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758 | Selective intestinal decontamination increases serum and ascitic fluid C3 levels in cirrhosis.
Selective intestinal decontamination for 7 days with norfloxacin was performed in 14 cirrhotic patients with ascites and low ascitic fluid total protein.
Variations in serum and ascitic fluid of C3 and C4 and ascitic fluid ... | 5 |
1,441 | Activity of type 1 erythrocyte complement receptors in uremia and after renal transplantation.
The effect of uremia on the activity of the erythrocyte complement receptors type 1 (CR1), and the changes occurring after renal transplantation, were studied.
The complement receptor activity was measured by immune adheren... | 11 |
1,227 | Characterization of descending inhibition and facilitation from the nuclei reticularis gigantocellularis and gigantocellularis pars alpha in the rat.
Descending influences on the spinal nociceptive tail-flick (TF) reflex produced by focal electrical stimulation and glutamate microinjection in the nuclei reticularis gi... | 9 |
1,166 | Quantitative evaluation of sway as an indicator of functional balance in post-traumatic brain injury.
The test of sway, using different conditions of stance with measurements of the average radial deviation of the center of pressure and its path length of sway per unit of time, has been shown to be a useful clinical t... | 9 |
1,331 | Rationing of health care and the end-stage renal disease program.
The potential impact of rationing health care on the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) program is considered.
The possible implications of the recommendations emanating from the study being conducted by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of... | 11 |
463 | Chemical shift imaging of human brain: axial, sagittal, and coronal P-31 metabolite images.
Multivoxel magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy and novel data analysis techniques were developed to obtain high-quality phosphorus-31 metabolite images from the human brain and to overlay each metabolite distribution directly ... | 3 |
2,679 | A random double-blind trial of the combination of nebulized atropine methylnitrate and albuterol in nocturnal asthma.
The combination of nebulized atropine methylnitrate (AMN) and a beta-agonist has been shown to produce greater and longer lasting bronchodilation than either drug alone.
We examined the efficacy of th... | 19 |
846 | Disposition of 5-aminosalicylic acid by olsalazine and three mesalazine preparations in patients with ulcerative colitis: comparison of intraluminal colonic concentrations, serum values, and urinary excretion.
To compare the disposition of 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) and its acetylated metabolite during treatment wi... | 5 |
35 | Efficacy and tolerability of topical terbinafine in the treatment of tinea cruris.
Thirty men with clinical and mycologic evidence of tinea cruris were enrolled in a controlled, randomized, double-blind trial comparing terbinafine 1% cream and its cream vehicle as placebo.
Patients applied the test medications to the... | 0 |
883 | Acute pulmonary effects of aerosolized pentamidine. A randomized controlled study. Toronto Aerosolized Pentamidine Study (TAPS) Group.
From June 1988 to February 1989, we enrolled 36 patients with human immunodeficiency virus into a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial assessing the efficacy and toxicity o... | 7 |
3,096 | Morphological and biochemical changes in gastric mucosa of aging rats.
Although previous data from this laboratory have indicated that aging is associated with increased gastric mucosal proliferative activity, no direct assessment of proliferative potential of the tissue has been made during aging.
In order to assess... | 22 |
955 | Bronchodilator response to ipratropium bromide in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Although the muscarinic antagonist Ipratropium bromide is used clinically as a bronchodilator in infants ventilated because of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), no studies have compared the response or efficacy of different dosa... | 7 |
1,372 | Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in patients with bleeding diatheses.
Five patients with known bleeding diatheses were treated with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
Specific therapy was administered before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy to reverse the bleeding disorder.
After treatment each patient... | 11 |
899 | Use of a fenestrated silicone drain to stent a malignant tracheobronchial stenosis.
An innovative use of a fenestrated silicone drainage tube as an endobronchial stent is reported.
The patient had respiratory obstruction due to a carinal tumour and laser photoresection had failed to restore airway patency.
| 7 |
1,215 | Infantile CNS spongy degeneration--14 cases: clinical update.
We studied 14 Arab infants with infantile spongy degeneration, 13 of whom were products of consanguineous marriages.
They presented in infancy with macrocephaly, poor visual behavior or blindness, and axial hypotonia with appendicular spasticity.
Brain CT... | 9 |
577 | Shear stress induces not only platelet aggregation but also platelet-tumor cell interaction.
To investigate the interaction between platelets and tumor cells under well-defined flow conditions, the effect of tumor cells on platelet aggregation induced by shear stress was studied using a cone and plate viscometer adapt... | 3 |
751 | Primary biliary cirrhosis. Quantitation of autoantibodies to purified mitochondrial enzymes and correlation with disease progression.
Primary biliary cirrhosis is characterized by the presence of antimitochondrial antibodies.
Recently, six of the autoantigens have been identified as components of the 2-oxo acid dehyd... | 5 |
2,622 | Ultraviolet cross-linking of helical oligonucleotides to two monoclonal MRL-1pr/1pr anti-DNA autoantibodies. Variations in H and L chain binding to DNA.
Experiments were performed to determine whether both H and L chains of different anti-native DNA autoantibodies are uniformly involved in binding to DNA.
Two purifie... | 19 |
200 | Cutaneous surgery and the pregnant patient.
Cutaneous surgery in 34 pregnant women is described.
The main indication for surgery was the diagnosis and/or treatment of malignancy.
Surgery during the period of organogenesis (15 to 56 days) should be avoided when possible.
Patients should be positioned on the left sid... | 3 |
1,016 | Vocal cord paralysis in children.
Bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a common cause of stridor in infants and children.
There are significant differences in this entity between children and adults with regard to etiology, diagnosis, management, and outcome.
A review of 10 years' experience at Children's Hospital of P... | 8 |
3,322 | Hypoxic events in the surgical intensive care unit.
An oxygen-monitoring protocol was established in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) at the Denver General Hospital in July 1988.
A 3-month surveillance audit ending March 1989 prospectively documented 100 consecutive hypoxic events in 51 of 241 (21%) SICU patie... | 22 |
2,139 | Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in Kawasaki disease: a case report
A 3-year-old boy presented with the fever, conjunctivitis, rash, and lymphadenopathy diagnostic of Kawasaki disease.
Treatment with antibiotics, aspirin, and intravenous immunoglobulin was instituted.
The hematocrit decreased from 35 percent on admissio... | 14 |
2,530 | Cold follicles in a multinodular human goiter arise partly from a failing iodide pump and partly from deficient iodine organification.
To investigate whether the common cold follicles in human multinodular goiters are the consequence of a functional defect of the apical membrane peroxidase, a failure of the iodide tra... | 18 |
37 | Oral terbinafine versus griseofulvin in the treatment of moccasin-type tinea pedis.
The safety and effectiveness of oral terbinafine, 125 mg twice daily, and griseofulvin, 250 mg twice daily, in patients with moccasin-type tinea pedis were examined in a double-blind randomized trial.
At the end of the 6-week treatmen... | 0 |
505 | Antigen-induced cross-linking of the IgE receptor leads to an association with the detergent-insoluble membrane skeleton of rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells.
Cross-linking of the IgE receptor on the surface of rat basophilic leukemia cells by multivalent Ag (DNP-BSA) causes a rapid conversion to a detergent-ins... | 3 |
2,621 | A small proportion of cationic antibodies in immune complexes is sufficient to mediate their deposition in glomeruli.
Positively charged antibodies mediate enhanced deposition of circulating immune complexes at the glomerular basement membrane.
The presented experiments demonstrate that when soluble immune complexes ... | 19 |
3,204 | Effects of spermatic vascular division for correction of the high undescended testis on testicular function.
Orchiopexy with division of the spermatic artery and veins is a commonly used technique for correcting the high undescended testis, although the longterm results have not been clearly defined.
The left spermat... | 22 |
524 | Prognostic significance of nondiploid DNA determined by flow cytometry in sporadic and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma.
To clarify the role of DNA measurements in predicting outcome after surgical treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), we performed flow cytometric analysis in nuclear suspensions of 119 M... | 3 |
1,626 | Comparison of coronary angiography and early oral dipyridamole thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients receiving thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
We evaluated 50 consecutive patients who received thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction using thallium-201 single photon emission computed ... | 13 |
197 | Upper gastrointestinal pathology in familial adenomatous polyposis: results from a prospective study of 102 patients.
Multiple gastric and duodenal biopsy specimens from 102 asymptomatic patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, taken during a prospective endoscopic screening programme were examined.
One hundred ... | 3 |
1,266 | Assessing acquired ocular diseases.
When assessing a patient's ocular complaint, one must listen carefully to the description of the symptoms.
A decrease in vision is most frequently the symptom that prompts a person to seek attention.
Pain in and around the eye is the next most frequent symptom complained about.
D... | 10 |
1,920 | Videodensitometry versus digital calipers for quantitative coronary angiography.
Single-plane left coronary angiograms in 18 patients were prospectively analyzed using videodensitometry (XR-70 system) and handheld digital calipers to compare arterial dimensions, stenosis dimensions, intraobserver variability and inter... | 13 |
3,146 | Indications of the carbon dioxide laser in tracheobronchial pathology of the infant and young child: 14 cases.
Fourteen children aged between 6 months and 7 years (mean age = 3.5 years) were treated by CO2 broncholaser in the ENT Department of Trousseau Hospital.
Three groups of diagnostic indication were identified:... | 22 |
1,751 | Transoesophageal echocardiography in the longitudinal axis: correlation between anatomy and images and its clinical implications.
Transoesophageal echocardiographic imaging in the longitudinal axis is a recent addition to the non-invasive evaluation of congenital and acquired heart disease.
The technique provides uni... | 13 |
2,814 | Medical education for alcohol and other drug abuse in the United States.
Initiatives by individuals, private foundations and government have led to improvements in the United States in medical education dealing with alcohol and drug-related problems.
Progress has been made, particularly in the past 5 years, in develo... | 20 |
1,131 | Antinociception and cardiovascular responses produced by electrical stimulation in the nucleus tractus solitarius, nucleus reticularis ventralis, and the caudal medulla.
In experiment 1, quantitative regional comparisons of the antinociceptive and cardiovascular responses produced by electrical stimulation in the caud... | 9 |
433 | Localization and peptide content of endocrine pancreatic tumors.
Endocrine pancreatic tumors contain and frequently secret neurohormonal peptides.
This phenomenon can be used as a diagnostic and classifying tool.
This study analyzes 31 patients operated on because of an endocrine pancreatic tumor, including the diag... | 3 |
523 | Intraoperative decision making during thyroid surgery based on the results of preoperative needle biopsy and frozen section.
Prognostic factors in well-differentiated thyroid cancer are age of the patient and grade, size, distant metastasis, and extracapsular spread of the disease.
However, the surgeon is often not s... | 3 |
2,650 | The prevalence of antibody to HTLV-I/II in United States plasma donors and in United States and French hemophiliacs.
Antibody to HTLV-I/II was detected in 19 (0.3%) of 6286 plasma donors from five regions of the United States (US).
This seroprevalence rate is approximately 10 times that in whole blood donors.
The re... | 19 |
2,862 | Portrayals of alcohol on prime-time television.
Alcohol portrayals were analyzed for a 3-week composite sample of prime-time fictional television programs aired in the fall of 1986.
Approximately 64% of the 195 episodes contained one or more appearances of alcohol.
Alcohol was ingested on 50% of all programs.
Overa... | 20 |
2,112 | Socioeconomic conditions in childhood and ischaemic heart disease during middle age
OBJECTIVE--To examine the association between socioeconomic conditions in childhood and ischaemic heart disease in middle aged men, including the role of physiological and behavioural risk factors.
DESIGN--Prevalence study with exten... | 13 |
611 | A sequential three-step lateral release for correcting fixed valgus knee deformities during total knee arthroplasty.
An approach to mild, moderate, and severe fixed valgus deformities of the knee is described.
The sequential approach to soft-tissue releases in the fixed valgus knee allows the surgeon to regain a neut... | 4 |
2,738 | Bronchial blood flow reduction with positive end-expiratory pressure after acute lung injury in sheep.
Smoke inhalation increases bronchial blood flow (Qbr) and produces edema of the airway system.
This study investigates whether the increased Qbr seen 24 h after inhalation injury can be affected by mechanical ventil... | 20 |
1,609 | Lower extremity venography with iohexol: results and complications.
The frequency of side effects of a nonionic contrast agent (iohexol) was studied in 463 consecutive patients who underwent venography for clinically suspected deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and compared with the frequency of adverse reactions of another s... | 13 |
3,254 | Effects of 1.32-micron Nd-YAG laser on brain thermal and histological experimental data.
Considering that the 1.32-microns Nd-YAG laser should have physicothermal properties close to those of the CO2 laser, a series of experiments were conducted on rat cortex (N = 51).
Three laser wavelengths were compared: CO2 laser... | 22 |
1,212 | Phenotypic heterogeneity of spinal muscular atrophy mapping to chromosome 5q11.2-13.3 (SMA 5q).
We made phenotypic analysis of 14 families with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) linking to chromosome 5q11.2-13.3 (SMA 5q), and 2 that may not map to this locus, to assess clinical symptoms among SMA families known to result ... | 9 |
3,245 | The use of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging to determine lesion site in traumatic facial paralysis.
Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging has been used to evaluate 20 patients with surgically confirmed facial nerve lesions.
When the nerve could be seen, gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance im... | 22 |
3,290 | Addition of clonidine enhances postoperative analgesia from epidural morphine: a double-blind study.
This study was undertaken to evaluate the analgesic effect of the combination of epidural morphine and clonidine versus epidural morphine alone in patients with postoperative pain.
A randomized double-blind design was... | 22 |
351 | The potential of 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) for the detection of tumor involvement in lymph nodes.
To assess the potential of FDG for PET imaging of nodal tumor metastases, we evaluated its uptake into normal lymph nodes, tumor-involved lymph nodes, and subcutaneous tumor xenografts in rodents.
Normal lymph... | 3 |
2,514 | Total serum glycosylated proteins in detection and monitoring of gestational diabetes.
The goal of this study was to determine whether serum glycosylated protein levels (i.e., fructosamine) can reliably screen for gestational diabetes and whether these levels are valid markers of short-term glycemic control in the thi... | 18 |
266 | Persistence of mucosal gastric carcinomas for 8 and 6 years in two patients.
A small gastric carcinoma was detected in a man, but he refused surgery.
Eight years later, he was readmitted for a check-up, and a partial gastrectomy was performed.
Pathologic examination revealed a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma rest... | 3 |
2,271 | Use of molecular cloning methods to map the distribution of epitopes on topoisomerase I (Scl-70) recognized by sera of scleroderma patients.
We report the initial molecular characterization of the autoimmune response against DNA topoisomerase I (topo I; Scl-70).
Sera from 36 patients with scleroderma and 4 healthy co... | 16 |
222 | Clinical problems in follow-up of patients after conservative surgery and radiotherapy.
Patients treated with conservative surgery and radiotherapy for early-stage breast carcinoma are at risk of developing an ipsilateral breast recurrence for a long period.
Fortunately, few such patients present with an inoperable r... | 3 |
2,943 | Arterial abnormalities of the shoulder in athletes.
Vascular lesions of the shoulder may be misinterpreted as one of the more familiar shoulder abnormalities by a treating physician.
We are reporting on 13 athletes who were found to have symptoms related to compression of the subclavian or axillary artery or their tr... | 20 |
1,375 | The kinetics of cellular proliferation in rat urinary bladder treated with N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine.
The cellular proliferation of the bladder epithelium was determined sequentially in rats treated with N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN).
The incorporation of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) into the ... | 11 |
864 | Periodontics in general practice: professional plaque control
Traditionally the primary emphasis of preventive periodontics was daily patient performed plaque control.
Recent studies indicate that frequent professional subgingival toothcleaning is a mandatory treatment for prevention of recurrent periodontitis.
Pat... | 6 |
752 | Long-term outcome after surgery for biliary atresia. Study of 40 patients surviving for more than 10 years.
To define long-term prognosis of children who underwent surgery for biliary atresia, a retrospective study was undertaken in 122 children who underwent one of the Kasai procedures between 1968 and 1977.
Forty o... | 5 |
2,991 | Rapid admixture blood warming: technical advances.
The technique of rapid admixture blood warming of cold erythrocyte units is designed to warm erythrocyte units rapidly (less than 30 sec) while simultaneously providing saline for dilution.
However, questions have been raised about the recommended use of a standard 2... | 22 |
1,511 | Screening for trisomy 21 with ultrasonographic determination of biparietal diameter/femur length ratio.
Ultrasonographic determination of biparietal diameter/femur length ratios performed at 16 or 17 weeks' gestation in fetuses with trisomy 21 were not statistically different from those of 155 normal fetuses.
It appe... | 12 |
1,005 | Identification and characterization of middle ear vascular leakage sites in experimental otitis media.
The site of leakage in middle ear vessels was determined and characterized in experimental otitis media in rats.
Middle ear effusion was induced by intravenous administration or local application in the tympanic bul... | 8 |
1,261 | Increase of neuroretinal rim area after surgical intraocular pressure reduction.
The Optic Nerve Head Analyzer was used to measure the optic disc structure of 18 eyes (13 adult glaucoma patients) before and after surgical intraocular pressure reduction.
Neuroretinal rim area markedly increased (from +0.15 mm2 to +0.4... | 10 |
1,457 | Heterologous transplantation of activated murine peritoneal macrophages inhibits gamete interaction in vivo: a paradigm for endometriosis-associated subfertility.
Macrophage hyperactivation has been postulated to be the pathologic aberration in patients suffering from endometriosis-associated subfertility.
In this re... | 12 |
1,999 | Bronchiolar morphology after systemic arterial interruption.
To assess ischemic lesions as a factor in obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation, the authors severed the left bronchial arteries of 15 dogs, together with the left stem bronchus, the latter being immediately reanostomosed.
They examined the ... | 13 |
2,747 | Long-term prognosis of soft-tissue injuries of the neck.
We reviewed 43 patients who had sustained soft-tissue injuries of the neck after a mean 10.8 years.
Of these, only 12% had recovered completely.
Residual symptoms were intrusive in 28% and severe in 12%.
Pain in the neck and lower back was the commonest compl... | 20 |
1,910 | Transient myocardial ischemia and its relation to determinants of myocardial oxygen demand.
Because of conflicting data and a clear need to establish the relative role of increase in myocardial oxygen demand versus reduction in coronary blood flow in the causation of transient ischemia, the role of heart rate and bloo... | 13 |
605 | Lumbar discography followed by computed tomography. Refining the diagnosis of low-back pain.
Two hundred fifty patients with low-back pain who underwent lumbar discography followed by computed tomography (CT) are the subject of this prospective study.
In 93% of the patients, these combined imaging techniques provided... | 4 |
1,973 | Coronary atherosclerosis is associated with left ventricular dysfunction and dilatation in aortic stenosis.
Patients with aortic stenosis develop widely variable patterns of left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction.
We postulated that coronary atherosclerosis (CAD) may be associated with impaired left ventricular... | 13 |
2,984 | Is fibrillation chaos?
Ventricular fibrillation is examined to determine whether it is an instance of deterministic chaos.
Surface ECGs from dogs in fibrillation were used to generate a state space representation of fibrillation.
Our analysis failed to identify a low-dimensional attractor that could be associated wi... | 22 |
40 | Monoclonal antibody to mouse lipopolysaccharide receptor protects mice against the lethal effects of endotoxin.
Specific endotoxic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding sites on the cell membranes of murine lymphocytes and macrophages that may serve as functional receptors for LPS have recently been identified using photoa... | 0 |
3,115 | Balloon dilatation versus surgical revision of infra-inguinal autogenous vein graft stenoses: long-term follow-up.
Although infra-inguinal autogenous vein graft stenoses may be treated by balloon dilatation (PTA) or surgical revision, the optimal approach is undefined.
Over the last 7 years 24 PTA procedures were per... | 22 |
726 | From Leningrad to the day-care center. The ubiquitous Giardia lamblia.
Giardiasis is recognized as a worldwide public health problem.
Seroprevalence data from both the developing and developed world show high rates of carriage in populations at risk for fecal-oral transmission, such as children in day-care centers.
... | 5 |
2,248 | Prevalence and sources of sensitization to emulsifiers: a clinical study.
737 patients with suspected cosmetic- or medicament-related contact dermatitis were patch tested with 6 emulsifier agents: triethanolamine, cetyl stearyl alcohol, sorbitan sesquioleate, polyoxyethylene sorbitan monopalmitate, polyoxyethylene sor... | 16 |
1,598 | Cardiac rhythm disturbances early after orthotopic heart transplantation: prevalence and clinical importance of the observed abnormalities.
To precisely define the incidence, type and consequences of cardiac arrhythmias early after heart transplantation, 25 cardiac transplant recipients were monitored continuously for... | 13 |
742 | Effect of race upon organ donation and recipient survival in liver transplantation.
The effect of the race of the donor on organ donation and on the outcome of clinical liver transplantation has not been addressed previously.
The aims of this study were to determine: (1) the number of organs donated by each of the ma... | 5 |
2,605 | SLE nephritis: an ultrastructural immunogold study to evaluate the relationship between immune complexes and the basement membrane components type IV collagen, fibronectin and heparan sulphate proteoglycans.
The nature of immune complexes and their relationship to the normal glomerular basement membrane (GBM) componen... | 19 |
38 | Leprotic involvement of peripheral nerves in the absence of skin lesions. Case report and literature review.
In the absence of clinically apparent cutaneous lesions, primarily neural leprosy is uncommon.
Primarily neural leprosy presents clinically as a peripheral neuropathy that most frequently affects motor nerves ... | 0 |
976 | Bilious pleural effusion following liver biopsy.
Pleural effusions in patients with chronic liver disease are common and usually are of little consequence.
Bilious pleural effusion can occur following percutaneous biopsy or cholangiography procedures if the pleura is traversed.
This report emphasizes the role of bil... | 7 |
1,259 | Multifocal posterior uveitis: clinical and pathological findings.
A pathological study was performed on the necropsy eyes of a 59-year old-woman who had suffered for nine years from multifocal posterior uveitis.
The disease had been controlled by steroid therapy with good preservation of visual function.
Extensive i... | 10 |
2,930 | The corneoscleral limbus in human corneal epithelial wound healing.
We studied re-epithelialization of the ocular surface in 17 human eyes (14 patients) with large corneal and conjunctival abrasions.
We focused on the healing of the limbal region.
During re-epithelialization, cell movement was found to occur circumf... | 20 |
1,925 | Atenolol therapy for exercise-induced hypertension after aortic coarctation repair.
After successful repair of coarctation of the aorta in childhood, exercise-induced upper body systolic hypertension is well documented.
Beta blockade has been shown to reduce the arm/leg gradient in untreated coarctation of the aorta;... | 13 |
2,130 | Effects of recombinant human interleukin-3 in aplastic anemia.
In a phase I/II study, nine patients with aplastic anemia were treated with recombinant human interleukin-3 (rhIL-3) to assess the toxicity and biologic effects of this multipotential hematopoietic growth factor.
Doses ranging from 250 micrograms/m2 to 50... | 14 |
455 | Chondrosarcoma of the head and neck.
Chondrosarcoma is a malignancy rarely encountered in the head and neck.
In an attempt to define this tumor's characteristics and response to therapy, all cases of chondrosarcoma treated at the University of Michigan over the past 25 years were retrospectively studied.
Fourteen ca... | 3 |
720 | Further study of mucosal repair by sofalcone in experimental gastritis.
The effect of sofalcone on the glandular structure and cell proliferation in the gastric mucosa of rats with gastritis induced by the administration of sodium taurocholate (TCA) for 6 months was examined by histoquantitative analysis and [3H]thymi... | 5 |
2,760 | Effort rupture of the diaphragm.
Effort rupture of the diaphragm is rare and accounts for only 1% of all diaphragmatic injuries.
A 23 year old patient with bilateral rupture that followed sudden movement is described.
| 20 |
1,127 | Spatiotemporal contrast sensitivity differs in normal aging and Parkinson's disease.
We measured contrast sensitivity for static and laterally drifting vertical gratings in 12 young adults, 7 normal elderly adults, and 8 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).
We compared static and motion contrast sensitivity for sp... | 9 |
3,159 | Management of postoperative inflammation: dexamethasone versus flurbiprofen, a quantitative study using the new Flare Cell Meter.
A consecutive, random, prospective study was conducted to compare the effect of topical dexamethasone and flurbiprofen drops on postoperative inflammation in patients undergoing extracapsul... | 22 |
731 | Update on the epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in a defined region of Switzerland.
In this follow-up investigation, the authors studied all Swiss women in the canton of Zurich who developed anorexia nervosa between ages 12 and 25 years and who were hospitalized for the first time with this diagnosis between 1983 and 1... | 5 |
255 | Multimodality preoperative treatment for advanced stage IV (MO) cancer of the head and neck.
Sixty-three patients with advanced unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were treated with a combination of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.
We observed a 75% response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Th... | 3 |
2,990 | Inflammatory nodular reactions after hepatitis B vaccination due to aluminium sensitization.
In 2 patients, pruritic nodules appeared after revaccination against hepatitis B.
Aluminium was found to be responsible for this side effect: contact allergy to aluminium was present in both patients, whereas controls were ne... | 22 |
3,229 | Circadian variation in onset of acute ischemic stroke.
A circadian pattern for the onset of myocardial and cerebral infarction has been identified.
To evaluate this phenomenon further, we analyzed prospectively collected data from 151 patients with acute ischemic stroke.
The number of strokes per 6-hour period were ... | 22 |
2,259 | Transdermal viprostol in the treatment of male pattern baldness.
Fifty-seven men were randomly assigned for treatment of androgenetic alopecia with viprostol, vehicle, or placebo twice daily for 24 weeks.
Nonvellus hair growth was assessed subjectively by both patient and investigator and objectively through hair cou... | 16 |
584 | Role of ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.
In 170 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma, ultrasound showed a high sensitivity in identifying focal liver lesions.
Fine needle aspiration biopsy guided by ultrasound yielded a pathological diagnosis in the majority o... | 3 |
2,527 | Thyroid hormones influences sex steroid binding protein levels in infancy: study in congenital hypothyroidism.
In order to test the hypothesis of a role of thyroid hormones on the circulating levels of sex steroid binding protein (SHBG) in children, SHBG levels were determined in 15 infants with congenital hypothyroid... | 18 |
1,505 | The effect of physical activity during pregnancy on preterm delivery and birth weight.
The relationship between physical activity during pregnancy, preterm birth, and gestational age-adjusted birth weight was investigated prospectively in a cohort of 7101 women.
This study is one of few to evaluate both employment- a... | 12 |
2,736 | Toxic psychosis due to chloroquine--not uncommon in children.
Toxic psychosis due to Chloroquine is a relatively uncommon occurrence in childhood.
This entity must be kept in differential diagnosis in a case of unexplained psychosis, before resorting to a sophisticated array of detailed investigations.
The purpose o... | 20 |
1,822 | Left ventricular asynchrony in patients with pulmonary hypertension.
Left ventricular regional wall motion was evaluated in 11 patients with pulmonary hypertension and 18 control subjects.
All 11 patients had secondary pulmonary hypertension and less than 20% measured diameter stenosis in any vessel.
This study util... | 13 |
1,623 | Time delays in the diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction: a tale of eight cities. Report from the Pre-hospital Study Group and the Cincinnati Heart Project.
To establish the magnitude of prehospital and hospital delays in initiating thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, the time from t... | 13 |
1,469 | Failure to prevent preterm labour and delivery in twin pregnancy using prophylactic oral salbutamol
A double blind, controlled study was performed to see whether the use of prophylactic oral salbutamol would reduce the incidence of preterm labour in twin pregnancy.
Of the 144 women studied, 74 took salbutamol and 70... | 12 |
841 | Antimony and glass pH electrodes can be used interchangeably in 24-hour studies of gastric acidity.
Antimony and glass pH electrodes show almost identical experimental errors in continuously measuring buffer solutions at constant temperature over 24 hr.
These errors are lower than the nominal quantization error of th... | 5 |
2,395 | Pseudohypophosphatasia: aberrant localization and substrate specificity of alkaline phosphatase in cultured skin fibroblasts.
We explored the biochemical basis for the disorder pseudohypophosphatasia (PsHYPT) in one patient by examining the substrate specificity and localization of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in cultur... | 17 |
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