INTRAVENOUS nitroglycerin decreases the magnitude of ST-segment elevation (∑ST) in patients with acute myocardial infarction and reduces left ventricular filling pressures, particularly in those with congestive heart failure.¹ Studies in dogs have also ...

NITROGLYCERIN reduces ischemic injury to the myocardium when administered during acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in dogs.^{1 2 3 4} Recently, this finding has been extended to man.⁵ In experimental myocardial infarction, the beneficial effect of ...

METABOLIC derangements in the central nervous system immediately after cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation have not been studied in human beings. Consequently, the treatment of patients in coma after resuscitation from cardiac arrest, or ...

HEART disease and electrocardiographic abnormalities may be associated with each of the major types of muscular dystrophy, but their frequency, severity and distinctive characteristics vary from one type to another. In the Duchenne type of progressive ...

THE PSRO (Professional Standards Review Organization) provisions of the Social Security Amendments of 1972* have been highly controversial from the date of their enactment.^{1 2 3} Feeding the controversy is their evident potential for permanently ...

IN recent years two clinically applicable, simple and rapid methods for measuring the ventilatory response to carbon dioxide and hypoxia have been described.^{1 , 2} Neither of these methods, however, is capable of differentiating patients who will not ...

MANY pathophysiologic mechanisms have been proposed to explain the role of alcohol in the development of acute pancreatitis in the almost 100 years since "drunkard's pancreas" was first described.¹ At present no mechanism has been proved. However a great ...

THE use of an umbilical-artery catheter for diagnostic and therapeutic management of the critically ill neonate is a specifically indicated, well accepted procedure.¹ The complications include thrombosis, embolism, hemorrhage and infection, and approach ...

Presentation of Case

A 65-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of hematuria and fever.

Four days previously she began to have chills and fever, with rise of the temperature to 40.1°C, severe, dull, noncolicky pain in the right flank, gross ...

Physicians who have kept close watch upon changing fashions in therapy of cardiogenic shock may have been puzzled by claims of effectiveness for drugs with opposite actions. Thus, pressor agents that stimulate alpha receptors, such as norepinephrine, are ...

The brain is protected from the outside by the skull and its meninges and from the inside by a blood–brain barrier that selectively transfers, exchanges, and excludes materials from the rest of the body. In part because of these protections, the brain has ...

DEATHS

Lynch — James J. Lynch, M.D., of Braintree, died on May 1. He was in his 93d year.

Dr. Lynch received his degree from Tufts College Medical School in 1906. He was formerly an instructor in medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was a ...

This column has referred to the gathering of data, to the importance of monitoring its usefulness and to the duty of the major health agencies to interpret and make known community health findings of interest or importance to individuals or agencies.^{1 , 2} ...

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To the Editor: The recent study of Gaw, Chang and Shaw (N Engl J Med 293:375, 1975) is labeled "controlled and double blind." However, several factors prevent it from being so. For one thing, the authors used only two groups, acupunctured in "right" and "...

To the Editor: Only few reports have been published on acute intoxication with cannabis in man. The analytical verification has been attempted in the fatal case reported by Heyndrickx et al.,¹ in which cannabinol was identified in the urine of the ...

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To the Editor: The editorial¹ in the September 4 issue of the Journal contains two comments that require discussion.

In passing, it notes that baboons are expensive, at $250 per animal. Actually, the present cost of a newly imported baboon averages $450, ...

This important book, a review of the childhood behavior disorders characterized as hyperactivity, is a useful updating of this developing but still immature area of neuropsychologic medicine. Of greater consequence, the book presents a balanced and ...

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The receipt of the following books is acknowledged, and this listing must be regarded as sufficient return for the courtesy of the sender. Books that appear to be of particular interest will be reviewed as space permits.

Cardiovascular System

Acute ...

LECTURES ON DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND

A comprehensive lecture series on diagnostic ultrasound will be conducted at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, beginning in January, 1976. The program will continue for 20 consecutive ...