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9,800 | 7,377 | Sports-related ocular trauma.
A prospective evaluation of all patients presenting with a sports-related ocular injury during a 1-year (4-season) period was conducted.
Of the 202 patients evaluated, 28 (13.8%) required hospitalization and 11 (5.6%) required intraocular surgery.
Twenty-six patients (12.8%) sustained p... | C21 |
9,801 | 7,690 | Chronic alcohol ingestion increases aortic lipid levels in rats.
We evaluated the effects of alcohol ingestion on aortic lipid concentrations in 15 pair-fed Sprague-Dawley rats divided into three groups of five animals each.
Control rats were fed a liquid diet, with 36% of their energy provided by maltose-dextrin for... | C21 |
9,802 | 9,638 | Prediction of outcome in acute pancreatitis: a comparative study of APACHE II, clinical assessment and multiple factor scoring systems.
The APACHE II severity of disease classification system has been examined prospectively in 160 patients with acute pancreatitis.
Using clinical and simple laboratory data APACHE II w... | C21 |
9,803 | 9,246 | The asymptomatic patient with suspected myocardial contusion.
Diagnostic criteria and guidelines for hospital admission for suspected myocardial contusion (MCC) remain unclear.
This study defines and examines the clinical sequelae of patients admitted with a suspicion of MCC.
Criteria for observation following isola... | C21 |
9,804 | 2,419 | Fatal high cervical spinal cord injury in an automobile accident complicating os odontoideum.
We report a case where spinal instability from incomplete fusion of the dens of C2 (os odontoideum) allowed anterior displacement of the skull and first cervical vertebra following right frontal impact against the A pillar in... | C21 |
9,805 | 5,013 | Gastrointestinal pathology in adult iron overdose.
The gastrointestinal effects of iron overdose have been described in children.
They may occur acutely, ranging in severity from mucosal injury to complete infarction, or several weeks later, as obstruction due to stricture formation.
They typically occur in the stom... | C21 |
9,806 | 312 | A ten-year review of treatment of delayed union and nonunion with an implanted bone growth stimulator.
A ten-year clinical and roentgenographic review was conducted on the patients in the original Australian multicenter trial that evaluated use of an implantable bone growth stimulator for delayed union and nonunion.
... | C21 |
9,807 | 3,830 | Alcohol and trauma.
Countermeasures to alcohol-related trauma are essential.
The public perception that there is low risk of detection and punishment for alcohol-precipitated violence is being addressed.
Current legislation is aimed at decreasing the availability of alcohol (e.g., adjusting legal drinking age, decre... | C21 |
9,808 | 738 | The Hastings bipolar hemiarthroplasty for subcapital fractures of the femoral neck. A 10-year prospective study.
In a 10-year prospective study, 561 displaced subcapital fractures of the femoral neck in 546 patients were treated with the Hastings bipolar hemiarthroplasty.
Within six months of their operations, 148 pa... | C21 |
9,809 | 3,318 | Lesions of the mid-shaft of the humerus presenting as shoulder capsulitis.
We describe three patients who presented with pain and restriction of movement at the shoulder suggestive of capsulitis, but proved to have lesions of the mid-shaft of the humerus.
It is important to be aware of the possibility of this cause o... | C21 |
9,810 | 9,208 | Reporting of occupational injury and illness in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
In the United States, occupational illness and injury cases meeting specific reporting criteria are recorded on company Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 200 logs; case description data are submitted to partici... | C21 |
9,811 | 6,750 | The role of endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERP) in blunt abdominal trauma.
The diagnosis of pancreatic injury is often difficult because it lies retroperitoneally in a protected area.
Delayed diagnosis and treatment of blunt pancreatic trauma can result in significant morbidity and mortality.
Endoscopic Retr... | C21 |
9,812 | 6,846 | Choreoathetosis after deep hypothermia without circulatory arrest
In 8 of 758 patients undergoing an intracardiac operation under cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermia, choreoathetosis developed 3 to 7 days postoperatively.
Before the onset of choreoathetosis, varying degrees of neurological dysfunction were noted.... | C10 |
9,813 | 5,892 | Haemostatic changes in the loin pain and haematuria syndrome: secondary to renal vasospasm?
Twenty-five patients (seven male, 18 female) were diagnosed as having the loin pain and haematuria syndrome.
Presenting symptoms were either loin pain alone or pain associated with macroscopic or microscopic haematuria, and we... | C10 |
9,814 | 7,852 | Continuous removal of middle molecules by hemofiltration in patients with acute liver failure.
In patients with acute liver failure and hepatic coma, an increase in the abnormal "middle molecules" seen on the chromatograms of the sera is suspected of playing an etiologic role in the coma.
A pilot study of continuous ... | C10 |
9,815 | 7,754 | Cerebral blood flow in progressive aphasia without dementia. Case report, using 133xenon inhalation, technetium 99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime and single photon emission computerized tomography.
We report a case of progressive aphasia without clinical signs of intellectual or behavioral impairment, satisfying Mesu... | C10 |
9,816 | 8,589 | Anisocoria in the pigmentary dispersion syndrome
We studied four patients with anisocoria and the pigmentary dispersion syndrome.
In all patients, the larger pupil was on the side of the greater iris transillumination.
The amount of anisocoria was between 0.5 and 1.5 mm and was the same in both the light and dark.
... | C10 |
9,817 | 3,315 | Does primary fibromyalgia exist?
Twenty-one of 25 consecutive primary fibromyalgia or fibrositis patients, identified during a 5-year period in a tertiary care day-ward for pain syndromes, were re-examined.
Fifteen fulfilled criteria for fibromyalgia but unexpectedly, all cases had either psychiatric disturbance or ... | C10 |
9,818 | 8,355 | Routine and quantitative EEG analysis in Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome.
Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (GdlT) is a neurobehavioral disorder, with a reportedly high frequency of EEG abnormalities.
We performed EEGs on 48 consecutive patients with GdlT, and frequency analysis in 26 patients (17 males), and compare... | C10 |
9,819 | 4,846 | Toxoplasmosis of the conus medullaris in a patient with hemophilia A-associated AIDS. Case report.
Toxoplasma gondii has been reported to be the most common cause of focal brain lesions in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
A case of intramedullary toxoplasmosis of the conus medullaris is report... | C10 |
9,820 | 4,830 | Magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents: theory and application to the central nervous system.
The theoretical aspects of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging contrast agents are reviewed, and their current applications to the central nervous system (CNS) and their future applications are discussed.
Profound difference... | C10 |
9,821 | 9,329 | Brain microemboli during cardiac surgery or aortography
We have observed many focal dilatations or very small aneurysms in terminal arterioles and capillaries of 4 of 5 patients and 6 dogs who had recently undergone cardiopulmonary bypass.
A smaller number of sausagelike dilatations distended medium-sized arterioles... | C10 |
9,822 | 9,340 | Failure of nine-month phenobarbital administration to reverse amygdaloid-kindled seizure susceptibility in cats.
Upon completion of left amygdaloid kindling, 4 cats underwent long-term phenobarbital administration during the subsequent 5- to 9-month rest period.
Plasma phenobarbital levels were maintained above 15 to... | C10 |
9,823 | 4,943 | Very low birth weight children: behavior problems and school difficulty in a national sample
We addressed three questions concerning the behavioral and academic status of low and very low birth weight infants through a secondary analysis of the 1981 National Health Interview Survey--Child Health Supplement: (1) in ch... | C10 |
9,824 | 6,797 | Stroke in pediatric acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
In a 4 1/2-year period, 4 of 68 children in a longitudinal study of neurological complications of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had clinical and/or neuroradiological evidence of stroke, yielding a clinical incidence of stroke in this population of ... | C10 |
9,825 | 4,786 | Alcohol-dependent unilateral vestibular impairment persisting after a closed head injury.
A 20-year-old man suffered a closed head injury followed by symptoms of right-sided labyrinthine concussion with complete clinical recovery within 3 weeks.
Episodic vertigo and ataxic gait occurred after the ingestion of small a... | C10 |
9,826 | 4,720 | Hoarseness as the sole presenting symptom of foramen magnum meningioma.
Foramen magnum tumours are rare.
They may present with bizarre symptoms and mimic many conditions.
We report a presentation with the sole complaint of hoarseness, never previously described in the literature.
Voice returned to normal after surg... | C10 |
9,827 | 6,100 | Progress report of the Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Study.
The Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Study recently found and reported (SPAF Investigators, N Engl J Med, 1990;322:863-868) a beneficial effect of both warfarin and aspirin compared with placebo in the primary prevention of ischemic stroke ... | C10 |
9,828 | 7,381 | Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis.
Six patients with evidence of secondary syphilis presented with visual loss in both eyes caused by large, placoid, yellowish lesions with faded centers at the level of the pigment epithelium in the macula and juxtapapillary areas.
All eyes had vitreitis.
All of the... | C10 |
9,829 | 5,506 | Antibodies to synthetic peptide (125-148) of the alpha-subunit of human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in sera from patients with myasthenia gravis.
We measured the amount of antibodies to a synthetic peptide that corresponds to the alpha-subunit residues Lys125-Thr148 of human acetylcholine receptor (AChR) in myast... | C10 |
9,830 | 6,809 | Spinal cord compression with paraplegia in xanthomatosis due to normocholesterolemic sitosterolemia.
A 48-year-old woman with a 30-year history of tendinous xanthomatosis developed paraplegia.
The magnetic resonance image revealed extramedullary tumors.
The analysis of her sera and tumors revealed increased amount o... | C10 |
9,831 | 9,181 | Reversal of chronic hepatic encephalopathy by colonic exclusion: poor correlation with blood GABA levels.
Previous studies have suggested that the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a key factor in the syndrome of portasystemic encephalopathy.
We report the case of a patient with medically ... | C10 |
9,832 | 3,824 | Neurologic complications of alcoholism.
Neurologic and myopathic complications of alcoholism are multiple and diverse, affecting both the central and peripheral nervous systems.
In the ED, initial concern is for diagnosing readily reversible causes and ruling out possible life- or limb-threatening etiologies.
A rapi... | C10 |
9,833 | 9,141 | Cerebrospinal fluid endothelin-1 and endothelin-3 levels in normal and neurosurgical patients: a clinical study and literature review.
Endothelins are a family of structurally related, potent, long-lasting vasoconstrictor peptides.
There are no established normal human levels of endothelin-1 or endothelin-3 in the ce... | C10 |
9,834 | 4,756 | Compliance, reliability, and validity of self-monitoring for physical disturbances of Parkinson's disease. The Parkinson's Symptom Diary.
Previous clinical research in Parkinson's disease has recognized the value of self-monitoring procedures in which patients observe and record the frequency and severity of their own... | C10 |
9,835 | 8,391 | Quantitative evaluation of hypnotically suggested hyperaesthesia and analgesia by painful laser stimulation.
The ability to reduce both clinically and experimentally induced pain by hypnotic suggestion of analgesia is well known.
However, the nature of hypnotic analgesia still remains uncertain.
Attempts to demonstr... | C10 |
9,836 | 7,339 | The role of carotid screening before coronary artery bypass.
Five hundred thirty-nine patients with no symptoms of cerebral ischemia undergoing coronary artery bypass were preoperatively evaluated for presence of carotid stenosis by noninvasive methods (duplex scanning and ocular pneumoplethysmography-Gee).
Overall p... | C10 |
9,837 | 3,972 | Local anesthesia for neonatal circumcisions: are family practice residents likely to use it?
Dorsal penile nerve block with lidocaine (DPNB) is a local anesthetic technique for neonatal circumcision which is both effective and consistent with ethical concerns for infant welfare.
As such, it should be included in trai... | C10 |
9,838 | 2,040 | Extrageniculate vision in hemianopic humans: saccade inhibition by signals in the blind field.
The functional competence of extrageniculate visual pathways in hemianopic humans was demonstrated by showing that distractor signals in the blind half of the visual field could inhibit saccades toward targets in the intact ... | C10 |
9,839 | 5,497 | Cytokine accumulations in CSF of multiple sclerosis patients: frequent detection of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor but not interleukin-6.
We identified the cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) by specific radioimmunoassays in the CSF of patients with ... | C10 |
9,840 | 5,356 | Sensitivity for detecting fibrillation potentials: a comparison between concentric and monopolar needle electrodes.
The sensitivity of monopolar and concentric electrodes for detecting fibrillation potentials (FP) has never been formally compared.
We studied 35 muscles with FP, sampling 20 sites each with concentric ... | C10 |
9,841 | 5,623 | Interactions between substance P, calcitonin gene-related peptide, taurine and excitatory amino acids in the spinal cord.
Using in vivo microdialysis in the dorsal spinal cord of the rat, we have previously observed increases in glutamate and aspartate during exposure to a noxious stimulus.
The present investigation ... | C10 |
9,842 | 7,922 | Landau-Kleffner syndrome: a clinical and EEG study of five cases.
In five children with normal initial psychomotor development, a Landau-Kleffner syndrome appeared at age 3-7 years.
No neuroanatomic lesions were noted.
Aphasia and hyperkinesia were isolated in three patients and associated with global regression of ... | C10 |
9,843 | 3,645 | Long-term morphology of spastic or flaccid muscles in spinal cord-transected rabbits.
Despite difficulty in long-term maintenance of spinalized rabbits, muscular pathologic changes in chronic spinalized rabbits could be observed for a period of four weeks.
Rabbits were prepared by spinal cord transection at T10 (spas... | C10 |
9,844 | 8,048 | Glucocorticoid-induced muscle atrophy prevention by exercise in fast-twitch fibers.
Exercise has been shown to be effective in preventing glucocorticoid-induced atrophy in muscles containing high proportions of type II or fast-twitch fibers.
This investigation was undertaken to further evaluate this response in type ... | C10 |
9,845 | 5,443 | Whither short-course chemotherapy for tuberculous meningitis?
Short-course chemotherapy is well established for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis but not for extrapulmonary disease.
We present a series of 35 cases in which chemotherapy for tuberculous meningitis was given for a period of less than 2 years.
Sho... | C10 |
9,846 | 3,000 | An immunofluorescence study of cerebral malaria. A correlation with histopathology.
Histopathologic and immunopathologic features of cerebral malaria have been defined in a study of six autopsy cases with severe Plasmodium falciparum infection.
In five cases, immunofluorescent studies demonstrated intense deposition ... | C10 |
9,847 | 5,612 | Pharmacological versus non-pharmacological prophylaxis of recurrent migraine headache: a meta-analytic review of clinical trials.
In order to generate information about the relative effectiveness of the most widely used pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the prophylaxis of recurrent migraine (i.... | C10 |
9,848 | 6,430 | Prenatal diagnosis of fetal intracranial calcifications.
A case is presented wherein fetal intracranial calcifications as a result of intrauterine cytomegalovirus infection were visualized by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging at 36 weeks' gestation.
Diagnosis of in utero cytomegalovirus infection was... | C10 |
9,849 | 3,521 | Left ventricular ejection fraction may not be useful as an end point of thrombolytic therapy comparative trials.
In the era of comparative and adjunctive trials in reperfusion therapy, the need to develop alternative end points for mortality reduction is clear.
Left ventricular ejection fraction, which has been commo... | C10 |
9,850 | 9,879 | Reliability of death certificate diagnoses.
Consistency between death certificates and clinical records from 5 general hospitals in Kuwait was studied for 470 deaths with the following underlying or associated causes: hypertensive (HYP), ischaemic heart diseases (IHD), cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes melli... | C10 |
9,851 | 6,125 | Putative neuroexcitation in cerebral ischemia and brain injury.
Involvement of neuroexcitatory mechanisms in cerebral ischemia and brain injury was explored in experimental models of repetitive forebrain ischemia by temporary occlusion of carotid arteries in gerbils and cryogenic injury to the cerebral cortex in rats ... | C10 |
9,852 | 9,370 | White matter hyperintensities in dementia of Alzheimer's type and in healthy subjects without cerebrovascular risk factors. A magnetic resonance imaging study.
T2-weighted (0.5 T) magnetic resonance images were used to study the prevalence of subcortical white matter hyperintensities (WMHIs) in 22 patients with dement... | C10 |
9,853 | 2,262 | Tryptophan-induced eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
Eight patients who became ill while taking tryptophan had myalgia, fatigue, rash, fever, edema, alopecia, arthralgias, diminished joint motion, skin tightening, muscle cramping, and distal paresthesias.
Three had shortness of breath, and one had pulmonary hypertension... | C10 |
9,854 | 9,829 | Causes of death in the elderly and their changing pattern in Hisayama, a Japanese community. Results from a long-term and autopsy-based study.
The causes of death for the elderly were prospectively studied in Hisayama, Japan, a rural community.
We compared 1,621 subjects, aged 40 years or over, recruited in 1961, and... | C10 |
9,855 | 5,477 | Concurrent intradural and extradural meningiomas of the cervical spine.
A case of an extradural spinal meningioma presenting with a separate intradural meningioma at the same cord level is reported.
Review of the English literature on spinal epidural meningiomas reveals a high incidence of concurrent intradural tumor... | C10 |
9,856 | 4,169 | Results of treatment of displaced patellar fractures by partial patellectomy.
The results of partial patellectomy as a treatment for displaced patellar fractures were assessed retrospectively with use of clinical, radiographic, and isokinetic strength-testing criteria.
Forty patients who had been followed for an aver... | C10 |
9,857 | 8,037 | Silent cerebrovascular disease in the elderly. Correlation with ambulatory pressure.
Does the average daily blood pressure correlate with hypertensive cerebrovascular disease better than the casual pressure, as has been reported in other target organ involvement? We investigated the associations of two abnormal findin... | C10 |
9,858 | 8,247 | Immunopathology and viral reactivation. A general theory of schizophrenia.
A theory is proposed that explains a broad range of clinical manifestations in schizophrenia.
It is a heuristic device for organizing research in the neuroimmunology and virology of schizophrenia.
This approach is different from other immune ... | C10 |
9,859 | 2,974 | Morbidity, mortality, and quality of life for patients treated with levothyroxine
In a population study of 1462 middle-aged women initiated in 1968 and 1969 we identified 29 women treated with levothyroxine from 1 to 28 years.
In a 12-year follow-up in 1980 and 1981 we investigated the subjects for end-point myocard... | C10 |
9,860 | 3,891 | An implantable neurocybernetic prosthesis system.
The neurocybernetic prosthesis (Cyberonics, Inc.) is an implantable, multiprogrammable pulse generator that delivers constant current electrical signals to the vagus nerve for the purpose of reducing the frequency and/or severity of epileptic seizures.
The device is i... | C10 |
9,861 | 6,584 | Attenuation of suxamethonium myalgias. Effect of midazolam and vecuronium.
We studied the incidence of fasciculations and postoperative myalgias in 100 female outpatients who had laparoscopy under thiopentone, N2O, isoflurane anaesthesia.
Four groups of 20 patients each were pretreated with saline (group 1), tubocura... | C10 |
9,862 | 3,899 | Mesial temporal sclerosis: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management.
Mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) is probably the most common symptomatic pathologic entity--alone or mixed with other pathologic features--for seizures of temporal lobe origin.
The pathophysiology of MTS, including any genetic influence, needs clarifi... | C10 |
9,863 | 8,261 | Rigid spine syndrome with respiratory failure.
The pathogenesis and therapy of respiratory failure in the rigid spine syndrome are discussed in two cases who improved with respiratory assistance.
In both cases, the partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide were reversed in arterial blood gas analysis and %VC was... | C10 |
9,864 | 8,683 | Pneumocephalus secondary to a high-pressure water injury to the nose.
We report a case of pneumocephalus following a water jet injury to the nose incurred during a water-skiing fall.
Pneumocephalus due to this type of injury has not been previously reported, to our knowledge.
Since this unusual injury may be associa... | C10 |
9,865 | 5,615 | Clinical judgments in pain management.
From research reports published over the last 20 years, it appears that moderate to severe uncontrolled pain may be the norm for hospitalized patients despite recent advances in the management of pain.
Research on the extent of under-management of pain and the factors associated... | C10 |
9,866 | 7,028 | Recurrent lateral rectus palsy in childhood.
Five patients with recurrent, lateral rectus palsy in childhood, examined at the University of Iowa Hospitals over a period of 22 years, are reported.
During the same period, 131 abducens nerve palsy patients, younger than 18 years of age, were evaluated.
Eighteen similar... | C10 |
9,867 | 9,215 | Surgical correction of the snapping iliopsoas tendon.
Eighteen patients with 20 symptomatic hips underwent lengthening of the iliopsoas tendon for persistent painful snapping of this "internal" variety of snapping hip.
We referred to the pathologic, painful snapping of the iliopsoas in the deep anterior groin as the ... | C10 |
9,868 | 5,491 | A case-control study of Alzheimer's disease in Australia.
We conducted a case-control study of clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD) on 170 cases aged 52 to 96 years, and 170 controls matched for age, sex and, where possible, the general practice of origin.
Trained lay interviewers naive to the hypotheses and... | C10 |
9,869 | 7,450 | Graves orbitopathy: correlation of CT and clinical findings.
The clinical and high-resolution computed tomographic (CT) findings in 71 patients (142 orbits) with Graves orbitopathy and 20 healthy patients (40 orbits) were retrospectively reviewed.
The orbits with orbitopathy were subgrouped at clinical examination in... | C10 |
9,870 | 4,849 | Subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a fungal aneurysm of the vertebral artery as a complication of intracranial aneurysm clipping. Case report.
Intracranial aneurysms are an uncommon manifestation of fungal infection.
A case is described in which the formation of an aneurysm followed an intracranial intraoperative Aspe... | C10 |
9,871 | 6,602 | Loss of consciousness after emergence from anaesthesia. A case of suspected micturition syncope.
A case of postanaesthesia micturition syncope with respiratory arrest is described.
If syncope occurs, the temporary myocardial ischaemia and cerebral hypoperfusion may increase anaesthetic risk in the marginally compensa... | C10 |
9,872 | 5,244 | Parathyroid hormone-related peptide in lactation and in umbilical cord blood.
Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) is expressed in lactating rat mammary glands after suckling, as a result of increases in prolactin rather than suckling per se.
In addition, PTHrP produced in the fetal parathyroid glands and plac... | C10 |
9,873 | 5,461 | Limited selective posterior rhizotomy for the treatment of spasticity secondary to infantile cerebral palsy: a preliminary report.
A limited selective posterior rhizotomy was performed on 30 children suffering from spasticity secondary to infantile cerebral palsy.
As opposed to standard techniques that stimulate and ... | C10 |
9,874 | 8,513 | Retrograde transurethral balloon dilation of prostate: innovative management of abacterial chronic prostatitis and prostatodynia.
Retrograde transurethral balloon dilatation (RTBD) of the prostate recently has been suggested as alternative therapy for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
Seven patients w... | C10 |
9,875 | 5,492 | The opposite pupil in herniation.
I serially examined the pupil opposite the one already enlarged from transtentorial herniation in 13 patients.
The main abnormalities, stereotyped in most patients, were an initially diminished light reaction with a 2.5- to 4-mm-diameter pupil, followed by slight reduction in size, a... | C10 |
9,876 | 5,342 | Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis: clinical features in human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Pneumocystis carinii infection is reported with increasing frequency as a cause of disease outside of the respiratory tract in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis is not li... | C10 |
9,877 | 9,013 | Receptor changes in the spinal cord of sheep associated with exposure to chronic pain.
There is evidence that post-injury hypersensitivity is partly due to changes in the central nervous system.
Sheep with foot rot were used to investigate the effect of chronic pain on some receptors thought to be involved in spinal ... | C10 |
9,878 | 2,079 | Relationship between duration of spinal cord ischemia and postoperative neurologic deficits in animals.
Twenty hogs were administered the following procedures before, during, and after overdistraction of the spinal column at T5-T6: somatosensory (SEP) and neurogenic-motor evoked potentials (NMEPs), hydrogen clearance ... | C10 |
9,879 | 6,611 | Relief of injection pain in adults. EMLA cream for 5 minutes before venepuncture.
The effectiveness of skin anaesthesia after 5 minutes' topical application of a lignocaine-prilocaine cream was evaluated.
One hundred and twenty patients estimated the pain of antecubital venepuncture both on a linear scale and verball... | C10 |
9,880 | 6,104 | Modification of stroke susceptibility by genotype-dependent maternal influences.
The influence of the prenatal and postnatal maternal environment on stroke susceptibility was evaluated by reciprocally crossing the spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) inbred rat strains to produce recipr... | C10 |
9,881 | 4,496 | Characteristics of an elderly driving population referred to a geriatric assessment center.
A retrospective, case-control study was performed to determine the characteristics of elderly drivers referred to an outpatient geriatric assessment center.
It was hypothesized that the driving population was operating at a hi... | C10 |
9,882 | 3,898 | Experimental models of temporal lobe epilepsy: new insights from the study of kindling and synaptic reorganization.
Temporal lobe epilepsy is a common localization-related epileptic syndrome characterized by complex partial seizures, ictal and interictal epileptic discharges arising from limbic structures of the tempo... | C10 |
9,883 | 719 | Pain experiences of intensive care unit patients.
The purpose of this study was to describe various dimensions of the pain experiences of intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
A purposive, primarily surgical sample of 24 ICU patients from two hospitals was interviewed after transfer from ICU.
All but one patient remem... | C10 |
9,884 | 9,421 | Cumulative AIDS incidence and altered mortality from bacterial infections.
To determine whether populations with high cumulative incidence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) experienced increased deaths from sepsis, central nervous system abscess, or endocarditis, New Jersey AIDS patients were grouped accord... | C10 |
9,885 | 3,655 | Total knee arthroplasty fixation. Comparison of the early results of paired cemented versus uncemented porous coated anatomic knee prostheses.
The results of 18 matched pairs of Porous Coated Anatomic knee prostheses were studied to compare the early clinical and functional performance of cemented versus uncemented fi... | C10 |
9,886 | 7,033 | West syndrome associated with hyperlexia.
Two patients are reported with West syndrome associated with hyperlexia.
They had peculiar linguistic and psychosocial development and autistic behavior, yet began to read Japanese and Chinese characters, numbers, Roman alphabet letters, and trademark letters at 3 years of ag... | C10 |
9,887 | 6,802 | Substantia nigra: a site of action of muscle relaxant drugs.
Sites of action of centrally active muscle relaxant drugs are not well defined.
Clinical experience with such drugs suggests that the spinal cord may be one of the important regions from which pathologically increased muscle tone may be relieved.
Supraspin... | C10 |
9,888 | 7,482 | Neuromuscular diseases: evaluation with high-frequency sonography.
Forty-four patients with clinically suspected neuromuscular disease and 12 healthy volunteers underwent high-frequency ultrasound examination of the rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, and biceps brachii muscles, and the number of perimy... | C10 |
9,889 | 9,237 | Community hospital carotid endarterectomy in patients over age 75.
We compared the prevalence of stroke and death in 133 patients aged 75 and older in whom 170 carotid endarterectomies were performed with that in 501 patients less than age 75 in whom 640 carotid endarterectomies were performed.
There were three strok... | C10 |
9,890 | 9,017 | Induction, blockade and restoration of a persistent hypersensitive state.
A new model of chronic hypersensitivity was developed in the rat by daily intraplantar administration of either prostaglandin E2 dopamine or isoprenaline, for a period of 2 weeks.
Like other hyperalgesic mediators, dibutyryl-cAMP, when applied ... | C10 |
9,891 | 8,012 | Gastrointestinal motor dysfunction in acquired selective cholinergic dysautonomia associated with infectious mononucleosis.
This report documents the disturbance in gastrointestinal motor function in a patient with selective cholinergic dysautonomia that occurred following acute infectious mononucleosis.
Apart from t... | C10 |
9,892 | 4,202 | Intraoperative assessment of cerebral ischemia during carotid surgery.
One of the problems in carotid surgery is the intraoperative detection of brain ischemia.
None of the methods (EEG; stump pressure) applied so far have been successful.
Branston et al.
(1974) found a threshold relationship between cortical cereb... | C10 |
9,893 | 2,183 | Risk factors for white matter changes detected by magnetic resonance imaging in the elderly.
We found increased age (p = 0.001) and history or evidence of stroke (p = 0.016) to be significant independent multivariate predictors of the presence and severity of leukoencephalopathy on magnetic resonance imaging brain sca... | C10 |
9,894 | 439 | Barrett's esophagus in children and young adults. Frequent association with mental retardation.
Since few data are available on epidemiologic features of Barrett's esophagus in young persons, we reviewed the case records of patients undergoing esophageal biopsies at Children's Hospital, Boston, from 1982 through 1986.... | C10 |
9,895 | 4,012 | Fulminant hepatitis after lisinopril administration.
A case of fulminant hepatitis in a patient taking lisinopril for 5 weeks for arterial hypertension is reported.
Jaundice, fever, myalgia, and marked increase in serum aminotransferase activities occurred after 2 weeks of treatment.
Continuation of lisinopril admin... | C10 |
9,896 | 8,779 | Lens opacity as a predictor of visual field impairment due to cataract.
The contribution of cataract to the decrease of visual field in patients with glaucoma is difficult to ascertain.
To attempt to quantitate the change in visual field due to cataract, we examined 27 eyes of 26 patients before and after cataract ex... | C10 |
9,897 | 2,134 | Value of magnetic resonance imaging in spontaneous extradural spinal hematoma due to vascular malformation: case report.
A case of spinal cord compression due to spontaneous extradural spinal hematoma is reported.
A spinal arteriovenous malformation was suspected on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging.
Early sur... | C10 |
9,898 | 9,342 | Aggravation of myasthenia gravis by erythromycin.
Erythromycin is not currently recognized as causing clinical aggravation of myasthenia gravis.
We report the case of a patient who experienced exacerbations of myasthenia gravis subsequent to each of several doses of intravenous erythromycin.
We suggest that erythrom... | C10 |
9,899 | 9,924 | Restricted dose and duration of corticosteroid treatment in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis.
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