients were maintained on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis [CAPD] and 28 on hemodialysis [HD]) were screened for pruritus and plas... | C12 |
5,256 | 8,402 | Allelic loss of chromosomes 16q and 10q in human prostate cancer.
Recent advances in understanding the molecular genetics of common adult tumors have indicated that multiple genetic alterations including the activation of oncogenes and the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes are important in the pathogenesis of the... | C12 |
5,257 | 5,041 | Prostate specific antigen for assessing response to ketoconazole and prednisone in patients with hormone refractory metastatic prostate cancer.
Serial prostate specific antigen levels were assessed in 15 patients with hormone refractory metastatic prostate cancer treated with ketoconazole and prednisone.
Of the men 1... | C12 |
5,258 | 7,976 | Nephropathy in model combining genetic hypertension with experimental diabetes. Enalapril versus hydralazine and metoprolol therapy.
We compared the effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril and a conventional antihypertensive regimen (hydralazine and metoprolol) on kidney function, albuminuria,... | C12 |
5,259 | 5,118 | The effect of an alpha-2 agonist on bladder function and cord histology after spinal cord injury [retracted by Weiss R, Tomasula JJ, Sotologo JR Jr. In: J Urol 1991 Aug;146(2):426]
Spinal injury in cats is accompanied by urinary bladder and hind limb dysfunction.
Ten cats subjected to spinal contusion at the ninth th... | C12 |
5,260 | 3,468 | Anaesthesia for renal transplantation in sickle cell disease.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with many pathological and functional abnormalities affecting all organ systems.
Renal manifestations of SCD may result in end-stage renal disease (ESRD), which can be treated by chronic haemodialysis or renal transp... | C12 |
5,261 | 5,093 | Clinical and pathological findings in prostates following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin instillations.
The prostates of 36 patients who were treated with intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin were evaluated by digital rectal examination and transrectal ultrasonography.
When abnormal palpatory and/or ultrasono... | C12 |
5,262 | 4,093 | Magnetic resonance imaging of the bone marrow following treatment with recombinant human erythropoietin in patients with end-stage renal disease.
We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study vertebral bone marrow in hemodialysis patients during treatment with recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO).
We found c... | C12 |
5,263 | 9,545 | Therapeutic effects of simvastatin on hyperlipidemia in CAPD patients.
A causal link between hypercholesterolemia due to elevated plasma concentrations of LDL and VLDL remnants of CAPD patients has been established.
The effects of 24 weeks of treatment with Simvastatin, a new HMG coenzyme A-reductase inhibitor (at 20... | C12 |
5,264 | 9,646 | Effect of hydrocele on testis and spermatogenesis.
One hundred and twenty cases of big unilateral hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis testis have been studied to ascertain the effect on the structure and function of the testis, taking the normal side as control.
There was no pressure effect from the hydrocele on the st... | C12 |
5,265 | 2,243 | Inverted papilloma of renal pelvis: flexible ureteroscopic diagnosis and treatment.
A case is reported of inverted papilloma of the renal pelvis in a patient with previous transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
The renal pelvic lesion was diagnosed and treated with a flexible ureteropyeloscope.
Although nephrou... | C12 |
5,266 | 5,107 | Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of eosinophilic cystitis.
A 30-year-old white woman with urinary frequency, left costovertebral angle pain and hematuria had left hydronephrosis, a marked decrease in bladder capacity and severe eosinophilic cystitis on biopsy.
She was treated with a nonsteroidal ... | C12 |
5,267 | 2,466 | Prevention of renal disease and conservation of renal function.
In summary, we have reviewed some of the most frequently encountered areas of prevention of renal failure in the elderly.
They include obstruction, hypertension, drug interaction, and inappropriate use of drugs and the silent killer of the elderly, renal... | C12 |
5,268 | 2,641 | Results of surgical treatment for hyperparathyroidism associated with renal disease.
Recently, the role and timing of surgery for treating secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) have been questioned.
In order to delineate the indications for surgery in these patients, a retrospective analysis of 53 consecut... | C12 |
5,269 | 8,510 | Role of serum prolactin determination in evaluation of impotent patient.
Hyperprolactinemia is a recognized cause of impotence.
The discovery of elevated prolactin levels in impotent men is very important since pharmacotherapy in this instance is highly successful.
We review our experience with prolactin determinati... | C12 |
5,270 | 9,972 | Unresectable calcified bladder tumor: hemiacidrin irrigation as an adjunct to resection.
Radiographic calcification of urothelial malignancies is an uncommon finding.
To our knowledge, calcification of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder preventing transurethral resection has not been reported previously.
We ... | C12 |
5,271 | 3,380 | Testicular relapse in children with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia.
The clinical course and other distinctive features of five children who developed a testicular relapse 4 months to 25 months after the diagnosis of acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL) are described.
The chief presenting feature at relapse was pai... | C12 |
5,272 | 9,350 | Pulmonary capillaritis and glomerulonephritis in an antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-positive patient with prior granulomatous aortitis.
A 59-year-old man showed asynchronous development of noninfectious granulomatous aortitis with aneurysm, followed 9 months later by pulmonary capillaritis and glomerulonephritis i... | C12 |
5,273 | 6,312 | Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the prostate with endobronchial metastasis.
Endobronchial metastases can manifest clinical symptoms and x-ray findings mimicking a centrally located bronchogenic carcinoma.
The authors recently encountered a case of endobronchial metastasis from a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the prostate tha... | C12 |
5,274 | 5,026 | Magnetic resonance imaging for assessment of vena caval tumor thrombi: a comparative study with venacavography and computerized tomography scanning.
We assessed the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging in demonstrating the presence and extent of vena caval tumor thrombi.
The study group included 20 patients with ve... | C12 |
5,275 | 8,637 | X linked hypophosphataemia: treatment, height gain, and nephrocalcinosis.
The clinical data of 18 patients with X linked hypophosphataemia were analysed retrospectively.
The height data were expressed as SD scores.
There was no difference in the final height of patients treated with vitamin D (or 1,25-dihydroxyvitam... | C12 |
5,276 | 3,916 | A reverse (antibody capture) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of antisperm antibodies in sera and genital tract secretions.
A reverse (antibody capture) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of antisperm antibodies has been developed.
The assay enables detection of immunoglobulin (Ig)... | C12 |
5,277 | 5,060 | Polyarteritis nodosa masquerading as a primary testicular neoplasm: a case report and review of the literature.
We report a case of polyarteritis nodosa presenting as a mass in the testis mimicking a neoplasm.
The diagnosis was confirmed by radical orchiectomy.
This is an unusual presentation of this systemic diseas... | C12 |
5,278 | 473 | Comparison of albumin excretion rate obtained with different times of collection.
This study was undertaken to assess the usefulness of different techniques for determination of albumin excretion rate (AER).
Ninety patients with type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus and 45 with type II (non-insulin-dependent) ... | C12 |
5,279 | 7,942 | Hyaluronic acid (Sperm Select) improves retention of sperm motility and velocity in normospermic and oligospermic specimens.
The effects of Sperm Select (Pharmacia AB, Uppsala, Sweden), a hyaluronic acid medium, on the motility and membrane integrity properties of sperm were studied.
In 15 normospermic specimens afte... | C12 |
5,280 | 8,755 | Development of renal scars in children: missed opportunities in management. South Bedfordshire Practitioners' Group.
OBJECTIVE--To assess the antecedent medical care of children with renal scars.
DESIGN--Retrospective study of both general practice and hospital records.
SETTING--12 Group practices in south Bedfordsh... | C12 |
5,281 | 5,022 | Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in invasive bladder cancer: the evolving role of surgery.
The role of an operation in patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy for clinically localized but invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder currently is evolving.
An operation is essential for case selection and evaluation... | C12 |
5,282 | 7,332 | Atheroemboli to the lower urinary tract: a marker of atherosclerotic vascular disease--a case report.
Atheroemboli to the lower genitourinary tract may serve as a marker for disseminated atheroembolic disease, a highly lethal condition.
A case presentation and review of our institional experience is presented. | C12 |
5,283 | 3,637 | Femoral neck fractures in patients receiving long-term dialysis.
The morbidity and mortality of 11 femoral neck fractures were analyzed to compare operative and conservative management of femoral neck fractures in dialysis patients.
All fractures occurred in older men with severe cardiac, pulmonary, gastro-intestinal... | C12 |
5,284 | 5,092 | A dose titration study evaluating terazosin, a selective, once-a-day alpha 1-blocker for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia.
The efficacy and safety of terazosin, a selective long-acting alpha-1-adrenergic blocker, were evaluated in 45 normotensive patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hype... | C12 |
5,285 | 3,776 | Urogenital dysfunction after abdominoperineal resection for carcinoma of the rectum.
The long-term urogenital dysfunctions in 46 of 104 surviving patients submitted to abdominoperineal resection for rectal carcinoma between 1972 and 1986 were collected and assessed.
Urinary retention was present in 41 percent of the ... | C12 |
5,286 | 2,221 | Selection of patients with stage B prostate cancer for radical prostatectomy.
There are several areas of concern in dealing with clinical stage B disease.
First, understaging is common.
Second, recognition of extension into the seminal vesicles is important.
Third, the patient's predicted life expectancy must be ta... | C12 |
5,287 | 5,401 | Identification of the primary gene defect at the cytochrome P450 CYP2D locus.
The mammalian cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenase system is involved in the metabolism of drugs and chemical carcinogens.
The role of these enzymes in toxicological response is exemplified by an autosomal recessive polymorphism at the c... | C12 |
5,288 | 5,061 | Burkitt's lymphoma of the testicle: report of 2 cases occurring in elderly patients.
Burkitt's lymphoma is rare in patients older than 50 years and almost never presents as a testicular tumor.
We report 2 cases of primary Burkitt's lymphoma of the testicle in men 68 and 79 years old.
In 1 man the extragonadal tumor ... | C12 |
5,289 | 8,770 | Radiotherapy for palliation of locally advanced prostatic carcinoma.
Some patients present with distressing symptoms due to locally advanced prostatic carcinoma which may be refractory to hormonal manipulation and/or surgical treatment.
Over an 8-year period 26 patients received local palliative radiotherapy for recu... | C12 |
5,290 | 4,633 | Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection with a silver oxide-coated urinary catheter: clinical and microbiologic correlates.
In a prospective clinical trial involving 482 acutely hospitalized patients, the overall incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (UTI; 10%) was similar in recip... | C12 |
5,291 | 8,935 | Carcinogen hemoglobin adducts, urinary mutagenicity, and metabolic phenotype in active and passive cigarette smokers.
In 100 healthy volunteers, we have studied the relationship between the type (air- or flue-cured) and number of cigarettes smoked and different biomarkers relevant to the risk of bladder cancer, includ... | C12 |
5,292 | 2,464 | Strategies for enhancing compliance in the dialysis elderly.
Noncompliance must be viewed as a symptom of another problem or problems.
Treatment plans should be developed based on an individualized assessment of the patient's physiologic functioning and psychosocial situation.
It must be determined whether the patie... | C12 |
5,293 | 6,356 | Ultrasonography in the differentiation of complicated and uncomplicated acute pyelonephritis.
Differentiation of uncomplicated pyelonephritis versus complicated pyelonephritis has always been problematic.
No clear physical signs or symptoms are diagnostic.
To study differences between the two, we retrospectively rev... | C12 |
5,294 | 3,594 | Comparison of pathological lesions on repeated renal biopsies in 73 patients with primary IgA glomerulonephritis: value of quantitative scoring and approach to final prognosis.
In order to improve our possibility of establishing a long-term prognosis in IgA nephritis, 73 patients out of a cohort of 282, followed over ... | C12 |
5,295 | 7,514 | Intraoperative pressure profile measurement and continence mechanism adjustment in the Indiana pouch urinary reservoir.
We have described herein a simple pressure transducer system which helps the surgeon to tailor suture placement and achieve a continent ileocecal reservoir.
It seems that fewer Lembert sutures than ... | C12 |
5,296 | 5,101 | The value of leak pressure and bladder compliance in the urodynamic evaluation of meningomyelocele patients.
A total of 61 patients with myelodysplasia underwent water cystometry and electromyography of the external sphincter.
Of these patients 27 underwent video fluorourodynamics as a part of preoperative evaluation... | C12 |
5,297 | 3,084 | Renal disease in chronic arthritis of childhood. A study of urinary N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase and beta 2-microglobulin excretion.
Urinalyses of randomly obtained samples from children with various types of chronic arthritis revealed proteinuria in 2.3% of patients, hemoglobinuria in 3.5%, erythrocyturia in 4.1%, a... | C12 |
5,298 | 9,983 | The effect of chronic renal insufficiency on cyclosporine nephrotoxicity.
Despite cyclosporine's efficacy in preventing rejection, its use has been hampered by nephrotoxicity.
Questions remain concerning its application in patients with decreased renal function.
The purpose of this study was to 1) establish a reliab... | C12 |
5,299 | 3,320 | Sedoanalgesia in urology: a safe, cost-effective alternative to general anaesthesia. A review of 1020 cases.
Sedoanalgesia is a technique developed to provide safe and satisfactory operating conditions for a wide range of patients independent of age and overall level of fitness (although its use in children remains to... | C12 |
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