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601 | Sagittal plane analysis in idiopathic scoliosis patients treated with Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation.
One hundred sixty patients with idiopathic scoliosis treated with Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation (CDI) underwent preoperative and postoperative sagittal plane analysis of the thoracic spine, thoracolumbar junction... | 4 |
2,666 | Differentiating agents facilitate infection of myeloid leukemia cell lines by monocytotropic HIV-1 strains [published erratum appears in Blood 1991 Apr 1;77(7):1624]
Monocytotropic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) infect mononuclear phago... | 19 |
1,063 | Rehabilitation of chronic stroke patients: changes in functional performance.
Forty stroke patients who were at least one year post-onset completed a one-month intensive rehabilitation program.
The month before the program served as a control period.
During the program, patients received individual sessions in occup... | 9 |
148 | Effects of albendazole on Echinococcus multilocularis infection in the Mongolian jird.
Albendazole chemotherapy of larval Echinococcus multilocularis was studied in the Mongolian jird by administration of medicated feed at various concentrations and durations.
The effects were evaluated by comparison of treated and c... | 2 |
1,601 | Myocardial amiodarone and desethylamiodarone concentrations in patients undergoing cardiac transplantation.
Myocardial amiodarone and desethylamiodarone concentrations were measured at multiple sites in the explanted heart in four patients who underwent cardiac transplantation.
Patients were taking amiodarone, 200 to... | 13 |
3,116 | Surveillance of in situ infrainguinal bypass grafts: conventional vs. color flow duplex ultrasonography.
Surveillance of in situ saphenous vein bypass grafts with duplex scanning detects graft abnormalities which may lead to graft thrombosis.
Correction of these defects, while grafts are still patent, potentially imp... | 22 |
1,867 | Adult open heart surgery in New York State. An analysis of risk factors and hospital mortality rates
This study analyzes data from New York State's new Cardiac Surgery Reporting System, which contains information about cardiac preoperative risk factors, postoperative complications, and hospital discharge.
The purpos... | 13 |
2,769 | 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... | 20 |
663 | Intra-osseous pressure and oxygen tension in avascular necrosis and osteoarthritis of the hip.
The intra-osseous pressure, PO2, and PCO2 were measured in 32 hips (21 patients) which were painful but showed no severe degenerative changes.
Pre-operative scintigraphy and radiography was performed in all patients.
Thirt... | 4 |
701 | Loss of duodenal folds allows diagnosis of unsuspected coeliac disease.
We report three patients with coeliac disease who presented without the classic features of malabsorption and who underwent biopsy and were diagnosed only because of the endoscopic finding of the disappearance of Kerckring's folds in the descendin... | 5 |
3,314 | Differential regulation of human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs): a specific regulatory element in HIV-2 responds to stimulation of the T-cell antigen receptor.
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) types 1 and 2 have similar genetic organization but differ significantly in nucleic acid sequence.
Although infecti... | 22 |
2,457 | Vitamin A status in preschool-age Indonesian children as assessed by the modified relative-dose-response assay.
The modified relative-dose-response (MRDR) assay has been validated in rats as a function of vitamin A status and tested in a group of American children.
In this study the MRDR assay was applied to West Jav... | 17 |
1,530 | C-reactive protein in assessing antimicrobial treatment of acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
Serial serum C-reactive protein (CRP) determinations were used in the evaluation of antimicrobial treatment of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) as proven by laparoscopy and endometrial biopsy or microbiologic findings ... | 12 |
277 | Contamination of peripheral blood stem cell harvests by circulating neuroblastoma cells.
Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) are being used as one alternative to autologous marrow rescue for patients with neuroblastoma and other solid malignancies.
Some physicians prefer use of PBSC because less risk of tumor contamin... | 3 |
1,556 | Cardiac catheterisation with 5 French catheters.
From the beginning of November 1987 to the end of January 1989, 526 coronary arteriograms and left ventricular angiograms were performed with 5 French coronary catheters.
In 448 (85%) patients diagnostic pictures were obtained with three standard types of 5 French cath... | 13 |
3,148 | Multiple-pulse stimulation and dantrolene in malignant hyperthermia.
A potentially fatal condition, yet preventable, malignant hyperthermia (MH) lacks a satisfactory noninvasive diagnostic test.
Studying the effects of intravenous dantrolene (3 mg/kg) on electrically stimulated skeletal muscle, we found that this app... | 22 |
23 | Activity of compound G2 isolated from alfalfa roots in experimental dermatophyte infection.
Compound G2 isolated from alfalfa roots was applied topically to skin lesions of guinea pigs experimentally infected with the dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes var.
granulare.
After 12 to 15 applications, 80% of the in... | 0 |
2,440 | Is exogenous fructose metabolism truly insulin independent?
Although fructose is widely regarded as an insulin-independent fuel source, its in vivo conversion to glucose represents a theoretical limitation to its clinical usefulness in diabetics, particularly if given in large doses.
To determine whether small amount... | 17 |
3,174 | Interventional radiology of the biliary tract. Metallic stents.
Biliary metallic stents were placed in 18 patients with bile duct obstruction.
Six patients received Gianturco stents and 14 Wall-stents.
Results of these tests are discussed.
| 22 |
2,076 | Temporal relation between left ventricular dysfunction and chest pain in coronary artery disease during activities of daily living.
Forty-three ambulatory patients with angina of increasing frequency underwent continuous monitoring of left ventricular (LV) function for an average of 2.9 +/- 1.9 hours to determine the ... | 13 |
2,914 | Reappraisal of pancreatic and duodenal injury management based on injury severity.
We evaluated the effectiveness of treatment protocols for pancreatic and duodenal injuries according to the severity of injury.
Of 81 patients, 65 survived initial injury.
Pancreatic injuries without ductal involvement occurred in 21 ... | 20 |
1,698 | Cardioprotective effects of carnitine in extensive aortocoronary bypass grafting: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
The cardioprotective effects of carnitine were tested in patients undergoing multiple aortocoronary bypass grafting.
Intermittent aortic cross-clamping at 28 degrees C was u... | 13 |
2,282 | Contact dermatoses from disposable glove use: a review.
Contact dermatoses from disposable gloves are being reported with greater frequency.
A variety of eruptions can occur.
These have become increasingly relevant for dermatologists, who for most procedures now use disposable gloves.
This article represents a revi... | 16 |
961 | Pleuropulmonary morbidity: internal thoracic artery versus saphenous vein graft.
Although use of the internal thoracic artery (ITA) for coronary artery bypass grafting results in superior graft patency and improved patient survival, our initial clinical observations suggested an increased incidence of pleuropulmonary ... | 7 |
268 | A signet-ring cell carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater.
We describe a variant of carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater, which, to our knowledge, has not been previously described.
Classic signet-ring cells represented the predominant cell type, and were admixed with more poorly differentiated tumor cells that were chromogr... | 3 |
1,488 | Ectopic pregnancy in adolescents: a clinical review for pediatricians.
Pediatricians caring for sexually active female adolescents and young adults need to be aware of the history, symptoms, and signs of an ectopic pregnancy.
A thorough history and physical examination, including the pelvic examination, as well as sp... | 12 |
450 | Potent toxicity of 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine toward human monocytes in vitro and in vivo. A novel approach to immunosuppressive therapy.
Lymphoid cells were thought to be uniquely susceptible to excess 2'-deoxyadenosine (dAdo), when exposed to inhibitors of adenosine deaminase (ADA).
However, we now find that human mono... | 3 |
1,653 | Comparison of the antihypertensive efficiency of nitrendipine, metoprolol, mepindolol and enalapril using ambulatory 24-hour blood pressure monitoring.
In a randomized 6-month study of 201 patients, the antihypertensive efficiency of the calcium antagonist nitrendipine, the beta 1-selective blocker metoprolol, mepindo... | 13 |
812 | Pathogenesis and therapy of peptic ulcer disease.
The epithelial cells of the stomach and duodenum are normally protected from the damaging effects of acid and pepsin by a balancing mechanism of mucosal resistance.
If an imbalance occurs, peptic ulcer may result.
Traditional teaching has emphasized the importance of... | 5 |
2,617 | Normal responsiveness of superficial hand veins to alpha- and beta-adrenergic stimuli in allergic asthma: effects of terbutaline and prednisolone on beta-adrenergic responsiveness.
Impaired function of the adrenergic-receptor system has been postulated to contribute to the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma.
Using the ... | 19 |
2,204 | Cardiac teratogenesis of trichloroethylene and dichloroethylene in a mammalian model.
Recent epidemiologic studies have demonstrated a greater than expected number of pediatric patients with congenital heart disease in areas where drinking water was contaminated by halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons.
Trichloroethylen... | 15 |
2,027 | Fish oil amplifies the effect of propranolol in mild essential hypertension.
Forty-seven male patients with mild essential hypertension were randomly allocated to three subgroups.
After a run-in period of 4 weeks, the first subgroup (n = 16) received propranolol (80 mg/day) for 36 weeks followed by a placebo period o... | 13 |
1,021 | Head stability and gaze during vertical whole-body oscillations.
To understand head and eye stabilities during upright locomotion, we investigated head and eye movements during vertical whole-body oscillations of various amplitudes (1 to 10 cm) and frequencies (1 to 3 Hz) in both normal subjects (n = 10) and patients ... | 8 |
3,153 | Observer variability in the scoring of colpophotographs.
Colposcopy and cervicography are accepted tools for assessing the cervix for an atypical transformation zone.
We studied the validity of the colpophotograph as a measurement tool by determining the agreement of experienced colposcopists using colpophotographs o... | 22 |
134 | Immunological studies of the basis for the apathogenicity of simian immunodeficiency virus from African green monkeys.
Potential reasons for the lack of pathogenicity of the simian immunodeficiency virus SIVagm in its natural host, the African green monkey (AGM, Cercopithecus aethiops), were investigated with respect ... | 1 |
722 | Fibronectin-related substance located in the chief cells of human and rat gastric mucosa.
A novel substance located in the chief cells of human and rat gastric mucosa, which was detected immunologically by either polyclonal or monoclonal antihuman fibronectin (FN) antibodies, is reported.
All three polyclonal antihum... | 5 |
3,247 | Evaluating hematuria in children. Where to start and how to proceed.
Bleeding from somewhere along the urinary tract is not unusual in children.
Of the many causes, systemic infection and trauma are among the most common.
History taking and physical examination should be careful and complete, because the results obt... | 22 |
2,762 | Puffer fish poisoning.
Regarded by many as a delicacy, puffer fish can be the source of lethal food poisoning in humans.
The syndrome is caused by tetrodotoxin, one of the most potent poisons known.
Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common comp... | 20 |
2,150 | Pulse oximetry. Uses and abuses.
Pulse oximetry has made a significant contribution to noninvasive monitoring in a wide variety of clinical situations.
It allows for continuous reliable measurements of oxygen saturation while avoiding the discomfort and risks of arterial puncture.
As the extent of hypoxic episodes d... | 14 |
2,694 | Effect of continuous-infusion zidovudine therapy on neuropsychologic functioning in children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Neuropsychologic function was assessed in 13 children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus disease (Centers for Disease Control Class P2), ranging in age from 1... | 19 |
2,477 | Experimental diabetes increases insulinlike growth factor I and II receptor concentration and gene expression in kidney.
Insulinlike growth factor I (IGF-I) is a mitogenic hormone with important regulatory roles in growth and development.
One of the target organs for IGF-I action is the kidney, which synthesizes abun... | 17 |
2,783 | Separation of a ruptured angioplasty balloon with successful percutaneous retrieval--a case report.
A case of ruptured angioplasty balloon with complete separation from the catheter is presented.
Successful percutaneous retrieval of the balloon with endoscopic biopsy forceps was performed.
| 20 |
2,953 | Inhalation injury to tracheal epithelium in an ovine model of cotton smoke exposure. Early phase (30 minutes).
The purpose of this study was to evaluate lung cell injury during the acute phase of smoke inhalation injury.
A group of 10 sheep were anesthetized with halothane and pancuronium followed by endotracheal int... | 20 |
2,847 | Bilateral simultaneous fractures of the femoral neck: case report.
A case of bilateral fractures of the femoral neck resulting from high-voltage electric injury is reported.
Surgeons caring for patients with electrical injuries must be aware of the possibility of this injury as well as other skeletal injuries which m... | 20 |
1,038 | Ethyl chloride and venepuncture pain: a comparison with intradermal lidocaine.
One hundred and twenty unpremedicated patients undergoing gynaecological surgery were randomly allocated to one of three equal treatment groups to assess the effectiveness of ethyl chloride in producing instant skin anaesthesia to prevent t... | 9 |
1,783 | Optimizing the exercise test for pharmacological investigations
Exercise trials in cardiology are often hindered by inconsistent approaches to exercise testing.
These inconsistencies include the choice of exercise protocol, exercise end points, points of analysis, and absence or misuse of gas exchange data.
Gas exc... | 13 |
3,083 | Immune responses to allogeneic and xenogeneic implants of collagen and collagen derivatives.
Whereas xenogeneic collagen has provided a safe and effective biomaterial for numerous medical applications, there are few instances in which data permit the correlation of the immunologic profile of well-defined devices with ... | 22 |
225 | Carcinoma of the thyroglossal duct.
A review of 39 instances of excision of a cyst of the thyroglossal duct performed at St.
Paul Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, revealed two patients with carcinoma of the thyroglossal duct.
A review of the English literature yielded 146 instances of this uncommon tumor.
Eighty-four... | 3 |
3,056 | Prolonged paralysis following suxamethonium and the use of neostigmine.
A case of prolonged neuromuscular block following the administration of suxamethonium is reported.
Three hours after administration of suxamethonium, a well defined, recovering phase II block was demonstrated with a T4:T1 ratio of 0.25, and neost... | 22 |
2,137 | Detection of drug-dependent, platelet-reactive antibodies by antigen-capture ELISA and flow cytometry.
The effectiveness of flow cytometry in the detection of drug-dependent, platelet-reactive antibodies was investigated.
In studies of seven sera known to contain quinine- or quinidine-dependent, platelet-reactive ant... | 14 |
2,831 | Field performance of the Intoxilyzer 5000: a comparison of blood- and breath-alcohol results in Wisconsin drivers.
Intoxilyzer 5000 and blood-alcohol results from drivers arrested for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and for related offenses were compared during a two-year period.
Three hundred and ninety-... | 20 |
1,006 | Informed consent in head and neck surgery.
Informed consent is the fastest growing problem in the medical negligence debate.
It was highlighted recently in the United Kingdom in the Sidaway case.
Informed consent comprises the advice you would give the patient, the consequences of not taking your advice, the specifi... | 8 |
3,329 | Another way of pumping blood with a rotary but noncentrifugal pump for an artificial heart.
This article describes an alternative mode of pumping blood inside the body.
The device is a non centrifugal, valveless, low speed rotary pump, electrically powered, based on Wankel engine principle.
The authors developed an ... | 22 |
3,045 | Reoperations on heart valve prostheses: an analysis of operative risks and late results.
To evaluate risks and complications of reoperations on heart valve prostheses, we reviewed data on 183 patients who underwent reoperation because of prosthetic valve malfunction.
The incremental effect of the redo procedure on ho... | 22 |
930 | Developmental expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 by human alveolar macrophages. Possible role in lung injury.
Urokinase activity is regulated by the specific endogenous plasminogen activator inhibitors type 1 (PAI-1) and type 2 (PAI-2).
One of these inhibitors, PAI-1, has been directly implicated in... | 7 |
130 | HIV seroconversion in two homosexual men after receptive oral intercourse with ejaculation: implications for counseling concerning safe sexual practices.
Seroconversion for HIV antibody occurred in two homosexual men who reported no anal intercourse for greater than or equal to 5 years and multiple episodes of recepti... | 1 |
307 | Early gastric cancer. Endoscopic diagnosis of depth of invasion.
In order to decide on a treatment strategy against gastric cancers, an accurate preoperative evaluation of the depth of cancer invasion is essential.
Preoperative endoscopic diagnosis of the depth of invasion was compared with pathological results of th... | 3 |
1,577 | Time course of hemodynamic responses to sodium in elderly hypertensive patients.
Thirty-one patients with essential hypertension (81.6 +/- 6.9 years old) were studied during two different regimens of sodium intake: 120 meq/day for 8 weeks and 344 meq/day for 2 weeks.
Systemic hemodynamic data were measured with Doppl... | 13 |
2,363 | Combined insulin-sulfonylurea therapy in treatment of NIDDM.
For the past few years, interest has focused on the combination of insulin and sulfonylurea in the search for effective treatments for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients who fail on oral hypoglycemic agents.
Although several studies ha... | 17 |
1,210 | Long-term potentiation of electrotonic coupling at mixed synapses.
Long-term potentiation of chemical synapses is closely related to memory and learning.
Studies of this process have concentrated on chemically mediated excitatory synapses.
By contrast, activity-dependent modification of gap junctions, which also wid... | 9 |
691 | Can clinicians accurately assess esophageal dilation without fluoroscopy?
This study questioned whether clinicians could determine the success of esophageal dilation accurately without the aid of fluoroscopy.
Twenty patients were enrolled with the diagnosis of distal esophageal stenosis, including benign peptic stric... | 5 |
1,019 | Artificial restoration of voice. I: Experiments in phonatory control of the reinnervated canine larynx.
Coordinated electronic pacing of implanted nerve pedicles into paralyzed laryngeal muscles has allowed selective dynamic control of abduction, adduction, and elongation of the vocal cords.
Modifications of the orig... | 8 |
2,230 | Tolerance and dependence in neonates sedated with fentanyl during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
We undertook a retrospective chart review of 37 neonates who received fentanyl by continuous infusion while undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) between May 1986 and October 1988.
We quantified the ... | 15 |
3,073 | Mechanical myocardial actuation during ventricular fibrillation improves tolerance to ischemia compared with cardiopulmonary bypass.
Direct mechanical ventricular actuation (DMVA) is a unique non-blood-contacting biventricular assist device that provides circulatory support during ventricular fibrillation without demo... | 22 |
249 | Limbal autograft reconstruction after conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma.
Two patients who had squamous cell carcinoma with extensive limbal and corneal involvement were treated with surgery and cryotherapy.
Rarely large areas of the cornea are involved by this tumor.
Visual prognosis in such patients is poor.
In... | 3 |
1,787 | Relative risks of left ventricular aneurysmectomy in patients with akinetic scars versus true dyskinetic aneurysms.
From 1971 to 1988, 303 patients underwent left ventricular aneurysm resection.
We analyzed preoperative and procedure-related variables to ascertain risk factors for surgery.
A distinction was made bet... | 13 |
98 | Bird attack on milk bottles: possible mode of transmission of Campylobacter jejuni to man
A case-control study was carried out to test the hypothesis that the rise in the rate of Campylobacter jejuni infection in the Brigend area of South Wales during May was due to the consumption or handling of milk from bottles th... | 0 |
1,529 | Ultrasound-guided transcervical metroplasty.
A new technique of metroplasty is described.
The septum is divided with 4-mm endoscopic scissors introduced into the uterine cavity through the cervix.
The whole procedure is monitored by a real-time ultrasound scanner.
Twenty-four patients were operated on with this tec... | 12 |
2,739 | Pulmonary functional impairment associated with pleural asbestos disease. Circumscribed and diffuse thickening.
To define the pulmonary functional impairment associated with pleural asbestos signs (PAS), we compared 738 men with only circumscribed (plaques) or diffuse pleural thickening on chest roentgenograms but no ... | 20 |
1,966 | Functional chiral asymmetry in descending thoracic aorta
To determine whether rotational blood flow or chiral asymmetry exists in the human descending thoracic aorta, we established the ability of color Doppler ultrasound to detect rotational flow in a tornado tube model of a vortex descending fluid column.
In a mod... | 13 |
2,334 | Arthropathy of Down syndrome.
A juvenile rheumatoid arthritis-like arthropathy has previously been documented in 12 patients with Down syndrome.
An additional 9 patients are described and the literature is reviewed.
It is unknown whether these patients have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or a unique arthropathy in li... | 16 |
2,228 | Results of a 25-year screening programme for neonatal hip instability.
From 1962 to 1986, 117,256 neonates were screened for congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH).
When the primary physical examination was performed by the junior paediatric staff there was a persistent late diagnosis rate of 0.5 per 1000 live birth... | 15 |
1,464 | Prenatal diagnosis of congenital cytomegalovirus infection by virus isolation from amniotic fluid.
Cytomegalovirus was isolated antenatally from the amniotic fluid of two pregnant women.
In both cases prenatal diagnosis of the fetal virus infection aided the subsequent management of the mother and newborn infant.
| 12 |
3,288 | Postoperative bile duct strictures.
Bile duct strictures are an uncommon but serious complication of primary operations on the gallbladder or biliary tree.
Most strictures occur as a result of injury to the bile duct during cholecystectomy.
In addition, strictures can occur at the site of previous biliary anastomose... | 22 |
1,752 | Haemostatic changes during continuous oestradiol-progestogen treatment of postmenopausal women.
To identify changes in haemostatic balance during continuous oestradiol-progestogen treatment, 60 postmenopausal women with climacteric complaints, mean age 55.4 years (range 44-68) were randomly allocated to receive one of... | 13 |
902 | Effects of albuterol and procaterol on exercise-induced asthma.
Procaterol and albuterol, beta agonists, were studied using a placebo-controlled, repeated exercise challenge design in order to assess their duration of effectiveness in both bronchodilation and in modifying exercise-induced asthma (EIA).
Fifty-three su... | 7 |
3,179 | Comparison of structure, mechanical properties, and functions of lumbar spinal ligaments.
The organization of collagen in the supraspinous, interspinous, and longitudinal ligaments, as well as the ligamenta flava, in lumbar spines from human cadavers has been investigated by polarized light microscopy, scanning electr... | 22 |
2,487 | Acylation-stimulatory activity in hyperapobetalipoproteinemic fibroblasts: enhanced cholesterol esterification with another serum basic protein, BP II.
Cultured fibroblasts from patients with familial hyperapobetalipoproteinemia (hyperapoB) were used to determine if a defect in lipid metabolism was present.
Three bas... | 17 |
2,903 | Excess injury mortality among children in the United States: comparison of recent international statistics.
Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the World Health Organization, child injury death rates in the US were compared to those of Canada, England and Wales, France, Netherlands, and Norwa... | 20 |
3,183 | Spreading depression-like depolarization and selective vulnerability of neurons. A brief review.
If oxygen is withdrawn from rat hippocampal slices, a spreading depression-like response occurs earlier and is of larger amplitude in the CA1 area than in the dentate gyrus.
After reoxygenation, recovery of synaptic trans... | 22 |
1,714 | Long-term amiodarone administration protects against global myocardial ischemia.
Reports on the effects of amiodarone on cardiac function have been variable.
This study addresses the effect of long-term amiodarone administration on recovery of cardiac function after a period of global ischemia.
Normotensive and spon... | 13 |
3,286 | Filler DNA is associated with spontaneous deletions in maize.
We have determined the structure of five spontaneous deletions within the maize waxy (Wx) gene.
Of these, four were found in spontaneous wx mutants (wx-B, wx-B1, wx-B6, wx-C4) and include exon sequences; the fifth is restricted to an intron and represents ... | 22 |
2,317 | Aspirin, hydroxychloroquine, and hepatic enzyme abnormalities with methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis.
Levels of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from 5 centers involved in the Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Aging Medical ... | 16 |
1,160 | 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... | 9 |
2,630 | Dideoxycytidine alone and in an alternating schedule with zidovudine in children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a short course of 2',3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC) could provide safe antiretroviral activity in children with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus in... | 19 |
2,763 | Wounding effects of the AK-47 rifle used by Patrick Purdy in the Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting of January 17, 1989.
The limited disruption produced in tissue simulant by the rifle and bullets used in the Stockton, California, schoolyard shooting is entirely consistent with the autopsy reports on the five c... | 20 |
3,347 | 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... | 22 |
360 | Laparoscopic management of ovarian cysts.
One hundred two women with ovarian cysts were managed laparoscopically over a 13-year period.
Thirteen were treated with laparoscopic inspection followed by laparotomy, 6 with laparoscopic fine needle aspiration followed by laparotomy and 83 with laparoscopic fenestration and... | 3 |
93 | Absence of significant bacteremia during urinary catheter manipulation in patients with chronic indwelling catheters.
The objective of this study was to quantify the microorganisms present in blood at urinary catheter removal and at reinsertion in patients with chronic indwelling urinary catheters.
This was a prospec... | 0 |
1,777 | Prognostic value of radionuclide angiography in medically treated patients with coronary artery disease. A comparison with clinical and catheterization variables.
To evaluate the usefulness of multiple measures from rest and exercise radionuclide angiography (RNA) in predicting cardiovascular death and cardiovascular ... | 13 |
1,325 | Treatment of renal calculi in the elderly.
The management of renal calculi in the geriatric patient population poses some unique problems that include anesthetic risks, underlying medical disease, and general risk/benefit concerns.
A variety of relatively noninvasive procedures are available, including extracorporeal... | 11 |
2,049 | Compensation and overcompensation in congestive heart failure.
The compensatory mechanisms that develop in response to heart failure have been well defined.
In this review, it is argued that each compensatory mechanism leads to overcompensation and that there is no way to distinguish between the beneficial aspects of... | 13 |
1,721 | Angioscopy for intraoperative management of thromboembolectomy.
Our experience with angioscopy suggests that direct visualization of the arterial lumen during thromboembolectomy procedures would provide a more reliable method of assessing luminal morphologic characteristics than angiography alone.
We inspected 32 gra... | 13 |
2,876 | The radial forearm flap for reconstruction of the upper extremity.
The radial forearm flap, owing to its good-caliber arteries of long length and equally well distributed venous system, has proved very reliable.
It has not only earned its place and recognition in reconstructive hand surgery, but also has emerged as a... | 20 |
721 | Effect of epidermal growth factor in combination with sucralfate or omeprazole on the healing of chronic gastric ulcers in the rat.
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been shown to enhance healing of experimental gastric ulcers when given subcutaneously or orally in the drinking water.
This effect of EGF occurs withou... | 5 |
2,989 | Gastrointestinal bleeding in a 15 month old male. A presentation of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy.
Munchausen's syndrome by Proxy is a well-described entity that may not always be immediately considered in a complicated case.
We describe this syndrome being portrayed through the guise of gastrointestinal bleeding in... | 22 |
1,380 | Angiotensin II receptor regulation in anti-glomerular basement membrane nephritis.
The expression of the glomerular receptor for angiotensin II (Ang II-R) was examined longitudinally following the induction of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) nephritis in the rat.
The specific aim of the project was to determi... | 11 |
384 | Brain stem and spinal metastases of supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme: a clinical series.
Although the spread of supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme to the brain stem and spine has been extensively described in published autopsy series, information on the diagnosis, treatment, and subsequent clinical course of... | 3 |
3,192 | Primary abscess of the omentum.
A 65-yr-old man presented with upper abdominal pain and fever due to a primary abscess of the omentum.
The finding of microscopic-size foreign particles within the abscess raised the possibility of antecedent clinically silent perforation of the bowel or appendix.
Surgical resection a... | 22 |
2,520 | Mutation of the signal peptide-encoding region of the preproparathyroid hormone gene in familial isolated hypoparathyroidism.
Preproparathyroid hormone (preproPTH) gene mutation has been proposed as a cause of familial isolated hypoparathyroidism (FIH).
We cloned the preproPTH alleles of a patient with autosomal domi... | 18 |
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