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6,300 | 2,084 | Long scoliosis fusion to the sacrum in adults with nonparalytic scoliosis. An improved method.
The first 17 adults with nonparalytic scoliosis having long fusion to the sacrum treated with the Luque-Galveston technique were reviewed.
There were 3 men and 14 women.
Their average age at the time of surgery was 47 year... | C05 |
6,301 | 3,318 | Lesions of the mid-shaft of the humerus presenting as shoulder capsulitis.
We describe three patients who presented with pain and restriction of movement at the shoulder suggestive of capsulitis, but proved to have lesions of the mid-shaft of the humerus.
It is important to be aware of the possibility of this cause o... | C05 |
6,302 | 4,284 | Thyroid abnormalities in the McCune-Albright syndrome: ultrasonography and hormonal studies.
Hyperthyroidism and goiter have been reported frequently in association with the McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS).
To assess the prevalence and extent of thyroid abnormalities in girls with MAS, we studied 19 patients [mean age... | C05 |
6,303 | 5,643 | Young adults with special health care needs: prevalence, severity, and access to health services.
Health care needs of disabled young adults and access to care are analyzed using the 1984 National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative sample of 10,394 randomly selected noninstitutionalized young adults ... | C05 |
6,304 | 5,721 | Accumulation of p21ras.GTP in response to stimulation with epidermal growth factor and oncogene products with tyrosine kinase activity.
The ras gene product (p21) is a GTP-binding protein and has been thought to transduce signals regulating proliferation or differentiation of cells.
Like other GTP-binding proteins, p... | C23 |
6,305 | 3,615 | Acute respiratory failure.
Pregnancy entails many unique physiologic changes that make the management of ARDS both challenging and unique.
Most of these women are young and in excellent health before their acute injury, and their survival should exceed that of the general population who develop ARDS.
We advocate agg... | C23 |
6,306 | 7,021 | Outbreak of spontaneous staphylococcal arthritis and osteitis in mice.
Staphylococcus aureus is the most common bacterial species found in association with nongonococcal bacterial arthritis in humans.
We present here the first description of spontaneous bacterial arthritis and osteitis in mice.
Clinically, the most ... | C23 |
6,307 | 6,846 | Choreoathetosis after deep hypothermia without circulatory arrest
In 8 of 758 patients undergoing an intracardiac operation under cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermia, choreoathetosis developed 3 to 7 days postoperatively.
Before the onset of choreoathetosis, varying degrees of neurological dysfunction were noted.... | C23 |
6,308 | 6,744 | An objective appraisal of the role of computed tomographic (CT) guided drainage of intra-abdominal abscesses.
Computed tomographic (CT) guided drainage is an important tool in the treatment of intra-abdominal abscess.
Its most important role is in the treatment of small, unilocular, well-placed abscesses.
Success ra... | C23 |
6,309 | 7,568 | Sudden death behind the wheel from natural disease in drivers of four-wheeled motorized vehicles.
The heart was studied in 30 persons who died suddenly from natural causes in the driver's seat of an automobile, truck or bus.
Twenty had cardiac arrest while driving and the other 10 while sitting in the driver's seat o... | C23 |
6,310 | 5,892 | Haemostatic changes in the loin pain and haematuria syndrome: secondary to renal vasospasm?
Twenty-five patients (seven male, 18 female) were diagnosed as having the loin pain and haematuria syndrome.
Presenting symptoms were either loin pain alone or pain associated with macroscopic or microscopic haematuria, and we... | C23 |
6,311 | 5,571 | Retinal sensitivity in acute hypoglycemia.
We measured retinal threshold sensitivity via automated computerized static perimetry in predetermined meridians in euglycemic diabetic subjects and in the same subjects during insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
During periods of reduced blood glucose levels, decreased retinal se... | C23 |
6,312 | 7,530 | Effects of 1.32-micron Nd-YAG laser on brain thermal and histological experimental data.
Considering that the 1.32-microns Nd-YAG laser should have physicothermal properties close to those of the CO2 laser, a series of experiments were conducted on rat cortex (N = 51).
Three laser wavelengths were compared: CO2 laser... | C23 |
6,313 | 9,516 | Benefit of bicarbonate dialysis during CAVHD.
The effect of bicarbonate dialysate (BD) on acid-base status in six pediatric CAVHD patients was examined during seven episodes of metabolic acidosis.
When metabolic acidosis was not corrected with CAVHD, a sterile BD was substituted for either acetate- or lactate-based d... | C23 |
6,314 | 776 | Prosthetic above-knee femoropopliteal bypass for intermittent claudication.
There is no consensus about the most appropriate management of the patient with intermittent claudication due to a superficial femoral artery occlusion.
To evaluate the natural history of prosthetic above-knee femoropopliteal (AKFP) bypass, 2... | C23 |
6,315 | 9,502 | Detailed examination of complete bioprosthetic heart valves.
Six (3 control and 3 explanted) bioprostheses were examined histologically after embedding the complete valve in "plastic" and sectioning across the valve at 90 degree to the horizontal plane, and then horizontally across a stent post, with a low speed saw.
... | C23 |
6,316 | 4,806 | Treatment of metastatic melanoma with an autologous tumor-cell vaccine: clinical and immunologic results in 64 patients.
We treated 64 patients with metastatic melanoma using a melanoma vaccine preceded by low-dose cyclophosphamide (CY), and monitored immunologic effects and antitumor activity.
On day 0, the patients... | C23 |
6,317 | 7,056 | A patient-oriented approach to perilymph fistula.
The subject of perilymph fistula is controversial in part because the preoperative diagnosis of perilymph fistula is difficult.
Patients suffering auditory and vestibular symptoms secondary to perilymph fistula, therefore, present a dilemma to the practicing physician... | C23 |
6,318 | 3,462 | Brachial plexus block with a new local anaesthetic: 0.5 per cent ropivacaine
A new local anaesthetic, ropivacaine hydrochloride, was used in a concentration of 0.5 per cent in 32 patients receiving a subclavian perivascular block for upper extremity surgery.
One group (n = 15) received 0.5 per cent ropivacaine witho... | C23 |
6,319 | 6,703 | The role of mucous glycoproteins in the rheologic properties of cystic fibrosis sputum.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by excessive amounts of thick and tenacious mucous secretions that obstruct organ ducts and passages.
In the respiratory tract this is associated with chronic infection resulting in the hypers... | C23 |
6,320 | 8,845 | Causes, diagnosis, and treatment of pharyngitis.
Pharyngitis is a common disease of the respiratory tract that can be caused by several different viruses and bacterial organisms.
Clinically speaking, the most important causative agent is group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes).
Although rare, postpharyngitis ... | C23 |
6,321 | 2,110 | Broad spectrum penicillin as an adequate therapy for acute cholangitis.
In a previous study of patients with acute cholecystitis, we demonstrated equal efficacy with a broad spectrum penicillin (piperacillin) and a penicillin plus amino-glycoside combination.
Whether a single agent broad spectrum penicillin is adequa... | C23 |
6,322 | 8,515 | Acute urinary retention in a child with appendiceal abscess: diagnostic dilemma.
Rarely do children with appendiceal abscess present with acute urinary retention as the only sign or symptom.
This presentation may delay diagnosis and definitive therapy, thereby causing additional morbidity and possible mortality.
We ... | C23 |
6,323 | 9,591 | Effect of complement and arachidonic acid pathway inhibition on white blood cell count and deposition on vascular grafts.
To determine the role of complement and arachidonic acid metabolites in the decrease in peripheral white blood cell count (pWBC) observed with graft implantation, Dacron aortic grafts were implante... | C23 |
6,324 | 9,556 | Comparison of Delphin and BioMedicus pumps.
There is an increasing use of centrifugal pump systems for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and circulatory assistance.
The BioMedicus and Delphin centrifugal pump systems were tested in two side-by-side, identical in vitro flow loops for blood trauma and flow probe accuracy.
... | C23 |
6,325 | 8,595 | Addition of clonidine enhances postoperative analgesia from epidural morphine: a double-blind study.
This study was undertaken to evaluate the analgesic effect of the combination of epidural morphine and clonidine versus epidural morphine alone in patients with postoperative pain.
A randomized double-blind design was... | C23 |
6,326 | 4,271 | Adrenal medullitis in type I diabetes.
To investigate whether cell-mediated immunity against the adrenal medulla occurs in type I diabetes (IDDM), we conducted a retrospective autopsy study of adrenal glands from IDDM and nondiabetic subjects using formalin-fixed tissue.
Forty-four IDDM subjects, aged 4-67 yrs (mean ... | C23 |
6,327 | 5,701 | Postinduction repression of the beta-interferon gene is mediated through two positive regulatory domains.
Virus induction of the human beta-interferon (beta-IFN) gene results in an increase in the rate of beta-IFN mRNA synthesis, followed by a rapid postinduction decrease.
In this paper, we show that two beta-IFN pro... | C23 |
6,328 | 9,129 | Deep femoral to anterior tibial bypass after failed femoropopliteal reconstructions.
Deep femoral to anterior tibial artery bypass is a reconstructive technique occasionally applicable when more conventional attempts at revascularization of the distal portion of the leg have failed.
Three such patients, in whom the a... | C23 |
6,329 | 6,305 | Comparison of DNA and karyotype aneuploidy in malignant lymphomas.
Tumors from 48 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were examined for flow cytometric DNA ploidy and chromosome constitution to determine the degree of concordance of these two methods.
Histologically, there were 24 low-grade, 19 intermediate, and 5 h... | C23 |
6,330 | 246 | Myocarditis simulating acute transmural myocardial infarction.
A patient with cardiogenic shock had typical electrocardiographic findings of acute anterior transmural myocardial infarction.
Cardiac catheterization revealed normal coronary arteries and severe biventricular failure.
Postmortem examination confirmed no... | C23 |
6,331 | 4,692 | Delayed facial palsy following uncomplicated stapedectomy.
We report six cases of partial lower motor neurone facial palsy occurring between four and ten days after uncomplicated stapedectomy.
The aetiology is unclear but recovery was rapid and complete in all patients. | C23 |
6,332 | 3,522 | Splenic septic emboli in endocarditis.
The significance of septic emboli to the spleen is inferred by the frequency of septic emboli in general seen in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis who are referred for valve replacement.
To determine the proper management of splenic infarcts and abscess due to sept... | C23 |
6,333 | 7,682 | Longitudinal study of diagnoses in children of women with unipolar and bipolar affective disorder.
School-age children of unipolar depressed, bipolar, chronically medically ill, or normal women were diagnosed every 6 months for up to 3 years.
Offspring of unipolar women had the highest rates of disorder at all evalua... | C23 |
6,334 | 633 | Adult hepatic fibropolycystic disease presenting as obstructive jaundice.
Obstructive jaundice caused by compression of the common hepatic duct by a simple hepatic cyst in a 31 year old Europid man is reported.
The jaundice and duct compression resolved after percutaneous aspiration of the cyst under ultrasound direc... | C23 |
6,335 | 9,963 | Short-term and long-term changes in renal function after donor nephrectomy.
We retrospectively examined the effect of nephrectomy on renal function in 55 living related donors.
Renal function was measured with 131iodine-orthoiodohippurate scans.
All patients were studied preoperatively, and 1 week and 1 year postope... | C23 |
6,336 | 2,073 | Duplex Doppler examination of a perinephric abscess in a renal transplant.
Perinephric abscess has no characteristic ultrasonic appearance or location.
Differentiation from urinoma, lymphocele, or hematoma depends on clinical and laboratory findings.
Therapy consists of percutaneous catheter drainage, surgical drain... | C23 |
6,337 | 3,036 | Treatment of traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta. A 15-year experience.
Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is increasing in incidence and remains a highly lethal injury.
The morbidity associated with this injury also remains high.
We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients admitted to our emerg... | C23 |
6,338 | 216 | Human papillomavirus type 16 associated with oral squamous carcinoma in a cardiac transplant recipient.
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV 16) has been associated with a variety of squamous carcinomas, particularly those involving the anogenital tract.
The authors report the development of an oropharyngeal carcinoma i... | C23 |
6,339 | 3,543 | Internal mammary artery and saphenous vein graft patency. Effects of aspirin.
As part of two Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Trials, we obtained angiographic patency data for internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein grafts to the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery at 1 year after coronar... | C23 |
6,340 | 2,716 | Hormonal-metabolic stress responses in neonates undergoing cardiac surgery.
Hormonal and metabolic responses were measured in 15 neonates who underwent repair of complex congenital heart defects during a standardized anesthetic protocol.
Four of the 15 neonates died postoperatively in the intensive care unit.
Analys... | C23 |
6,341 | 3,510 | Iliofemoral arterial complications of balloon angioplasty for systemic obstructions in infants and children
The medical and radiological records of 64 consecutive infants and children who underwent transfemoral balloon dilation of the aorta or aortic valve were reviewed to determine the incidence, nature, and post-tr... | C23 |
6,342 | 9,355 | Image cytophotometric DNA analysis of atypical hyperplasias and intraductal carcinomas of the breast.
With the use of image analysis, DNA content was quantified on paraffin-embedded tissue sections of 25 atypical hyperplasias and 35 intraductal carcinomas of the breast by comparison of integrated gray levels of Feulge... | C23 |
6,343 | 9,305 | Gene amplification in human lung cancer. The myc family genes and other proto-oncogenes and growth factor genes.
The development of human lung cancer may require multiple genetic deletions affecting a number of chromosomes, e.g., 1, 3, 11, 13, and 17.
These genetic aberrations may induce the activation of proto-oncog... | C23 |
6,344 | 9,329 | Brain microemboli during cardiac surgery or aortography
We have observed many focal dilatations or very small aneurysms in terminal arterioles and capillaries of 4 of 5 patients and 6 dogs who had recently undergone cardiopulmonary bypass.
A smaller number of sausagelike dilatations distended medium-sized arterioles... | C23 |
6,345 | 733 | Blood loss reduced during hip arthroplasty by lumbar plexus block.
We measured the blood loss during and after hip replacement in two groups of women, each consisting of 10 patients.
In one group the lumbar plexus was infiltrated with bupivacaine, in the other it was not.
The group in whom the plexus was blocked had... | C23 |
6,346 | 6,676 | Early detection of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with chest pain and nondiagnostic ECGs: serial CK-MB sampling in the emergency department [published erratum appears in Ann Emerg Med 1991 Apr;20(4):420]
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Patients presenting to the emergency department with chest discomfort are a d... | C23 |
6,347 | 8,387 | Transsynaptic degeneration in the superficial dorsal horn after sciatic nerve injury: effects of a chronic constriction injury, transection, and strychnine.
The lumbar and cervical spinal dorsal horns of adult rats with a chronic (8 days) constriction injury of the sciatic nerve on one side (and a sham operation on th... | C23 |
6,348 | 3,082 | Major histocompatibility complex genes and susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus.
Susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with major histocompatibility complex (MHC)--encoded genes.
We have used nucleotide sequence analysis to better define the disease-associated MHC alleles.
HLA-DR2, D... | C23 |
6,349 | 918 | Coronary angioplasty after coronary bypass surgery: initial results and late outcome in 422 patients.
From 1978 to 1988, coronary angioplasty was performed in 422 patients with prior coronary artery bypass surgery (264 patients with native coronary artery angioplasty and 158 patients with graft angioplasty).
Angiopla... | C23 |
6,350 | 7,416 | Hypothermia. Safe and efficient methods of rewarming the patient.
Hypothermia, a relatively common problem in the winter months, can cause significant morbidity.
It presents in a variety of situations and affects a wide age range.
Diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion, because the symptoms, which are primaril... | C23 |
6,351 | 3,610 | Placenta previa.
A placenta previa, whether found fortuitously by ultrasound or with the clinical emergency of maternal hemorrhage, carries significant maternal and fetal risk.
Accurate diagnosis, judicious expectant management with transfusion as required, and delivery at the time of fetal lung maturation can lead t... | C23 |
6,352 | 2,499 | Deletion mapping of Aland Island eye disease to Xp21 between DXS67 (B24) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Aland Island Eye Disease (AIED) is an X-linked form of ocular hypopigmentation--also known as Forsius-Eriksson, or type 2, ocular albinism--in which affected males demonstrate subnormal visual acuity, protanomalou... | C23 |
6,353 | 6,934 | Lovastatin. Warfarin interaction.
Two patients who developed hypoprothrombinemia and bleeding due to lovastatin-warfarin drug interaction are described.
Because of the wider use of lovastatin and warfarin, heightened clinical awareness of this potentially serious interaction must be publicized.
Therefore, prothrombi... | C23 |
6,354 | 7,221 | Chronic illness and depressive symptoms in the elderly: a population-based study.
A cross-sectional study of the distribution of depressive symptoms and association between depressed mood and chronic illness was conducted in a geographically defined population in southern California of 1617 men and women aged 65 years... | C23 |
6,355 | 2,971 | The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in nonulcer dyspepsia. Importance of stratification according to age
Helicobacter pylori (formerly Campylobacter pylori) is causally related to active antral gastritis and is highly associated with duodenal and gastric ulcers.
However, the relationship of H pylori to nonulcer dy... | C23 |
6,356 | 6,444 | Perinatal mortality in Victoria, Australia: role of group B Streptococcus.
Group B beta-hemolytic streptococcus is the most common infective cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality.
It is therefore surprising that no agreement exists for an approach to its prevention.
There is also increasing evidence that occult ... | C23 |
6,357 | 4,943 | Very low birth weight children: behavior problems and school difficulty in a national sample
We addressed three questions concerning the behavioral and academic status of low and very low birth weight infants through a secondary analysis of the 1981 National Health Interview Survey--Child Health Supplement: (1) in ch... | C23 |
6,358 | 8,294 | National survey of the pattern of care for carcinoma of the lung.
A national survey of the patterns of care for carcinoma of the lung sponsored by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has documented continuing changes in epidemiology, treatment, and outcome.
The project consisted of a long-ter... | C23 |
6,359 | 6,384 | Sudden death in young competitive athletes: clinicopathologic correlations in 22 cases.
PURPOSE: To investigate the pathologic substrates of sudden death in young competitive athletes.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-two cases of sudden death in young competitive athletes occurring in the Veneto region (northern Italy) ... | C23 |
6,360 | 2,675 | Isoenzymes of aldehyde dehydrogenase in human lymphocytes.
The types of isozymes of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) present in human lymphocytes has been investigated using isoelectric focusing of polyacrylamide gels followed by substrate-specific staining.
Lymphocytes obtained from most individuals were found to conta... | C23 |
6,361 | 2,908 | Latent sensitisation to respiratory syncytial virus during acute bronchiolitis and lung function after recovery.
To determine whether latent sensitivity to respiratory syncytial virus antigen(s) occurs after infection, 27 infants with acute bronchiolitis were studied and compared with 15 hospital controls.
Blood was ... | C23 |
6,362 | 6,580 | Admissions to the intensive care unit after complications of anaesthetic techniques over 10 years. 2. The second 5 years
Compared with the first 5 years there was a 19% increase in general anaesthetics, a 171% increase in local and (or) sedation techniques and a 9% increase in obstetric epidurals with no increase in ... | C23 |
6,363 | 9,991 | Afferent nipple valve malfunction caused by anchoring collar: an unexpected late complication of the Kock continent ileal reservoir.
In the construction of a Kock continent ileal reservoir for urinary diversion, significantly high rates of late postoperative complications regarding nipple valves, the efferent limb in ... | C23 |
6,364 | 2,966 | Guidelines for transfusion support in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Transfusion Practices Committee of the American Association of Blood Banks.
We have reviewed the impact of evolving issues in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) on transfusion support for these patients.
Issues include incr... | C23 |
6,365 | 9,439 | Palliative treatment of bile duct tumoral compression by an endoprosthesis: clinical results.
The palliative therapy of stenoses of the biliary tract is a difficult choice.
Because percutaneous or endoscopic drainage methods are fraught with complications, an endoprosthesis for surgical intubation of the biliary trac... | C23 |
6,366 | 2,535 | Effects of hypertension on pregnancy monitoring and results.
The effect of severity of hypertension on fetal heart rate tracing changes and neonatal outcomes was evaluated on all patients with hypertension seen in 1980 and 1981 (666 cases, 10% of the pregnant population) in the Chicago-Lying In Hospital.
The patients... | C23 |
6,367 | 2,278 | Reduction in infarct size by the phospholipase inhibitor quinacrine in dogs with coronary artery occlusion.
It has been suggested that activation of tissue phospholipases may contribute to the development of ischemic cell injury.
In the present study we sought to assess whether administration of the phospholipase inh... | C23 |
6,368 | 6,797 | Stroke in pediatric acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
In a 4 1/2-year period, 4 of 68 children in a longitudinal study of neurological complications of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had clinical and/or neuroradiological evidence of stroke, yielding a clinical incidence of stroke in this population of ... | C23 |
6,369 | 4,786 | Alcohol-dependent unilateral vestibular impairment persisting after a closed head injury.
A 20-year-old man suffered a closed head injury followed by symptoms of right-sided labyrinthine concussion with complete clinical recovery within 3 weeks.
Episodic vertigo and ataxic gait occurred after the ingestion of small a... | C23 |
6,370 | 5,578 | Serum and aqueous humor sialic acid levels in Behcet's disease.
Serum and aqueous humor sialic acid (SA) levels were determined in 27 patients with Behcet's disease (Bd).
Serum SA levels were elevated significantly during the active episode (mean, 113.4 +/- 4.12 mg/dl) and in the remission stages (mean, 85.4 +/- 4.79... | C23 |
6,371 | 7,000 | The Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome examined by computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose and positron emission tomography.
The Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome is an autosomal recessive degenerative disorder characterized by congenital cataracts, cerebellar ataxia, spasticity, mental deficiency... | C23 |
6,372 | 291 | Species-dependent effects of adenosine on heart rate and atrioventricular nodal conduction. Mechanism and physiological implications.
This study 1) compares the negative chronotropic and dromotropic actions of adenosine in guinea pig, rat, and rabbit hearts; 2) investigates the mechanism(s) for the different responses... | C23 |
6,373 | 3,455 | Percutaneous puncture of a nondeflatable coronary artery angioplasty balloon.
We report a case in which a balloon catheter became permanently inflated in a coronary artery saphenous vein bypass graft.
While still inflated, the balloon was forcibly withdrawn from the graft into the external iliac artery and successful... | C23 |
6,374 | 4,720 | Hoarseness as the sole presenting symptom of foramen magnum meningioma.
Foramen magnum tumours are rare.
They may present with bizarre symptoms and mimic many conditions.
We report a presentation with the sole complaint of hoarseness, never previously described in the literature.
Voice returned to normal after surg... | C23 |
6,375 | 6,886 | Continuous epidural hydromorphone for postthoracotomy pain relief
Forty-four patients were treated with a continuous infusion of lumbar epidural hydromorphone (0.05%) after thoracic operations.
Postoperatively, visual analog pain scores were obtained.
On postoperative day 1 and 2, more than 90% of the patients expe... | C23 |
6,376 | 7,557 | Controversies in the treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis
An increasing number of cases of sore throat caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococci occur with concomitant colonization by organisms that may "protect" the streptococci through beta-lactamase inactivation of penicillin at the site of infection.
The f... | C23 |
6,377 | 8,769 | Antibiotic compared with antiseptic prophylaxis for prostatic surgery.
Two different regimens of cephalosporin antibiotic prophylaxis were compared with antiseptic lubricating jelly to try to prevent infection and complications in 196 men after prostatic surgery.
Pre-operative urine was cultured and prostatic chips (... | C23 |
6,378 | 539 | A unified hypothesis for the complex genetics of HLA associations with IDDM.
Our understanding of the role of HLA genes associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is in disarray, despite recent improvements in the definition of specific alleles and haplotypes.
Some genes are highly associated with IDD... | C23 |
6,379 | 3,347 | On-table pancreatography: importance in planning operative strategy.
We describe our experience with 124 on-table pancreatograms performed during 117 operative procedures on 112 patients in a wide variety of clinical settings.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was performed on 84 occasions with a ... | C23 |
6,380 | 694 | Endothelium-derived relaxing factors. A perspective from in vivo data.
We review below published studies of endothelium-dependent vasodilation in vivo.
Endothelium-dependent vasodilation has been demonstrated in conduit arteries in vivo and in the cerebral, coronary, mesenteric, and femoral vascular beds as well as i... | C23 |
6,381 | 7,381 | Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis.
Six patients with evidence of secondary syphilis presented with visual loss in both eyes caused by large, placoid, yellowish lesions with faded centers at the level of the pigment epithelium in the macula and juxtapapillary areas.
All eyes had vitreitis.
All of the... | C23 |
6,382 | 5,140 | Deep vein obstruction and leg swelling caused by femoral ganglion.
We present a case of a rare ganglion cyst originating from the hip joint and compressing the common femoral vein producing signs and symptoms that mimicked a deep vein thrombosis.
Excision of the mass promptly restored normal venous return.
This cond... | C23 |
6,383 | 2,142 | Early tracheostomy for primary airway management in the surgical critical care setting.
During a 12-month period, 264 patients with multiple injuries who required mechanical ventilation were admitted to the surgical intensive care unit.
One hundred twenty patients (46%) were disengaged from the ventilator, and 38 pat... | C23 |
6,384 | 8,969 | Induction of RNA-stabilized DNA conformers by transcription of an immunoglobulin switch region
A deletion DNA rearrangement is associated with immunoglobulin class switching from IgM to IgG, IgA or IgE This recombination occurs in immunoglobulin switch regions, which are complex, highly repetitive regions of DNA.
As... | C23 |
6,385 | 2,041 | Rhodopsin mutants that bind but fail to activate transducin.
Rhodopsin is a member of a family of receptors that contain seven transmembrane helices and are coupled to G proteins.
The nature of the interactions between rhodopsin mutants and the G protein, transduction (Gt), was investigated by flash photolysis in ord... | C23 |
6,386 | 9,351 | The distribution of enkephalins in human carotid bodies showing cellular proliferation and chronic glomitis.
Human carotid bodies obtained at necropsy that showed prominence of either the sustentacular cell or the dark variant of chief cell or chronic carotid glomitis were studied by an immunogold labeling technique.
... | C23 |
6,387 | 9,181 | Reversal of chronic hepatic encephalopathy by colonic exclusion: poor correlation with blood GABA levels.
Previous studies have suggested that the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a key factor in the syndrome of portasystemic encephalopathy.
We report the case of a patient with medically ... | C23 |
6,388 | 6,367 | Nucleus-driven multiple large-scale deletions of the human mitochondrial genome: a new autosomal dominant disease.
We studied several affected and one nonaffected individuals belonging to three unrelated pedigrees.
The pathological trait was an autosomal dominant mitochondrial myopathy due to large-scale multiple del... | C23 |
6,389 | 3,665 | Posterior nuchal cystic hygroma [published erratum appears in Clin Perinatol 1990 Dec;17(4):viii]
When cystic hygroma is detected antenatally, the prognosis is usually poor, and intrauterine or neonatal death are common.
This seems especially true for Turner syndrome (the largest etiologic group associated with cysti... | C23 |
6,390 | 9,737 | Total hip arthroplasty with cement. A long-term radiographic analysis in patients who are older than fifty and younger than fifty years.
The long-term performance of a total of 712 Charnley and STH prostheses was evaluated as a function of the patient's age (older than fifty years or younger than fifty years) and of t... | C23 |
6,391 | 3,267 | Linear scleroderma associated with ptosis and motility disorders.
A case is reported in which an 11-year-old girl developed progressive ptosis and a subsequent motility disorder of the right eye.
The diagnosis linear scleroderma en coup de sabre was established.
Atrophy of the upper levator palpebral and superior re... | C23 |
6,392 | 6,863 | Pulmonary resection combined with cardiac operations.
Surgical management of patients with concomitant critical cardiac disease and resectable lung lesions is controversial.
During a 7-year period (1982 to 1988), 21 patients underwent combined cardiac and pulmonary operations.
Patients had cardiac symptoms only; the... | C23 |
6,393 | 7,339 | The role of carotid screening before coronary artery bypass.
Five hundred thirty-nine patients with no symptoms of cerebral ischemia undergoing coronary artery bypass were preoperatively evaluated for presence of carotid stenosis by noninvasive methods (duplex scanning and ocular pneumoplethysmography-Gee).
Overall p... | C23 |
6,394 | 2,409 | Sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome in the Mariana Islands.
Sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS) is a distinct clinical entity in previously healthy, young, Southeast Asian males.
It is well known in the Philippines and more recently recognized in the U.S.
by nonspecific autopsy findings, with n... | C23 |
6,395 | 2,775 | Predicting the severity of cocaine-associated rhabdomyolysis.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The syndrome of rhabdomyolysis associated with cocaine use has been recently described, but the incidence, severity, risk factors, and complications are unknown.
This study sought to describe the spectrum of the syndrome and identify clin... | C23 |
6,396 | 3,353 | Surgery in patients on long-term steroid therapy: a tentative model for risk assessment.
Increased morbidity after operation has been associated with long-term steroid therapy.
To determine the correlation between steroid therapy and such morbidity, the perioperative course of 55 steroid-treated patients was reviewed... | C23 |
6,397 | 7,576 | Cytologic features of poorly differentiated 'insular' carcinoma of the thyroid, as revealed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
The authors report on the cytologic features of six cases of poorly differentiated "insular" carcinoma (IC) of the thyroid, a recently described variety of thyroid tumor intermediate between we... | C23 |
6,398 | 2,250 | Single polypoid cystitis cystica and glandularis presenting as benign bladder tumor.
A case report of a ten-year-old boy with a benign polypoid bladder tumor is presented.
The rarity of benign or malignant bladder tumors in children is reviewed, as well as the possible etiology of this unique lesion. | C23 |
6,399 | 8,096 | Open reduction and fixation of proximal humeral fractures and fracture-dislocations.
Open reduction and internal fixation was employed in the treatment of 25 severely displaced fractures and fracture-dislocations of the proximal humerus.
Our aims were accurate reduction and stable fixation to allow early mobilisation... | C23 |
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