THE coronary-care unit (CCU) has provided physicians with the opportunity for intensive evaluation and treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Despite this intensive observation, serious complications develop in numerous patients after ...

OVER the past few decades, cancer of the pancreas has emerged as one of the most important neoplasias in human beings. It now accounts for approximately 20,000 deaths annually in the United States. Causative factors have been sought in several previous ...

AMONG the controllable factors that contribute to the high cost of medical care, complications arising from physicians' errors loom large. Such errors are by definition preventable. They are also expensive and frequently fatal. We have previously examined ...

IATROGENIC illness has been a well-recognized phenomenon for over a quarter of a century. In 1955, Barr made note of the price that we pay for modern medical care.¹ There is a pressing need for a better understanding of the "diseases that would not have ...

THE term "sepsis neonatorum" refers to bacterial infection of infants during the first month of life. The primary site of invasion is most often the bloodstream, with spread to the meninges in 25 to 30 per cent of cases. Systemic bacterial disease occurs ...

CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL studies suggest that the T-cell lymphomas are heterogeneous with respect to clinical presentation, course, and morphology. Mycosis fungoides and the Sézary syndrome affect the skin primarily, are slowly progressive, and are ...

THE complement system consists of over 20 individual plasma proteins that interact in a highly specific manner to generate elements of the inflammatory response.^{1 2 3} A large number of genetic polymorphisms and deficiency states of complement proteins ...

Presentation of Case

A 74-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a radiologic abnormality of the left kidney.

She was well until six weeks earlier, when she began to have an intermittent rise of the temperature to 38.3°C, accompanied by ...

When Dr. Soma Weiss assumed the chair as the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at the Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1939, I was privileged to be an entering assistant resident on his service. I recall ...

If you wanted to know whether a new unproved clinical test or operation or a new health program was any good, how would you proceed to find out? The best way would be to set up a controlled clinical trial, comparing the new with the old in everything from ...

During the past 20 years, innovative surgical and medical techniques have been applied to a variety of congenital cardiac defects. Among these techniques are the Mustard operation¹ and the Jatene operation switching the pulmonary artery and aorta² for ...

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To the Editor: In their report (August 21 issue) describing the efficacy of nonactivated prothrombin-complex concentrates (PCCs) for the treatment of hemarthroses in patients with hemophilia with factor VIII inhibitors, Lusher et al. mention anecdotal ...

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Antibiotics are being developed and introduced at a rapid pace. Many clinicians (even specialists in infectious disease) find it difficult to keep abreast of the actions, pharmacokinetics, clinical indications, and toxicity of these new agents. The editor ...

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The receipt of the following books is acknowledged, and this listing must be regarded as sufficient return for the courtesy of the sender. Books that appear to be of particular interest will be reviewed as space permits.

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"BIOSTATISTICS IN CLINICAL ONCOLOGY"

A conference entitled "Biostatistics in Clinical Oncology" will be held in New York, June 21–26.

Contact Valerie Miké, Biostatistics Laboratory, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Ctr., 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021.

A Consensus-Development Conference was held at the National Institutes of Health on December 3–5, 1980, to consider the status of coronary-artery bypass surgery in relation to five specific questions: (1) What is the overall management of coronary-artery ...