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7,700 | 7,701 | The natural history of intimal flaps in a canine model.
The natural history of arterial intimal flaps has not been well defined.
This study characterizes the natural history of unrepaired intimal flaps.
Thirty-nine 1-, 2-, and 3-mm hemispheric, distally based intimal flaps were made in 4- to 5-mm diameter canine fem... | C23 |
7,701 | 6,074 | Incisional parapubic hernias.
A parapubic hernia, distinct from other lower abdominal wall hernias, is identified as a particular type of incisional hernia.
This hernia results from the disruption of the musculotendinous elements of the abdominal wall as they insert into the pubis.
This disruption is brought about b... | C23 |
7,702 | 9,589 | Proliferation and substrate effects on endothelial cell thrombogenicity.
The effects of the cellular differentiation status and the adhesive-substrate on endothelial cell function in cell culture were measured with an enzyme based assay of surface thrombogenicity.
A solid plastic, microporous polymeric, and fibronect... | C23 |
7,703 | 7,118 | Catheterization laboratory events and hospital outcome with direct angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
To assess the safety of direct infarct angioplasty without antecedent thrombolytic therapy, catheterization laboratory and hospital events were assessed in consecutively treated patients with infarctions inv... | C23 |
7,704 | 7,688 | Amelioration of cholinergic-induced pancreatitis with a selective cholecystokinin receptor antagonist.
Acute edematous pancreatitis follows excessive cholinergic stimulation in patients exposed to anticholinesterase-containing insecticides.
We describe the role of cholecystokinin and the benefits of cholecystokinin r... | C23 |
7,705 | 7,027 | Rett syndrome: cerebellar pathology.
The cerebellar pathology at autopsy of 5 patients with Rett syndrome is described.
The patients ranged in age from 7-30 years.
All had markedly reduced brain weights with proportionately small cerebella.
Microscopic examination revealed loss of Purkinje cells, atrophy, astrocyti... | C23 |
7,706 | 8,255 | Transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials as a prognostic indicator for motor recovery in stroke patients.
Transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (MEP) were examined in 33 patients within three days after stroke.
Normal values for MEP and motor central conduction time (CCT) were obtained in 46 healthy ... | C23 |
7,707 | 7,746 | Hereditary cerebral haemorrhage with amyloidosis--Dutch type. Magnetic resonance imaging findings in 7 cases.
The clinical history and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings are presented of 7 patients with hereditary cerebral haemorrhage with amyloidosis--Dutch type (HCHWA-D).
The diagnosis was based on clinical ... | C23 |
7,708 | 6,223 | Propranolol and the morning increase in sudden cardiac death: (the beta-blocker heart attack trial experience).
To provide insight into the protective effect of propranolol on mortality after myocardial infarction observed in the beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial, the time of occurrence of sudden cardiac death was exami... | C23 |
7,709 | 6,856 | Aortic dissection with the entrance tear in transverse aorta: analysis of 12 autopsy patients.
Clinical and autopsy findings are described in 12 patients who had fatal aortic dissection with the entrance tear in the transverse aorta.
The 12 patients represent 7% of 182 autopsies of spontaneous aortic dissection studi... | C23 |
7,710 | 339 | Underlying illness associated with failure to thrive in breastfed infants.
Over a four-year period in a suburban pediatric practice, 38 infants aged six months or less were identified with failure to thrive (FTT) while breast-feeding.
In seven cases (18.4%), an associated organic illness was diagnosed.
Only 2 of 28 ... | C23 |
7,711 | 5,370 | Critical review of gangliosides and thyrotropin-releasing hormone in peripheral neuromuscular diseases.
The lack of effective therapy for many of the chronic neuromuscular diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hereditary motor sensory neuropathy (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease), spinocerebellar degenerations an... | C23 |
7,712 | 868 | Pityriasis lichenoides in children: a long-term follow-up of eighty-nine cases.
Pityriasis lichenoides is usually classified into an acute and a chronic form.
From a review of 89 cases of the disease seen since 1974 it seems that a more realistic classification into three main groups, according to the distribution of... | C23 |
7,713 | 9,156 | Prevalence and prognostic significance of exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias after coronary artery bypass grafting.
Exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias occur often after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), but their prognostic significance is unknown.
Two hundred patients examined by exercise electroca... | C23 |
7,714 | 3,456 | Correction of subclavian artery stenosis by percutaneous angioplasty.
Subclavian artery stenosis is an infrequently recognized cause of left-sided chest and arm pain that can mimic the signs and symptoms of angina pectoris.
In addition, more proximal subclavian artery stenoses can be associated with cerebrovascular s... | C23 |
7,715 | 5,260 | Effect of exposure of miners to aluminium powder.
'McIntyre Powder' (finely ground aluminium and aluminium oxide) was used as a prophylactic agent against silicotic lung disease between 1944 and 1979 in mines in northern Ontario.
To find out whether the practice produced neurotoxic effects a morbidity prevalence stud... | C23 |
7,716 | 8,543 | The long-term prognosis of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but no inducible ventricular tachycardia.
The long-term prognosis of patients successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest who do not have acute precipitating factors and in whom ventricular arrhythmias cannot be induced during baseline electroph... | C23 |
7,717 | 6,667 | Prehospital prophylactic lidocaine does not favorably affect outcome in patients with chest pain.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The purpose of our study was to determine the morbidity and mortality in initially stable patients presenting to paramedics with chest pain; to examine possible beneficial effects of its use, including r... | C23 |
7,718 | 3,211 | Plasma concentrations of methadone during postoperative patient-controlled extradural analgesia.
Plasma concentrations of methadone were measured by gas chromatography in 16 patients receiving extradural methadone by continuous infusion for relief of postoperative pain.
Venous blood samples were taken after a loading... | C23 |
7,719 | 3,667 | Fetal abdominal abnormalities associated with genetic syndromes.
Sonographic technology has given the prenatal diagnostician the ability to accurately visualize fetal malformations.
This article demonstrates the currently available capability of applying sonographically derived information concerning fetal dysmorphol... | C23 |
7,720 | 8,724 | 7th nerve palsy after extradural blood patch.
We describe a patient who developed a 7th cranial nerve palsy following an extradural blood patch; full recovery followed.
The likely aetiology is discussed. | C23 |
7,721 | 2,424 | Arterial oxygen desaturation during gastrointestinal endoscopy
This prospective study evaluated the incidence and severity of arterial oxygen desaturation during gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Following pulmonary function testing, 115 male patients underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), colonoscopy, or colonoscopy... | C23 |
7,722 | 4,382 | Progression of native coronary artery disease at 10 years: insights from a randomized study of medical versus surgical therapy for angina.
Repeat coronary angiography was performed in 42 patients 10 years after randomization to medical (n = 21) or surgical (n = 21) therapy for chronic angina.
The native coronary arte... | C23 |
7,723 | 8,337 | Non-vesicular release of glutamate from glial cells by reversed electrogenic glutamate uptake.
Glutamate uptake into nerve and glial cells usually functions to keep the extracellular glutamate concentration low in the central nervous system.
But one component of glutamate release from neurons is calcium-independent, ... | C23 |
7,724 | 5,526 | Does indomethacin alter the hemodynamic response to magnesium sulfate infusion and hemorrhage in gravid ewes?
The purpose of this study was to determine whether indomethacin alters the maternal and fetal hemodynamic response to magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) infusion and hemorrhage in gravid ewes.
We studied seven chronic... | C23 |
7,725 | 82 | Characterization of a factor-dependent acute leukemia cell line with translocation (3;3)(q21;q26).
A strictly factor-dependent cell line (UCSD/AML1) was established from a patient with the syndrome of multilineage acute leukemia with high platelets.
The patient's cells and the cell line karyotype were 45,XX,-7,t(3;3)... | C23 |
7,726 | 6,657 | Differential protective effects of halothane and isoflurane against hypoxic and reoxygenation injury in the isolated guinea pig heart.
The authors investigated the effects of halothane (HAL) and isoflurane (ISO) on cardiac depression produced by global hypoxia and the recovery of function following reoxygenation is is... | C23 |
7,727 | 9,683 | Patterns of dyspepsia in patients with no clinical evidence of organic diseases.
We studied 2000 dyspeptic patients with no obvious signs of organic disease at their first examination, in order to (1) verify how many diagnoses of idiopathic dyspepsia had really been made after exhaustive diagnostic procedures and (2) ... | C23 |
7,728 | 6,365 | Recombination between two 14-bp homologous sequences as the mechanism for gene deletion in factor IX Seattle 1.
Factor IXSeattle 1 is a 10-kb intragenic deletion identified in a family that has hemophilia B.
By sequencing across the site of the deletion, we discovered at the deletion junction a 13-bp sequence (5' .
... | C23 |
7,729 | 9,432 | In vivo nonthrombogenicity of heparin immobilized polymer surfaces.
The authors developed two different methods to immobilize heparin on polymer surfaces.
One method involves in situ heparin immobilization on a segmented polyurethane urea (Biomer) surface via hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO, Mn = 4,000) spacers... | C23 |
7,730 | 8,384 | Quantification of biomedical findings of chronic pain patients: development of an index of pathology.
Difficulties in assessing and quantifying the biomedical signs and symptoms that may be related to patients' reports of pain are well recognized.
Although there appears to be some consensus among physicians as to the... | C23 |
7,731 | 6,191 | Color Doppler diagnosis of mechanical prosthetic mitral regurgitation: usefulness of the flow convergence region proximal to the regurgitant orifice.
In prosthetic or paravalvular prosthetic mitral regurgitation, transthoracic color Doppler flow mapping can sometimes fail to detect the regurgitant jet within the left ... | C23 |
7,732 | 7,897 | Prostacyclin but not phentolamine increases oxygen consumption and skin microvascular blood flow in patients with sepsis and respiratory failure.
Inadequate tissue oxygenation may occur in critically ill patients with sepsis despite an apparently adequate O2 transport (QO2), and this may contribute to the development ... | C23 |
7,733 | 863 | Cheilitis granulomatosa: report of six cases and review of the literature.
Six cases of cheilitis granulomatosa, a rare inflammatory disorder of unknown origin, are reported.
The condition produces nontender, persistent swelling of one or both lips and affects primarily young adults.
Histologically, nonnecrotizing g... | C23 |
7,734 | 3,792 | Plasma neurotransmitters and cortisol in duodenal ulcer patients. Role of stress.
Levels of noradrenaline, adrenaline, dopamine, free serotonin, platelet serotonin, and cortisol were measured in the plasma of duodenal ulcer patients and controls.
All subjects received antacids, and these substances were also measured... | C23 |
7,735 | 4,191 | Aggressive blood conservation in coronary artery surgery: impact on patient care.
Data on 100 consecutive non-emergency coronary artery bypass (CABG) patients were analyzed retrospectively.
Sixty-nine patients received no homologous blood (Group I).
Thirty-one patients received a total of 118 units of blood products... | C23 |
7,736 | 396 | Esophageal contribution to chest pain in patients with coronary artery disease.
We conducted a prospective study to determine the role of the esophagus in causing chest pain in patients with established CAD on optimum therapy.
Thirty-two men with documented CAD who complained of frequent and usually daily retrosterna... | C23 |
7,737 | 778 | Unusual haemostasis for an unusual tumour. Catastrophic bleeding from a tactile neurofibroma affecting the thoracic vertebrae. Case report.
The symptomatology of a typical acute descending thoracic aorta dissection was imitated by profuse haemorrhage caused by a benign tumour composed almost exclusively of Wagner-Meis... | C23 |
7,738 | 9,373 | Acquired childhood aphasia. Outcome 1 year after onset.
The effects of the variables age at onset, cause, severity and bilaterality of lesion, and type of aphasia on course and outcome were investigated in a group of 28 aphasic children.
Analysis of spontaneous speech and tests of auditory verbal comprehension were u... | C23 |
7,739 | 7,910 | Management of Brucella endocarditis with aortic root abscess.
Three cases of Brucella endocarditis with aortic root abscess are reported.
Two patients were successfully managed by a combination of medical therapy and surgery.
The third patient died suddenly 36 hours after admission to hospital. | C23 |
7,740 | 842 | Hypereosinophilic syndrome with unusual cutaneous manifestations in two men with HIV infection.
We report two men with human immunodeficiency virus infection who had unusual cutaneous manifestations of hypereosinophilic syndrome, exfoliative erythroderma, and linear flagellate plaques.
In the first patient the cutane... | C23 |
7,741 | 2,662 | Lateral temporal bone resections.
Eighteen consecutive patients underwent a lateral temporal bone resection for the treatment of tumors originating in the auricle, the external auditory canal, the periauricular skin, or the parotid and were retrospectively analyzed.
The different lateral temporal bone resections perf... | C23 |
7,742 | 7,176 | Whole-body lipolysis and triglyceride-fatty acid cycling in cachectic patients with esophageal cancer.
Whole-body lipolytic rates and the rate of triglyceride-fatty acid cycling (reesterification of fatty acids released during lipolysis) were measured with stable isotopic tracers in the basal state and during beta-adr... | C23 |
7,743 | 9,530 | Thromboembolytic complications during circulatory assistance with a centrifugal pump in patients with valvular prostheses.
This article describes two patients with artificial heart valves who suffered thromboembolytic complications during circulatory assistance using a Biomedicus centrifugal pump.
The first case invo... | C23 |
7,744 | 8,758 | Dilatation in the duplex kidney: 3 unusual cases.
Dilatation in the upper limb of a duplex ureter is usually secondary to obstruction and may be associated with a ureterocele.
By contrast, vesicoureteric reflux is the usual cause of a dilated lower moiety ureter.
We report 3 cases in which unusual or complex causes ... | C23 |
7,745 | 3,633 | Humeral head retroversion in patients with unstable humeroscapular joints.
Humeral head retroversion and shoulder rotation in both the frontal and scapular plane were studied in 34 patients with anterior glenohumeral instability.
Twenty-two patients had traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations and another 12 patients... | C23 |
7,746 | 2,806 | A prospective assessment of the Garren-Edwards Gastric Bubble and bariatric surgery in the treatment of morbid obesity.
Morbid obesity is a serious medical hazard, and effective alternatives to surgery have been unsuccessful.
In 1985, the Garren-Edwards Gastric Bubble (GEGB) was offered as an adjunct to dietary and b... | C23 |
7,747 | 6,931 | Recurrent meningitis in a patient with congenital deficiency of the C9 component of complement. First case of C9 deficiency in Europe.
We describe the first cases, to our knowledge, of C9 deficiency in Europe that were detected in a Swiss family, of which two members--one with a complete deficiency and the other with ... | C23 |
7,748 | 6,681 | Buffered versus plain lidocaine as a local anesthetic for simple laceration repair.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Buffered lidocaine was compared with plain lidocaine as a local anesthetic for simple lacerations.
DESIGN: Randomized, double-blind, prospective clinical trial.
SETTING: Urban emergency department.
TYPE OF PARTICIPA... | C23 |
7,749 | 4,008 | Adaptive hyperphagia in patients with postsurgical malabsorption.
The specific nutritional consequences of malabsorption after small-bowel surgery were studied in a consecutive series of 48 ambulatory patients who had had small-bowel resection (n = 43) or bypass (n = 5) and in 10 patients who had an ileal pouch (n = 1... | C23 |
7,750 | 7,382 | Indications and results of relaxing retinotomy.
The authors report their results of a consecutive series of 40 eyes undergoing relaxing retinotomy during vitrectomy to achieve retinal reattachment for the following indications: proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), 21 eyes (52%); trauma, 10 eyes (25%); diabetic retin... | C23 |
7,751 | 3,022 | Stroke rehabilitation: a geropsychological perspective.
Rehabilitation medicine and geriatric medicine are similar in their concern for functional improvement in the face of chronic medical conditions.
Although many patients served by rehabilitation medicine fall within the geriatric age range, a knowledge of normal ... | C23 |
7,752 | 8,773 | Blunt renal trauma in childhood. Features indicating severe injury.
The clinical presentation of children with blunt renal trauma may differ from that of adults.
The clinical features at presentation of 50 consecutive children (20 severe injuries, no pedicle injuries) admitted over a period of almost 8 years were rev... | C23 |
7,753 | 6,823 | Area of lateral ventricles measured on cranial ultrasonography in preterm infants: association with outcome.
The association between measurements of lateral ventricle area (determined by serial ultrasound scans) and outcome was studied in 70 preterm neonates of 33 weeks' gestation or less.
The study group was subdivi... | C23 |
7,754 | 3,625 | Reconstruction of patellar tendon rupture after total knee arthroplasty with an extensor mechanism allograft.
Although patellar tendon rupture after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a rare complication, the consistently poor outcome of conventional tendon repair has convinced some to abandon such reconstruction in fav... | C23 |
7,755 | 5,133 | Intraabdominal hemorrhage as a result of segmental mediolytic arteritis of an omental artery: case report.
This article describes the fifth reported case of segmental mediolytic arteritis and the second in a survivor.
The patient had intraabdominal bleeding as a result of a ruptured omental artery.
The pathologic an... | C23 |
7,756 | 6,239 | Usefulness of labetalol in chronic atrial fibrillation.
Beta-adrenergic blocking agents are useful in controlling excessive ventricular rate in chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) but often reduce exercise capacity.
To investigate the advantage of labetalol--a unique beta blocker with alpha-blocking property--in chronic... | C23 |
7,757 | 9,653 | Plasma therapy for severe hemolytic-uremic syndrome in children in Atlantic Canada.
Clinical reports have suggested that therapy with fresh frozen plasma is a useful adjunct in the management of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS).
We reviewed the charts of 36 children with severe HUS who were treated at the Izaac Wa... | C23 |
7,758 | 2,325 | Quantitative angiographic comparison of the immediate success of coronary angioplasty, coronary atherectomy and endoluminal stenting.
Coronary atherectomy and coronary stenting effectively reduce the severity of coronary artery stenoses, but direct comparisons of these interventions with conventional balloon angioplas... | C23 |
7,759 | 3,541 | Use of single internal mammary artery grafts in older patients.
The indications for use of the internal mammary artery as a coronary bypass conduit in older patients are not clearly established.
Between January 1985 and December 1988, 786 patients received single internal mammary artery grafts alone (717) or in conju... | C23 |
7,760 | 419 | Three mixed venous saturation catheters in patients with circulatory shock and respiratory failure
Thirty-one critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure and circulatory shock were divided into three groups.
Group 1 included 11 patients with an inserted mixed venous saturation (SvO2) catheter using three-... | C23 |
7,761 | 220 | Significance of blasts in low-cell-count cerebrospinal fluid specimens from children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the presence of more than 5% blasts in a differential count of cytocentrifuged cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with less than 6 leukocytes/microliter was ... | C23 |
7,762 | 9,632 | Assessment of the biliary tract after liver transplantation: T tube cholangiography or IODIDA scanning.
Biliary tract obstruction or anastomotic leakage are common problems following liver transplantation.
In a sequential study, 31 patients with a liver transplant were investigated by 99mTc-IODIDA (IODIDA) scanning a... | C23 |
7,763 | 9,349 | Overestimation of myocardial infarct size by histologic measurement in a model of occlusion followed by reperfusion.
We studied 32 transverse left ventricular slices of myocardium from 16 pigs after 45 to 100 minutes of coronary artery occlusion followed by 180 minutes of reperfusion.
Infarct area for each slice was ... | C23 |
7,764 | 4,198 | An unusual late complication following surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
A case is presented of extrusion of right ventricular outflow tract patch material through a mediastino-cutaneous fistula occurring five years after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
The focus of the mediastinal infection was an infected epic... | C23 |
7,765 | 9,190 | Major depression, panic disorder, and mitral valve prolapse in patients who complain of chest pain.
PURPOSE: Patients with chest pain but without angiographic evidence of significant atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) are often found to have other medical or psychiatric disorders, including mitral valve pro... | C23 |
7,766 | 3,592 | Chest infection following head and neck surgery: a pilot study.
This paper reports the results of a pilot study which examined factors associated with chest infection following head and neck surgery.
The overall rate of chest infection was 11%, but was 20% in those patients having a tracheotomy.
No infection develop... | C23 |
7,767 | 4,024 | Variceal sclerosis in schistosomotic patients: a 5-year follow-up study.
To assess the therapeutic possibilities of injection sclerosis in schistosomotic portal hypertension, a 5-year prospective study was conducted in northeast Brazil, where this parasitosis is endemic.
Fifty patients undergoing endoscopy for upper ... | C23 |
7,768 | 9,585 | Effect of a leukocyte-platelet removal filter on ischemia induced reperfusion injury.
The effect of leukocyte and platelet depletion on reperfusion injury using a leukocyte-platelet removal filter (LRF) in intracoronary thrombolysis is reported.
To better define the usefulness of LRF in evaluating the effectiveness o... | C23 |
7,769 | 7,276 | L-tyrosine potentiates the anorexia induced by mixed-acting sympathomimetic drugs in hyperphagic rats.
The effects of L-tyrosine (L-TYR) on the anorectic activity of several mixed-acting sympathomimetics were determined during the dark cycle in rats made hyperphagic by food deprivation.
L-TYR (200 mg/kg) significantl... | C23 |
7,770 | 2,534 | Colon cancer in pregnancy with elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein level at presentation.
A case of colon cancer in pregnancy is presented in which the maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein level was elevated.
Failure to evaluate colon cancer as a cause of the elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein may have accou... | C23 |
7,771 | 6,487 | Effects of altering the eicosanoid precursor pool on neovascularization and inflammation in the alkali-burned rabbit cornea.
The effects of altering the eicosanoid precursor pool on several aspects of the nonimmunologically mediated inflammatory and angiogenic processes that follow 1N and 4N NaOH alkali burning of the... | C23 |
7,772 | 2,584 | Response of Bitot's spots in preschool children to vitamin A treatment.
In a double-masked, placebo-controlled, clinical trial in Indonesia, 88 preschool children between the ages of 36 and 72 months with Bitot's spots were randomly assigned to 200,000 IU of oral vitamin A or placebo and followed up for five weeks.
B... | C23 |
7,773 | 8,753 | Ultrasonography compared with intravenous urography in the investigation of adults with haematuria
OBJECTIVE--To compare ultrasonography with intravenous urography in the investigation of adults with haematuria.
DESIGN--Prospective study entailing the examination of all patients with both investigations concurrently... | C23 |
7,774 | 4,894 | Impact of the availability of a prior electrocardiogram on the triage of the patient with acute chest pain
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine whether information from a prior electrocardiogram (ECG) improves diagnostic accuracy in the emergency department (ED) evaluation of patients with acute chest pain.
DESIGN: Analysi... | C23 |
7,775 | 4,014 | Caseating hepatic granulomas in Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A 68-year-old man presented with recurrent Hodgkin's lymphoma after a 9-year disease-free interval induced by chemotherapy.
In addition to histological evidence of recurrent Hodgkin's disease, the liver biopsy specimen showed extensive caseating granulomas.
Culture... | C23 |
7,776 | 9,457 | Another way of pumping blood with a rotary but noncentrifugal pump for an artificial heart.
This article describes an alternative mode of pumping blood inside the body.
The device is a non centrifugal, valveless, low speed rotary pump, electrically powered, based on Wankel engine principle.
The authors developed an ... | C23 |
7,777 | 2,227 | Local failure and related complications after definitive treatment of carcinoma of the prostate by irradiation or surgery.
The authors review their institution's experience with the failure of definitive treatment to achieve local tumor control and with the distant dissemination and local morbidity associated with suc... | C23 |
7,778 | 575 | Role of leukotriene B4 in granulocyte infiltration into the postischemic feline intestine.
Several studies have demonstrated that granulocytes accumulate in the intestinal mucosa following ischemia/reperfusion.
It has been suggested that leukotriene B4 may be released during ischemia/reperfusion and consequently may ... | C23 |
7,779 | 7,644 | Intraocular lens complications.
The authors implanted intraocular lenses (IOL) in 780 eyes and considered complications of this surgery, dividing the complications into intraoperative and postoperative, the latter early and late.
The most frequent intraoperative complications were: hyphema, vitreous injury, pupil def... | C23 |
7,780 | 5,577 | Acquired retinal arteriovenous communications in occlusive disease of the carotid artery.
Retinal arteriovenous communications proximal to extensive areas of complete vascular closure developed in three patients with occlusive disease of the carotid arteries.
In one case, the authors document the development of the a... | C23 |
7,781 | 6,148 | Management of Peyronie disease by implantation of inflatable penile prosthesis.
Sixty-seven patients with advanced Peyronie disease were treated by implantation of an inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP).
Twenty-eight of the 67 patients had documented total erectile failure.
The remaining 39 patients had significant p... | C23 |
7,782 | 5,347 | Isometric features of orthostatic tremor: an electromyographic analysis.
A patient is described with "orthostatic" tremor.
Electromyography revealed tremor bursts of 15 Hz in the lower extremities while standing and with isometric activation of the muscles, but the bursts disappeared with isotonic activation of muscl... | C23 |
7,783 | 2,915 | The iris in Williams syndrome.
Forty three children with Williams syndrome and 124 control subjects had their eyes photographed.
The photographs were examined by three ophthalmologists and four geneticists of varying experience.
A stellate pattern was noted more often in the irides of patients with Williams syndrome... | C23 |
7,784 | 6,804 | Major histocompatibility complex antigen expression in the affected tissues in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Monoclonal antibody immunocytochemistry was used to examine spinal cord and muscle in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for changes that would indicate ongoing or potential immune activity.
Increased expression o... | C23 |
7,785 | 743 | Reduction of post-traumatic swelling and compartment pressure by impulse compression of the foot.
Following the discovery of a powerful venous pump in the foot that is activated by weight-bearing independently of muscular action, a pneumatic impulse device was developed to actuate this pump artificially.
In a multice... | C23 |
7,786 | 2,777 | Transcranial Doppler determination of cerebral perfusion in patients undergoing CPR: methodology and preliminary findings.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To correlate cerebral arterial blood velocity measurements as determined by transcranial Doppler ultrasound with various resuscitation maneuvers performed in an uncontrolled mann... | C23 |
7,787 | 2,852 | Posthypoxic glucose supplement reduces hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in the neonatal rat.
We evaluated the effect of posthypoxic glucose supplement in a neonatal hypoxic-ischemic animal model.
Seven-day-old rats underwent bilateral ligation of the carotid arteries, followed by exposure to an 8% oxygen atmosphere for ... | C23 |
7,788 | 4,110 | Role of angioplasty in myocardial infarction management strategies: a review.
The role of angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction has been extensively studied in the past few years.
Although angioplasty in some circumstances can be the primary reperfusion intervention, logistic problems and the excellent results o... | C23 |
7,789 | 9,248 | Hypoxic events in the surgical intensive care unit.
An oxygen-monitoring protocol was established in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) at the Denver General Hospital in July 1988.
A 3-month surveillance audit ending March 1989 prospectively documented 100 consecutive hypoxic events in 51 of 241 (21%) SICU patie... | C23 |
7,790 | 9,434 | Monitoring platelet interactions with prosthetic graft implants in a canine model.
This study shows that prosthetic arterial grafts stimulate platelets for as long as 1 year after implantation in a canine model.
Carotid-to-distal aorta Dacron (DuPont, Wilmington, DE) grafts (0.8 x 50.0 cm) were tunneled subcutaneousl... | C23 |
7,791 | 3,251 | Hormone implants and tachyphylaxis.
The serum oestradiol levels of 1388 women treated with hormone implants at a menopause clinic were reviewed in 1988.
Thirty-eight (3%) were found to be above 1750 pmol/l.
Of these 38 women with supraphysiological oestradiol levels 23 had started therapy for menopausal symptoms and... | C23 |
7,792 | 7,884 | Reduction in bleeding after heart-lung transplantation. The importance of posterior mediastinal hemostasis.
To reduce perioperative hemorrhage following heart-lung transplantation, several technical modifications were introduced in June 1988 to secure better posterior mediastinal hemostasis.
The intraoperative and po... | C23 |
7,793 | 4,176 | Hypertension after operative correction of club-foot deformity.
Severe hypertension occurred as a postoperative complication after correction of a club-foot deformity in four children (seven feet) who were between the ages of two and three years and had no history of hypertension.
The hypertension subsided slowly aft... | C23 |
7,794 | 9,557 | Experience with the Sarns centrifugal pump as a ventricular assist device.
The authors used the Sarns centrifugal pump (Sarns 3M, Ann Arbor, MI) as a ventricular assist device (VAD) in 30 patients between May 1985 and February 1990.
Sixteen patients were unweanable from cardiopulmonary bypass at the time of surgery; ... | C23 |
7,795 | 240 | Entrapment of a folded-over introducer sheath in the iliofemoral artery: an unusual complication of PTCA guiding catheter exchange
An arterial introducer sheath became folded over in the iliac artery during PTCA.
This probably resulted from withdrawal of a doubled over Judkins left coronary guiding catheter through ... | C23 |
7,796 | 6,344 | "Cloggology" revisited: endoscopic or surgical decompression of malignant biliary obstruction.
In this study, 50 consecutive patients over age 60 with obstructive jaundice secondary to malignant stricture of the distal common bile duct were identified by endoscopic cholangiography.
The patients were then randomized t... | C23 |
7,797 | 4,375 | Tongue ischemia from a soft-drink can: report of case.
A young girl was brought to the emergency department because her tongue became entrapped while she was drinking from an aluminum soft-drink can.
A dental drill was used to remove the can.
The tongue was observed for 48 hours, during which an ischemic area recove... | C23 |
7,798 | 676 | HBV-DNA detection by gene amplification in acute hepatitis B.
Serum samples from 62 women, inadvertently infected with hepatitis B virus in an in vitro fertilization program, were tested for the presence of hepatitis B virus-DNA using the polymerase chain reaction.
Under conditions of a strict spatial separation of D... | C23 |
7,799 | 4,304 | Importance of sampling method in DNA analysis of lung cancer.
Lung carcinomas are characterised by considerable histological variation within the tumour.
The possible effects of this morphological heterogeneity on the estimation of tumour ploidy were investigated.
Multiple tissue blocks were systematically taken fro... | C23 |
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