OTITIS media is the most common diagnosis made at office visits to pediatricians.¹ Its ocome is therefore of considerable interest. There is concern not only about the morbidity of acute episodes but also about the subsequent persistence of the middle-ear ...

DEFICIENCIES of all components of the classical complement pathway have been reported in man, and an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance has been observed in families with deficiencies of various components of complement — Clr, Cls, C4, C2, C3, C5, C6,...

ACTIVATION of oxidative metabolism in polymorphonuclear leukocytes results in increased oxygen consumption, glucose oxidation^{1 , 2} and generation of oxidative intermediates (superoxide anion,^{3 4 5} hydrogen peroxide⁶ and hydroxyl radical^{7 , 8}), which are ...

THE filarial parasites have a special intellectual attraction for parasitologists and clinicians because of their complex life cycles, all involving transmission by blood-sucking insects, and the bizarre symptoms and pathologic changes that they cause. ...

STRABISMUS, or misalignment of the visual axes, is a common condition, with a prevalence conservatively estimated to be 5 per cent.¹ The esotropia of infancy and early childhood is responsible in most patients and is accompanied by loss of stereoscopic ...

PROSTAGLANDINS are potent vasoactive agents with a wide variety of other actions that depend on the species and organ tested and the prostaglandin used. They are synthesized from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids containing three, four or five double ...

Presentation of Case

A 34-year-old man was admitted to the Eastern Maine Medical Center because of abdominal pain.

He was well until four months earlier, when he was admitted to another hospital because of pneumonia. The hematocrit was 65 per cent. He was ...

At least two generations of physicians have been taught that retention of excessive secretions in the respiratory tract is not only bad for pulmonary function but also can be lethal to the patient. In fact, there is persuasive clinical and pathological ...

Since 1933, it has been known that granulocytes display a substantial increase in oxygen consumption during phagocytosis.¹ This oxygen uptake has been linked to several metabolic changes in phagocytizing cells² and results in the generation of a variety ...

To the Editor: We have studied plasma and urinary cyclic AMP in patients with familial Mediterranean fever and the ability of colchicine to abolish fever or diminish its severity in most patients in about three hours.

In 41 patients with this disorder ...

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To the Editor: Although I was originally a coinvestigator in the project on smoking and mortality by Gary Friedman et al.,¹ I withdrew as a coauthor of the report prepared for publication because of my objections to the unsatisfactory data, the distorted ...

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To the Editor: Dr. John Prutting's letter to the Editor in the February 15 issue of the Journal questioned the usefulness and efficacy of the combination of chlordiazepoxide and amitriptyline (Limbitrol), raising several points. However, in his haste to ...

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MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC PAIN

The Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Continuing Education of Maricopa County General Hospital in Phoenix will present a symposium on current concepts in the management of acute and chronic pain on May ...