CHRONIC mucocutaneous candidiasis is characterized by persistent or recurrent infections of the skin, nails and mucous membranes with candida species, usually Candida albicans. The majority of patients have impaired cell-mediated immune responses, and ...

RELAPSING polychondritis is a disease manifested by recurring episodes of inflammation in cartilaginous tissue throughout the body. Pearson et al. suggested the name relapsing polychondritis in 1960 to emphasize its episodic nature leading to degeneration ...

HODGKIN'S disease is a complex disorder in which there are aberrations of both cellular¹ and humoral immunity,² circulating immune complexes ³,⁴ and a clonal proliferation of tumor giant cells,⁵-⁷ including multinucleate Reed–Sternberg cells, which ...

SJöGREN'S syndrome is an autoimmune disease 1 in which lymphoid infiltration and lymphoproliferations are characteristic features.¹-⁴ The salivary and lacrimal glands are destroyed by a process described as a "benign lymphoepithelial lesion."⁵,⁶ In some ...

Conditions Associated with Pigment Stones

The demographic characteristics of persons at high risk for pigment gallstones differ from those in whom cholesterol stones are likely to develop, as noted in Table 1. Pigment stones are notably rare among ...

THE management of Hodgkin's disease remains a complex and evolving subject. Ten or even five years ago increasingly favorable survival rates based on increasingly aggressive radiation and chemotherapy would have been a reasonable prediction. Although ...

WHY all the recent excitement about highdensity lipoproteins (HDL)? Because of the strong inverse relation between plasma levels of HDL and mortality from cardiovascular disease.¹,² Increased serum levels of HDL protect against atherosclerosis, and ...

Presentation of Case

A 27-year-old woman, a Yemenite Jew and Israeli national, was admitted to the hospital because of diarrhea and vomiting.

She was well until 11 years earlier, when she began to have intermittent abdominal pain. Eight years before ...

THE results of the treatment of patients with Hodgkin's disease continue to improve. A disease that was considered uniformly fatal only several decades ago now can be cured in the majority of newly diagnosed patients with appropriate staging, radiation ...

MOST people, including most physicians, see aging as a process of unrelenting impairment of all body functions. True, individual functions deteriorate at varying rates — one man learns that the act of urination can absorb most of his time and attention ...

Despite widespread concern about the cost of health care in the United States, little has been done to change the general picture of soaring inflation. Nationwide, costs rose from $95 billion in fiscal-year 1973 to $163 billion in 1977, ¹ an increase of ...

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To the Editor: Hepatitis B virus infections are identified by presence of specific markers, such as surface antigen/antibody (HBsAg/anti-HBs), core antigen/antibody (HBcAg/anti-HBc) and particularly e antigen/antibody (HBeAg/anti-HBe) and DNA-polymerase. ...

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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.

Date Program

December 5 Why Do Alcoholic Men ...