A DEPRESSION of ventricular function is the principal cause of heart failure, and improvement of myocardial contractility by means of digitalis glycosides has been the keystone in the management of this condition. Indeed, despite the adjunctive value of ...

THE use of blood components instead of whole blood is now widely accepted. But when plasma is removed from whole blood, the viscosity of the resulting red-cell concentrate increases. When the hematocrit is raised to, or above, 90 per cent viscosity ...

RECENT studies of the non-Hodgkin lymphomas emphasizing the functional characteristics of the neoplastic cells have greatly increased understanding of these neoplasms as proliferations of specific elements of the immune system.^{1 , 2} The so-called diffuse "...

A RECOGNIZED objective in the pharmacotherapy of asthma is effective use of corticosteroids without the associated toxicity from daily use of oral preparations. Prednisone given in single doses on alternate mornings has been used for this purpose in the ...

IT has been more than 25 years since glucocorticoid therapy was first introduced in the management of patients with congenital virilizing adrenal hyperplasia.^{1 , 2} Long-term follow-up data are accumulating as the first generation of treated patients ...

FOR several types of cancer, alternative treatment regimens are currently available, thus placing both the physician and patient in the midst of a classic dilemma: "Which therapy for which patient?" It is likely that this choice will become even more ...

Presentation of Case

A 72-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of cough and fever.

She was well until 7 1/2 years earlier, when fever, chills and pleurisy developed. An x-ray film of the chest (Fig. 1) revealed segmental consolidation in ...

Cardiology, which rapidly embraced the principles of hemodynamic physiology with the introduction of cardiac catheterization in the late 1940's, has been much slower in adopting the tools of the molecular biologist. It was only in 1954 that most ...

The current innovation in the preservation of red cells for transfusion is adenine. Adenine in the storage medium increases ATP content and enhances red-cell viability. A formula called citrate phosphate dextrose adenine (CPDA-1) has a bright new FDA ...

To the Editor: We read with great interest Case 26–1978 in the July 6 issue of the Journal, which discussed a patient with drug-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis, and should like to report on a similar case in which this serious complication was ...

To the Editor: We compliment Sack and his colleagues on a well designed investigation of the efficacy of prophylactic doxycycline in the prevention of travelers' diarrhea, as reported in the April 6 issue of the Journal, but we are concerned about ...

To the Editor: Regarding the letter in the April 27 issue of the Journal by Gajdusek et al. we have additional information, given below, regarding the resistance of the causal agents of conditions like scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to ...

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To the Editor: In his letter in the March 31, 1977, issue of the Journal Dr. Donald L. King describes the use of two fingers to remove a "seafood crepe" from a choking victim's throat and suggests that this method be taught to the public. The medical ...

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Anatomy and Histology

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PULMONARY RESTRICTIVE DISORDERS

The Massachusetts Thoracic Society and the Lung Associations throughout Massachusetts will present a program entitled "Pulmonary Restrictive Disorders in Children and Adults" on Wednesday, January 17 at White's Restaurant ...