THE most common infections complicating renal transplantation result from the herpes group of viruses, particularly herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus. Primary cytomegalovirus infection may be acquired after transplantation, most commonly from an ...

THE diagnosis of coronary-artery disease on the basis of history and physical examination alone is often difficult. Many sophisticated tests have thus been developed to allow an early and more accurate diagnosis. Although many tests are now firmly ...

AS costs of medical care become a major concern, there is increasing interest in finding other ways to preserve the good aspects of fee-for-service practice while controlling costs.

Although it is widely acknowledged that physicians determine most health-...

AFTER the publication of the report of the Citizens Commission on Graduate Medical Education (the Millis Report) over a decade ago, considerable attention was focused on the numbers of generalist physicians emerging from the nation's residency training ...

RENAL vascular surgery and pharmacotherapy are the are the two modalities currently employed, singly or in combination, in the management of renovascular hypertension.^{1 2 3} Although both methods have been used successfully in the treatment of this ...

SINCE leukemic cells express certain cell-surface markers common to normal human lymphocytes, acute lymphoblastic leukemia can be differentiated immunologically into T-cell, B-cell and null (non-T, non-B-cell) types.^{1 2 3} Classification of acute ...

Presentation of Case

A 51-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of rapidly progressive renal failure.

Eight years earlier a diagnosis of tuberculosis of the right lung was made, and he was treated elsewhere with isoniazid and para-...

In most discussions of the need for primary-care physicians, it is assumed that a given physician provides either specialized or primary care. Hence, the debate usually revolves about the questions of how many, or what proportions of, generalists and ...

Because the number of elderly persons is increasing, society is searching for new approaches to their medical care. A recent nationwide forum of political leaders stressed society's concern about the increasing cost of caring for the elderly.¹ Medical ...

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To the Editor: We recently used bromocriptine to treat a woman with a prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma who experienced an unusual complication.

The patient, a 38-year-old woman with multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1, underwent a parathyroidectomy ...

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To the Editor: The declining incidence of stroke¹ is a puzzling phenomenon. Garraway et al. found a decrease in Rochester, Minnesota, beginning in 1945, before any effective treatment was available. A similar decrease was observed in Baltimore,² ...

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To the Editor: In February and March, 1979, I visited China as a member of an invited group from the University of Nebraska. As Dr. E. Grey Dimond has emphasized, this is an opportune time for educational exchanges with the Chinese people.¹

I found easy ...

To the Editor: The article "Gerontology and Geriatrics in Medical Education" in the February 1 issue of the Journal is based on the report by a committee of the Institute of Medicine.¹ The article contains a review of the imposing literature on aging. I ...

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