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7,900 | 6,123 | The pathophysiology of anoxic injury in central nervous system white matter.
White matter of the mammalian brain is susceptible to anoxic injury, but little is known about the pathophysiology of this process.
We studied the mechanisms of anoxic injury in white matter using the isolated rat optic nerve, a typical cent... | C23 |
7,901 | 2,751 | Intravascular laser therapy of acute myocardial infarction.
The efficacy of a new method of treatment, endovascular blood irradiation with He-Ne laser, developed by the authors, was studied in 295 patients with primary acute transmural myocardial infarction (MI).
Twenty-four-hour Holter monitoring findings before and... | C23 |
7,902 | 6,084 | Remote effect of deep-seated vascular brain lesions on cerebral blood flow.
We measured regional cerebral blood flow using the xenon-133 inhalation method, at approximately 1 month after onset, in 60 stroke patients who had no evidence of major carotid artery stenosis or occlusion.
Their single lesions (43 infarcts a... | C23 |
7,903 | 9,714 | Evidence for motor neuropathy and reduced filling of the rectum in chronic intractable constipation.
Subtotal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis is now frequently offered to patients with slow transit constipation who have severe symptoms and no response to more conventional medical treatment.
If this operation is... | C23 |
7,904 | 5,380 | A controlled trial of early adjunctive treatment with corticosteroids for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. California Collaborative Treatment Group.
BACKGROUND.
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia remains a common cause of serious morbidity and mortality in patients with the acquir... | C23 |
7,905 | 2,916 | Perforated duodenal ulcer: an unusual complication of gastroenteritis.
A 7 year old boy was admitted to hospital with gastroenteritis, which was complicated by an acute perforated duodenal ulcer.
After oversewing of the perforation he made an uncomplicated recovery.
Peptic ulceration is under-diagnosed in childhood ... | C23 |
7,906 | 7,587 | Multiple myeloma and acute megakaryoblast leukemia in spent phase polycythemia vera.
The spontaneous and simultaneous occurrence of multiple myeloma and megakaryoblast leukemia with myelodysplastic features in a case of spent phase polycythemia vera is well documented.
In support of the morphologic characteristics of... | C23 |
7,907 | 5,138 | Unusual aspects of aortovenous fistulas associated with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Three unusual cases of an abdominal aortic aneurysm spontaneously rupturing into the retroperitoneum and an adherent posterior vein are reported.
No patient demonstrated signs or symptoms of an aortovenous fistula before surg... | C23 |
7,908 | 7,652 | Platysma myocutaneous flap for repair of hypopharyngeal strictures.
Hypopharyngeal strictures, either isolated or in conjunction with laryngeal and esophageal strictures, can occur following lye ingestion.
Extensive stricture formation requires reconstruction to create a functional funnel system that empties below th... | C23 |
7,909 | 2,575 | Vitrectomy retinotomy aspiration biopsy of choroidal tumors
We used an investigational technique for the biopsy of intraocular tumors to aid in the diagnosis of three choroidal tumors.
A three-port trans-pars plana vitrectomy was performed in conjunction with retinotomy, tumor biopsy, endophotocoagulation, and air-f... | C23 |
7,910 | 6,837 | Parietal cell vagotomy and dilatation for peptic duodenal stricture.
Gastric outlet obstruction due to peptic duodenal stricture (pyloric stenosis) was treated with parietal cell vagotomy and dilatation of the stricture in 32 patients.
Follow-up is in the range of 5 years in 37.4% of the patients, while 6 to 10 years... | C23 |
7,911 | 7,365 | A palmar dermatosis linked to occult carcinoma of the upper thorax, head and neck: Bazex's syndrome and tripe palm.
An unusual, persistent, corregated-to-honeycombed thickening of the palms accompanied by tenderness around the fingernails was found to be a cutaneous marker for internal malignancy.
This combination of... | C23 |
7,912 | 5,621 | Adrenal medullary implants in the rat spinal cord reduce nociception in a chronic pain model.
Previous work in this laboratory has indicated that the transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue into the subarachnoid space of the rat spinal cord can reduce pain sensitivity to acute noxious stimuli, particularly followi... | C23 |
7,913 | 2,528 | Laparoscopic ventrosuspensions. A review of 72 cases.
Laparoscopic ventrosuspension is simple to perform after diagnostic laparoscopy.
Serious postoperative complication is unlikely.
However, patient follow-up over 6 months has not confirmed the usefulness of laparoscopic ventrosuspension in the management of deep d... | C23 |
7,914 | 9,056 | v-Ha-ras transgene abrogates the initiation step in mouse skin tumorigenesis: effects of phorbol esters and retinoic acid.
Experimental carcinogenesis has led to a concept that defines two discrete stages in the development of skin tumors: (i) initiation, which is accomplished by using a mutagen that presumably activa... | C23 |
7,915 | 734 | Simultaneous or staged bilateral total knee replacements in rheumatoid arthritis. A prospective study.
In a prospective study of 100 knee arthroplasties in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, simultaneous bilateral surgery was compared with staged bilateral replacements.
All patients had improved function following t... | C23 |
7,916 | 9,864 | A randomized trial of the effect of three non-steroid anti-inflammatory agents in ameliorating cancer-induced fever.
Paraneoplastic fever is well known, and is not an uncommon problem in daily practice.
In an effort to ameliorate tumour-induced fever we randomized 48 patients to receive three different non-steroid an... | C23 |
7,917 | 6,046 | Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver.
Twenty-four patients underwent biopsy or resection of the liver for focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1978 to 1988.
Twenty-two of the patients were women.
The mean age was 35 years.
A history of antecedent oral contraceptive or con... | C23 |
7,918 | 9,665 | Nicardipine reduces the cardio-respiratory toxicity of intravenously administered bupivacaine in rats.
The purpose of our study was to examine the effect of intravenous (IV) nicardipine pretreatment (30 micrograms.kg-1), given three minutes before an IV bolus of bupivacaine to determine its effect on the incidence of ... | C23 |
7,919 | 7,729 | Severe tricuspid regurgitation after mitral valve repair: diagnosis by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.
Transesophageal echocardiography facilitates the evaluation of valvular repair in the operating room.
The functional valvular morphology and degree of valvular regurgitation can be assessed before a... | C23 |
7,920 | 7,679 | Three-year outcomes for maintenance therapies in recurrent depression.
We conducted a randomized 3-year maintenance trial in 128 patients with recurrent depression who had responded to combined short-term and continuation treatment with imipramine hydrochloride and interpersonal psychotherapy.
A five-cell design was ... | C23 |
7,921 | 9,582 | Thrombus in a natural left ventricle during left ventricular assist: another thromboembolic risk factor.
Systemic thromboembolism is one of the serious complications during use of a left ventricular assist system (LVAS).
The authors' original LVAS has excellent antithrombogenicity to reduce this risk, but thrombus fo... | C23 |
7,922 | 6,835 | Results of a multicenter trial comparing imipenem/cilastatin to tobramycin/clindamycin for intra-abdominal infections.
We designed a multicenter study to compare tobramycin/clindamycin to imipenem/cilastatin for intra-abdominal infections.
We included the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) ind... | C23 |
7,923 | 4,052 | Hepatic injury induced by bile salts: correlation between biochemical and morphological events.
Continuous intravenous infusion of taurochenodeoxycholate at a rate of 0.4 mumol.min-1.100 gm-1 for only 30 min in rats caused threefold to tenfold greater release of proteins (alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase an... | C23 |
7,924 | 2,436 | Serum amylase in patients with renal insufficiency and renal failure.
Results vary with regard to the upper limits of serum amylase seen in patients with renal failure, and very little has been reported with patients with renal insufficiency not yet requiring dialysis.
To determine the level of serum amylase elevatio... | C23 |
7,925 | 6,710 | IgG1-mediated acute pulmonary hypersensitivity response in the guinea pig. Involvement of specific lipid mediators.
We determined the pulmonary obstructive response to aerosolized antigen challenge, and its sensitivity to antagonists of specific lipid mediators, in IgG, passively sensitized (IgG1-PS) guinea pigs.
Ant... | C23 |
7,926 | 5,567 | Central visual field changes after panretinal photocoagulation in proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
This study comprises 53 eyes, divided into two groups A and B, with proliferative diabetic retinopathy which were treated with panretinal photocoagulation (PRP).
Its purpose is to investigate the alterations in the c... | C23 |
7,927 | 3,992 | Role of visceral afferent mechanisms in functional bowel disorders.
This report analyzes the clinical and physiological evidence supporting a role for altered visceral afferent mechanisms in the pathogenesis of two functional bowel syndromes: noncardiac chest pain and the irritable bowel syndrome.
Considerable recent... | C23 |
7,928 | 5,930 | Emphysematous gastritis: case report and review.
Emphysematous gastritis is a condition involving gastric wall inflammation, radiologic or intraoperative evidence of intramural gas, and systemic toxicity.
A recent case of emphysematous gastritis in a 57-year-old diabetic man is reported, and 27 cases published since ... | C23 |
7,929 | 3,038 | Massive splenomegaly. Superior results with a combined endovascular and operative approach.
Splenectomy for massive splenomegaly (drained splenic weight, greater than 1000 g) has an uncommonly high morbidity and mortality because of technical challenges and problems of hemostasis.
In a group of 10 patients with massi... | C23 |
7,930 | 5,933 | Tropical neuromyelopathies and retroviruses: a review.
Debilitating disorders of the nervous system have a relatively high prevalence in the tropics, a geographic region that is often deficient in specialists in the fields of neurology and epidemiology.
During World War II, attention was called to a possible nutritio... | C23 |
7,931 | 3,491 | Reperfusion and readmission of oxygen. Pathophysiological relevance of oxygen-derived free radicals to arrhythmogenesis.
We have examined the pathophysiological role of readmission of oxygen (and hence production of oxygen-derived free radicals) in the initiation of reperfusion-induced arrhythmias by separating, on a ... | C23 |
7,932 | 4,469 | Skin responses to intradermal histamine and leukotrienes C4, D4, and E4 in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria and in normal subjects.
Mast cell inflammatory mediators, such as histamine, and newly formed compounds, such as the leukotrienes, cause wheal and flare when they are injected intradermally into normal... | C23 |
7,933 | 7,750 | Heterogeneity in progressive aphasia due to focal cortical atrophy. A clinical and PET study.
Six patients with a slowly progressive aphasic disorder due to degenerative cortical disease are reported.
The length of history varied from 18 months to 6 years.
In 5 patients, there was a naming deficit, associated in 4 o... | C23 |
7,934 | 8,443 | Site and strand specificity of UVB mutagenesis in the SUP4-o gene of yeast [published erratum appears in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991 Mar 1;88(5):2035]
DNA sequencing was used to characterize 208 mutations induced in the SUP4-o tRNA gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by UVB (285-320 nm) radiation.
The result... | C23 |
7,935 | 9,481 | Endothelialization of vascular prostheses by transplantation of venous tissue fragments.
A method to accelerate the endothelialization of vascular prostheses by seeding venous tissue fragments was developed.
A piece of peripheral vein was obtained, chopped into small fragments, and stirred into 20 ml of saline, makin... | C23 |
7,936 | 5,126 | Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm masquerading as occlusion of the inferior vena cava.
Inflammatory aneurysms are an uncommon disorder that represent between 5% and 10% of abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Their presentation is often variable and may include pain and obstruction of adjacent anatomic structures.
This ... | C23 |
7,937 | 8,644 | Predicting treatment outcome in nocturnal enuresis.
A presenting sample of 127 consecutive referrals to a community based enuresis clinic were evaluated after treatment with baseline behavioural recording and the enuresis alarm.
Almost one in five became dry after baseline recording only while 81 of 96 (84%) enuretic... | C23 |
7,938 | 5,130 | The effects of an iron chelator on cellular injury induced by vascular stasis caused by hypothermia.
Rewarming of a cooled rabbit leg was associated with the generation of oxygen-derived free radicals, shown to be instrumental for tissue injury occurring during rewarming.
The present study used a compound that, by it... | C23 |
7,939 | 8,357 | Internuclear ophthalmoplegia in the Chiari type II malformation.
We describe 3 cases of Chiari type II malformation presenting with bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO).
Although prominent, the INO was not an isolated sign in any of the patients; superimposed abduction paresis was present in 2, and deficits i... | C23 |
7,940 | 7,800 | Remodeling of the rat right and left ventricles in experimental hypertension.
Pathological left ventricular hypertrophy in renovascular hypertension is associated with the accumulation of fibrillar collagen within the extracellular space and around intramyocardial coronary arteries.
Even though the angiotensin conver... | C23 |
7,941 | 6,375 | Analysis of DNA polymorphisms suggests that most de novo dup(21q) chromosomes in patients with Down syndrome are isochromosomes and not translocations.
Down syndrome is rarely due to a de novo duplication of chromosome 21 [dup(21q)].
To investigate the origin of the dup(21q) and the nature of this chromosome, we used... | C23 |
7,942 | 7,631 | Mast cell heterogeneity in chronic idiopathic urticaria.
Patients with chronic urticaria are more sensitive to codeine skin testing than other allergic individuals.
Nonlesional skin in most patients with chronic urticaria was found to contain increased numbers of both total and atypical mast cells.
The presence of i... | C23 |
7,943 | 6,838 | Intrarectal ultrasonography in rectal cancer staging and in the evaluation of pelvic disease. Clinical uses of intrarectal ultrasound.
Accurate preoperative staging of a rectal cancer patient may impact heavily on subsequent management.
This study attempts to evaluate the accuracy of intrarectal ultrasonography (IRUS... | C23 |
7,944 | 5,348 | Soleus-specific myopathy induced by passive stretching under local tetanus.
Twenty-four adult albino rats were injected with tetanus toxin into the right gastrocnemius muscle and then subjected to sustained dorsiflexion of the right ankle joint for 2 to 14 days.
Histologic examinations of the soleus after this proced... | C23 |
7,945 | 6,087 | Effect of emitted power on waveform intensity in transcranial Doppler
This study assesses the problem of transcranial Doppler recording failure and seeks to determine the extent to which this can be ameliorated by increased emitted power.
We hypothesized that waveform intensity is directly related to the rate and qu... | C23 |
7,946 | 7,689 | Percutaneous catheter drainage of infected pancreatic and peripancreatic fluid collections.
Operative drainage is the cornerstone of therapy for pancreatic abscess.
Recently it has been suggested that successful percutaneous catheter drainage of infected pancreatic and peripancreatic fluid collections may serve as de... | C23 |
7,947 | 9,618 | Magnetic resonance imaging in idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: measurement of T1 relaxation time.
Magnetic resonance imaging at 0.08 Tesla was performed in nine patients with proven idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.
A total of 11 scans was performed.
Three patients were scanned before diagnosis; one of these ... | C23 |
7,948 | 9,271 | Postoperative sore throat: topical hydrocortisone
Forty patients undergoing tracheal intubation and controlled ventilation of the lungs for elective surgical procedures were studied.
They were allocated randomly into one of two groups.
The tracheal tubes used for group A patients were lubricated before insertion wi... | C23 |
7,949 | 3,478 | Electrotonic influences on action potentials from isolated ventricular cells.
This work combines a theoretical study of electrical interactions between two excitable heart cells, using a variable coupling resistance, with experimental studies on isolated rabbit ventricular cells coupled with a variable coupling resist... | C23 |
7,950 | 2,843 | Cochlear implant flap complications.
In a series of 52 patients who received cochlear implants, 4 patients suffered flap complications (7.7%).
The problems encountered involved the postauricular flap and were usually minor in nature.
None required explantation as a direct result of these complications.
Flap ischemi... | C23 |
7,951 | 2,090 | The natural history of lumbar intervertebral disc extrusions treated nonoperatively.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the natural history of morphologic changes within the lumbar spine in patients who sustained lumbar disc extrusions.
All patients in this study were treated nonoperatively for radicular pain ... | C23 |
7,952 | 8,747 | Home treatment for acute psychiatric illness
OBJECTIVE--To determine the factors influencing the successful outcome of community treatment for severe acute psychiatric illnesses that are traditionally treated in hospital.
DESIGN--All patients from a single electoral ward who were either admitted to hospital or treat... | C23 |
7,953 | 5,649 | Development and validation of an index for scoring baseline respiratory disease in the very low birth weight neonate. Severity Index Development and Validation Panels and Newborn Lung Project.
An accurate description of the population at risk for neonatal chronic lung disease is clearly of prime importance for compara... | C23 |
7,954 | 6,324 | Neurodevelopmental performance of very-low-birth-weight infants with mild periventricular, intraventricular hemorrhage. Outcome at 5 to 6 years of age.
The neurodevelopmental outcome of 38 very-low-birth-weight neonates (birth weight, less than 1501 g) was followed up prospectively from birth to 5 to 6 years of age to... | C23 |
7,955 | 6,733 | Colobronchial fistula: a rare complication of Crohn's colitis.
A 29-yr-old white woman presented with chronic pneumonia in the left lower lobe and with left pleural effusion.
She was known to have inflammatory bowel disease, but she was asymptomatic under maintenance treatment with 5-ASA.
She received numerous antib... | C23 |
7,956 | 2,985 | Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. Recognition of a distinct clinicopathologic entity
The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome is a newly described disorder related to the ingestion of L-tryptophan-containing products.
Its presentation may mimic other disorders characterized by eosinophilia and muscle pain and/or weakness, but... | C23 |
7,957 | 8,983 | Current trends in suture fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lenses.
Corneal surgeons were surveyed with regard to their technique of suture fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lenses in the absence of posterior capsular support.
Fifty-nine percent of the 260 respondents stated they perform the procedure ... | C23 |
7,958 | 3,566 | Identification of patients at greatest risk for developing major complications at cardiac surgery [published erratum appears in Circulation 1991 Jul;84(1):446]
As part of a prospective program to use risk-adjusted outcome (operative mortality and morbidity) as a measure of quality of care, we have analyzed perioperati... | C23 |
7,959 | 2,514 | Oral estrogens decrease bleeding time and improve clinical bleeding in patients with renal failure.
PURPOSE: A prolonged bleeding time is associated with platelet dysfunction and clinical bleeding in patients with renal failure.
Parenteral estrogens have been shown to shorten the prolonged bleeding time in patients w... | C23 |
7,960 | 2,811 | Spontaneous splenic rupture following infectious mononucleosis.
Four cases of spontaneous splenic rupture after infectious mononucleosis (IM) have been treated at this institution since 1978.
The condition is rare, occurring in 0.1-0.5 per cent of patients with proven infectious mononucleosis.
Splenectomy is conside... | C23 |
7,961 | 7,608 | Effects of pill-giving on maintenance of placebo response in patients with chronic mild depression
Fifty outpatients with mild, chronic, mood-reactive depression whose mood improved markedly after a 10-day single-blind placebo trial were randomly assigned in a double-blind design either to have their placebo medicati... | C23 |
7,962 | 7,439 | Simplified technique for isolating vascularized rib periosteal grafts.
A modified technique for obtaining a vascularized rib periosteal segment utilizing the posterolateral approach is presented.
The technique avoids the inclusion of a large muscle cuff or the pleura around the isolated rib segment and therefore mini... | C23 |
7,963 | 2,825 | Clinical prediction rule for pulmonary infiltrates
OBJECTIVE: To derive and validate a clinical rule for predicting pneumonic infiltrates in adult patients with acute respiratory illness.
DESIGN: Prevalence studies in three settings.
SETTING: Emergency departments of the University of Illinois Hospital at Chicago, ... | C23 |
7,964 | 9,289 | Genetics of asthma and hay fever in Australian twins.
The occurrence of self-reported asthma/wheezing and hay fever among 3,808 pairs of twins from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Twin Registry was examined for evidence of genetic transmission by path analytic methods.
The cumulative preva... | C23 |
7,965 | 3,309 | The sulphated glycosaminoglycan levels in synovial fluid aspirates in patients with acute and chronic joint disease.
Proteoglycan levels were measured in a series of synovial fluid samples from patients with acute and chronic joint diseases using a modified chemical dye binding method.
Levels found in 50 miscellaneou... | C23 |
7,966 | 2,585 | Facial nerve injury and hemifacial spasm.
We studied evidence of facial nerve damage in patients with hemifacial spasm.
Three types of evidence of nerve damage were analyzed: objectively measured weakness in eyelid protractor strength, clinically evident weakness of muscles innervated by the seventh nerve, and clinic... | C23 |
7,967 | 8,723 | Sinus arrest induced by trivial nasal stimulation during alfentanil-nitrous oxide anaesthesia.
A case is reported of bradycardia and sinus arrest induced by insertion of a nasal temperature probe.
Other possible causes of bradycardia and sinus arrest under anaesthesia are reviewed briefly.
Evidence for the neurologi... | C23 |
7,968 | 4,937 | Facial muscle reanimation using the trigeminal motor nerve: an experimental study in the rabbit.
Surgical repair of facial nerve deficits may be marred by lack of muscle control and donor region paresis.
Using New Zealand white rabbits, a study was undertaken to evaluate facial muscle reanimation with a donor source ... | C23 |
7,969 | 636 | Reduction of gastric ulcer recurrence after suppression of Helicobacter pylori by cefixime.
The effect on the recurrence of gastric ulcers after suppression of Helicobacter pylori by combined treatment with cimetidine and the antimicrobial drug cefixime was investigated.
Twenty one of 43 patients with endoscopically ... | C23 |
7,970 | 3,780 | Perirectal abscess in Crohn's disease. Drainage and outcome.
The role of surgical intervention in the treatment of patients with anorectal Crohn's disease is controversial.
To clarify the success of aggressive drainage and the subsequent clinical course of patients with Crohn's disease and perirectal abscesses, the a... | C23 |
7,971 | 9,239 | Choledochotomy for calculous disease in the elderly.
To determine the risk of operations on the biliary tract in the elderly, we retrospectively examined 56 patients 80 years of age or older undergoing choledochotomy for calculous disease and compared their outcomes with those of a contemporary group of 257 patients u... | C23 |
7,972 | 538 | HLA-DQ beta sequence polymorphism and genetic susceptibility to IDDM.
The analysis of HLA-DQ beta nucleotide sequence polymorphism in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients and control subjects suggests a role for the DQ beta-chain in genetic susceptibility.
Sequence determination and oligonucleotide hyb... | C23 |
7,973 | 8,740 | Profound digital collagen atrophy: a new cutaneous presentation of adrenal-dependent Cushing's syndrome.
A 59-year-old Caucasian housewife presented with a 2-year history of marked loss of tissue substance from the finger and toe pulps and the heel pads.
There was no clinical evidence or history of urticaria or other... | C23 |
7,974 | 8,109 | Cup containment and orientation in cemented total hip arthroplasties.
We reviewed the radiographs of 864 Charnley and STH (Zimmer) cemented total hip arthroplasties with a mean follow-up of seven years (maximum 16 years).
Survivorship analysis was used to assess the correlation between radiographic performance and th... | C23 |
7,975 | 7,461 | Hepatic infarction in preeclampsia.
Two cases of hepatic infarction in toxemia of pregnancy are described.
Both patients had associated laboratory findings of the HELLP syndrome (hemolytic anemia, elevated liver enzyme levels, and low platelet levels).
Computed tomography (CT) showed nonenhancing low-attenuation are... | C23 |
7,976 | 5,129 | Free protein S deficiency in a family with venous thrombosis.
Inherited deficiencies of protein S, an inhibitor of the coagulation system, are now recognized as occurring at least twice as frequently as antithrombin III deficiency in patients with venous thrombosis.
Protein S is present in plasma in a complexed form,... | C23 |
7,977 | 9,647 | New isotopic technique for detecting prosthetic arterial graft infection: 99mTc-hexametazime-labelled leucocyte imaging.
Early and accurate detection of prosthetic arterial graft infection is important because this serious complication of vascular surgery carries high morbidity and mortality rates.
This report descri... | C23 |
7,978 | 9,893 | Predictors of quitting smoking: the NHANES I followup experience.
There are no published prospective studies on the predictors of spontaneously quitting cigarette smoking in a nationally-representative U.S.
population.
This paper describes such a study, using a cohort taken from the First National Health and Nutriti... | C23 |
7,979 | 3,238 | Serum acute phase proteins after orthotopic liver transplantation.
Acute phase proteins were measured in six patients before liver transplantation and for 72 h after orthotopic liver transplantation.
The ability of the donor liver to mount an acute phase response was demonstrated, although the response was less than ... | C23 |
7,980 | 8,014 | Persistent hepatitis B virus following interferon alfa therapy and liver transplantation.
A 44-year-old man with chronic hepatitis B virus infection and cirrhosis was treated with recombinant human interferon alfa for 67 days immediately before orthotopic liver transplantation and immunoprophylaxis with hyperimmune gl... | C23 |
7,981 | 8,656 | Perianal appearances associated with constipation.
The perianal appearances were studied prospectively of 136 constipated children (mean age 3.9 years, 67 boys, 69 girls).
Anal dilatation, fissures, tags, warts, perianal oedema, redness, blueness, and veins were recorded.
It was noted whether dilatation occurred imm... | C23 |
7,982 | 3,621 | Cemented total knee arthroplasty for gonarthrosis in patients 55 years old or younger.
The results of 68 cemented total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) in 50 patients with gonarthrosis who were 55 years old or younger at the time of surgery were reviewed.
These patients were operated on between 1979 and 1987 and were foll... | C23 |
7,983 | 629 | Referral of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis for liver transplantation.
All patients with primary biliary cirrhosis referred to this unit for consideration for transplantation between April 1981 and January 1989 were analysed retrospectively to assess whether disease stage at referral affects the outcome after ... | C23 |
7,984 | 8,098 | Development of the hip in multiple epiphyseal dysplasia. Natural history and susceptibility to premature osteoarthritis.
We have determined the natural history of hip development in 42 patients with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED).
Premature osteoarthritis was a frequent outcome and was almost inevitable before t... | C23 |
7,985 | 6,285 | Catabolic effects of high-dose corticosteroids persist despite therapeutic benefit in rheumatoid arthritis.
Although corticosteroids (CS) cause nitrogen wasting in healthy humans, it is not known whether the salutary antiinflammatory and appetite-stimulating effects of CS in inflammatory diseases mitigate this effect.... | C23 |
7,986 | 3,509 | Late potentials and inducible ventricular tachycardia in surgically repaired congenital heart disease.
We compared signal-averaged electrocardiography with invasive electrophysiological study in patients after surgical repair of congenital heart disease to determine if potentially useful correlations exist between the... | C23 |
7,987 | 6,063 | High or low hepaticojejunostomy for bile duct strictures?
The 19 patients who underwent 22 postoperative repairs of bile duct stricture in our institution between 1973 and 1984 were evaluated to assess whether the recognition of the tenuous blood supply of the supraduodenal bile duct in 1979 had improved the results t... | C23 |
7,988 | 8,162 | The gastrin hypothesis. Implications for antisecretory drug selection.
Newer potent and long-acting inhibitors of acid secretion, such as the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole, are becoming available for general use.
These drugs promise to control acid-peptic disease effectively in patients who do not respond adequate... | C23 |
7,989 | 451 | Behavioral modification of colonic function. Can constipation be learned?
We challenged the two hypotheses: first, that defecation can be suppressed for an extended time, and second, if so, that this has an effect on upper colonic motility.
Thus we studied 12 male volunteers with conditions of identical nutrition and... | C23 |
7,990 | 9,841 | The electrocardiographic manifestations of cyclic antidepressant therapy and overdose: a review.
Cyclic antidepressants may cause changes in the electrocardiogram at therapeutic or toxic serum levels.
The most serious complications of cyclic antidepressant toxicity are dysrhythmias, hypotension, and seizures.
It is ... | C23 |
7,991 | 5,791 | Homeobox gene expression plus autocrine growth factor production elicits myeloid leukemia.
In the murine myelomonocytic leukemia WEHI-3B, proviral insertions have induced expression of the Hox-2.4 homeobox gene and the gene for the myeloid growth factor interleukin 3 (IL-3).
To assess their potential oncogenic role, ... | C23 |
7,992 | 5,828 | Streamlined approach to creating yeast artificial chromosome libraries from specialized cell sources.
The study of tumor-specific chromosomal abnormalities has been severely impeded by an inability to link cytogenetic to molecular data.
Restriction fragment length polymorphism mapping of any particular chromosomal re... | C23 |
7,993 | 7,333 | One hundred percent oxygen reverses muscle hypoxia in a rat hindlimb model of acute arterial occlusion.
Significant morbidity results from extremity ischemia after acute arterial occlusion.
Reestablishment of arterial flow is considered to be the ideal treatment, yet substantial tissue loss can occur before this is a... | C23 |
7,994 | 2,255 | Neurologic complications of cardiac transplantation.
Between 1984 and 1989, orthotopic cardiac transplantations were done in 90 patients from 10 to 65 years of age for end-stage, refractory congestive cardiomyopathy.
Two patients had had ischemic strokes 5 months and 18 years, respectively, before transplantation.
S... | C23 |
7,995 | 9,706 | Evaluation of 13C-urea breath test in the detection of Helicobacter pylori and in monitoring the effect of tripotassium dicitratobismuthate in non-ulcer dyspepsia
Sixty nine patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia have been studied with endoscopy, biopsy, quick urease (CLO) test, Helicobacter pylori culture, and the 13C-ur... | C23 |
7,996 | 3,175 | Cardiac arrhythmias from a malpositioned Greenfield filter in a traumatic quadriplegic.
A case study is presented of premature Greenfield filter discharge with intracardiac migration and resulting life-threatening arrhythmias.
These arrhythmias also interfered with the patient's transition from ventilatory support vi... | C23 |
7,997 | 8,687 | Comparison of i.m. ketorolac trometamol and morphine sulphate for pain relief after cholecystectomy.
I.m.
ketorolac trometamol 30 mg was compared with morphine sulphate 10 mg after cholecystectomy in a double-blind, multiple dose, randomized study of 100 patients.
Assessments of pain were made immediately after oper... | C23 |
7,998 | 5,914 | Tuberculous psoas muscle abscess following chemoprophylaxis with isoniazid in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
A 34-year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus infection and disseminated Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare infection developed a right psoas muscle abscess due t... | C23 |
7,999 | 2,949 | Complications after cardiac operations in patients with severe pulmonary impairment.
The postoperative courses of 39 patients with severe lung disease (31 with obstructive disease and 8 restrictive) who underwent a cardiac operation were retrospectively reviewed.
The stay in the intensive care unit of the study group... | C23 |
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