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5,300 | 9,961 | Ureteral triplication and ureterocele: report of 3 cases and review of the literature.
We report 3 cases of ureterocele associated with ureteral triplication and review the literature.
Ureteral triplication was type I in 2 patients and type II in 1.
Diagnosis was established preoperatively in 2 cases and intraoperat... | C12 |
5,301 | 6,154 | Urodynamic tests for female geriatric urinary incontinence.
Most urodynamic tests currently in use in the evaluation of female urinary incontinence have not been applied to a community-based sample to determine their specificity.
In this study of a random sample of noninstitutionalized elderly, 258 self-reported cont... | C12 |
5,302 | 2,461 | Dialysis considerations in the elderly patient.
This brief review discusses several aspects of dialytic care pertinent to the older dialysis patient.
Heart disease, nutrition, and the quality of life for these patients are considered. | C12 |
5,303 | 6,926 | Acute autonomic neuropathy. Two cases and a clinical review.
Acute autonomic neuropathy is an uncommon syndrome, usually affecting healthy young people.
Presentation is often dramatic and initial misdiagnosis is common.
We describe two young women with acute autonomic neuropathy who presented with gastrointestinal i... | C12 |
5,304 | 9,936 | Microscopic Wegener's disease: a particular form of Wegener's granulomatosis.
We describe a case of Wegener's granulomatosis in which the disease was manifested with crescentic glomerulonephritis, upper airway ulcerations, and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia with consumptive coagulopathy.
No granuloma was identifie... | C12 |
5,305 | 2,239 | Sex reversal syndrome (XX male).
Men who appear normal and live a normal life, may have a 46,XX karyotype and present with the typical features of infertility and end organ (testicular) failure.
They are azoospermic and their small testicles show specific patterns on light and electron microscopy.
Recent advances in... | C12 |
5,306 | 2,824 | Clinical course of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated glomerulonephritis and systemic vasculitis. The Glomerular Disease Collaborative Network
OBJECTIVES: To determine the spectrum of clinical manifestations in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated glomerulonephriti... | C12 |
5,307 | 3,352 | Parathyroid autotransplantation
This paper reviews the technique, indications and results of parathyroid autotransplantation.
Autotransplantation is most commonly indicated following parathyroidectomy for renal osteodystrophy, but can also be used in primary hyperplastic hyperparathyroidism, re-exploration of the ne... | C12 |
5,308 | 3,328 | Treatment of outflow tract obstruction due to benign prostatic hyperplasia with the pollen extract, cernilton. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
Whilst prostatectomy remains the "gold standard" for the treatment of outflow tract obstruction due to benign prostatic hyperplasia, medical treatment--if only for sy... | C12 |
5,309 | 2,512 | Effect of dietary protein restriction on functional renal reserve in diabetic nephropathy.
PURPOSE, PATIENTS, AND METHODS: Functional renal reserve in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, as determined by the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) response test, is a measure of the capacity of the kidney to in... | C12 |
5,310 | 5,186 | Nephron function in the early phase of ischemic renal failure. Significance of erythrocyte trapping.
Trapping of red blood cells (RBCs) in renal medulla vasculature in postischemic acute renal failure (ARF) was found to depend upon the length of the ischemic period.
Thus trapping occurred after 45 minutes but not 25 ... | C12 |
5,311 | 4,084 | Enalapril and renal injury in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Rats of the spontaneously hypertensive strain develop kidney damage that resembles the nephropathy seen in some cases of human essential hypertension.
Previous studies with a triple drug antihypertensive regimen indicated that proteinuria and glomerular h... | C12 |
5,312 | 9,981 | Cytotoxic effects of high energy shock waves in different in vitro models: influence of the experimental set-up.
High energy shock waves (electromagnetically generated, Siemens Lithostar) were studied for their effects in vitro on different (tumor) cell types.
Cells were exposed to the shock waves as a single cell su... | C12 |
5,313 | 2,868 | Pharmacokinetics of enoxacin and its oxometabolite following intravenous administration to patients with different degrees of renal impairment.
Enoxacin is a fluorinated quinolone with potential clinical use in the treatment of serious infections.
Twenty-three patients (age, 19 to 87 years) with different degrees of ... | C12 |
5,314 | 8,957 | The use of interferon alpha-C in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma arising in a congenital solitary kidney.
Three cases of renal cell carcinoma in a congenital solitary kidney are presented.
Treatment with recombinant interferon alpha-C was administered in two cases.
A subjective response occurred in one... | C12 |
5,315 | 7,617 | Cardiogenic hepatorenal syndrome.
A variant of hepatorenal syndrome occurring in patients with chronic congestive heart failure following an episode of cardiogenic pulmonary edema, and in the absence of hypotension, is described.
This was observed in 13 patients during an eleven-year period.
The clinical picture is ... | C12 |
5,316 | 2,005 | Hypointense renal cell carcinoma: MR imaging with pathologic correlation.
In two pathologically documented cases of renal cell carcinoma, the appearance of the tumors at magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was markedly hypointense relative to normal renal parenchyma on both T1- and T2-weighted spin-echo images.
Pathologi... | C12 |
5,317 | 3,137 | Normalization of increased sodium sensitivity by maintenance hemodialysis.
Blood pressure (BP) becomes more sodium and body fluid sensitive as renal function deteriorates.
Thus, hypertension in chronic renal failure is mostly of the sodium sensitive type.
We studied whether the increased sodium sensitivity (SS) can ... | C12 |
5,318 | 5,051 | Long-term urinary continence and renal function in neonates with posterior urethral valves.
Posterior urethral valves are known to be associated with considerable morbidity and mortality especially in the neonate.
Recently the role of bladder dysfunction in the pathophysiology of renal function impairment and urinary... | C12 |
5,319 | 4,803 | Acute renal dysfunction during interleukin-2 treatment: suggestion of an intrinsic renal lesion.
Adoptive immunotherapy with interleukin-2 (IL-2) and lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells has been effective in treating some advanced malignancies in animals and humans.
One complication of this treatment is a reversi... | C12 |
5,320 | 4,958 | Two urogenital sinus syndromes. Interstitial cystitis and focal vulvitis.
Forty-six young women had unusual and presumably noninfectious disorders of unknown etiology involving tissues derived from the embryonic urogenital sinus (urogenital sinus syndromes).
Ten women had interstitial cystitis, and 25 had focal vulvi... | C12 |
5,321 | 3,323 | The use of internalised ureteric stents in renal transplant recipients.
Since 1982, we have used internal indwelling ureteric stents for the management and prevention of ureteric reconstruction complications in 28 renal allograft recipients.
A total of 30 stents were placed in 18 patients either diagnostically or the... | C12 |
5,322 | 9,544 | Phenotypic characterization of monocytes and macrophages from CAPD patients.
The purpose of this study was to phenotypically characterize and compare peripheral blood monocytes from CAPD patients with peritoneal macrophages isolated from their peritoneal dialysis effluents.
Monocytes/macrophages were labeled with flu... | C12 |
5,323 | 6,923 | Acute renal failure in obstructive jaundice in cholangiocarcinoma.
This study was aimed at defining the natural history of renal failure in obstructive jaundice due to cholangiocarcinoma, which is an important health problem in northeastern Thailand.
Sixty-four patients among a total of 130 patients with obstructive ... | C12 |
5,324 | 8,790 | The role of ifosfamide plus cisplatin-based chemotherapy as salvage therapy for patients with refractory germ cell tumors.
A prospective study of four cycles of etoposide with ifosfamide and cisplatin (VIP) chemotherapy was conducted in 42 germ cell tumor (GCT) patients who were refractory to cisplatin with etoposide/... | C12 |
5,325 | 3,425 | Parathyroid hormone-like peptide in normal and neoplastic mesothelial cells.
Mesothelioma has not been commonly reported as a cause of hypercalcemia of malignancy.
We have studied a patient with malignant mesothelioma and hypercalcemia in association with elevated plasma concentrations of parathyroid hormone-like pep... | C12 |
5,326 | 8,519 | Epididymal metastasis from prostatic adenocarcinoma mimicking adenomatoid tumor.
A case of epididymal metastasis from prostatic carcinoma is presented.
The initial histologic findings were suggestive of adenomatoid tumor, but a diagnosis of metastatic adenocarcinoma of prostatic origin has been established by prostat... | C12 |
5,327 | 6,147 | Stress incontinence: a new endoscopic approach.
We describe our experience in using a new endoscopic technique for suspending the bladder neck and urethra in 16 patients with stress incontinence.
The procedure was started by dissecting the retropubic space, first with a sound and then with a Foley catheter before pas... | C12 |
5,328 | 6,386 | Beta 2-microglobulin predicts survival in primary systemic amyloidosis.
PURPOSE: The study assessed whether beta 2-microglobulin levels predict survival or response in patients with primary systemic amyloidosis without associated multiple myeloma.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study group consisted of 131 untreated patie... | C12 |
5,329 | 5,037 | Testicular carcinoma in patients positive and at risk for human immunodeficiency virus.
Patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are at increased risk for certain malignancies.
Because acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and testicular cancer affect primarily young men, the potential complications that acq... | C12 |
5,330 | 9,968 | Substance abuse-related spontaneous bladder rupture: report of 2 cases and review of the literature.
Spontaneous rupture of the normal bladder associated with alcohol abuse is rare, with only 20 cases reported in the English literature to which we add 2 cases.
Heavy alcohol ingestion predisposes the bladder to ruptur... | C12 |
5,331 | 9,514 | Pressure effects on roller pump blood flow during hemodialysis.
Accurate measurement of blood flow during hemodialysis is essential to avoid underdialysis.
When blood roller pumps are pushed to the high-flow rates demanded by high performance dialyzers, flow may be overestimated.
This study examined the effect of in... | C12 |
5,332 | 6,151 | Use of distal Thiersch-Duplay urethroplasty for proximal hypospadias repairs in conjunction with short island pedicle flap.
Experience with 8 boys having proximal hypospadias with severe chordee and a foreshortened dorsal hooded foreskin is presented.
Use of a distal Thiersch-Duplay tube was incorporated in addition ... | C12 |
5,333 | 9,993 | Tamm-Horsfall autoantibodies in interstitial cystitis.
Interstitial cystitis presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.
Although many etiologies, including autoimmunity, have been proposed its pathogenesis remains obscure.
Tamm-Horsfall protein has been identified in the superficial urothelium of patients with... | C12 |
5,334 | 9,966 | Screening for prostatic carcinoma.
Routine testing for prostatic carcinoma by digital rectal examination, transrectal ultrasonography and prostate specific antigen determination has been proposed to reduce deaths by earlier diagnosis.
The questionable reliability of results, cost of screening, and inability to establ... | C12 |
5,335 | 4,296 | Women with preeclampsia have higher plasma endothelin levels than women with normal pregnancies.
Endothelin, a newly discovered endothelium-derived peptide, has potent vasoactive properties in vivo and in vitro.
The actions of endothelin in clinical conditions of hypertension have not yet been defined.
This study ex... | C12 |
5,336 | 6,358 | The role of aluminum in the functional iron deficiency of patients treated with erythropoietin: case report of clinical characteristics and response to treatment.
The quantitative variation among patients in their response to erythropoietin can be explained, in part, by factors that can independently cause anemia in p... | C12 |
5,337 | 8,315 | Approach to the patient with genital ulcer disease.
The three major diseases characterized by genital ulcers--genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid--are common, with genital herpes being most common in industrialized countries and chancroid being most common in developing countries.
One fourth to one half of patien... | C12 |
5,338 | 8,654 | Severe hypertension after liver transplantation in alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Five children with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency and terminal liver disease received liver grafts; all five became hypertensive and four developed hypertensive encephalopathy.
There was evidence of renal disease preoperatively and ren... | C12 |
5,339 | 8,765 | The perineal artificial sphincter for acquired incontinence--a cut and dried solution?
Sixteen males with stress incontinence due to sphincter damage were investigated with videourodynamic studies after implantation of a perineal artificial urinary sphincter.
Twelve patients were rendered dry; 4 remained incontinent,... | C12 |
5,340 | 5,068 | Long term effects of gastrocystoplasty in rats.
Twenty prepubescent rats underwent microsurgical gastrocystoplasty by a technique which is described.
An equal number of control rats had their bladders opened and closed.
Rats were sacrificed at 16 to 18 months postoperatively.
There were no differences in final weig... | C12 |
5,341 | 8,314 | Approach to men with urethritis and urologic complications of sexually transmitted diseases.
The most important causes of urethritis, and epididymitis in younger men, are C.
trachomatis and N.
gonorrhoeae.
Management of these syndromes requires a thorough sexual history, genital examination, evaluation for objectiv... | C12 |
5,342 | 9,513 | Altered pattern of calcium kinetics in hemodialysis patients after parathyroidectomy.
Six HD patients with severe secondary hyperparathyroidism (sHPT) underwent studies of calcium kinetics prior to and after parathyroidectomy (PTX) with autotransplantation.
Postoperatively, patients received vitamin D and calcium sup... | C12 |
5,343 | 2,987 | Acute renal failure due to ciprofloxacin.
Acute renal failure developed in three patients within a few days of starting ciprofloxacin hydrochloride therapy.
An allergic interstitial nephritis was suggested by fever and eosinophiluria in one patient and by erythema multiforme in another.
A kidney biopsy specimen conf... | C12 |
5,344 | 2,911 | How curable is relapsed Wilms' tumour? The United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group.
Three hundred and eighty one children with Wilms' tumour were treated on the United Kingdom Children's Cancer Study Group WT1 Study (1980/6).
Seventy one patients relapsed during or after treatment, which included surgery and che... | C12 |
5,345 | 2,248 | Acute aluminum toxicity after continuous intravesical alum irrigation for hemorrhagic cystitis.
An encephalopathy and cardiomyopathy developed in a seventeen-year-old girl with chemotherapy-induced renal failure while receiving an intravesical aluminum infusion for hemorrhagic cystitis.
Premortem serum and postmortem... | C12 |
5,346 | 8,816 | Cancer of the urinary bladder in blacks and whites. A case-control study.
Racial differences in the risk of cancer of the urinary bladder associated with cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption were examined in a study of 1663 cases (1534 whites and 129 blacks) and 4930 controls matched 3:1 by sex, race, and age to ... | C12 |
5,347 | 3,603 | Membranous glomerulonephritis induced by 2-mercaptopropionylglycine (2-MPG).
Thirty-two patients suffering from cystinuria were treated with 2-mercaptopropionylglycine (2-MPG) for 0.5-10 years (average 6.3 years).
After 4-14 months of treatment at daily doses ranging from 500 to 2500 mg, three patients developed slig... | C12 |
5,348 | 6,146 | Whole bladder photodynamic therapy: critical review of present-day technology and rationale for development of intravesical laser catheter and monitoring system.
Present-day whole bladder photodynamic therapy (WBPDT) is cumbersome and time consuming because cystoscopic and ultrasonic manipulations are necessary to pos... | C12 |
5,349 | 6,144 | Radiation therapy of early (stages I and II-A) seminoma of testis after initial orchiectomy.
With initial orchiectomy and radiation therapy, the prognosis of the patients with early (Stages I and II-A) testicular seminoma is nearing almost 100 percent.
Thirty-two patients with Stage I and 13 patients with Stage II-A ... | C12 |
5,350 | 4,701 | Endolymphatic hydrops precipitated by haemodialysis.
We report a case of endolymphatic hydrops preceded by haemodialysis in the contralateral ear of a patient with known Meniere's disease, and discuss the possible mechanism.
It is suggested that the sudden decrease of plasma osmolality during haemodialysis acts as a ... | C12 |
5,351 | 6,349 | Body fluid spaces and blood pressure in hemodialysis patients during amelioration of anemia with erythropoietin.
Blood pressure (BP) may increase in hemodialysis patients during treatment of anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO).
Since fluid volume is a determinant of BP in dialysis patients, changes... | C12 |
5,352 | 7,955 | The prevalence of subfertility: a review of the current confusion and a report of two new studies.
The difficulties inherent in measuring the prevalence of subfertility are discussed.
Four subtypes of subfertility are defined, enabling comparisons to be made between the widely different approaches previously reported... | C12 |
5,353 | 703 | Comparison of converting enzyme inhibitor and calcium channel blocker in hypertensive glomerular injury.
The protective effect of converting enzyme inhibitors in experimental hypertensive glomerular injury is associated with decreased systemic arterial and glomerular capillary pressure.
Although calcium channel block... | C12 |
5,354 | 5,188 | Role of enhanced glomerular synthesis of thromboxane A2 in progressive kidney disease.
Normotensive rats of the Milan strain (MNS) spontaneously develop focal glomerulosclerosis.
In order to explore the contribution of glomerular thromboxane (TX) A2 synthesis to the development of the disease, we have characterized t... | C12 |
5,355 | 7,577 | Diagnosis and localization of prostate carcinoma by fine-needle aspiration cytology and correlation with histologic whole-organ sections after radical prostatectomy.
Twenty-nine patients with clinical stage T1-2, NO, MO prostate carcinoma were treated by retropubic radical prostatectomy.
Diagnosis was made by fine-ne... | C12 |
5,356 | 4,860 | Diagnostic use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibited renal scintigraphy in the identification of selective renal artery stenosis in the presence of multiple renal arteries: a case report.
In patients with renovascular hypertension, it is unknown whether the angiotensin converting enzyme-(ACE) inhibited rena... | C12 |
5,357 | 2,918 | Spontaneous resolution of congenital nephrotic syndrome in a neonate
An infant with congenital nephrotic syndrome recovered spontaneously and completely by the age of 11 days and had remained well at the age of 1 year.
This reinforces the view that reversible congenital nephrotic syndrome does occur and that it is n... | C12 |
5,358 | 2,469 | Ethical and legal issues in geriatric nephrology.
Ethical and legal issues affecting geriatric nephrology are conditioned more by individuals' status as elderly, sick people than by the distinctive characteristics of kidney disease or failure.
Key ethical issues are the obligation to respect persons, in particular by... | C12 |
5,359 | 3,333 | The importance of prognostic factors in the individual treatment of patients with disseminated germ cell tumours.
Following chemotherapy for disseminated testicular cancer, 55 patients underwent surgery because of residual tumour.
The histological findings were viable tumour in 12 patients, mature teratoma in 12 and ... | C12 |
5,360 | 9,576 | One year of rHuEPO therapy prolongs RBC survival and may stabilize RBC membranes despite natural progression of chronic renal failure to uremia and need for dialysis.
rHuEPO was administered to eight patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) and uremia (U) for 1 year.
Creatinine Clearance (GFR) averaged 14.3 (9-25) m... | C12 |
5,361 | 9,008 | Recurrent pain, illness intrusiveness, and quality of life in end-stage renal disease.
Repeated episodes of headache and muscle cramp were hypothesized to contribute to increased patient perceptions of illness intrusiveness and to compromised quality of life.
Standard measures of pain, illness intrusiveness, and qual... | C12 |
5,362 | 3,330 | Distribution of bony metastases in prostatic carcinoma.
Fifty-five prostate cancer and 55 breast cancer patients with positive bone scintigrams were studied.
The pattern of spread in the axial skeleton and pelvis showed differences between the 2 groups.
This difference was not related primarily to bone volume at the... | C12 |
5,363 | 5,196 | Angiotensin II receptor regulation in anti-glomerular basement membrane nephritis.
The expression of the glomerular receptor for angiotensin II (Ang II-R) was examined longitudinally following the induction of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) nephritis in the rat.
The specific aim of the project was to determi... | C12 |
5,364 | 4,856 | A comparative study of renal scintigraphy and clearance with technetium-99m-MAG3 and iodine-123-hippurate in patients with renal disorders.
The aim of this study was to compare kit prepared technetium-99m-mercaptoacetyltriglycine (99mTc-MAG3) with our routine radiopharmaceutical, iodine-123-hippurate our routine radio... | C12 |
5,365 | 5,214 | Toxicity comparison of neoadjuvant versus adjuvant methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (M-VAC) in radical cystectomy patients.
A reduction in the toxicity of M-VAC chemotherapy has been postulated for patients who receive these drugs prior to radical cystectomy for muscle invasive bladder carcinoma.
... | C12 |
5,366 | 2,147 | Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in patients who undergo open heart surgery.
To determine whether heparin-dependent antiplatelet antibodies (HAAb) have an effect on morbidity and/or mortality rates, we reviewed the cases of 3438 patients who underwent open heart surgery from 1981 to 1989.
Forty-six patients (1.3%) ha... | C12 |
5,367 | 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... | C12 |
5,368 | 8,509 | Radical prostatectomy versus expectant primary treatment in stages I and II prostatic cancer. A fifteen-year follow-up.
A fifteen-year follow-up of a prospective, randomized study comparing placebo with radical prostatectomy as the primary treatment of early prostatic cancer is presented.
A total of 111 patients with... | C12 |
5,369 | 3,604 | Acute deterioration of renal function associated with enteric hyperoxaluria.
Enteric hyperoxaluria due to malabsorption syndromes has been well documented to cause renal calculi and chronic tubulointerstitial renal damage.
Rarely, in the setting of intestinal bypass operations for morbid obesity, enteric hyperoxaluri... | C12 |
5,370 | 5,337 | A chronic granulomatous syndrome of unknown origin.
A small clinically distinct group of patients with widespread tissue granulomata are described.
The principal presenting symptoms are malaise, fever, and weight loss, although a wide variety of complaints are documented.
Pulmonary involvement is uncommon.
The gran... | C12 |
5,371 | 5,066 | Time-course of alterations of bladder function following acetone-induced cystitis.
Although chemical cystitis is known clinically to cause decreased bladder function, there are few experimental studies on the progression of, and recovery from chemical cystitis.
Mature male rabbits underwent intravesical instillation ... | C12 |
5,372 | 7,519 | Aminoglycosides: assessing the potential for nephrotoxicity.
Although aminoglycosides have been a mainstay of antibiotic therapy in postsurgical infections, certain patients may be at risk for potential aminoglycoside induced toxicities.
Aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity is one of the most frequent causes of iatrogenic r... | C12 |
5,373 | 2,458 | Treatment of renal calculi in the elderly.
The management of renal calculi in the geriatric patient population poses some unique problems that include anesthetic risks, underlying medical disease, and general risk/benefit concerns.
A variety of relatively noninvasive procedures are available, including extracorporeal... | C12 |
5,374 | 462 | Evaluation of new rapid office test for microalbuminuria and its comparison to fully quantitative radioimmunoassay.
A novel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA [Dialbumin]) for rapid office measurement of microalbuminuria was evaluated and its performance compared with that of a commercially available radioimmuno... | C12 |
5,375 | 8,804 | Prognostic significance of type IV collagen and laminin immunoreactivity in urothelial carcinomas of the bladder.
Invasion of a carcinoma involves the degradation and penetration of the subepithelial basement membrane (BM).
This phenomenon might be used for histopathologic evaluation of neoplasms of the bladder.
The... | C12 |
5,376 | 6,361 | The future of nephrology.
The Cellular and Molecular Age of Nephrology has dawned and the future is remarkably exciting.
The successful attack on the major causes of renal disease, including genetic diseases, glomerulonephritis, diabetes, vasculitis, acute renal failure, and hypertension, will necessitate improved kn... | C12 |
5,377 | 6,145 | Management of superficial G2 (pTa and pT1) bladder cancer.
A total of 143 patients with superficial G2 (pTa, pT1) bladder cancer (48 G2pTa; 95 G2pT1) presenting between 1970 through 1987 were reviewed.
Of 48 patients with G2pTa followed for up to eighteen years, G3 recurrence developed only in 1 (2.0%), and invasive ... | C12 |
5,378 | 3,299 | Sodium-lithium countertransport activity in red cells of patients with insulin dependent diabetes and nephropathy and their parents
OBJECTIVE--To determine whether there are familial and genetic aspects of sodium-lithium countertransport activity in red cells in diabetic nephropathy.
DESIGN--Case-control study.
SET... | C12 |
5,379 | 3,161 | Parathyroid hormone and the vascular response to norepinephrine.
Norepinephrine blood pressure reactivity is reduced in uremia, an effect attributed to excess parathyroid hormone (PTH).
Most, but not all, animal and human studies support the theory that high PTH levels diminish the pressor response to norepinephrine.... | C12 |
5,380 | 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 ... | C12 |
5,381 | 8,787 | The influence of autologous lymphokine-activated killer cell infusions on the toxicity and antitumor effect of repetitive cycles of interleukin-2.
Twenty patients with refractory malignancies were treated with a protocol evaluating the addition of ex vivo-activated autologous lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells to... | C12 |
5,382 | 3,322 | Chronic dehydration stone disease.
A study was made of 819 patients attending a metabolic stone clinic.
A firm diagnosis was made in 708 (86%) and in 132 of these (19%) the diagnosis was thought to be chronic dehydration.
The records were available for study for 87 males and 11 females in the chronic dehydration gro... | C12 |
5,383 | 6,929 | Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in urinary diversion with urea-splitting urinary tract infection.
We present two cases of hyperammonemic encephalopathy secondary to urea-splitting urinary tract infection with urinary diversion.
One patient had a ureterosigmoidostomy, the other an ileal loop diversion.
Neither patient ... | C12 |
5,384 | 6,156 | Prostatic-type epithelium in urinary bladder. Clinical, histologic, and immunohistochemical study.
Six cases of urinary bladder mucosa with prostate-type epithelium were studied clinically, morphologically, and immunohistochemically.
All patients were male with an average age of fifty-three years; most presented with... | C12 |
5,385 | 2,234 | Is urethral sparing at cystectomy a safe procedure?
Urethrectomy is performed with cystectomy when the neoplasm is multifocal, at the bladder neck, or associated with carcinoma in situ (CIS).
The records of the most recent 20 patients treated by radical cystectomy at our institution were reviewed.
In 50 percent of t... | C12 |
5,386 | 8,518 | Primary lymphoma of prostate: transrectal ultrasonic appearance.
In the case presented, primary lymphoma of the prostate was diagnosed by ultrasonically guided transrectal biopsy.
Primary lymphoma of the prostate should be included in the differential diagnosis of a hypoechoic lesion found on ultrasonic evaluation of... | C12 |
5,387 | 7,335 | End-stage renal disease--is infrainguinal limb revascularization justified?
Reports of reconstructive surgery for peripheral vascular disease have been relatively uncommon in patients with end-stage renal disease.
Between 1980 and 1989, 39 patients with end-stage renal disease underwent revascularization of 56 limbs.... | C12 |
5,388 | 8,767 | Urinary infection following out-patient flexible cystoscopy.
Of 161 flexible cystoscopies performed in an out-patient endoscopy suite, the incidence of urinary tract infection was 7.5%.
Infection rates were higher in patients with a history of previous urinary tract infection or where an additional procedure was also... | C12 |
5,389 | 2,174 | Pulmonary disease following intravesical BCG treatment.
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis that has been used in the treatment of malignant disease for over 20 years and for the treatment of bladder cancer since 1976.
Major complications of this treatment are infrequent.
We... | C12 |
5,390 | 5,095 | The prognostic value of modal deoxyribonucleic acid in low grade, low stage untreated prostate cancer.
We selected for a prospective surveillance study 167 patients with untreated grades 1 and 2 prostate cancer.
The tumors were classified regarding modal deoxyribonucleic acid value (ploidy) by flow cytometry, cytolog... | C12 |
5,391 | 5,083 | Outpatient flexible cystoscopy and fulguration of recurrent superficial bladder tumors.
Flexible cystoendoscopy and fulguration were used in the outpatient management of 185 patients with superficial bladder tumors followed for 24 months.
This method provided optimal surveillance for recurrence and successful tumor c... | C12 |
5,392 | 5,014 | Rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure associated with cocaine abuse.
Cocaine abuse has emerged as a major public health problem among young adults.
Illicit use of cocaine has been associated with an increasing array of medical complications.
Both traumatic and nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis, often complicated by acute... | C12 |
5,393 | 2 | Treatment of Fournier's gangrene with adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Fournier's gangrene is a devastating infection and often is associated with a high morbidity and mortality.
Surgical debridement and antibiotics are the cornerstones of therapy.
This case describes the use of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunct ... | C12 |
5,394 | 5,035 | Arteriographically determined occlusive disease within the hypogastric-cavernous bed in impotent patients following blunt perineal and pelvic trauma.
To determine the presence, location and pattern of arterial occlusive disease within the hypogastric-cavernous arterial bed in impotent men following blunt perineal and ... | C12 |
5,395 | 3,122 | Changes in ventricular fibrillation threshold during the development of perinephritic hypertension.
Established hypertension is associated with enhanced susceptibility to life-threatening arrhythmias.
However, little is known about the effects of the development of hypertension on the electro-physiological properties... | C12 |
5,396 | 2,816 | Urgent management of a giant scrotal hernia.
An unusual case of giant scrotal hernia is presented.
Hernias of this magnitude are extremely rare, even in underdeveloped countries, and their repair is challenging to the surgeon and stressful to the patient.
Only a few case reports on the use of pneumoperitoneum prior ... | C12 |
5,397 | 2,449 | Geriatric pharmacokinetics and the kidney.
The general population is aging and, as a result, drugs are increasingly prescribed for a variety of medical conditions in a group of patients with multiple physiologic and pharmacokinetic abnormalities.
The present report summarizes principles of prescribing for the elderly... | C12 |
5,398 | 7,696 | The dichotomous distribution of gastrinomas.
Our experience with 47 sporadic gastrinomas suggests that no less than 85% of these tumors are located to the right of the superior mesenteric artery.
This finding is unexpected because approximately 75% of insulinomas and glucagonomas are located to the left of the superi... | C12 |
5,399 | 4,220 | Parathyroid hormone-like peptide in normal and neoplastic human endocrine tissues.
PTH-like peptide (PLP) is produced by tumors commonly associated with hypercalcemia as well as nonneoplastic tissues and several endocrine glands and tumors.
To characterize the distribution of PLP in human endocrine tissues and tumors... | C12 |
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