Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus is manifested by persistence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HB_s Ag) in the blood. In this country approximately 10 per cent of patients hospitalized with acute hepatitis B become chronically infected.¹ Between ...

The electrocardiogram of the normal-variant RS-T segment ("early repolarization")^{1 2 3 4} and the Stage 1 electrocardiogram of acute pericarditis^{5 6 7} have in common such striking features that they are considered indistinguishable^{1 2 3 , 8} (Fig. ¹ and ²). ...

The ductus arteriosus is a unique structure since its patency after birth may, on the one hand, result in cardiac decompensation and, on the other hand, may provide the only life-sustaining conduit to preserve systemic or pulmonary arterial blood flow in ...

WE have demonstrated that inhibition of prosta-glandin synthesis by acetylsalicylic acid produced constriction of the ductus arteriosus in normal fetal lambs in utero, and suggested that inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis may be useful in closing the ...

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Tissue-Culture Studies

Metachromasia

The earliest observations of differences between cystic-fibrosis and normal cells were made by Danes and Bearn,⁵⁴ who noted metachromasia, a staining property produced by interaction of a ...

Drugs have been administered by intramuscular injection for more than a century. This route of administration is most useful when the patient's disease or the pharmacokinetic properties of the drug preclude oral dosing. The technic of intramuscular ...

One the most conspicuous effects of the glucocorticoid hormones is an inhibition of somatic growth in immature animals. In 1940, shortly after adrenocortical hormones became available for experimental purposes, Wells and Kendall observed that small doses ...

Presentation of Case

A 26-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of cranial-nerve palsies.

She was well until a year previously, when she became aware of visual blurring that occurred late in the day and was corrected by covering either eye. ...

IN this issue of the Journal Greenberg and his colleagues report that interferon depresses Dane-particle-associated DNA, DNA polymerase and core antigen in chronic active hepatitis. Dane particles are the presumed etiologic virus of Type B hepatitis. It ...

Cardiovascular surgeons and cardiologists have been preoccupied with the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) for almost 40 years since Gross¹ successfully ligated this structure in a little girl at the Children's Hospital in Boston, thus opening the era of ...

The curious idea is abroad that the doctor should be a factotum of health. By some singularity of reason, his role as a healer is disparaged, and the words "care, not cure" are becoming as tiresome as "death with dignity." The doctor, for example, is ...

An obese 41-year-old gravida 9, para 6, died 35 hours post partum during attempted endotracheal intubation for anesthesia.

Having borne one set of twins and known for a year to be hypertensive, at 15 weeks the patient applied for prenatal care at a ...

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To the Editor: The discussion on the merits of pharmacists in the correspondence section of the Journal (N Engl J Med 294:1015, 1976, and 295:110, 1976) is an example of a poor physician-pharmacist encounter that does not focus on the more important ...

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This is a book that students, residents and practicing nuclear physicians will find useful for answering questions ranging from the basic to the clinical. For all intents and purposes, it is a textbook dealing with images of tissue and organ distribution ...

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The aim of establishing a single definitive textbook of pediatric neurology is evident from the size and scope (contributions from 44 pediatric neurologists, although with many instances of multiple authorship) of these volumes. In some respects this ...

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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.

Anatomy and Histology

Atlas of ...

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