PATIENTS with chronic renal failure who receive maintenance hemodialysis have hypertriglyceridemia,^{1 , 2} a reduced concentration of high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol² and a high rate of mortality from cardiovascular disease.³ In persons without uremia, ...

ALTHOUGH cimetidine has been found to promote the healing of duodenal ulceration,^{1 2 3 4} its effect on ulcers recurring after gastric operations remains unclear. The incidence of recurrent ulcers after both Billroth I and II gastrectomies is equally high, ...

VENTRICULAR fibrillation is a life-threatening development within the spectrum of arrhythmias associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.^{1 2 3 4 5} This arrhythmia generally occurs when patients are in atrial fibrillation, with very rapid ...

A FRONT-PAGE story in The New York Times recently reported the claim of a Congressional subcommittee that there were 2 million unneeded surgical operations in 1978, at a cost of $4 billion and more than 10,000 lives.¹ The subcommittee recommended several ...

AFTER the radioimmunoassay for parathyroid hormone (PTH) was introduced by Berson et al. in 1963,¹ initial enthusiasm for its clinical application was tempered because widely differing results were reported from several laboratories.^{2 3 4 5} The overlap of ...

PROCTITIS is characterized by tenesmus, diarrhea and rectal pain. Through proctoscopy and histological, bacteriological, and parasitological studies it can be categorized into infectious, ischemic, radiation-induced, toxic, granulomatous or nonspecific ...

IT is generally accepted that urokinase (EC 3.4.99.26) increases fibrinolytic activity by activating the plasma zymogen, plasminogen, to the serine proteinase, plasmin (EC 3.4.21.7).^{1 , 2} This interpretation is based largely on in vivo and in vitro ...

Presentation of Case

A 27-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of progressive muscular weakness.

She was well until two years earlier, when she sustained soft-tissue injury to both legs in a motor-vehicle accident. Skin grafts were applied, ...

Richard Cabot of the Massachusetts General Hospital introduced the clinicopathological conference (CPC) as a formal teaching exercise early in this century, and it soon became an important feature of the educational programs at the MGH and at most other ...

When Cabot introduced the Clinical Pathological Conference (CPC) at the turn of the century, gross and microscopical pathology was a rapidly developing new field. Accurate morphologic diagnosis had become common only in the late 19th century. The ...

Dr. Lipkin has properly emphasized the importance of a physician's continuous focus on the psychologic, social, and economic factors involved in human disease. No one can argue with that viewpoint. However, his additional conclusion that CPC's are ...

DEATHS

Lindberg — Oliver S. Lindberg, M.D., formerly of Attleboro, died on August 27, 1976. He was in his 85th year.

Dr. Lindberg received his degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1923.

Lorenz — John Emerich Lorenz, M.D., of Boston, ...

Improved patient care can result from changes in the organization and delivery of care as well as from new drugs and surgical techniques. Witness, for example, the dramatic changes that have occurred in the delivery of emergency medical services over the ...

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To the Editor: The mean duration of treatment with corticosteroids in the study by Fauci et al.¹ was 22 months, and 16 patients showed either worsening functional impairment of involved organs or involvement of other organs while they were on ...

To the Editor: Dr. Cohen's very informative review of motor disorders of the esophagus in the July 26 issue of the Journal has again raised the question of which manometric findings really characterize diffuse esophageal spasm.¹ He has chosen a ...

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The "gate theory" of pain, proposed in 1965 by Melzack and Wall,¹ envisioned a system of progressive presynaptic modulation of nociceptive impulses that started the moment posterior rootlets delivered their electrical information to sensory neurons in the ...

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Hospital-acquired infections are of increasing concern to health professionals responsible for the care of susceptible patients, and to committees responsible both for infection-control efforts and for compliance with standards set by the Joint Commission ...

Publishing books is a commercial endeavor. My Body, My Health is no exception. The marketing approach is outlined in Chapter A (for physicians only), which suggests that the book be sold in physicians' offices. The consumer's edition costs $5.95, the ...

PROGRAMS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

The Office of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Minnesota will present the following programs: "Refraction for the Non-Ophthalmologist," November 14–16; "Time-Management-Money: A Briefing and ...