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7,100 | 2,540 | Infertility and eating disorders.
Sixty-six consecutive infertility clinic patients were prospectively screened with the 26-item Eating Attitudes Test and a study questionnaire.
Women identified as being at high risk for an eating disorder were then interviewed to confirm or refute the diagnosis.
A total of 7.6% of ... | C23 |
7,101 | 391 | Resolution of the adult respiratory distress syndrome following colectomy and liver transplantation.
A 32-year-old woman with liver failure from end-stage cirrhosis and ulcerative colitis developed septicemia and severe ARDS.
Subtotal colectomy and a successful liver transplantation resulted in complete resolution of... | C23 |
7,102 | 5,692 | Arrhythmias in patients with CHF. Should they be treated?
Ventricular arrhythmias are a major cause of death in patients with congestive heart failure.
Dr Ellenbogen and his associates discuss the current thinking, based on recent studies, concerning use of antiarrhythmic agents to prevent sudden cardiac death in the... | C23 |
7,103 | 9,640 | Gallbladder surgery following cholecystlithotripsy: suggested guidelines for treatment
Twenty-three of 229 symptomatic patients undergoing cholecystlithotripsy underwent surgical intervention: 22 of the patients had cholecystectomy performed (five also undergoing choledochotomy) and one patient had a cholecystostomy.... | C23 |
7,104 | 845 | Photochemotherapy improves chronic cutaneous graft-versus-host disease.
We have used oral psoralen photochemotherapy (PUVA) to treat four patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease of the skin, oral mucosa, and liver, who had responded only partially to long-term immunosuppressive therapy (prednisolone, cyclospor... | C23 |
7,105 | 5,503 | Kearns-Sayre syndrome presenting as renal tubular acidosis.
Renal tubular acidosis and tetany were the 1st manifestations of Kearns-Sayre syndrome in a 5-year-old child.
Subsequently, he developed progressive external ophthalmoplegia, ptosis, retinopathy, heart block, and endocrinopathy.
There was a 7.5-kb deletion ... | C23 |
7,106 | 7,354 | The surgical management of chronic parotitis.
Chronic parotitis is a disorder characterized by recurrent painful swelling of the gland with purulent sialorrhea.
Occasionally, the condition fails to respond to medical management and definitive surgical therapy is necessary.
Sialolithiasis is the usual etiology in cas... | C23 |
7,107 | 7,621 | Significance of U wave polarity in patients with a prior inferior myocardial infarction.
Sixty consecutive patients who underwent coronary angiography and left ventriculography from six to eight weeks after the onset of definite inferior myocardial infarction were divided into three groups according to the polarity of... | C23 |
7,108 | 2,970 | The influence of age vs peak serum concentration on life-threatening events after chronic theophylline intoxication.
To identify risk factors for the development of seizures and cardiac arrhythmias after chronic, unintentional theophylline intoxication we monitored the clinical course of 72 consecutive patients referr... | C23 |
7,109 | 6,483 | Flow cytometric analysis of the mechanism of methylmercury cytotoxicity.
Flow cytometric analysis of murine erythroleukemic cells (MELC) exposed in vitro to 2.5 to 7.5 mumol/l (micromolar) methylmercury (MeHg) reveals a dose-dependent decrease in the rate of DNA synthesis (rate of passage through the S phase of the ce... | C23 |
7,110 | 8,941 | Mechanism of antitumor activity of tumor necrosis factor alpha with hyperthermia in a tumor necrosis factor alpha-resistant tumor.
Cells from a radiation-induced fibrosarcoma (RIF-1) are exceedingly resistant to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in vitro.
We tested whether the addition of mild hyperthermia (42.... | C23 |
7,111 | 4,343 | Treatment of chronic moccasin-type tinea pedis with terbinafine: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Terbinafine is an orally and topically active fungicidal drug of the allylamine series.
Its oral efficacy at 125 mg taken twice daily was evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in mocc... | C23 |
7,112 | 9,641 | Surgical presentation of Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome).
Five patients with Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) are reported whose varied presentations included acute abdominal pain, peripheral arterial aneurysms, digital gangrene and sterile pyuria and whose presenting pathology... | C23 |
7,113 | 6,017 | Pseudohypoglycemia in adult victims of adolescent incest.
Two patients with complaints of hypoglycemia came for evaluation, and both complained of intermittent episodes of mental dullness, disorientation, confusion, and palpitations relieved by eating.
Plasma glucose levels at the time of symptoms were always above 7... | C23 |
7,114 | 9,480 | Development of a soft, pliable, slow heparin release venous graft.
To prevent their collapse, a certain amount of stiffness is generally required for prosthetic venous grafts, so EPTFE grafts have been used.
However, the native vein is pliable without any stiffness.
We developed a soft and pliable graft that can mai... | C23 |
7,115 | 2,838 | Endoscopic laser arytenoidectomy revisited.
Arytenoidectomy is currently the most reliable method of treating patients with bilateral vocal cord paralysis.
Although both endoscopic and external approaches have been described, the endoscopic laser technique is more desirable because it requires no incision and allows ... | C23 |
7,116 | 332 | Combined laminoplasty and posterolateral fusion for spinal canal surgery in children and adolescents.
Spinal deformities, especially kyphosis and instability, after laminectomy for tumors and other diseases, are major clinical problems.
Since 1981, combined laminoplasty and posterolateral fusion for the prevention of... | C23 |
7,117 | 5,628 | Management of chronic middle ear effusion with prednisone combined with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
Fifty-three patients were enrolled and evaluable in a randomized, double-blinded controlled clinical trial comparing prednisone for 7 days plus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMZ) for 30 days vs.
TMP/SMZ alone i... | C23 |
7,118 | 5,700 | Mitral valve prolapse. When is it serious?
Mitral valve prolapse can best be diagnosed with careful clinical evaluation, including dynamic auscultation.
Treatment consists of reassurance, pharmacotherapy for troublesome symptoms, and careful monitoring for signs of complications.
Most complications can be either pr... | C23 |
7,119 | 5,551 | Premenstrual syndrome: an update for the clinician.
Premenstrual syndrome is a complex disorder in which a variety of symptoms can occur in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.
The symptoms should occur each cycle only from the time near ovulation to soon after the onset of menses.
There should be at least 1 wee... | C23 |
7,120 | 2,116 | A multifactorial analysis of mortality and morbidity in perforated peptic ulcer disease.
Perforated peptic ulcer disease remains a source of considerable morbidity and mortality, and the suggested methods of surgical therapy are diverse.
We reviewed the course of 113 patients who were treated surgically and identifie... | C23 |
7,121 | 8,835 | Systolic wall stress and ventricular arrhythmia: the role of acute change in blood pressure in the isolated working rat heart.
1.
The effect of a sudden acute change in blood pressure upon arrhythmia provocation has been studied in an isolated working heart model from the Wistar-Kyoto strain of rat.
Twenty-four hear... | C23 |
7,122 | 8,693 | Preoperative piroxicam for postoperative analgesia in dental surgery.
Fifty patients were allocated randomly to receive placebo or piroxicam 40 mg, 2.5 h before surgical removal of lower third molars under general anaesthesia.
A significantly greater number of patients in the piroxicam group did not require opioid an... | C23 |
7,123 | 2,324 | Results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of high-risk angulated stenoses.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of angulated stenoses has been found in studies using older PTCA equipment to be associated with a heightened risk of procedure-related major ischemic events.
To better unde... | C23 |
7,124 | 3,322 | Chronic dehydration stone disease.
A study was made of 819 patients attending a metabolic stone clinic.
A firm diagnosis was made in 708 (86%) and in 132 of these (19%) the diagnosis was thought to be chronic dehydration.
The records were available for study for 87 males and 11 females in the chronic dehydration gro... | C23 |
7,125 | 6,929 | Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in urinary diversion with urea-splitting urinary tract infection.
We present two cases of hyperammonemic encephalopathy secondary to urea-splitting urinary tract infection with urinary diversion.
One patient had a ureterosigmoidostomy, the other an ileal loop diversion.
Neither patient ... | C23 |
7,126 | 7,805 | Intrathoracic current flow during transthoracic defibrillation in dogs. Transcardiac current fraction.
To achieve transcardiac threshold current during transthoracic defibrillation, a considerably larger current must be delivered to the thorax to compensate for the shunting effect of the lungs, the thoracic cage, and ... | C23 |
7,127 | 7,190 | Two different point G to A mutations in exon 10 of the porphobilinogen deaminase gene are responsible for acute intermittent porphyria.
Two mutations of the porphobilinogen (PBG) deaminase gene resulting in cross-reacting immunological material (CRIM) positive forms of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) have been iden... | C23 |
7,128 | 9,075 | Transformed and nontransformed cells differ in stability and cell cycle regulation of a binding activity to the murine thymidine kinase promoter.
A DNA binding activity to an upstream region of the murine thymidine kinase gene is regulated differently in a transformed and nontransformed cell line pair.
Differences in... | C23 |
7,129 | 9,335 | Peripheral neuropathy associated with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.
In 1989, the Centers for Disease Control recognized the existence of an epidemic illness characterized by myalgia and eosinophilia in individuals taking preparations containing L-tryptophan.
We evaluated 3 patients with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome... | C23 |
7,130 | 3,923 | Retroperitoneal mobilization of the vas deferens in the complex vasovasostomy.
Anatomic distances along retroperitoneal, inguinal, and infrainguinal segments of the vas deferens were measured in 14 formalin fixed cadavers and in 15 recently postmortem males.
There were no significant differences in segment lengths be... | C23 |
7,131 | 4,811 | Quantitative analysis of antibody localization in human metastatic colon cancer: a phase I study of monoclonal antibody A33.
A33 is a mouse immunoglobulin G2a (IgG2a) monoclonal antibody (mAb) that detects a heat-stable, protease- and neuraminidase-resistant epitope.
The antigen is homogeneously expressed by virtuall... | C23 |
7,132 | 8,623 | Cardiovascular effects of nicardipine.
Nicardipine, a new 1-4 dihydropyridine calcium antagonist, has chemical properties that allow oral and stable intravenous preparations.
It is the first intravenous dihydropyridine calcium antagonist available in the United States.
Among its drug class it has a unique chemical s... | C23 |
7,133 | 8,925 | Autoradiographic evaluation of monoclonal antibodies' access to melanoma-associated antigens in melanoma xenografts.
Autoradiography of nude mice bearing human malignant melanoma xenografts was performed to characterize the distribution pattern of radioiodinated anti-melanoma monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) and fragments... | C23 |
7,134 | 8,739 | Pachyonychia congenita complicated by hidradenitis suppurativa: a family study.
A family is described in which five of the six members with the Jackson-Lawler type of pachyonychia congenita also had varying degrees of hidradenitis suppurativa.
We suggest an association between this type of pachyonychia congenita and ... | C23 |
7,135 | 5,383 | Deficiencies of coagulation-inhibiting and fibrinolytic proteins in outpatients with deep-vein thrombosis
BACKGROUND.
Isolated deficiencies of antithrombin III, protein C, protein S, and plasminogen have been implicated as a cause of deep-vein thrombosis.
It is assumed that patients with recurrent, familial, or juv... | C23 |
7,136 | 5,639 | Clinical features of adenovirus enteritis: a review of 127 cases.
We retrospectively analyzed the clinical features of 127 hospitalized pediatric patients whose fecal samples were positive for adenovirus (Ad) by electron microscopy during an 18-month period.
Serotyping results obtained by microneutralization tests an... | C23 |
7,137 | 7,094 | Association of bcl-1 rearrangements with lymphocytic lymphoma of intermediate differentiation.
Previous studies using classical cytogenetics have demonstrated the presence of the t(11;14) (q13;q32) chromosomal translocation in some cases of lymphocytic lymphoma of intermediate differentiation (IDL), a distinct type of... | C23 |
7,138 | 4,108 | Pivotal role of early and sustained infarct vessel patency in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction unequivocally has improved short- and long-term mortality.
The fundamental goal of therapy for evolving myocardial infarction is early and sustained infarct vess... | C23 |
7,139 | 6,156 | Prostatic-type epithelium in urinary bladder. Clinical, histologic, and immunohistochemical study.
Six cases of urinary bladder mucosa with prostate-type epithelium were studied clinically, morphologically, and immunohistochemically.
All patients were male with an average age of fifty-three years; most presented with... | C23 |
7,140 | 6,898 | Medical management of acute traumatic rupture of the aorta.
Surgical reconstruction is the treatment for acute traumatic aortic rupture and should be accomplished immediately in most patients.
In patients in whom concomitant injuries or the development of life-threatening complications preclude safe and successful ao... | C23 |
7,141 | 7,571 | Importance of hemodynamic response to therapy in predicting survival with ejection fraction less than or equal to 20% secondary to ischemic or nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.
To identify patients with left ventricular ejection fractions less than 20% who are likely to survive on tailored medical therapy after refe... | C23 |
7,142 | 5,177 | What getting sick means.
The concepts of health, disease and death have intrigued man since the beginning of time and are continually evolving.
In the nonwestern societies the models which have been proposed for the etiology of disease have a dichotomous view of disease causation which is derived from either natural ... | C23 |
7,143 | 3,460 | Temporary cardiac pacing using a new, steerable, balloon-tipped pacing catheter.
A new balloon-tipped, flow-directed, steerable pacing catheter for unipolar temporary ventricular pacing is presented.
It was successfully and uneventfully tested in 25 patients with acute myocardial infarction in the coronary care unit.... | C23 |
7,144 | 5,447 | Chronic Lyme disease with an expansive granulomatous lesion in the cerebellopontine angle.
Expansive granulomatous lesions in the posterior cranial fossa are rare and have not been reported in conjunction with Lyme disease.
We report a patient with verified Borrelia burgdorferi infection who developed a tumor in the ... | C23 |
7,145 | 2,205 | Red cell autoantibodies, multiple immunoglobulin classes, and autoimmune hemolysis.
The effects and interrelationships of multiple immunoglobulin coating (i.e., increased red cell [RBC]-bound IgM and/or IgA in addition to IgG) were investigated in 404 patients with warm-reactive RBC autoantibodies on 590 occasions.
M... | C23 |
7,146 | 7,335 | End-stage renal disease--is infrainguinal limb revascularization justified?
Reports of reconstructive surgery for peripheral vascular disease have been relatively uncommon in patients with end-stage renal disease.
Between 1980 and 1989, 39 patients with end-stage renal disease underwent revascularization of 56 limbs.... | C23 |
7,147 | 5,546 | Amenorrhea.
Amenorrhea, the lack of menstruation, is a gynecologic disorder that may arise from a variety of causes.
If a logical and orderly schema is followed, the correct diagnosis and appropriate management plan can be formulated. | C23 |
7,148 | 8,282 | Obesity and vaginal hysterectomy.
A retrospective study was done of 471 consecutive vaginal hysterectomies done in a three-year period.
Three groups of patients--239 normal to 9% overweight, 132 10-24% overweight and 100 greater than or equal to 25% overweight--were compared.
Surgical difficulties were similar in al... | C23 |
7,149 | 6,905 | Squamous carcinoma metastatic to the sternum.
A 63-year-old man had a 10 x 16-cm sternal mass 18 months after a second aortocoronary bypass operation.
The resected lesion was a metastatic tumor of squamous histology.
No primary tumor was found.
The diagnostic work-up and treatment options are presented. | C23 |
7,150 | 4,186 | Treatment of infection after total knee arthroplasty by debridement with retention of the components.
Thirty-one total knee arthroplasties were followed by infection in twenty-seven patients who were subsequently treated with debridement, retention of the components, and intravenous administration of antibiotics.
The... | C23 |
7,151 | 258 | Low-dose sufentanil in major surgery.
The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of sufentanil 1 micrograms.kg-1 during N2O-O2 and intermittent isoflurane anaesthesia in major non-cardiac surgery.
Thirty-one patients (18 females, 13 males; mean age 47 yr), undergoing cholecystectomy received a 1 microgram.k... | C23 |
7,152 | 6,737 | Ponderal index as a predictor of postoperative complications.
Four hundred sixty-eight patients undergoing elective surgery were prospectively followed for the development of postoperative complications.
There was a trend toward increasing complication rate with a lower ponderal index.
However, lower ponderal indice... | C23 |
7,153 | 8,051 | Stress adaptation and low-frequency impedance of rat lungs.
At transpulmonary pressures (Ptp) of 7-12 cmH2O, pressure-volume hysteresis of isolated cat lungs has been found to be 20-50% larger than predicted from their amount of stress adaptation (J.
Hildebrandt, J.
Appl.
Physiol.
28: 365-372, 1970).
This behavio... | C23 |
7,154 | 4,940 | Central adenoid cystic carcinoma of the mandible.
A patient with adenoid cystic carcinoma arising centrally within the mandible, a rare location for this malignant salivary gland tumor, is described.
Current concepts regarding the etiology, diagnosis, histology, and treatment of central intramandibular salivary gland... | C23 |
7,155 | 7,518 | How and why aztreonam works.
Aztreonam is the first monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic (monobactam) to be tested clinically.
Its synthetic structure determines specific areas of activity, including enhanced activity against Pseudomonas species, exceptional activity against gram-negative bacteria, stability to beta-lac... | C23 |
7,156 | 8,270 | Antenatal phenobarbital for the prevention of periventricular and intraventricular hemorrhage: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multihospital trial.
To determine whether the neuroprotective properties of phenobarbital would alter the incidence and severity of intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants... | C23 |
7,157 | 7,455 | Colonic stenoses: use of oral barium when retrograde flow is completely obstructed on barium enema studies.
Forty patients with complete obstruction to retrograde barium flow on barium enema examinations, without clinical or radiographic evidence of obstruction, were studied further with orally administered barium in ... | C23 |
7,158 | 4,101 | Swimmer's migraine.
Three cases of sudden, severe headache occurring during swimming are described.
A 51-year-old female had been engaging in a swimming exercise for about 20 minutes when she suddenly experienced a pulsating headache in the parietotemporal region, accompanied by nausea.
A few days later, she experie... | C23 |
7,159 | 6,748 | Femoral arteriovenous fistula as a complication of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. A report of five cases.
Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) associated with invasive and diagnostic angiographic procedures is rare.
The incidence is increased with procedures such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angiopla... | C23 |
7,160 | 2,769 | Emergency department diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To assess the accuracy of the history and physical examination as compared to the addition of serum progesterone screening for ectopic pregnancy in women presenting to the emergency department.
DESIGN: Prospective, consecutive case series, N = 2,1... | C23 |
7,161 | 6,446 | Extensive vulvar and vaginal varicella necessitating abdominal delivery.
Maternal varicella occurs in fewer than five per 10,000 pregnancies in the United States.
A case is reported in which markedly painful, extensive vulvar and vaginal ulcers prevented cervical examination, and cesarean section was performed with t... | C23 |
7,162 | 6,944 | Neuropsychological assessment of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia.
A comparison of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia controls for genetic variance and reduces variance due to environmental circumstances, thus serving to highlight differences due to phenotypic-related variables.
In this stud... | C23 |
7,163 | 3,027 | Comprehensive management of acute necrotizing pancreatitis and pancreatic abscess.
Achieving reduced mortality rates in patients with necrotizing pancreatitis and pancreatic abscess is possible by employing a comprehensive management plan.
Components of the plan include (1) rapid evaluation and assessment of the degr... | C23 |
7,164 | 881 | Treatment of vaginal candidiasis: orally or vaginally?
Vaginal candidiasis continues to be the most common cause of vaginal discharge.
A large variety of topical drugs and a selection of orally active antifungals are currently available.
The choice between the use of oral drugs or intravaginal agents will depend on ... | C23 |
7,165 | 8,754 | Leukaemia complicating treatment for Hodgkin's disease: the experience of the British National Lymphoma Investigation.
OBJECTIVE--To determine the incidence of and risk factors for the development of secondary acute leukaemia and myelodysplasia in patients treated in British National Lymphoma Investigation's studies o... | C23 |
7,166 | 7,680 | Delta sleep ratio. A biological correlate of early recurrence in unipolar affective disorder.
Slow wave sleep abnormalities have long been described in depression but were considered to be nonspecific indicators of psychopathology.
Computerized techniques, including amplitude frequency measures and spectral analyses,... | C23 |
7,167 | 4,723 | Inter-arytenoid glottic bar following intubation.
Inter-arytenoid glottic bar is a rare complication of prolonged endotracheal intubation.
We present two such cases and their treatment.
The aetiology of this complication is multifactorial and involves local factors--local trauma, movement of the endotracheal tube wi... | C23 |
7,168 | 2 | Treatment of Fournier's gangrene with adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Fournier's gangrene is a devastating infection and often is associated with a high morbidity and mortality.
Surgical debridement and antibiotics are the cornerstones of therapy.
This case describes the use of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunct ... | C23 |
7,169 | 3,122 | Changes in ventricular fibrillation threshold during the development of perinephritic hypertension.
Established hypertension is associated with enhanced susceptibility to life-threatening arrhythmias.
However, little is known about the effects of the development of hypertension on the electro-physiological properties... | C23 |
7,170 | 6,590 | Adverse haemodynamic effects of high-dose aprotinin in a paediatric cardiac surgical patient.
High-dose aprotinin for reduction of intra- and postoperative blood loss was associated with profound hypotension and flushing in a 3.5-year-old child who underwent cardiac surgery.
Treatment with noradrenaline and intraveno... | C23 |
7,171 | 270 | The importance of calcium ions for in vitro malignant hyperthermia testing.
Intracellular Ca++ levels in skeletal muscle are elevated during the in vitro contracture response of muscle from subjects with malignant hyperthermia.
The role of Ca++ in the bathing medium and the consequences of substitution of Sr++ for Ca... | C23 |
7,172 | 9,268 | An evaluation of the Level 1 blood warmer series
The Level 1 blood warmer series comprises three infusion sets and two blood warmers of different power outputs.
All systems were found to be extremely efficient, with the larger 500 series capable of warming the equivalent of 80 units of blood an hour almost to body t... | C23 |
7,173 | 6,309 | Microstaging of squamous cell carcinomas.
The clinical classification of squamous cell carcinoma, which was established primarily by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), does not permit optimal estimation of expected metastasis.
The authors' results indicate that metastasis can be more accurately estimated ... | C23 |
7,174 | 2,816 | Urgent management of a giant scrotal hernia.
An unusual case of giant scrotal hernia is presented.
Hernias of this magnitude are extremely rare, even in underdeveloped countries, and their repair is challenging to the surgeon and stressful to the patient.
Only a few case reports on the use of pneumoperitoneum prior ... | C23 |
7,175 | 6,899 | Surgical epicardial ablation of left ventricular pathway using sling exposure
We report our experience with 43 consecutive patients with left free wall pathways operated on since December 1988 using a modified direct epicardial approach through a medial sternotomy, without the adjunct of normothermic cardiopulmonary ... | C23 |
7,176 | 8,781 | Orbital compartment syndrome. Direct measurement of orbital tissue pressure: 1. Technique.
Many disorders of the orbit produce an increase in intraorbital pressure, which may result in the development of an orbital compartment syndrome and visual loss.
Traditionally, orbital tension is assessed clinically by indirect... | C23 |
7,177 | 3,789 | Malignant potential of juvenile polyposis coli. Report of a case and review of the literature.
Juvenile polyps of the colon and rectum traditionally have been viewed as being benign inflammatory or harmartomatous lesions without potential for malignant change.
The authors report a case of adenocarcinoma developing in... | C23 |
7,178 | 385 | The effect of prolonged hypothermia on cardiac function in a young patient with accidental hypothermia.
A 20-year-old man had accidental, prolonged, and severe hypothermia.
Serial radionuclide ventriculography disclosed reduced myocardial contractility during hypothermia that resolved after warming.
The effects of h... | C23 |
7,179 | 3,788 | Colonic lipoma as a source of massive hemorrhage. Report of a case.
Colonic lipomas are a rare source of massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding requiring operative intervention.
A case of massive hemorrhage from cecal lipomatosis is presented.
The methods of preoperative diagnosis and treatment are discussed. | C23 |
7,180 | 7,123 | A prospective, randomized, double-blind, crossover study to compare the efficacy and safety of chronic nifedipine therapy with that of isosorbide dinitrate and their combination in the treatment of chronic congestive heart failure
We performed a prospective, randomized, double-blind, crossover study to compare the ef... | C23 |
7,181 | 2,905 | Acute gastroenteritis in infants under 6 months old.
Sixty two babies under the age of 6 months who were admitted with gastroenteritis completed a study of gradual refeeding compared with abrupt refeeding after a period of rehydration.
There was no difference in the incidence of recurrence of diarrhoea due to lactose... | C23 |
7,182 | 3,342 | Through-knee amputation in high-risk patients with vascular disease: indications, complications and rehabilitation.
During a 10-year period 104 patients (mean age 72 years) had 106 through-knee amputations.
Indications for surgery were: limb gangrene, 67 (64 per cent); ischaemic ulceration, 22 (21 per cent); rest pai... | C23 |
7,183 | 5,346 | Concurrence of malignant hyperthermia and congenital abnormalities.
Two children about to undergo corrective surgery were required to be investigated for malignant hyperthermia (MH).
These investigations arose out of concern by the anesthetist who had obtained a history of unexplained pyrexial reactions to anaestheti... | C23 |
7,184 | 5,081 | The detubularized right colonic segment as urinary reservoir: evolution of technique for continent diversion.
Continent diversion of urine via a cecal-right colonic reservoir has been performed at our university hospital since 1977.
Several modifications of surgical technique have been devised to prevent problems of ... | C23 |
7,185 | 3,745 | Progressive functional deterioration of bioprostheses assessed by Doppler ultrasonography.
Doppler echocardiography was used to study the function of bioprosthetic heart valves by noninvasive means in 32 patients aged 29 to 72 years at various postoperative intervals.
There were 24 Ionescu-Shiley, four Hancock, and f... | C23 |
7,186 | 316 | Influence of postmortem time and temperature on osteoinductive activity of demineralized microperforated ethylene oxide-sterilized syngeneic bone implant in the rat.
Bone morphogenetic protein is labile and easily inactivated by many extracorporeal factors.
It is crucial to establish whether delay in retrieval of don... | C23 |
7,187 | 7,767 | Combined modality therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma.
Multi-modality treatment consisting of cisplatin, VP-16, and 5-fluorouracil chemotherapy given concomitantly with external beam radiation was used to treat 64 patients with locally advanced Stage III non-small cell lung carcinoma.
This regi... | C23 |
7,188 | 9,747 | Insulin-like growth factor I expression by tumors of neuroectodermal origin with the t(11;22) chromosomal translocation. A potential autocrine growth factor.
Expression of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) mRNA by some tumor cell lines of neuroectodermal origin has been described.
To further explore the significan... | C23 |
7,189 | 7,157 | Predictive value of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium as a clinical marker for familial adenomatous polyposis.
One hundred forty-eight members of 53 kindreds with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) were examined for congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) and extracolo... | C23 |
7,190 | 7,054 | The in vivo biologic effect of interleukin 2 and interferon alfa on natural immunity in patients with head and neck cancer.
Given the association of deficient natural immunity with the risk of metastatic disease, the ability to activate natural killer cell function may have a therapeutic significance.
The effect of c... | C23 |
7,191 | 6,296 | Follicular neoplasms of the thyroid in men older than 50 years of age. A DNA flow cytometric study
The clinical behavior of follicular neoplasms of the thyroid in elderly men can be difficult to predict on histologic grounds alone.
To assess the usefulness of DNA flow cytometry in predicting the metastatic potential... | C23 |
7,192 | 7,560 | Infectious mononucleosis in older adults.
Infectious mononucleosis as a manifestation of primary Epstein-Barr virus infection occurs uncommonly in adults over age 40.
While fever is almost universal, older patients with the disease often present without lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis, splenomegaly, lymphocytosis or aty... | C23 |
7,193 | 326 | Growth abnormalities in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Growth abnormalities in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can be divided into two groups: local and systemic.
Local disorders of growth often result in increased bone length and bone age or in marked decreases in longitudinal growth due to immobilizatio... | C23 |
7,194 | 7,384 | Experimental retinal branch vein occlusion in miniature pigs induces local tissue hypoxia and vasoproliferative microangiopathy.
In miniature pigs, retinal veins were experimentally occluded using argon laser coagulation.
Microvascular modifications leading to retinal hemorrhages and retinal edema were observed some ... | C23 |
7,195 | 4,395 | Comparison of ventricular arrhythmia induction with use of an indwelling electrode catheter and a newly inserted catheter.
Two methods of serial electrophysiologic testing are in widespread use.
Most commonly, the electrode catheter is removed after each study and a new catheter reinserted through the femoral vein fo... | C23 |
7,196 | 3,379 | Successful treatment of metastatic thymic carcinoma with cisplatin, vinblastine, bleomycin, and etoposide chemotherapy.
Thymic carcinomas are rare malignant neoplasms of the thymic epithelium that are distinguished from the malignant thymomas by the presence of cytologic atypia.
Thymic carcinomas may metastasize outs... | C23 |
7,197 | 7,911 | Ear involvement in the yellow nail syndrome.
Recognized features of the yellow nail syndrome include yellow nails, lymphedema, and pleural effusions.
We report a patient with the additional feature of keratosis obturans, which may be a manifestation of this syndrome in the external ear. | C23 |
7,198 | 7,741 | Supravalvar aortic stenosis: a complication of aortic valve surgery.
After a patient had aortic valvotomy and aortotomy for the relief of valvar aortic stenosis supravalvar stenosis developed over the next six years. | C23 |
7,199 | 7,989 | Liver transplantation: the shadow side.
For a relatively large number of patients with liver disease, a liver transplant does not always provide a successful solution.
What does confrontation with this modern technology mean for those involved? We interviewed 30 relatives of patients who had died after they had been ... | C23 |
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