Hereditary autosomal dominant neutropenia is one of several chronic neutropenic disorders of childhood that have been broadly classified as hereditary or acquired and, on the basis of morbidity from infection, as benign or malignant. Although kinetic ...

The recent successful treatment of Goodpasture's syndrome by immunosuppression and removal of antibody to glomerular basement membrane by plasma exchange^{1 , 2} has highlighted the need for a simple, sensitive and repeatable method of measuring pulmonary ...

Among the 74 women dying from induced legal abortion in the United States in 1972, 1973 and 1974, complications of anesthesia ranked third among the causes of death.¹ In 1974, Berger and his associates² described two deaths from paracervical anesthesia ...

The most important problem in the treatment of Parkinson's disease is the increasingly large number of patients who, after showing a good response to levodopa with or without a peripheral decarboxylase inhibitor, fail to maintain this response and have ...

Physiologic Basis for Therapeutic Decisions — Effects of Drugs on Cardiac Function

The selection of therapy for a patient with disordered function in acute myocardial infarction involves both assessment of the level of cardiac performance and prediction ...

Primary pulmonary hypertension is a disease of unknown cause characterized by exertional dyspnea, dizziness and syncope and a progressive course resulting in death usually within three to seven years after the onset of symptoms. No therapeutic measures ...

The diabetic neuropathies include a variety of syndromes that differ in their clinical manifestations, prognoses and, in some instances, their pathologic bases. Distal symmetrical polyneuropathy, the most common form of diabetic neuropathy, is a major ...

Introduction*

Dr. Guillermo C. Sanchez: In this Bicentennial Year it seems appropriate to have a clinicopathological exercise with historical emphasis and present the case record of the first patient admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital, on the ...

Goodpasture's syndrome is a distinctive combination of glomerulonephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage mediated by antibodies to the basement membranes of the glomeruli, and probably also of the lungs.¹ Although the syndrome is uncommon, it has excited ...

Local anesthetics comprise one of the most widely used classes of drugs in medicine and dentistry, with their remarkable ability to block, quickly and reversibly, the traffic of impulses through both sensory and motor nerves. Historically, the ...

Over the last decade two important developments have taken place in the treatment of Parkinsonism. The first and most important was the widespread assimilation of levodopa into routine therapy, which derived from evidence that dopamine is a striatal ...

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JOINT NATIONAL STROKE CONFERENCE

The Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, the Cerebrovascular Surgery Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Canadian Stroke Society, the Canadian Heart Association, and the Society ...