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7,800 | 3,451 | Physical examination and echo Doppler study in the assessment of femoral arterial complications following cardiac catheterization.
Femoral arterial complications following cardiac catheterization have been well recognized.
The development of an inguinal mass in these patients can represent a simple hematoma, a pseudo... | C23 |
7,801 | 8,945 | Effects of the differentiating agent hexamethylene bisacetamide on normal and myelodysplastic hematopoietic progenitors.
Hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA; NSC 95580) is a potent polar-planar differentiating agent of leukemia and solid tumor cell lines in vitro at clinically achievable concentrations.
HMBA is currentl... | C23 |
7,802 | 6,819 | Ichthyosis, mental retardation, and asymptomatic spasticity. A new neurocutaneous syndrome with normal fatty alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase activity.
A number of inherited disorders of cornification have been related to abnormal lipid metabolism.
In the recessively inherited Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, defined by the tria... | C23 |
7,803 | 4,187 | Amputation or limb-lengthening for partial or total absence of the fibula.
Thirty-two patients who had ablation of the foot by the Syme or Boyd technique for partial or total absence of the fibula, with subsequent fitting of a prosthesis, were compared with eleven patients who had lengthening of the lower limb by the ... | C23 |
7,804 | 9,976 | Exaggerated venous mural hypertrophy in association with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
A 61-year-old black man presented with metastases to the right groin 5 years after 125iodine treatment for a well differentiated primary prostatic adenocarcinoma.
Medium sized veins within and immediately adjacent to t... | C23 |
7,805 | 858 | The many faces and phases of borreliosis II.
Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, has also been associated with other cutaneous conditions.
Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans and lymphadenosis benigna cutis are also caused by B.
burgdorferi.
Recent evidence links some cases of progressive fac... | C23 |
7,806 | 9,043 | Tissue-specific transformation by epidermal growth factor receptor: a single point mutation within the ATP-binding pocket of the erbB product increases its intrinsic kinase activity and activates its sarcomagenic potential.
Avian c-erbB is activated to a leukemia oncogene following truncation of its amino-terminal, li... | C23 |
7,807 | 7,521 | Diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia in the surgical intensive care unit [published erratum appears in Surg Gynecol Obstet 1991 Apr;172(4):324]
It is often difficult to detect the onset of parenchymal pulmonary infection (pneumonia) in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU) setting.
Clinical and laboratory parameters ... | C23 |
7,808 | 2,182 | Leukoaraiosis, intracerebral hemorrhage, and arterial hypertension.
To investigate whether the observed association of leukoaraiosis with intracerebral hemorrhage is direct or mediated by risk factors, we compared 116 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage confirmed by computed tomography and 155 controls without intr... | C23 |
7,809 | 9,178 | Primary adrenal insufficiency: a new cause of reversible gastric stasis.
Primary adrenal insufficiency is known to cause a wide spectrum of sometimes severe upper gastrointestinal symptoms; however, it has not previously been shown to be the cause of reversible gastric stasis.
We have documented such a case in which ... | C23 |
7,810 | 4,143 | Maximal O2 uptake of in situ dog muscle during acute hypoxemia with constant perfusion.
We investigated the relationships among maximal O2 uptake (VO2max), effluent venous PO2 (PvO2), and calculated mean capillary PO2 (PCO2) in isolated dog gastrocnemius in situ as arterial PO2 (PaO2) was progressively reduced with mu... | C23 |
7,811 | 4,415 | Results of coronary surgery after failed elective coronary angioplasty in patients with prior coronary surgery
The results of coronary artery bypass surgery after failed elective coronary angioplasty in patients who have undergone prior coronary surgery are unknown.
Coronary angioplasty may be performed to relieve a... | C23 |
7,812 | 3,768 | Pulmonary malignant angioendotheliomatosis. Presentation with fever and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone.
A 64-year-old man presented with protracted fever, hyponatremia, and mononeuritis multiplex.
Inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion was established.
The absence of pulmonary infiltrates precl... | C23 |
7,813 | 6,834 | Intraoperative blood pressure. What patterns identify patients at risk for postoperative complications?
While monitoring blood pressure is a routine part of intraoperative management, several methods have been proposed to characterize intraoperative hemodynamic patterns as predictors of postoperative complications.
... | C23 |
7,814 | 8,332 | Association of perioperative myocardial ischemia with cardiac morbidity and mortality in men undergoing noncardiac surgery. The Study of Perioperative Ischemia Research Group
BACKGROUND.
Adverse cardiac events are a major cause of morbidity and mortality after noncardiac surgery.
It is necessary to determine the pr... | C23 |
7,815 | 2,285 | Lesions in side branches of arteries having undergone percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: a histopathologic study.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) may cause occlusion in side branches.
No histologic studies, however, have been made on side branches of the arteries in which PTCA has b... | C23 |
7,816 | 7,081 | Levels of serum granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in patients with infections.
To clarify the physiologic roles of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in infectious states in vivo, we examined the serum levels of G-CSF in patients with infection.
Serum samples from 24 patients in the acute stage of infe... | C23 |
7,817 | 4,735 | Cardiac pathology in 470 consecutive forensic autopsies.
Cardiovascular disease continues to be the single most common generic cause of sudden and unexpected deaths.
Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and acute myocardial infarction are the most prevalent forms of fatal cardiac disease observed at autopsy.
Other... | C23 |
7,818 | 7,622 | Conduction system injury after aortic valve dilation in the dog single- versus double-balloon catheters.
The range of morbidity induced by valvuloplasty is not fully known, but transient conduction disturbances are common.
The authors performed aortic valve balloon dilatation on 10 closed-chest dogs with normal aorti... | C23 |
7,819 | 3,568 | Iron chelation by deferoxamine inhibits lipid peroxidation during cardiopulmonary bypass in humans.
Iron catalysis is involved in oxygen-derived free radical generation and subsequent lipid peroxidation, which have been reported to occur during cardiopulmonary bypass in humans.
We assessed the effects of the iron che... | C23 |
7,820 | 6,975 | Aerobic and anaerobic bacteriology of wounds and cutaneous abscesses.
The aerobic and anaerobic microbiologic characteristics of 584 wounds and 676 skin or soft-tissue abscesses were studied and correlated with the infection site.
In wounds, aerobic or facultative bacteria only were present in 223 specimens (38%), an... | C23 |
7,821 | 7,181 | Role of cytochrome P-450 in reperfusion injury of the rabbit lung.
Reactive oxygen species are a major cause of damage occurring in ischemic tissue after reperfusion.
During reperfusion transitional metals such as iron are required for reactive oxygen species to mediate their major toxic effects.
Xanthine oxidase is... | C23 |
7,822 | 8,759 | Crystalluria, medullary matrix crystal deposits and bladder calculi associated with an acutely induced renal papillary necrosis.
A single (100 mg/kg) intraperitoneal dose of 2-bromoethanamine hydrobromide induced renal papillary necrosis (RPN) acutely in rodents and caused a transient crystalluria between 4 and 8 h af... | C23 |
7,823 | 3,461 | Reduction of postoperative morbidity following patient-controlled morphine
The present study examined the impact of two methods of pain management on recovery in 38 women undergoing hysterectomy.
One group received IV morphine in the recovery room and IM morphine on the ward on a PRN basis (PRN group).
In the other... | C23 |
7,824 | 9,525 | A composite driving system for LVAS and IABP: practical and effective driving and weaning.
We have devised a new method, termed alternate synchronous driving (ASD), to wean patients from a left ventricular assist system (LVAS) to a pressure assist intraaortic balloon pump (IABP).
We have built a new drive unit, VCT20... | C23 |
7,825 | 7,909 | Pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema following the measurement of maximal expiratory pressure in a normal subject.
Mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema have been reported as a consequence of deliberate manipulations of the breathing pattern producing a Valsalva-like maneuver in healthy subjects... | C23 |
7,826 | 8,549 | Effect of delayed captopril therapy on left ventricular mass and myonecrosis during acute coxsackievirus murine myocarditis.
The effect of captopril on coxsackievirus B3 murine myocarditis was investigated.
Thirty-two, 3-week-old mice were infected with coxsackievirus B3 on day 0 of the study, then randomized into a ... | C23 |
7,827 | 6,982 | Management of perineal wounds following abdominoperineal resection with inferior gluteal flaps.
Our experience treating perineal wounds secondary to abdominoperineal resection, either for inflammatory bowel disease or cancer, is presented.
A total of 16 patients were treated either on a delayed basis or at the same t... | C23 |
7,828 | 2,277 | Assay of serum cardiac myosin heavy chain fragments in patients with acute myocardial infarction: determination of infarct size and long-term follow-up.
To evaluate the correlation between myosin heavy chain release and the necrosis mass, serum levels of myosin heavy chain fragments were determined serially in 55 pati... | C23 |
7,829 | 8,279 | Prochlorperazine and transdermal scopolamine added to a metoclopramide antiemetic regimen. A controlled comparison.
Cisplatin-induced nausea and vomiting occurs both acutely and over a prolonged period of time.
These symptoms may be incapacitating and are frequently given as a reason to discontinue therapy.
We compa... | C23 |
7,830 | 7,069 | The management of primary fallopian tube carcinoma.
The outcome of 30 patients with primary fallopian tube carcinoma is described.
Treatment varied over the 22 year period of accrual and included combinations of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
There was an apparent increase in stage at treatment with time wh... | C23 |
7,831 | 4,945 | Transient renal acidification defect during acute infantile diarrhea: the role of urinary sodium.
We studied urinary acidification daily during the hospital course of 16 infants with acute gastroenteritis and metabolic acidosis.
Urine pH value on admission was higher than 5.5 in 14 (87%) patients.
We hypothesized th... | C23 |
7,832 | 9,953 | Multiple organ failure: inflammatory priming and activation sequences promote autologous tissue injury.
Systemic inflammation promotes multiple organ failure through the induction of diffuse microvascular leak.
Inflammatory cells such as neutrophils propagate this process.
Tissue injury by neutrophils may be viewed ... | C23 |
7,833 | 4,898 | Expert testimony based on decision analysis: a malpractice case report.
OBJECTIVE: Expert testimony in malpractice cases is often subjective and biased.
Decision-analytic techniques might provide an objective basis for such testimony.
DESIGN: Case report.
This article reports the case of a patient with chest pain t... | C23 |
7,834 | 4,335 | Ptychotropism as a cutaneous feature of the CHILD syndrome.
The hallmark of the CHILD syndrome is a unilateral ichthyosiform nevus that displays a pronounced affinity for the body folds.
For this phenomenon the term ptychotropism is proposed.
The expression is composed from the Greek words ptyche (fold) and trope (a... | C23 |
7,835 | 8,602 | Influence of high-dose aprotinin treatment on blood loss and coagulation patterns in patients undergoing myocardial revascularization.
Intraoperative administration of the proteinase inhibitor aprotinin causes reduction in blood loss and homologous blood requirement in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
To ascertai... | C23 |
7,836 | 2,493 | Thyroid antibodies as a risk factor for Down syndrome and other trisomies.
To test whether the presence of thyroid antibodies in a parent is a risk factor for meiotic nondisjunction, we measured the levels of thyroid antibodies in serum samples drawn during early pregnancy from 101 gravidas who delivered a child with ... | C23 |
7,837 | 7,383 | Extensive peripheral retinectomy combined with posterior 360 degrees retinotomy for retinal reattachment in advanced proliferative vitreoretinopathy cases.
Posterior 360 degrees retinotomy in conjunction with extensive peripheral retinectomy was necessary for retinal reattachment in 18 eyes.
A visual acuity of 20/400... | C23 |
7,838 | 6,460 | Ocular pathologic features of arteriohepatic dysplasia (Alagille's syndrome).
Arteriohepatic dysplasia (Alagille's syndrome), an autosomal dominant condition involving jaundice caused by a developmental scarcity of intrahepatic bile ducts, has characteristic cardiovascular, skeletal, facial, and ocular features that d... | C23 |
7,839 | 9,619 | The relationship of "high risk" mammographic patterns to histological risk factors for development of cancer in the human breast.
In the UK Trial for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Nottingham, 119 women were identified as having fibrocystic change with epithelial hyperplasia or in situ carcinoma.
Their mammo... | C23 |
7,840 | 7,114 | Ultrasonography in patients with suspected acute appendicitis: a prospective study.
The diagnostic accuracy of high-resolution real-time ultrasonography was prospectively studied in 240 patients admitted to the hospital with suspected acute appendicitis.
The criteria for ultrasound diagnosis of appendicitis included ... | C23 |
7,841 | 7,052 | Flow cytometric DNA content of adenoid cystic carcinoma of submandibular gland. Correlation of histologic features and prognosis.
Flow cytometric analysis of nuclear DNA content was performed in 26 adenoid cystic carcinomas of the submandibular gland using archived, paraffin-embedded tissues.
The DNA content was comp... | C23 |
7,842 | 5,860 | Sixty consecutive breast reconstructions with the inflatable expander: a critical appraisal.
Breast reconstruction using inflatable expanders has become an established and preferred technique.
Although our knowledge of the biomechanical changes occurring in expanded skin has increased greatly, little information is a... | C23 |
7,843 | 924 | An effective and adaptable transvenous defibrillation system using the coronary sinus in humans.
With use of a coronary sinus catheter electrode, a right ventricular catheter electrode and a chest wall patch electrode system, defibrillation threshold voltage, current and energy were measured with four distinct transve... | C23 |
7,844 | 9,609 | Total perinatal wastage. A clarification of priorities.
The pregnancy outcome of 16,971 women carrying 17,352 living fetuses after 16 weeks gestation was studied.
As well as recording perinatal deaths, all losses before 28 weeks and up to one year after delivery were recorded to give a total perinatal wastage rate of... | C23 |
7,845 | 305 | The effect of screws and pegs on the initial fixation stability of an uncemented unicondylar knee replacement.
Two uncemented unicompartmental tibial components were examined for initial fixation stability.
A conventional design that employed a single posteriorly angled peg was compared with a new design that was hel... | C23 |
7,846 | 5,900 | Interventional radiology of the biliary tract. Metallic stents.
Biliary metallic stents were placed in 18 patients with bile duct obstruction.
Six patients received Gianturco stents and 14 Wall-stents.
Results of these tests are discussed. | C23 |
7,847 | 330 | A three-year retrospective study of synovectomies in children.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of synovectomies in children with juvenile arthritis.
Five hundred twenty-eight synovectomies and tenosynovectomies were performed over a period of 13 years.
The patients were followed for one, two, three... | C23 |
7,848 | 5,559 | Experience with photocoagulation in Behcet's disease.
Between 1973 and 1987 we examined both eyes of 300 patients with the uveoretinitis-type lesions characteristic of Behcet's disease.
Of the 556 eyes whose fundus could be examined, 38 eyes (6.8%) in 33 patients (11%) had developed retinal capillary nonperfusion, br... | C23 |
7,849 | 6,615 | Effect on outcome of prolonged exposure of patients to nitrous oxide.
Prolonged (several days or repeated) exposure to nitrous oxide (N2O) can cause injury or death.
To assess whether relatively prolonged anesthesia with N2O in normal patients might similarly cause untoward effects, we investigated whether the additi... | C23 |
7,850 | 8,624 | Postoperative hypertension: a prospective, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind trial, with intravenous nicardipine hydrochloride.
Nicardipine hydrochloride, a new calcium channel blocker for intravenous use, has been compared with placebo in a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial on postoperative hyper... | C23 |
7,851 | 4,861 | Myocardial uptake of indium-111-labeled antimyosin in acute subendocardial infarction: clinical, histochemical, and autoradiographic correlation of myocardial necrosis.
Indium-111-labeled antimyosin has been utilized in the diagnosis and localization of acute transmural myocardial infarction.
The present report descr... | C23 |
7,852 | 6,220 | Rupture of coronary vasa vasorum as a trigger of acute myocardial infarction.
Some controversy has always existed regarding the presence and extent of the vasa vasorum--the nutrient vessels in the wall of the human aorta--in the coronary arteries.
Now, cinemicrographic studies using silicone polymer injections in cle... | C23 |
7,853 | 7,331 | Interruption of critical aortoiliac collateral circulation during nonvascular operations: a cause of acute limb-threatening ischemia.
In patients with aortoiliac occlusive disease interruption of critical collaterals during another nonvascular or cardiac operation may threaten limb viability.
This occurred in four pa... | C23 |
7,854 | 298 | Five-year postoperative results of cemented femoral arthroplasty in patients with systemic bone disease.
To determine whether bone cellular abnormality affects the results of cemented femoral arthroplasty, 21 patients had biopsies of the iliac crest and femoral cortex at the time of surgery.
Roentgenographic and hist... | C23 |
7,855 | 752 | Surgical treatment for severe slipping of the upper femoral epiphysis.
We have used a modified technique of cervical osteotomy to treat a consecutive series of 23 patients with chronic slip of the upper femoral epiphysis.
It has been successful in correcting both moderate and severe deformities with a low incidence o... | C23 |
7,856 | 9,497 | Limitation of myocardial infarct size by a right ventricular assist device.
To evaluate the effects of an RVAD on myocardial ischemic injury during right coronary artery (RCA) ligation, a pneumatically driven pusher plate pump was inserted between the right atrium and pulmonary artery, and the RCA was ligated at its o... | C23 |
7,857 | 6,996 | Long-term effect of dopaminergic drugs in restless legs. A 2-year follow-up.
Thirty patients with restless legs syndrome, who initially had all responded well to treatment with levodopa and benserazide, were studied as to the long-term effect of the drugs (at least 2 years).
During the 2-year period, two patients wer... | C23 |
7,858 | 9,593 | Recombinant human erythropoietin does not increase clotting in vascular accesses.
The incidence of vascular access clotting was evaluated over 5.25 years.
The first 32 months served as a control period.
During the second period of 31 months, recombinant human erythropoietin (epoetin) was used for an average duration... | C23 |
7,859 | 3,189 | Characterization of the in vitro maturation of monocytes and the susceptibility to HIV infection.
The in vitro maturation of peripheral blood monocytes to macrophages can be followed morphologically, and by measurement of cell surface antigens (CD4, HLA-DR, and FcR III) and lysozyme production.
We used these markers ... | C23 |
7,860 | 3,107 | Urgent care center pediatric telephone advice.
Pediatric telephone advice is sought frequently by members of the community.
This study was undertaken to evaluate the quality and accuracy of pediatric telephone advice given by free-standing urgent care centers.
One hundred such facilities were telephoned and advice w... | C23 |
7,861 | 9,187 | Avascular necrosis of bone: a common serious complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
PURPOSE: To describe the incidence, presentation, clinical course, and management of avascular necrosis of bone following bone marrow transplantation, and to identify risk factors related to its development and outcome... | C23 |
7,862 | 5,094 | The Madigan prostatectomy.
A total of 59 patients with bladder outflow obstruction underwent the Madigan prostatectomy.
The method, results and complications are described.
For select patients with large benign adenomas without a median lobe or hematuria we believe the technique to be the operation of choice, partic... | C23 |
7,863 | 5,490 | Verbal memory impairment correlates with hippocampal pyramidal cell density.
Thirty-five patients with medically refractory epilepsy localized to the temporal lobe (18 left, 17 right) completed the verbal Selective Reminding Test before surgery.
Verbal memory impairments existed before surgery regardless of the later... | C23 |
7,864 | 7,200 | Pearson's marrow-pancreas syndrome. A multisystem mitochondrial disorder in infancy.
Pearson's marrow-pancreas syndrome (McKusick No.
26056) is a fatal disorder of hitherto unknown etiology involving the hematopoietic system, exocrine pancreas, liver, and kidneys.
The observation of high lactate/pyruvate molar ratio... | C23 |
7,865 | 5,338 | Pancreaticopleural fistula. Report of 7 patients and review of the literature.
Pancreaticopleural fistula is an uncommon clinical condition.
Its presentation is often confusing because of the paucity of clues suggestive of pancreatic disease and the preponderance of pulmonary symptoms and signs.
Most patients are al... | C23 |
7,866 | 7,892 | Pulmonary vascular steal in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
After pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, performed for relief of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, perfusion lung scans have frequently disclosed new perfusion defects in segments served by undissected pulmonary arteries.
Our hypoth... | C23 |
7,867 | 9,996 | Total bladder replacement using detubularized sigmoid colon: technique and results.
We performed total bladder replacement with a detubularized segment of sigmoid colon in patients after cystoprostatectomy.
The surgical technique and long-term results in 27 patients are reported.
This neobladder configuration compar... | C23 |
7,868 | 7,154 | Neurologic complications in chronic renal failure: a retrospective study.
We have retrospectively examined 324 patients with chronic renal failure and evaluated the probable underlying causes of neurologic complications, laboratory data and therapeutic interventions.
The common neurologic problems in our patients wer... | C23 |
7,869 | 5,132 | Femur fracture with limb shortening causing occlusion of a polytetrafluoroethylene femoral popliteal graft.
Traumatic occlusion of lower extremity polytetrafluoroethylene arterial grafts is exceedingly rare.
We report a patient who suffered a supracondylar femur fracture resulting in shortening of her right lower ext... | C23 |
7,870 | 8,535 | Clinical characteristics and coronary angiographic findings of patients with unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, and survivors of sudden ischemic death occurring during and after sport.
The clinical characteristics and coronary angiographic findings of 42 well-conditioned subjects with an acute ischemic even... | C23 |
7,871 | 3,552 | Mechanical myocardial actuation during ventricular fibrillation improves tolerance to ischemia compared with cardiopulmonary bypass.
Direct mechanical ventricular actuation (DMVA) is a unique non-blood-contacting biventricular assist device that provides circulatory support during ventricular fibrillation without demo... | C23 |
7,872 | 9,876 | Retroperitoneal fibrosis after surgery for aortic aneurysm in a patient with periarteritis nodosa: successful treatment with corticosteroids.
A 54-year-old man with hepatitis B virus-related periarteritis nodosa developed retroperitoneal fibrosis with bilateral hydronephrosis 2.5 months after placement of an aortobife... | C23 |
7,873 | 6,759 | Risk for colon adenomas in patients with rectosigmoid hyperplastic polyps
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hyperplastic polyps found in the rectosigmoid area of the colon are associated with proximal adenomas, and to judge whether patients with distal hyperplastic polyps found during sigmoidoscopy might benefit from f... | C23 |
7,874 | 2,975 | Acute lead poisoning in nursing home and psychiatric patients from the ingestion of lead-based ceramic glazes.
To our knowledge, acute inorganic lead poisoning from single ingestions of lead compounds has been only rarely reported.
During a 14-month period, we were contacted regarding eight instances of acute ingesti... | C23 |
7,875 | 2,152 | Kidney transplantation in patients aged sixty years and older.
Outcomes of renal transplantation were reviewed for 26 transplants performed in 25 patients 60 years of age or older between 1985 and 1989.
Three grafts were from family donors and 23 were from cadaver donors.
Twenty-one were first transplants and five w... | C23 |
7,876 | 6,810 | Recurrent seizures in children with Shigella-associated convulsions.
Fifty-five children with Shigella-associated convulsions were followed prospectively to investigate their risk of subsequent febrile or nonfebrile seizures.
The duration of the follow-up period was between 6.9 and 14.1 years (9.7 +/- 3.1 years).
No... | C23 |
7,877 | 6,096 | Rebleeding from intracranial dissecting aneurysm in the vertebral artery.
We describe two patients with rebleeding from intracranial vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms during the acute stage.
One patient had excellent results after emergency surgery.
A review of recent reports including 60 patients with this diso... | C23 |
7,878 | 2,003 | Can the status of tubal pregnancy be predicted with transvaginal sonography? A prospective comparison of sonographic, surgical, and serum hCG findings
Results of transvaginal sonography were compared prospectively with surgical findings and levels of serum human chorionic gonadotropin in 120 women with a proved tubal... | C23 |
7,879 | 428 | Palliative operations for colorectal cancer.
A review of 96 consecutive patients who underwent palliative surgery for primary colorectal cancer was undertaken to clarify the value of palliation achieved with surgical treatment.
The overall rate of postoperative mortality was 8 percent (8 of 96) and the overall rate o... | C23 |
7,880 | 3,769 | Electrocardiographic J waves after resuscitation from cardiac arrest.
A patient was monitored prior to, during, and after cardiac arrest with a Holter monitor and an electrocardiograph.
The arrest occurred without any premonitory signs on the ECG.
At the onset of the arrest, torsades de pointes ventricular tachycard... | C23 |
7,881 | 5,226 | Rupture of thoracic aorta caused by blunt trauma. A fifteen-year experience.
During the 15 years from 1971 through 1985, 114 patients with rupture of the thoracic aorta caused by blunt trauma were admitted to the Shock Trauma Center of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems.
Mean age was 31.3 y... | C23 |
7,882 | 2,479 | Cystic fibrosis mutations in North American populations of French ancestry: analysis of Quebec French-Canadian and Louisiana Acadian families.
A 3-bp deletion (delta F508) in the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene is the mutation on the majority of CF chromosomes.
We studied 112 CF families from North American populations of ... | C23 |
7,883 | 6,066 | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for necrotizing fasciitis reduces mortality and the need for debridements.
Twenty-nine patients with necrotizing fasciitis were treated from 1980 to 1988.
This study evaluates how the addition of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy to surgical treatment has affected mortality and the number of d... | C23 |
7,884 | 6,048 | Intraoperative scintigraphy for active small intestinal bleeding.
Localizing active sites of bleeding within the small intestine remains a difficult task.
Endoscopic, angiographic or scintigraphic studies may point to the small intestine as the site of blood loss, but at operation, without a palpable lesion, the exac... | C23 |
7,885 | 3,674 | Mefloquine kinetics in cured and recrudescent patients with acute falciparum malaria and in healthy volunteers.
Mefloquine pharmacokinetics were compared in a randomized clinical trial in Thailand among patients with malaria and healthy volunteers.
A single oral dose of 1500 mg mefloquine hydrochloride was administer... | C23 |
7,886 | 4,203 | Reappraisal of surgical treatment of traumatic transection of the thoracic aorta.
Since Crawford's report in 1973, repair of traumatic transection of the thoracic aorta without shunt or bypass has emerged as a popular technique which simplifies the operation and avoids use of heparin.
Growing evidence, however, indic... | C23 |
7,887 | 3,119 | Near fatal subacute thallium poisoning necessitating prolonged mechanical ventilation.
The authors describe a case of severe sensory-motor polyneuropathy caused by subacute thallium-intoxication rapidly progressing to respiratory failure due to complete muscle paralysis.
After more than 2 months of mechanical ventila... | C23 |
7,888 | 9,095 | Inactivation of human alpha-globin gene expression by a de novo deletion located upstream of the alpha-globin gene cluster.
Synthesis of normal human hemoglobin A, alpha 2 beta 2, is based upon balanced expression of genes in the alpha-globin gene cluster on chromosome 16 and the beta-globin gene cluster on chromosome... | C23 |
7,889 | 3,853 | Small intestinal fatty acid synthesis is increased in diabetic rats.
Several studies have demonstrated that intestinal triglyceride production and secretion are increased in diabetic animals and may contribute to the hypertriglyceridemia that accompanies diabetes.
There are three potential sources of fatty acids for ... | C23 |
7,890 | 6,433 | The Maylard incision in gynecologic surgery
The transverse muscle-splitting Maylard incision was used in 175 gynecologic patients who required pelvic-abdominal surgery.
One hundred fifty-three patients (87%) had pelvic malignancy; other indications for operation included uterine myomas, endometriosis, tuboovarian ab... | C23 |
7,891 | 2,132 | Cavernous-carotid thrombosis and ocular motor paresis
A 64-year-old man presented with the acute onset of unilateral blindness and ipsilateral ocular motor paresis.
Occlusion of the central retinal artery associated with thrombosis of the internal carotid artery in the cavernous sinus was demonstrated by angiography... | C23 |
7,892 | 266 | Transoesophageal pacing for perioperative control of neonatal paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
The perioperative management of a 16-day-old infant with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is discussed.
Vagal manoeuvres and medication were not adequate in controlling the SVT.
Since the patient was sc... | C23 |
7,893 | 8,094 | Biomechanics of a double prosthetic ligament in the anterior cruciate deficient knee.
We have assessed the biomechanical properties of a 'double-bundle' prosthetic ligament replacing the anterior cruciate in cadaver knees.
We compared the results with those of single bundle 'over-the-top' and 'through-the-condyle' te... | C23 |
7,894 | 6,675 | Successful CPR in a severely hypothermic patient using continuous thoracostomy lavage.
Severe hypothermia with cardiopulmonary arrest often requires prolonged resuscitation while rewarming procedures are implemented.
A 63-year-old male in cardiopulmonary arrest with a core body temperature of 23.7 C was resuscitated ... | C23 |
7,895 | 2,372 | Arterial protection: a neglected but crucial therapeutic goal.
Hypertension is accompanied by 2 major types of arterial pathologic conditions: smooth muscle hypertrophy of arteriolar resistance vessels and atherosclerosis, primarily involving the larger arteries.
Smooth muscle hypertrophy may develop either as a seco... | C23 |
7,896 | 6,035 | Comparison of structure, mechanical properties, and functions of lumbar spinal ligaments.
The organization of collagen in the supraspinous, interspinous, and longitudinal ligaments, as well as the ligamenta flava, in lumbar spines from human cadavers has been investigated by polarized light microscopy, scanning electr... | C23 |
7,897 | 8,780 | The importance of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium in familial adenomatous polyposis.
We describe a family with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).
Three of five members with FAP showed flat, well-demarcated, round to oval pi... | C23 |
7,898 | 3,337 | Malignant left-sided large bowel obstruction managed by subtotal/total colectomy.
Of 60 patients presenting with acute obstructing carcinoma of the left colon, 49 underwent immediate resection either by radical subtotal/total colectomy (31 patients, group I) or by radical segmental resection (18 patients, group II) of... | C23 |
7,899 | 4,205 | Thrombectomy for late graft limb occlusion: our experience in 182 consecutive cases.
Late occlusion of an aortofemoral bypass graft is usually caused by fibrointimal hyperplasia or progressive atherosclerosis.
Several surgical approaches have been advocated in order to minimize the operative risk, to correct the impa... | C23 |
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