PREVIOUS investigators^{1 2 3 4 5} have noted that respiration and respiratory maneuvers may affect cardiac function. The exact mechanisms by which left ventricular function is depressed during exacerbation of chronic obstructive lung disease, asthma, adult ...

IN 1873, Gull described the first cases of hypothyroidism in adults.¹ Five years later, Ord² proposed the term "myxedema" to describe the peculiar non-pitting swelling of the skin in adult hypothyroidism; this description was made on the basis of ...

MASTOCYTOSIS, a condition characterized by the accumulation of mast cells in various organs of the body, presents in a limited cutaneous or a systemic form. Mast-cell proliferation limited to the skin is termed urticaria pigmentosa, and the dermal ...

This Medical Progress report on transplantation is the first in which the growth of the subject makes it necessary to limit the discussion. We examine progress in transplantation of heart, liver, endocrine organs and tissues, skin, lung, bone and other, ...

IT is well known that arterial pressure may fluctuate with the respiratory cycle, falling with inspiration and rising with expiration. This fluctuation occurs to a slight degree during normal breathing and may be more marked with forced respiratory effort,...

THE incidence of cancer of the pancreas has steadily increased during the past 20 years; this disease now accounts for 3 per cent of all cancers and 5 per cent of all cancer deaths in the United States. It is the fourth most common cause of death from ...

AS anticipated, the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration¹ has now recommended generous increases in salary for all doctors working in the National Health Service (NHS). The average increase will be about 25 per cent, but hospital consultants ...

Presentation of Case

A 40-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever.

At the age of 14 years she had rheumatic fever, which was followed by the appearance of a faint heart murmur. Erythromycin prophylaxis was prescribed because of a rash ...

Albumin, the major secretory protein synthesized by the liver, is widely distributed throughout the body and is present in the vascular and extravascular volumes of all organs and tissues. In normal persons, approximately one third of the total ...

The mast cell is a connective-tissue cell widely distributed throughout the body and is found in surprisingly large numbers in certain organs. The biologic function of this curious cell, first described by Ehrlich in 1877¹ as a well fed* connective-tissue ...

Many more students apply to medical schools than can be accommodated. This effect may worsen if medical school enrollments are decreased to prevent a "doctor glut."¹ This surfeit of applicants has given admissions committees great power (not necessarily ...

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