SINCE the introduction of aortocoronary bypass operations for the relief of angina pectoris by Favaloro¹ and Johnson² and their widespread acceptance, the need for a controlled study to evaluate the efficacy of the procedures has been emphasized, and ...

ADENOSINE deaminase is a ubiquitous enzyme of mammalian tissues. It catalyzes the conversion of adenosine to inosine and is thus an important enzyme in the purine salvage pathway. In its absence, adenosine may accumulate, and this increase is known to be ...

IN the last few years a number of reports have been presented regarding the results of early ambulation and discharge from the hospital of patients with acute myocardial infarction, and in patients with uncomplicated myocardial infarction only, a ...

IN 1969, five consecutive cases of septic abortion induced by instillation of soap or phenolic antiseptics into the uterus, resulting in uterine necrosis, septic shock and renal failure, were reported in the Journal. ¹ Management was with hysterectomy and ...

ASSOCIATIONS between antenatal exposure to meprobamate and chlordiazepoxide taken in early pregnancy and the occurrence of congenital anomalies (particularly cardiovascular) have been reported.¹ This report evaluates whether similar associations can be ...

FEW would question that maldistribution of physicians in this country creates uneven access to the medical-care system. To respond to this problem by decentralizing medical care and distributing physicians and physicians' associates into needy areas ...

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Drug Reactions Suspected of Being Allergic

The role of allergy in drug-induced inflammation of the liver, kidney, lungs and small blood vessels is not well defined. Very frequently, some form of direct toxicity appears to be ...

GALACTOSE-1-PHOSPHATE uridylytransferase (E.C. 2.7.7.12—subsequently referred to as "transferase") is the enzyme whose function is markedly, if not totally, deficient in the commonly recognized form of galactosemia — an inborn error of metabolism that was ...

Presentation of Case

A 33-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of hoarseness and a left cervical mass.

He was well until nine months previously, when he noticed a "hard feeling" in the throat, which recurred at intervals during the next three ...

The paper, "Value of Early Ambulation in Patients with and without Complications after Acute Myocardial Infarction," by Abraham and his colleagues, elsewhere in this issue of the Journal deserves careful scrutiny.

A number of questions should be asked ...

The petrous pyramid of the temporal bone has long hidden the secrets of the facial nerve — so effectively that in considering this region, researchers have found it difficult to separate fact from fancy. During the first decades of this century, the most ...

Nothing much is really new. Ancient wisdom continually reasserts itself in a different form or by a different name. Gullible people latch on to old truths with the haughty pride of possession; they and they alone have found the key to happiness—or to ...

SYNOPSIS OF COUNCIL MEETING

The Council met at Howard Johnson 57 Hotel, Boston, on Wednesday, February 12, 1975, with 199 councilors in attendance. Dr. John C. Ayres presided.

The councilors stood in a moment of silence after the reading of obituaries for ...

To the Editor: The description of and editorial comment on an apparently distinct category of lymphoproliferative disease by two eminent hematopathological groups (N Engl J Med 292:1–8 and 42–43, 1975) raise some questions from a clinical standpoint. It ...

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To the Editor: We read with interest the report by Bravo et al., of β-adrenergic blockade in diuretic-treated patients with essential hypertension (issue of January 9).

We are, at present, investigating a similar group of outpatients with benign ...

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To the Editor: There is a third world that Blackburn does not acknowledge in the binary system of thought that he uses to describe the problem of coronary heart disease (N Engl J Med 292:105–107, 1975). Those with what he calls the "academic view" ...

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To the Editor: The Birth Defects Group at our institute has been engaged in research studies of the cerebral sphingolipidoses for the past 20 years, and in community mass-screening programs for carriers of Tay-Sachs disease for the past five years. Being ...

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SEMINARS IN MEDICINE OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL

Seminars in Medicine of the Beth Israel Hospital will be held in the George Sherman Auditorium, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, on the following Tuesdays at 4 p.m.

PROGRAM IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE

"A Scientific ...

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