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7,000 | 4,640 | Pneumococcal anticapsular antibodies in patients with chronic cardiovascular and obstructive lung disease in The Netherlands.
Differences in pneumococcal anticapsular antibody concentrations were assessed among patients with various chronic disorders and among young (25-35 years of age) and older adults (55-65 years).... | C23 |
7,001 | 2,194 | Retinal infarction during sleep and wakefulness.
Brain and retinal infarctions during sleep have been attributed to focal hypoperfusion caused by systemic hypotension combined with underlying arterial stenosis, rather than to embolism.
Because some retinal emboli may be visualized on ophthalmoscopy, we studied 24 con... | C23 |
7,002 | 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... | C23 |
7,003 | 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... | C23 |
7,004 | 3,581 | The influence of calcium alginate haemostatic swabs upon operative blood loss in adenotonsillectomy.
Although adenotonsillectomy is regarded as a minor procedure, it has been shown that 18% of patients may experience an operative blood loss of 10-20% of the total blood volume.
The aim of this study was to determine w... | C23 |
7,005 | 2,788 | Doppler assessment of pulmonary hypertension induced by hypoxic breathing in subjects susceptible to high altitude pulmonary edema.
To verify the abnormal pulmonary vascular response implicated in the pathogenesis of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), we examined the hemodynamic responses to hypoxia in HAPE-suscept... | C23 |
7,006 | 282 | Myocyte cell loss and myocyte cellular hyperplasia in the hypertrophied aging rat heart.
To determine the effects of age on the myocardium, the functional and structural characteristics of the heart were studied in rats at 4, 12, 20, and 29 months of age.
Mean arterial pressure, left ventricular pressure and its firs... | C23 |
7,007 | 7,481 | Rotator cuff lesions: signal patterns at MR imaging.
The signal intensity patterns of rotator cuff lesions at magnetic resonance (MR) imaging were evaluated in 80 patients who had surgical correlation and in 13 asymptomatic individuals (14 shoulders).
Six cadaver shoulders were examined with MR, and histologic correl... | C23 |
7,008 | 9,717 | Incidence of large oesophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis: application to prophylaxis of first bleeding.
Because several studies have suggested that beta blockers are effective in the prophylaxis of first variceal bleeding in cirrhosis, screening for oesophageal varices might be appropriate.
We prospectively ... | C23 |
7,009 | 5,021 | Skin blisters as a manifestation of oxazepam toxicity.
A 75 year-old comatous patient was admitted after ingestion of 200 mg oxazepam.
Skin blisters, attributed to oxazepam toxicity, appeared on the left forearm the following day and regressed spontaneously nine days later. | C23 |
7,010 | 5,641 | Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity in pediatric emergency room patients undergoing phlebotomy.
Information on the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among children and adolescents requiring medical care is sparse.
A small but significant risk of seroconversion occurs in ... | C23 |
7,011 | 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... | C23 |
7,012 | 2,906 | Management of gastroenteritis.
Childhood gastroenteritis remains a common reason for admission to British paediatric units, although the severity of the disease appears to be diminishing in recent years.
We studied 215 infants and children with gastroenteritis admitted consecutively to four paediatric units in South ... | C23 |
7,013 | 7,475 | Obstructive jaundice: use of expandable metal endoprosthesis for biliary drainage. Work in progress.
Expandable metal endoprostheses were implanted transhepatically in 61 patients with obstructive jaundice.
Fifty-three patients had malignant and eight had benign obstructions.
Because of the small diameter of the com... | C23 |
7,014 | 6,791 | Tracheotomy in the first year of life.
Much has been written concerning complications of pediatric tracheotomies, but few studies have reviewed the complication rates of tracheotomies performed in the first 12 months of life.
We reviewed the records of 60 patients who underwent tracheotomy in the first year of life b... | C23 |
7,015 | 8,018 | Injection or heat probe for bleeding ulcer.
A prospective randomized trial was performed to compare the efficacy of endoscopic epinephrine injection and heat probe treatment in actively bleeding peptic ulcers.
Emergency endoscopy in 1758 patients over an 18-month period identified 132 patients with active ulcer bleed... | C23 |
7,016 | 8,268 | Adult height in boys and girls with untreated short stature and constitutional delay of growth and puberty: accuracy of five different methods of height prediction.
To determine how accurately several methods of height prediction estimate adult height, we compared height predictions calculated by the Bayley-Pinneau, R... | C23 |
7,017 | 7,100 | Molecular and hematologic characterization of Scottish-Irish type (epsilon gamma delta beta)zero thalassemia.
The DNA deletion associated with an example of (epsilon gamma delta beta)zero thalassemia (Scottish-Irish type) was characterized.
The deletion is approximately 205 kb in length and involves the epsilon, G ga... | C23 |
7,018 | 6 | Periventricular hyperintensity detected by magnetic resonance imaging in infancy.
Twenty-one infants younger than 12 months of age were diagnosed as having periventricular hyperintensity (PVH) on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.
Ten infants had experienced neonatal asphyxia, 6 intracranial hemorrhage, 2 bacter... | C23 |
7,019 | 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 ... | C23 |
7,020 | 870 | Hydroxychloroquine is effective therapy for control of cutaneous sarcoidal granulomas.
Cutaneous sarcoidosis often responds poorly to topical and intralesional corticosteroids but may respond to moderate to high doses of oral corticosteroids.
To avoid the use of systemic corticosteroids, we treated 17 patients with c... | C23 |
7,021 | 9,372 | Clinical and positron emission tomographic studies in the 'extrapyramidal syndrome' of dementia of the Alzheimer type.
Extrapyramidal signs, particularly rigidity and tremor, have been reported in a proportion of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type.
To test the hypothesis that these extrapyramidal signs are ... | C23 |
7,022 | 580 | Hemodynamic events in a prospective randomized trial of propranolol versus placebo in the prevention of a first variceal hemorrhage.
In a double-blind randomized trial, the hemodynamic events following the administration of propranolol (n = 51) or a placebo (n = 51) were prospectively studied in cirrhotic patients wit... | C23 |
7,023 | 3,996 | Host response to mycobacterial infection in the alcoholic rat.
Animals, chronically treated with alcohol, were inoculated with mycobacteria (bacillus Calmette-Guerin, 10.2 x 10(6) organisms) into the spleen to produce a granulomatous hepatitis.
Before infection, chronic alcohol ingestion was associated with a depress... | C23 |
7,024 | 2,943 | Tracheal and main bronchial disruptions after blunt chest trauma: presentation and management
Tracheobronchial disruption is one of the less common injuries associated with blunt thoracic trauma.
This injury can be life threatening, however, and failure to diagnose it early can lead to disastrous acute or delayed co... | C23 |
7,025 | 7,388 | Computed tomography in the assessment of the postenucleation socket syndrome.
To gain a deeper insight into the cause of the postenucleation socket syndrome, high-resolution computed tomography (CT) was performed in 22 anophthalmic patients before insertion of an intraorbital implant.
The anatomy of the normal and th... | C23 |
7,026 | 6,569 | An outpatient anticoagulation protocol managed by a vascular nurse-clinician.
Lifetime anticoagulation has become a therapeutic option for surgical patients with hypercoagulable states or prosthetic arterial bypass grafts.
However, physicians may not achieve optimal anticoagulation or may attempt to limit the length ... | C23 |
7,027 | 3,375 | Toxicity of high-dose cytosine arabinoside in the treatment of advanced childhood tumors resistant to conventional therapy. A Pediatric Oncology Group study.
Experience with high-dose cytosine arabinoside (HDAC) in pediatric solid tumors is limited.
Sixteen children with solid tumors resistant to conventional therapi... | C23 |
7,028 | 2,790 | Endogenous opioids modulate the increase in ventilatory output and dyspnea during severe acute bronchoconstriction.
The aim of this study was to evaluate whether endogenous opioids are involved in the regulation of breathing pattern and respiratory drive during bronchoconstriction induced by methacholine (MCh).
We st... | C23 |
7,029 | 6,769 | Serum and tissue magnesium concentrations in patients with heart failure and serious ventricular arrhythmias.
OBJECTIVE: To compare magnesium concentrations in serum and tissue from patients with heart failure.
Two groups of patients were compared, those with or without serious ventricular arrhythmias.
DESIGN: Conse... | C23 |
7,030 | 406 | Lung sound nomenclature survey.
We report the terms used by 223 pulmonary physicians and 54 physicians in other specialties to describe eight recorded examples of lung sounds.
The participants listened to the lung sounds at the 1988 American College of Chest Physicians annual convention and wrote "free form" answers.... | C23 |
7,031 | 250 | Salvage from cardiogenic shock by atherectomy after failed emergency coronary artery angioplasty.
In this case report of a patient undergoing angioplasty for cardiogenic shock during acute myocardial infarction, recurrent occlusion resulted in recurrence of shock.
Atherectomy reestablished lasting patency and reverse... | C23 |
7,032 | 8,500 | Role of small calibre chest tube drainage for iatrogenic pneumothorax.
A 2 mm Teflon catheter was used as a chest tube in 28 patients with iatrogenic pneumothorax.
Frequent aspirations through the catheter were performed in 16 of the patients.
In the remaining 12 patients the catheter was connected to a one way flut... | C23 |
7,033 | 2,181 | Age-related spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in a German community.
We investigated incidence, age distribution in relation to etiology, and localization of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in 100 consecutive cases.
Incidence in the total population of the Giessen area was estimated to be greater than 11/100,000 ... | C23 |
7,034 | 3,994 | Intravenous but not intracolonic epidermal growth factor maintains colonocyte proliferation in defunctioned rat colorectum.
The role of epidermal growth factor in the proliferation of normal and premalignant colonocytes in vivo is not fully understood.
In particular, the relative importance of its possible systemic a... | C23 |
7,035 | 2,538 | Ultrasonographic detection of the second-trimester fetus with trisomy 18 and trisomy 21.
Biparietal diameter/femur length ratio and nuchal thickness were found to be sensitive indicators for the prenatal detection of trisomy 18 and trisomy 21.
A biparietal diameter/femur length ratio greater than 1.5 SD above the con... | C23 |
7,036 | 5,455 | Intradural herniation of a thoracic disc presenting as flaccid paraplegia: case report.
A case of intradural herniation of a thoracic disc in a patient with a flaccid paraplegia is described.
Intradural herniation of a thoracic disc is considered a rare event.
A review of the relevant patient literature revealed 14 ... | C23 |
7,037 | 3,399 | Effectiveness of periodic checkup by ultrasonography for the early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Periodic checkup by ultrasonography was conducted on patients with chronic liver diseases for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma.
In 19 months, a total of 2004 examinations were performed on a total of 6... | C23 |
7,038 | 4,087 | Effects of salt, race, and hypertension on reactivity to stressors.
Blood pressure and heart rate reactivity to a psychological stressor and to a cold pressor test were examined in a group of 51 normotensive and 37 unmedicated hypertensive men.
All were studied twice, once while the participants were maintained on a ... | C23 |
7,039 | 9,047 | A retroviral promoter is sufficient to convert proto-src to a transforming gene that is distinct from the src gene of Rous sarcoma virus.
The src genes of four natural isolates of avian sarcoma viruses differ from cellular proto-src in two genetic substitutions: the promoter of the cellular gene is replaced by a retro... | C23 |
7,040 | 8,046 | Muscle blood flow and muscle metabolism during exercise and heat stress.
The effect of heat stress on blood flow and metabolism in an exercising leg was studied in seven subjects walking uphill (12-17%) at 5 km/h on a treadmill for 90 min or until exhaustion.
The first 30 min of exercise were performed in a cool envi... | C23 |
7,041 | 5,566 | Argon versus krypton panretinal photocoagulation side effects on the anterior segment.
The modification of corneal sensitivity, accommodation, pupillary diameter and endothelial cell density after argon versus krypton panretinal photocoagulation were studied prospectively in 88 eyes of 64 diabetic patients with prolif... | C23 |
7,042 | 9,312 | Cell-to-cell communication and the control of growth.
Growth of transformed cells is inhibited by cell-to-cell communication with normal cells.
This communication is regulated by certain oncogenes that alone or in cooperation can block the communication. | C23 |
7,043 | 437 | Healing of experimental intestinal anastomoses. Parameters for repair.
Anastomotic dehiscence remains a major complication in surgery of the large bowel, and studies on the healing sequence of experimental anastomoses are necessary to define underlying mechanisms and find ways to improve surgical outcome, particularly... | C23 |
7,044 | 3,275 | All-trans retinoic acid in acute promyelocytic leukemias. II. In vitro studies: structure-function relationship.
All-trans retinoic acid induces leukemic cells from patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (M3) to differentiate in vitro to mature granulocytes which express the CD15 antigen and are capable of respira... | C23 |
7,045 | 2,909 | Recurrent cyanotic episodes with severe arterial hypoxaemia and intrapulmonary shunting: a mechanism for sudden death
The pathophysiology of recurrent cyanotic episodes has been investigated in 51 infants and children.
Episodes began at a median age of 7 weeks (range 1 day to 22 months, 39 at less than 4 months).
T... | C23 |
7,046 | 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... | C23 |
7,047 | 6,777 | Efficacy and toxicity of sodium stibogluconate for mucosal leishmaniasis.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and toxicity of the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended treatment for mucosal leishmaniasis: antimony, 20 mg/kg body weight per day for 28 days.
DESIGN: Open trial with 12-month follow-up.
SETTING... | C23 |
7,048 | 4,339 | Treatment of chronic tinea pedis (athlete's foot type) with topical terbinafine.
Twenty-seven patients with chronic tinea pedis, athlete's foot type, were enrolled in a randomized, double-blind trial of topical treatment with terbinafine 1% cream versus its vehicle (placebo).
Patients were examined weekly during 4 we... | C23 |
7,049 | 6,743 | Intra-abdominal abscesses in Crohn's disease.
We reviewed 22 patients who had intra-abdominal abscesses secondary to Crohn's disease.
A total of 29 abscesses were discovered.
These included superficial and deep intraperitoneal as well as pelvic and retroperitoneal abscesses.
Diagnosis was aided by ultrasound and co... | C23 |
7,050 | 763 | A surgical approach to the cervicothoracic spine.
We describe a method for approaching the lower cervical and upper thoracic spine, the brachial plexus and related vessels.
The method involves the elevation of the medial corner of the manubrium, the sternoclavicular joint, and the medial half of the clavicle on a ped... | C23 |
7,051 | 5,688 | When epilepsy masquerades as heart disease. Awareness is key to avoiding misdiagnosis.
Autonomic neural impulses that accompany discharges during a seizure can cause a variety of cardiac manifestations, including cardiac arrhythmias, sudden death, anginal chest pain, neurogenic pulmonary edema, and symptoms of pheochr... | C23 |
7,052 | 334 | Febrile infants less than eight weeks old. Predictors of infection.
Febrile infants less than eight weeks old frequently are admitted and receive parenteral antibiotics for treatment of possible sepsis.
The authors assess 52 infants less than eight weeks old with a rectal temperature of 38.1 degrees C or higher as ha... | C23 |
7,053 | 3,187 | Macrophages as susceptible targets for HIV infection, persistent viral reservoirs in tissue, and key immunoregulatory cells that control levels of virus replication and extent of disease.
Although macrophages are major targets for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in vivo, study of HIV-macrophage interactio... | C23 |
7,054 | 6,610 | Intrathecal anaesthesia for day-care surgery. A retrospective study of 160 cases using 25- and 26-gauge spinal needles.
The records of 160 day-care surgical patients who received intrathecal anaesthesia were reviewed.
No major complications were recorded.
The incidence of postspinal headache after puncture with a 25... | C23 |
7,055 | 9,623 | Lack of late skin necrosis in man after high-dose irradiation using small field sizes: experiences of grid therapy.
Out of a total of 437 patients with superior vena caval syndrome or advanced malignancy, given single-dose grid radiotherapy, four survived to 7 years.
The dose to the skin under each of the 77 holes in... | C23 |
7,056 | 5,899 | Percutaneous balloon dilatation of benign biliary strictures.
Percutaneous biliary dilatation is an effective alternative to surgical management of benign biliary strictures that has low morbidity and no reported mortality.
Reported success rates for this procedure range from 40% to 90% depending on the size of the s... | C23 |
7,057 | 4,011 | Omeprazole in the management of intractable esophageal ulceration following injection sclerotherapy.
Transient esophageal ulceration is a common finding after sclerotherapy of varices.
A small proportion of these ulcers become chronic and resistant to conventional therapy.
Such chronic ulcers have been associated wi... | C23 |
7,058 | 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... | C23 |
7,059 | 856 | The prognosis of contact dermatitis.
This article reviews the prognosis of contact dermatitis, particularly of occupational contact dermatitis.
Most studies document a poor prognosis for occupational and nonoccupational contact dermatitis.
The prognoses of occupational and nonoccupational contact dermatitis, irritan... | C23 |
7,060 | 5,569 | Comparative study of different techniques of intraocular gas tamponade in the treatment of retinal detachment due to macular hole.
The injection of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) or perfluoropropane (C3F8) was used as a method of internal tamponade in 43 eyes affected by retinal detachment due to macular hole.
The techniq... | C23 |
7,061 | 4,399 | Supraventricular tachycardia due to Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in children: early disappearance and late recurrence
The clinical course of 140 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome who had their initial episode of supraventricular tachycardia before 18 years of age was reviewed.
Among those whose tachycar... | C23 |
7,062 | 9,794 | Toxic epidermal necrolysis after bone marrow transplantation: study of nine cases.
Acute graft-versus-host reaction after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation has been reported to induce toxic epidermal necrolysis.
To assess the respective role of acute graft-versus-host disease and of drug reaction in this setting... | C23 |
7,063 | 6,754 | Management of premature removal of the percutaneous gastrostomy.
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become the preferred method of enteral access for nutritional support.
With increased use of this modality, complications are encountered more frequently.
Premature withdrawal, inadvertent removal of the ga... | C23 |
7,064 | 8,316 | Vaginal infections in adult women.
Often trivialized by the medical profession, vaginitis in adult women is not only extremely common but is the source of considerable distress and often results in marked suffering.
Epidemiologic studies described in this article indicate the high prevalence of vaginitis and the larg... | C23 |
7,065 | 5,285 | Computed tomography staging of the paranasal sinuses in chronic hyperplastic rhinosinusitis.
In this study, the computed tomography scans of 100 patients with chronic hyperplastic rhinosinusitis were reviewed to establish a clinical staging system.
Fourteen percent of the patients were classified as Stage I (single-f... | C23 |
7,066 | 2,837 | Teflon versus thyroplasty versus nerve transfer: a comparison.
Surgical rehabilitation of the paralyzed larynx is currently performed by Teflon injection, thyroplasty, and reinnervation techniques.
Proponents of the two newer techniques maintain that they are preferred to Teflon injection because superior phonatory q... | C23 |
7,067 | 933 | Heart rate variability before and after myocardial infarction in conscious dogs at high and low risk of sudden death.
Heart rate variability has been demonstrated both experimentally and clinically to be of prognostic importance in determining mortality after myocardial infarction.
However, no paired studies have bee... | C23 |
7,068 | 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... | C23 |
7,069 | 579 | Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of somatostatin for variceal bleeding. Emergency control and prevention of early variceal rebleeding.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of somatostatin was conducted among 120 patients admitted for bleeding esophageal varices (59 placebo, 61 somatos... | C23 |
7,070 | 7,431 | The efficacy of methylprednisolone in reducing flap edema.
It has been suggested that systemic steroids reduce postoperative flap edema.
This has been poorly documented by several reports based on subjective clinical observations.
In an effort to provide quantitative data on methylprednisolone and edema, a flap edem... | C23 |
7,071 | 8,701 | Intraventricular diamorphine via an Ommaya shunt for intractable cancer pain.
We describe two patients in whom diamorphine was administered into the intraventricular space via an Ommaya reservoir, producing excellent pain relief.
The use of this technique for long term administration of analgesia is reviewed. | C23 |
7,072 | 6,803 | Polyneuropathy, ophthalmoplegia, leukoencephalopathy, and intestinal pseudo-obstruction: POLIP syndrome.
We describe 5 individuals (from three separate families) with a progressive neurological disorder characterized by sensorimotor peripheral polyneuropathy, cranial neuropathies (external ophthalmoplegia, deafness), ... | C23 |
7,073 | 7,086 | Development of antibodies to thrombin and factor V with recurrent bleeding in a patient exposed to topical bovine thrombin.
A 65 year old patient who was exposed to topical bovine thrombin during cardiac surgery developed markedly prolonged clotting times and a severe bleeding diathesis.
Mixing studies with normal pl... | C23 |
7,074 | 2,517 | Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with dyspeptic symptoms in patients undergoing gastroduodenoscopy.
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and ulcer disease as well as in a control population undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography... | C23 |
7,075 | 8,495 | Pharyngeal shape and dimensions in healthy subjects, snorers, and patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.
To characterise the relation between pharyngeal anatomy and sleep related disordered breathing, 17 men with complaints of snoring were studied by all night polysomnography.
Ten of them had obstructive sleep apnoe... | C23 |
7,076 | 6,448 | Surgical staples in cesarean section: a randomized controlled trial.
This randomized controlled trial compares the use of the Auto Suture Poly CS 57 disposable surgical stapler (n = 98) with standard hysterectomy (n = 102) in low transverse cesarean sections.
Subjective assessment of blood loss by the surgeon resulte... | C23 |
7,077 | 271 | Hospital admissions from the Surgical Day Care Centre of Vancouver General Hospital 1977-1987.
The admissions to Vancouver General Hospital from its Surgical Day Care Centre were reviewed for the period 1977 to 1987.
The overall mean rate of admission for the period was 0.28 per cent, for surgically-related admission... | C23 |
7,078 | 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... | C23 |
7,079 | 2,359 | Persistence of arrhythmia exercise response in healthy young men.
This study assesses the persistence of arrhythmia at rest or during exercise tests, or both, after a mean follow-up period of 6.7 years in 76 young men (mean age 21.5 years) without evidence of organic heart disease.
The exercise test was performed usi... | C23 |
7,080 | 560 | Analysis of 24-hour esophageal pressure and pH data in unselected patients with noncardiac chest pain.
Fourty-four unselected patients with noncardiac chest pain were studied using conventional manometry with additional edrophonium provocation and 24-hour ambulatory esophageal pH and pressure recording with a system d... | C23 |
7,081 | 4,847 | Spontaneous regression of giant arteriovenous fistulae during the perinatal period. Case report.
A unique case of spontaneous regression of giant arteriovenous fistulae during infancy is described in this report.
A female infant, the product of normal labor and delivery, demonstrated severe ventriculomegaly and an in... | C23 |
7,082 | 4,697 | Smoking cessation in chronic Reinke's oedema.
In evaluating the long term results of surgical treatment of Reinke's oedema, there has been found to be a high incidence of recurrence.
The recurrence rate is significantly lower amongst those patients who gave up smoking after treatment.
A group of patients with chroni... | C23 |
7,083 | 3,465 | Hyperkalaemia during rapid blood transfusion and hypovolaemic cardiac arrest in children.
A morbidity and mortality review documented a high occurrence of hyperkalaemia in cardiac arrests associated with rapid blood transfusion, which resulted in further study.
In order to stimulate events during rapid blood transfus... | C23 |
7,084 | 6,798 | Myasthenic thymus and thymoma are selectively enriched in acetylcholine receptor-reactive T cells.
We compared T-cell proliferative responses to acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and to purified protein derivative (PPD) (of tuberculin) of hyperplastic thymus, thymoma, and blood cells from patients with myasthenia gravis (... | C23 |
7,085 | 8,067 | Muscle maximal O2 uptake at constant O2 delivery with and without CO in the blood.
In the present study we investigated the effects of carboxyhemoglobinemia (HbCO) on muscle maximal O2 uptake (VO2max) during hypoxia.
O2 uptake (VO2) was measured in isolated in situ canine gastrocnemius (n = 12) working maximally (iso... | C23 |
7,086 | 6,111 | Neurogenic control of the cerebral circulation during global ischemia.
The influence of the trigeminal nerve on the cerebral circulation was investigated in chronically denervated cats during and after reversible four-vessel occlusion for 10 minutes combined with controlled hypotension (50 mm Hg).
Postocclusive hyper... | C23 |
7,087 | 4,999 | Pediatric blunt liver injury and coagulopathy managed with packs and a silo: case report.
Packing the abdomen can be lifesaving when severe hepatic trauma is complicated by refractory hypothermia, coagulopathy, and continuing hemorrhage requiring large-volume transfusion.
This report describes the successful use of a... | C23 |
7,088 | 2,986 | Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome associated with L-tryptophan ingestion. Analysis of four patients and implications for differential diagnosis and pathogenesis
Four patients fulfilling the case definition for eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome are described, including one whose disease began in 1986.
Each displayed a variet... | C23 |
7,089 | 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... | C23 |
7,090 | 7,434 | Treatment of chronic facial palsy by transplantation of the neurovascularized free rectus abdominis muscle.
We performed neurovascularized free rectus abdominis muscle transplantations in two patients with chronic facial palsy.
In one patient, the postoperative course was uneventful, but the patient died from rupture... | C23 |
7,091 | 3,708 | Hypocalcemia and hypercalcitoninemia in critically ill children.
To study Ca metabolism in critically ill children, we measured ionized Ca (Ca2+), parathyroid hormone (PTH), calcitonin, 25 hydroxycholecalciferol (25[OH] D3), 1-25 dihydroxycholecalciferol (1-25[OH]2D3, and gastrin levels in critically ill children and ... | C23 |
7,092 | 8,461 | Stenosis of the sphincter of Oddi.
"Stenosing papillitis" is a descriptive term for an anatomic deformity of the papilla of Vater that is characterized by narrowing of the lower end of the bile duct and the proximal end of the duct of Wirsung.
The defect is secondary to inflammation and fibrosis from the chronic pass... | C23 |
7,093 | 9,954 | Endotoxin requirements for alveolar macrophage stimulation.
Acute pulmonary failure or ARDS in severely injured patients continues to be a significant problem.
The most important clinical risk factor identified is sepsis syndrome.
Sepsis syndrome is the clinical correlate of a malignant systemic inflammatory process... | C23 |
7,094 | 5,518 | Maternal serum screening for aneuploid pregnancy by alpha-fetoprotein, hCG, and unconjugated estriol.
A number of serum screening protocols are either currently in use or proposed to identify pregnant women under 35 years of age who are at increased risk for a Down syndrome fetus.
It has been suggested that these sam... | C23 |
7,095 | 7,152 | Channel specificity in antiarrhythmic drug action. Mechanism of potassium channel block and its role in suppressing and aggravating cardiac arrhythmias.
Although work on class III antiarrhythmics remains at an early stage, these agents still appear to possess greater efficacy and less proarrhythmia than conventional c... | C23 |
7,096 | 2,925 | Ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. Reoperation for pouch-related complications.
The aim was to assess the value of reoperative surgery for pouch-related complications after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) for chronic ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis.
Between January 1981 and August 1989, 114 of 98... | C23 |
7,097 | 4,213 | Aneurysmal dilatation in saphenous vein bypass grafts.
Three patients are reported who developed aneurysmal degeneration of a saphenous vein arterial bypass graft.
All three had hypercholesterolemia and two had marked elevation of triglycerides.
One bypass was for occlusive disease and two for popliteal aneurysm.
T... | C23 |
7,098 | 9,869 | Ischaemic heart disease among men in Norway during the period 1966-1985: two counties with different mortality time trends.
We have examined regional differences in mortality from ischaemic heart disease, including sudden, unexpected death (IHD/SUD), among Norwegian men aged 30-69 years, during the period 1966-1985.
... | C23 |
7,099 | 7,504 | Emergency portosystemic shunt in patients with variceal bleeding.
Thirty-five patients for whom emergency sclerotherapy or conservative treatment, or both, failed to arrest variceal bleeding, or who had early rebleeding and required emergency portosystemic shunts (EPSS) were studied.
EPSS permanently controlled the v... | C23 |
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