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6,800 | 6,596 | Minitracheotomy: complications and follow-up with fibreoptic tracheoscopy.
Complications and changes in tracheal mucosa after minitracheotomy were evaluated in 28 patients.
Tracheal mucosa was inspected fibreoptically after the insertion of a minitracheotomy cannula, and then at 3-day intervals until the cannula was ... | C23 |
6,801 | 306 | The value of indium 111 leukocyte scanning in the evaluation of painful or infected total knee arthroplasties.
Evaluation of painful total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) for infection can be difficult.
Indium 111 (111In) leukocyte bone scanning provides a minimally invasive technique for evaluation of possible infection.... | C23 |
6,802 | 4,013 | Heterotopic liver transplantation for fulminant Wilson's disease.
Wilson's disease may present with severe acute hepatocellular failure.
The only effective treatment for fulminant Wilson's disease is liver transplantation, which may lead to reversal of the underlying disease.
Some patients with cirrhosis who are too... | C23 |
6,803 | 2,363 | Comparison of frequency of late potentials in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and ischemic cardiomyopathy with advanced congestive heart failure and their usefulness in predicting sudden death.
Signal-averaged electrocardiograms were obtained in 62 consecutive patients with advanced congestive heart failure (CHF) un... | C23 |
6,804 | 3,802 | Improved scintigraphic assessment of severe cholestasis with the hepatic extraction fraction.
In previous studies, we found that biliary scintigraphy with technetium-99m-labeled iminodiacetic acid ([99mTc]IDA) provided excellent discrimination between intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholestasis, except in patients with ... | C23 |
6,805 | 8,663 | Recognising failure to thrive in early childhood.
The maximum weight centile achieved by a child between 4 and 8 weeks of age was found to be a better predictor of the centile at 12 months than the birth weight centile.
Children whose weight deviated two or more major centiles below this maximum weight centile for a ... | C23 |
6,806 | 5,654 | Surfactant replacement therapy with a single postventilatory dose of a reconstituted bovine surfactant in preterm neonates with respiratory distress syndrome: final analysis of a multicenter, double-blind, randomized trial and comparison with similar trials. The Surfactant-TA Study Group.
The effects of a single dose ... | C23 |
6,807 | 8,063 | Modeling human performance in running.
This paper focuses on the characteristics of a model interpreting the effect of training on athletic performance.
The model theory is presented both mathematically and graphically.
In the model, a systematically quantified impulse of training produces dual responses: fitness an... | C23 |
6,808 | 871 | Treatment of aggressive keratoacanthomas by radiotherapy.
Keratoacanthomas infrequently are treated by radiotherapy.
However, keratoacanthomas that are recurrent after surgical excision or whose resection would result in cosmetic deformity may benefit from radiotherapy.
Between January 1970 and June 1988, 29 such ke... | C23 |
6,809 | 3,786 | Retroperitoneal air after routine hemorrhoidectomy. Report of a case.
Retroperitoneal air as a complication after routine hemorrhoidectomy has not been reported in the literature.
This occurred recently after hemorrhoidectomy in a 34-year-old patient receiving glucocorticoid therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.
Adverse... | C23 |
6,810 | 5,078 | Outcome of renal transplantation after urinary diversion and enterocystoplasty: a retrospective, controlled study.
A total of 17 patients with intestinal urinary diversion of enterocystoplasty underwent renal transplantation between 1970 and 1988.
Patient age ranged from 4 to 35 years (mean age 20 years).
The patien... | C23 |
6,811 | 2,421 | Sudden death due to right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
A 21-year-old man died suddenly at a small party.
He had had no clinical signs of cardiac disease except for a slightly abnormal electrocardiogram (occasional premature ventricular contractions) since he was 15 years of age.
Autopsy examination revealed cardiomeg... | C23 |
6,812 | 2,332 | Changes in circulating norepinephrine with hemofiltration in advanced congestive heart failure.
In congestive heart failure (CHF), hemofiltration is associated with an obvious decrease in circulating norepinephrine.
This method was used for investigating the mechanisms whereby plasma norepinephrine is increased in ch... | C23 |
6,813 | 5,445 | Diffuse axonal injury: analysis of 100 patients with radiological signs.
One hundred patients with head injuries who showed diffuse axonal injury on computed tomographic scans are reported.
Evaluation of the Glasgow Coma Score, pupillary signs, and computed tomographic findings on admission led to an improved ability... | C23 |
6,814 | 200 | Survival of premenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer. Long-term follow-up of Eastern Cooperative Group and Cancer and Leukemia Group B studies.
In premenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer, differences in survival curves early during follow-up can be misleading.
The authors therefore analyzed long-te... | C23 |
6,815 | 4,200 | Traction injury in the internal mammary artery. Report of a case and review of the literature.
The internal mammary artery (IMA) is now used routinely along with saphenous vein for myocardial revascularization procedures.
We have documented a particular form of non-perforating injury which may reduce blood flow durin... | C23 |
6,816 | 2,354 | Aortic calcified plaques and cardiovascular disease (the Framingham Study).
The relation between the presence of calcified plaques in the thoracic aorta, as detected on chest x-rays, and the development of cardiovascular disease is examined during 12 years of follow-up of the Framingham cohort (n = 5,209).
The preval... | C23 |
6,817 | 5,393 | Seizures and other neurologic sequelae of bacterial meningitis in children.
BACKGROUND.
Although the mortality rate among children with bacterial meningitis has decreased dramatically in recent decades, some patients are left with neurologic sequelae.
It has not been clearly established which features of the acute i... | C23 |
6,818 | 6,339 | "Spontaneous sump syndrome": Successful treatment by duodenoscopic sphincterotomy.
"Sump syndrome" is a rare complication of side-to-side choledochoenterostomy operations which develops in the distal, nonfunctioning limb of the common bile duct where lithogenic bile, gastrointestinal contents, and debris accumulate.
... | C23 |
6,819 | 6,061 | Congenital craniofacial anomalies of ophthalmic importance.
Congenital craniofacial abnormalities frequently require ophthalmic evaluation and surgical management.
Called upon to perform as part of the craniofacial team managing the often severely deformed craniofacial patient, the ophthalmologist must bring a basic ... | C23 |
6,820 | 8,181 | Hemorrhage in mice produces alterations in pulmonary B cell repertoires.
Nosocomial pneumonia occurs frequently after hemorrhage and trauma and contributes to the increased incidence of morbidity and mortality after severe injury.
The production of secretory antibodies by mucosally associated B cells is an important ... | C23 |
6,821 | 6,016 | Arteriovenous malformation of the tongue.
Polyvinyl alcohol particles used to embolize an arteriovenous malformation of the tongue were only temporarily successful.
Additional embolization therapy was necessary and was complicated by ischemic ulcers of the tongue.
We conclude that embolization therapy can be used, b... | C23 |
6,822 | 806 | Deletion of Alu sequences in the fifth c-sis intron in individuals with meningiomas.
An abnormality in the c-sis protooncogene was identified in leukocyte DNA from members of a family predisposed to the development of meningioma, and was found to be associated with the development of the tumor in those individuals.
M... | C23 |
6,823 | 5,693 | Potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias. Minimizing the danger.
Patients with potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias are at an increased risk of sudden death.
Antiarrhythmic drugs, with the exception of beta blockers and possibly amiodarone, have not been particularly effective in reducing mortality.
Beta blo... | C23 |
6,824 | 6,589 | Laryngeal oedema from a neck haematoma. A complication of internal jugular vein cannulation.
Laryngeal oedema occurred after formation of a neck haematoma after attempted internal jugular vein cannulation.
This resulted in complete respiratory obstruction and respiratory arrest and it was impossible to ventilate her ... | C23 |
6,825 | 7,780 | Aneuploidy in pancreatic insulinomas does not predict malignancy.
Nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ploidy studies with paraffin embedded archival material from 14 pancreatic insulinomas were performed by flow cytometry.
Clinical follow-up (2 to 17 years; mean, 8 years) was obtained for all patients.
Half of the t... | C23 |
6,826 | 9,064 | Molecular characterization of inherited medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.
Deficiency of medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) is a common inherited defect in energy metabolism.
Characterization of the mRNA encoding MCAD in a Dutch MCAD-deficient patient revealed an A----G change at nucleotide posit... | C23 |
6,827 | 7,108 | Resuscitation of patients with cardiac arrest by ambulance staff with extended training in West Yorkshire
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the results of resuscitation of patients with cardiac arrest by ambulance staff with extended training in West Yorkshire.
DESIGN--Study of all such attempts at resuscitation over 32 mon... | C23 |
6,828 | 8,291 | Hypoplastic transverse arch and coarctation in neonates. Surgical reconstruction of the aortic arch: a study of sixty-six patients.
From Jan.
1, 1983, to Jan.
1, 1988, 66 consecutive neonates with coarctation and severe hypoplasia of the transverse arch underwent coarctation repair by resection of the coarctation an... | C23 |
6,829 | 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 ... | C23 |
6,830 | 764 | Operative and conservative treatment of moderate spondylolisthesis in young patients.
We made a retrospective study of 149 children and adolescents with moderate spondylolisthesis (slip less than or equal to 30%), 77 treated by fusion and 72 conservatively at an average follow-up of 13.3 years.
Both groups were fully... | C23 |
6,831 | 8,103 | Bone lysis in well-fixed cemented femoral components.
We have reviewed 25 cases of focal femoral osteolysis in radiographically stable, cemented femoral implants.
In three hips retrieved at post-mortem from two patients, we have been able to make a detailed biomechanical and histological analysis.
The interval betwe... | C23 |
6,832 | 5,890 | Interferon system and natural killer cell activity in myasthenia gravis.
The autoimmune response in myasthenia gravis is well characterized, but little is known about the mechanisms initiating it.
We have studied the interferon system and natural killer cell activity in 25 patients with myasthenia gravis and compared... | C23 |
6,833 | 3,463 | Neurological phenomena during emergence from enflurane or isoflurane anaesthesia.
During emergence from anaesthesia, transient neurological signs that would usually be considered pathological may appear.
The objective of this randomized, patient (n = 30) and observer-blinded study was to compare prospectively the inc... | C23 |
6,834 | 5,482 | Pituitary hemorrhage into a Rathke's cleft cyst
This report describes a case of symptomatic pituitary hemorrhage into a Rathke's cleft cyst in a 25-year-old woman.
The literature on pituitary hemorrhage in nonadenomatous sellar tumors is reviewed. | C23 |
6,835 | 9,682 | Edrophonium provocative test in noncardiac chest pain. Evaluation of testing techniques.
Edrophonium chloride is used frequently as a provocative agent in the assessment of noncardiac chest pain (NCCP).
However, the optimum dose and most appropriate method of interpreting test results is controversial.
We studied 15... | C23 |
6,836 | 3,549 | Progressive coronary luminal narrowing after cardiac transplantation.
Accelerated coronary disease is a major factor limiting long-term survival in cardiac transplant recipients.
Coronary angiography was obtained a mean of 5.1 weeks posttransplantation and annually thereafter.
Replicate projections recorded after ni... | C23 |
6,837 | 8,722 | Nitrous oxide antagonizes CNS stimulation by laudanosine in mice.
We have investigated whether nitrous oxide antagonizes or augments the CNS stimulant action of laudanosine in mice by comparing the mean convulsive doses (CD50 (SE] of a control group and those following pretreatment with 65% nitrous oxide in oxygen for... | C23 |
6,838 | 7,905 | Osler-Weber-Rendu disease and pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. Deterioration and embolotherapy during pregnancy.
Several reports have implicated pregnancy as a cause of deterioration in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas.
We report a 27-year-old woman with multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas who re... | C23 |
6,839 | 9,500 | Long-term efficacy of Al3+ for prevention of bioprosthetic heart valve calcification.
AI3+ preincubation has been shown in 21 and 60 day implants to inhibit calcification of glutaraldehyde preserved bovine pericardium (GPBP) in the rat subdermal model.
This study was designed to assess the long-term anticalcification... | C23 |
6,840 | 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... | C23 |
6,841 | 5,298 | Indications of the carbon dioxide laser in tracheobronchial pathology of the infant and young child: 14 cases.
Fourteen children aged between 6 months and 7 years (mean age = 3.5 years) were treated by CO2 broncholaser in the ENT Department of Trousseau Hospital.
Three groups of diagnostic indication were identified:... | C23 |
6,842 | 8,000 | Detection and direct sequencing of hepatitis B virus genome by DNA amplification method.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA was detected with amplification by the polymerase chain reaction method.
Cloned HBV DNA equivalent to one virus genome (3 x 10(-6) pg) was detectable by ethidium bromide staining after 50 cycles of pol... | C23 |
6,843 | 7,121 | Sotalol versus quinidine for the maintenance of sinus rhythm after direct current conversion of atrial fibrillation
This open, parallel-group study compares quinidine and sotalol treatment for maintenance of sinus rhythm after direct current conversion of patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.
The patients from ... | C23 |
6,844 | 6,795 | Titration streptomycin therapy for bilateral Meniere's disease. Follow-up report.
Initial reports of the use of parenteral streptomycin for bilateral Meniere's disease (MD) have demonstrated success in reducing the vestibular symptoms and, in some patients, stabilizing hearing.
The long-term follow-up (mean, 5.1 year... | C23 |
6,845 | 4,119 | Effect of activity on supraventricular tachyarrhythmias after coronary artery bypass surgery.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient activities, professional staff activities, backrest position, and diurnal variations as factors that may contribute to the onset of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVT) aft... | C23 |
6,846 | 9,336 | Adult phosphorylase b kinase deficiency.
Phosphorylase b kinase deficiency affecting muscle has been observed infrequently in children with weakness and hepatomegaly, and in 2 adults with cramps on exertion.
We observed 2 additional adults with phosphorylase b kinase deficiency: Patient 1, aged 58, had progressive, p... | C23 |
6,847 | 2,114 | A comparison of hospital costs and morbidity between octogenarians and other patients undergoing general surgical operations.
The hospital costs and clinical results of 304 patients who were more than 80 years old and who underwent general surgical procedures were evaluated.
The over-all mortality rate was 14 per cen... | C23 |
6,848 | 9,696 | Massive hepatic infarction in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Liver disease in systemic lupus erythematosus, as demonstrated by abnormal histopathology, is rare and usually mild; typically, this hepatic disease is of chronic nature and not related to a hypercoagulable state.
A patient is described in whom life-threaten... | C23 |
6,849 | 2,774 | Clinical evaluation of an acetaminophen meter for the rapid diagnosis of acetaminophen intoxication.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To test the accuracy of a newly developed meter that determines serum acetaminophen concentration after a 30-second analysis of one drop of whole blood.
DESIGN: Sixty-six blood samples from patients ... | C23 |
6,850 | 3,066 | Relationship of drusen and abnormalities of the retinal pigment epithelium to the prognosis of neovascular macular degeneration. The Macular Photocoagulation Study Group.
We graded macular features of 127 fellow eyes of participants in the Macular Photocoagulation Study who had an extrafoveal choroidal neovascular mem... | C23 |
6,851 | 6,801 | Anoxic injury of mammalian central white matter: decreased susceptibility in myelin-deficient optic nerve.
The rat optic nerve, a typical central nervous system white matter tract, rapidly loses excitability when it is exposed to anoxia and is irreversibly damaged by prolonged anoxia.
Neonatal optic nerve is extremel... | C23 |
6,852 | 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... | C23 |
6,853 | 7,074 | Vitamin B6 in the treatment of the premenstrual syndrome--a review [published erratum appears in Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1991 Mar;98(3):329-30]
A search of the literature yielded 12 controlled trials on vitamin B6 in the treatment of the premenstrual syndrome.
These are discussed with emphasis on methodological aspects... | C23 |
6,854 | 3,782 | The surgical management of children with ulcerative colitis. The old vs. the new.
The authors' experience with children who have chronic ulcerative colitis was reviewed to compare their current surgical approach (ileoanal anastomosis) with earlier methods of management.
Between 1960 and 1984, 137 children with chroni... | C23 |
6,855 | 8,158 | Endoscopic control of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
It has been estimated that gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding occurs in more than 100,000 patients with peptic ulcer disease each year.
In 75-80% of the cases, bleeding will be self-limited.
A major predictor of persistent or recurrent bleeding is the magnitude of b... | C23 |
6,856 | 9,662 | Amyloidosis associated bleeding diatheses in the surgical patient.
The coagulopathies associated with amyloidosis have not been widely appreciated.
We encountered a patient with amyloidosis and mildly abnormal coagulation studies who presented for an emergency laparotomy for acute bowel obstruction.
Upon gentle mani... | C23 |
6,857 | 6,911 | Empiric treatment of fungal infections in the neutropenic host. Review of the literature and guidelines for use.
Persistent fever that is refractory to broad-spectrum antibacterials is common in neutropenic patients undergoing induction chemotherapy of acute leukemia.
Clinical experience suggests that many of these p... | C23 |
6,858 | 754 | Transient cyst-like cortical defects following fractures in children. Medullary fat within the subperiosteal haematoma.
Asymptomatic cyst-like cortical defects appearing after fractures in children have been occasionally reported.
Typically, these defects appear during fracture consolidation, within the newly formed ... | C23 |
6,859 | 4,416 | Serial left ventricular performance evaluated by cardiac catheterization before, immediately after and at 6 months after balloon aortic valvuloplasty.
Although impaired ventricular function has been shown to improve after aortic valve replacement, there are few data on hemodynamic changes after balloon aortic valvulop... | C23 |
6,860 | 2,139 | Are cystgastrostomy and cystjejunostomy equivalent operations for pancreatic pseudocysts?
To compare the effectiveness of cystgastrostomy and cystjejunostomy for treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts, 39 patients with cystgastrostomy were compared to 59 patients with cystjejunostomy.
The groups were comparable in age, ... | C23 |
6,861 | 7,509 | Long term survival and severe rebleeding after variceal sclerotherapy.
Of 197 consecutive patients with cirrhosis admitted because of bleeding from esophageal varices, 133 were included in a prospective study of elective sclerotherapy.
We evaluated the incidence of extensive rebleeding and mortality rate.
The period... | C23 |
6,862 | 9,635 | Extended hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma.
The results of extended hepatectomy in 25 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma performed over a 16 year period have been reviewed, analysed and compared with those of 144 patients who underwent lesser liver resection.
Five left and 20 right extended hepatectomies w... | C23 |
6,863 | 3,612 | Uterine rupture.
Uterine rupture is a sudden, unforeseeable event that carries a high rate of maternal and perinatal mortality.
When the diagnosis of uterine rupture is suspected, prompt surgical intervention with an experienced pelvic surgeon and blood product replacement should be considered.
At the time of uterin... | C23 |
6,864 | 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... | C23 |
6,865 | 2,171 | Management of recurrent malignant pleural effusion in the United Kingdom: survey of clinical practice.
Malignant pleural effusions are often symptomatic and tend to recur after simple aspiration.
Pleurodesis may prevent recurrence of the effusion; many agents and techniques have been described.
A questionnaire was s... | C23 |
6,866 | 7,970 | Polymorphisms of GLUT2 and GLUT4 genes. Use in evaluation of genetic susceptibility to NIDDM in blacks.
The liver/islet (GLUT2) and muscle/adipose tissue (GLUT4) glucose-transporter gene products, membrane proteins that facilitate glucose uptake into cells, are important molecules for normal carbohydrate metabolism.
... | C23 |
6,867 | 600 | Push-enteroscopy for diagnosis of patients with gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin.
Push-enteroscopy using a disinfected colonoscope was performed on 39 patients with gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin.
Our results show that: (1) A high percentage of patients (38%) have pathological lesions responsi... | C23 |
6,868 | 7,009 | Diffusing capacity of the lung and nifedipine in systemic sclerosis.
Lung involvement in systemic sclerosis may be due in part to a functional abnormality of the pulmonary vasculature.
To investigate the possible role of a pulmonary vasospastic process in this disorder, 21 non-smoking patients who had no evidence of ... | C23 |
6,869 | 353 | Use of a computerized closed-loop sodium nitroprusside titration system for antihypertensive treatment after open heart surgery.
This study evaluates the clinical applicability of administering sodium nitroprusside by a closed-loop titration system compared with a manually adjusted system.
The mean arterial pressure ... | C23 |
6,870 | 2,440 | Hyperplastic gastric polyps associated with persistent Helicobacter pylori infection and active gastritis.
We report two cases of patients with 3-yr histories of upper gastrointestinal symptoms, hyperplastic gastric polyps, and active chronic gastritis.
Biopsies retrospectively stained with Giemsa revealed the persis... | C23 |
6,871 | 9,307 | Progression through the cell cycle: an overview.
Tissues in adults can be maintained at constant mass or they can increase or decrease in size because of imbalances of synthetic and degradative processes acting at the cellular and molecular levels.
Some size changes are caused by physiologic conditions to which the t... | C23 |
6,872 | 8,680 | Nasal valve malfunction resulting from resection of cancer.
Following cancer resection of the nasal unit, nasal valve malfunction is manifested by the symptoms of nasal stuffiness or difficulty getting air into the nostril.
These symptoms occur in cases in which the resection is in the alar crease at the junction wit... | C23 |
6,873 | 204 | The scapegoat effect on food aversions after chemotherapy.
The effects of consuming a novel food (halva) versus a familiar food (cookies) before gastrointestinal (GI) toxic chemotherapy on patients' preference for familiar foods consumed after chemotherapy treatment were compared.
The development of aversions to the ... | C23 |
6,874 | 7,728 | Visualization of acute pulmonary emboli by transesophageal echocardiography.
This report describes a patient who became hypoxic and hypotensive while awaiting cardiac surgery.
An urgent transesophageal echocardiogram in the operating room showed a mass at the junction of the main and right pulmonary arteries consiste... | C23 |
6,875 | 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... | C23 |
6,876 | 5,264 | Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of nimodipine in acute stroke. Trust Study Group.
The value of oral nimodipine 120 mg per day for acute stroke was assessed in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicentre study of 1215 patients.
The primary end-point was independence after 6 months, de... | C23 |
6,877 | 8,540 | Immediate and follow-up results of balloon angioplasty of postoperative recoarctation in infants and children.
The purpose of this article is to present immediate and follow-up results of balloon angioplasty of aortic recoarctations following previous surgery in infants and children.
During a 45-month period that end... | C23 |
6,878 | 7,677 | Toxic shock syndrome associated with use of latex nasal packing.
We treated a previously healthy young man who developed toxic shock syndrome 2 days after elective septoplasty with nonabsorbent latex packing.
This case emphasizes that non-menstrual wound-associated toxic shock syndrome can occur after surgery that do... | C23 |
6,879 | 981 | Effects of stress on gastric mucosal prostaglandin generation in intact, adrenalectomized, and sham-operated rats.
To study the effects of (a) cold restraint stress and (b) adrenalectomy in association with cold restraint stress on gastric mucosal ulceration and prostaglandin generation, we performed two experiments.
... | C23 |
6,880 | 7,130 | Effect of epinephrine and lidocaine therapy on outcome after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation.
One hundred ninety-nine patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest persisted in ventricular fibrillation after the first defibrillation attempt and were then randomly assigned to receive either epinephrine or... | C23 |
6,881 | 3,929 | Deletion of chromosome 4: 46,XY, del(4) (q31.3) after gamete intrafallopian transfer and in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer.
It seems that assisted reproduction technology does not increase the rate of chromosome abnormalities, and up to now, a few cases have been reported.
The case we describe here is the first ... | C23 |
6,882 | 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... | C23 |
6,883 | 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... | C23 |
6,884 | 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... | C23 |
6,885 | 6,113 | Spreading depression-like depolarization and selective vulnerability of neurons. A brief review.
If oxygen is withdrawn from rat hippocampal slices, a spreading depression-like response occurs earlier and is of larger amplitude in the CA1 area than in the dentate gyrus.
After reoxygenation, recovery of synaptic trans... | C23 |
6,886 | 7,846 | The case for porous-coated hip implants. The femoral side.
A series of 1163 total hip arthroplasties (THAs) using porous-coated femoral components were roentgenographically assessed for implant fixation.
For 959 primary THAs followed from two to 12 years, the femoral revision rate was 1% and the ten-year survivorship... | C23 |
6,887 | 9,128 | Femorofemoral bypass: a profile of graft failure.
We have reviewed our experience with 71 patients who had a femorofemoral bypass for unilateral iliac artery occlusion or stenosis.
We analyzed morbidity, mortality, initial relief of symptoms, early patency, and long-term primary and secondary patency; and we attempte... | C23 |
6,888 | 8,616 | Alterations in brain electrical activity may indicate the onset of malignant hyperthermia in swine.
The time course of changes in brain electrical activity during halothane anesthesia was examined in 12 malignant hyperthermia-susceptible (MHS) and 14 normal (nMHS) swine.
Power densities in selected frequency bands we... | C23 |
6,889 | 4,104 | Thermographic findings in cranio-facial pain.
This work assesses the differences in the thermographic findings in the craniofacial and neck areas between normal individuals and patients with craniofacial pain or headache, and investigates the influence of muscle contraction on such findings.
Thermographic records wer... | C23 |
6,890 | 21 | Augmentation mentoplasty using Mersilene mesh.
Many different materials are available for augmentation mentoplasty.
However, the optimal implant material for chin implantation has yet to be found.
During the past several years, a number of experienced surgeons have turned to the use of Mersilene mesh.
Mersilene mes... | C23 |
6,891 | 6,271 | Effects of common illnesses on infants' energy intakes from breast milk and other foods during longitudinal community-based studies in Huascar (Lima), Peru.
To assess the effects of common infections on dietary intake, 131 Peruvian infants were observed longitudinally.
Home surveillance for illness symptoms was compl... | C23 |
6,892 | 6,331 | Dysphagia following fundoplication: "slipped" fundoplication versus achalasia complicated by fundoplication.
Failure to obtain preoperative esophageal manometry in patients being considered for antireflux surgery can result in immediate persistent postoperative dysphagia due to a missed diagnosis of achalasia.
We des... | C23 |
6,893 | 6,766 | Emergence of recreational drug abuse as a major risk factor for stroke in young adults
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical and epidemiologic relations between recreational drug abuse and stroke in young persons.
DESIGN: A case-control study based on medical records.
SETTING: San Francisco General Hospital, a 400... | C23 |
6,894 | 5,713 | Estrogen receptor level determines sex-specific in vitro transcription from the Xenopus vitellogenin promoter.
Female-specific expression of the Xenopus laevis vitellogenin gene was reconstituted in vitro by addition of recombinant vaccinia-virus-produced estrogen receptor to nuclear extracts from male livers, in whic... | C23 |
6,895 | 9,134 | Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura treated with high-dose intravenous gamma globulin.
Plasma infusion and/or plasma exchange has become standard therapy in the treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).
The management of patients in whom such primary therapy fails is difficult and uncertain.
We have de... | C23 |
6,896 | 2,484 | Genetics and biology of human ovarian teratomas. II. Molecular analysis of origin of nondisjunction and gene-centromere mapping of chromosome I markers.
Chromosomal heteromorphisms and DNA polymorphisms have been utilized to identify the mechanisms that lead to formation of human ovarian teratomas and to construct a g... | C23 |
6,897 | 8,015 | Hepatic fibrin-ring granulomas in a patient with hepatitis A.
Hepatic fibrin-ring granulomas were found in a 30-year-old patient with serologically confirmed hepatitis A.
Other causes associated with the presence of fibrin-ring granulomas in the liver, such as Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cytomegalovirus inf... | C23 |
6,898 | 9,282 | Decreased ventilation and hypoxic ventilatory responsiveness are not reversed by naloxone in Lhasa residents with chronic mountain sickness.
Persons with chronic mountain sickness (CMS) hypoventilate and are more hypoxemic than normal individuals, but the cause of the hypoventilation is unclear.
Studies of 14 patient... | C23 |
6,899 | 2,238 | Management of penile gunshot wounds.
The management of 10 cases of penile gunshot wounds treated at Henry Ford Hospital from 1982 to 1986 is reviewed.
All patients were assaulted by low velocity weapons (handguns).
Eight patients had associated injuries, predominantly to the genital region (thigh, pubis, and scrotum... | C23 |
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