Although HLA is recognized as the major system of transplantation antigens in human beings, there are many unanswered questions about the importance of the products of the individual HLA loci in donor-recipient compatibility for kidney transplantation. In ...

It has been more than 14 years since Carstairs, Worrlledge, and their associates recognized the association of the antihypertensive drug methyldopa with Coombs-positive hemolytic anemia.¹ Yet the mechanism whereby methyldopa induces red-cell ...

Human infections with the filarial worms Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia malayi are associated with specific immune unresponsiveness to filarial antigens. This unresponsiveness is most evident in patients with patent microfilaremia in whom the titers of ...

The relation of cervical arterial bruits to the risk of subsequent stroke in asymptomatic middleaged and elderly persons is not known. Some vascular surgeons recommend that asymptomatic persons with prolonged, high-pitched, mid-carotid bruits have ...

The Medicare program was enacted by Congress to provide needed health coverage for our senior citizens. According to Annette Kasabian of the Health Care Financing Administration of Boston, in the New England region, medical information submitted to a ...

Columnar esophageal (Barrett's) epithelium is thought to be a reparative or metaplastic response to gastroesophageal reflux.^{1 2 3} This epithelium has been associated with dysplasia and adenocarcinoma in situ^{4 , 5} and with frank adenocarcinoma.^{6 , 7} There ...

"Decrudescent varicella zoster infection can result in either a localized dermatomic or disseminated disease.^{1 2 3} When disseminated zoster occurs, localized dermatomic eruption usually precedes the clinical evidence of dissemination.^{4 5 6} In "atypical ...

Although most pediatric hemangiomas are spontaneously self-involuting tumors,¹ a small fraction do not involute and may require drastic therapeutic intervention, as in the invariably fatal syndrome of cutaneous lesions, hepatic hemangiomas, and cardiac ...

Presentation of Case

A five-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain.

She was well until two weeks earlier, when crampy abdominal pain developed. It was relieved by the passage of loose stools, without mucus or blood. The ...

Franz Ingelfinger, Editor Emeritus of the Journal, was an indomitable man. He excelled at nearly everything he did, and he managed to reach the top in two professional careers. He even came close to winning his personal struggle with carcinoma of the ...

The realization that tissues express the antigenic individuality of the host began with Landsteiner's discovery of the major red-cell groups shortly after the turn of the century.¹ The role of typing and cross-matching in blood transfusion is certainly ...

The interesting follow-up study of patients with asymptomatic carotid bruits reported by Heyman et al. in this issue again calls attention to the common and perplexing problem of vascular noises in the neck. What kinds of noises are heard, what do they ...

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To the Editor: I am sure I dislike becoming involved in legal action as much as most physicians do, but when Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials asked me three years ago to be an expert witness and medical adviser against a local medical doctor ...

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The first edition of this book appeared just before thallium, gated blood-pool, and myocardial-infarct scanning became clinically useful. The second edition, published five years later, also illustrates the problem of writing a general textbook in a ...

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In his foreword to this volume, Norman Geschwind refers to the historical origins of classical neuropsychology and modestly overlooks the fact that nearly all the book's contributors were trained by himself or by Arthur Benton, to whose combined efforts ...

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In our hard-drinking society, transient alcohol-related difficulties occur in over 40 per cent of men by the age of 40 years, and the lifetime risk of more serious, persistent alcohol-related problems (i.e., alcoholism) is 5 to 10 per cent for men and 3 ...

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Prenatal Diagnosis. (Proceedings of 3rd European Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders, Munich, April 1978). Edited by Jan-Diether Murken, Sabine Stengel-Rutkowski, and Eberhard Schwinger. 387 pp., illustrated. ...

SCHOLARSHIPS IN LUPUS RESEARCH

The Lupus Foundation of America announces the availability of summer scholarships for student research in systemic lupus erythematosus.

For more information write to the Lupus Foundation of America, 11673 Holly Springs Drive,...