Elevated plasma renin activity occurs in malignant and renovascular hypertension and in a subgroup of essential hypertension.¹ However, the exact role of the renin-angiotensin system in maintenance or causation of most hypertensive states remain ...

Infants born before 40 weeks' gestation experience a greater fall in hemoglobin concentration than those born at term.^{1 , 2} Hemoglobin levels reach their lowest point at two to three months of age. This phenomenon does not appear to be associated with any ...

IN the last few years a number of patients with a severe combined immunodeficiency and lacking adenosine deaminase activity in the erythrocytes have been described.^{1 , 2} Adenosine deaminase catalyzes the conversion of adenosine into inosine, as part of ...

Although the administration of educational programs in academic health centers* is much discussed, major policy questions remain unanswered. We propose some answers to these questions, but recognize that each center is different; an approach that works ...

Selection of an antibiotic to use in the treatment of an infection should be based on benefittoxicity ratios, particularly in critically ill patients with marginal renal function and potentially lethal infections. Many factors intrinsic to the kidney are ...

The most important clinical determination of ventricular function is the evaluation of the functional limits. Usually, physicians make this evaluation from their appraisal of exertional symptoms reported in a patient's history, often with considerable ...

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk is suspected with electrocardiographic evidence of myocardial infarction in patients with left ventricular failure and cardiomegaly; the diagnosis is made by selective angiography.^{1 , 3} ...

Presentation of Case

A 14-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of fever, lymphadenopathy and skin lesions.

He was in excellent health until six weeks previously, when he began to experience increasing fatigue while working after school. Four ...

The relation of the activity of the renin-angiotensin system to the pathogenesis of hypertension remains controversial. In an attempt to resolve this controversy, interruption of the renin-angiotensin system by pharmacologic technics is finding increasing ...

The renewal rate of adult human red cells in the peripheral circulation is approximately 0.8 per cent per day. If a person is either bled or exposed to a hypoxic environment, erythropoiesis increases as measured by the uptake of ⁵⁹Fe in newly formed red ...

In one legend a university president dies. To his surprise, he finds himself in an office identical with the one he occupied in life. Confusion about the president's fate is cleared by the sudden appearance of Mephistopheles.

"I do not understand," the ...

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Catalfumo, Frank John, 188 East Street, Pittsfield 01201. Faculty of Medicine & Surgery University of Bologna, 1967.

Rentz, Frederick Peter, 725 North Street, Pittsfield 01201. ...

In a search for ways to control rising medical-care costs, particularly those resulting from end-stage cardiovascular disorders, as well as to promote healthful personal behavior, a number of governments, including Canada,¹ Sweden and Switzerland, have ...

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To the Editor: Prostaglandins mediate many different types of human diarrhea, especially the diarrhea associated with medullary carcinoma of the thyroid.¹ Abdominal cramping and watery diarrhea with an accelerated transit of markers through the gut and ...

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In the preface the author states that the purpose of this book is to provide a translation of static morphologic observations into pathophysiologic concepts that he believes to be important for the solution of clinical problems. This goal is reasonable ...

A quantitatively oriented policy analyst with no medical training and a cardiologist with no experience in quantitative policy analysis have not only taken the time to understand each other's language and appreciate each other's philosophy, but also ...

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Communicable Diseases and ...

COURSES FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

New York University Post-Graduate Medical School, New York City, will offer the following courses in the coming months: "Conception Control and Human Reproduction Seminar for Physicians," April 21 and 22; "Symposium: ...

Hospital cost increases long ago joined the group of things that can't go on like this, but nevertheless do. Now comes the Carter Administration with a pledge to "cap" the process, though it admits it has "no preconceptions of the form such a system might ...