MORE than 70 per cent of all patients with cystic fibrosis harbor Pseudomonas aeruginosa in their lungs.^{1 2 3} It has been observed that by adulthood, up to 90 per cent of surviving patients with cystic fibrosis will have had chronic obstructive bronchitis ...

BROMOCRIPTINE is now widely used in the treatment of acromegaly. Although it is generally accepted that bromocriptine is not effective in all patients with the disease, most studies have shown the drug to be valuable and beneficial in many or most of ...

SUFFICIENT evidence has accumulated over the past decade to allow the statement that insulin-requiring, or insulin-dependent, diabetes mellitus (IDDM; also known as juvenile-onset, Type I, ketosis-prone, or labile diabetes) is pathogenically a distinct ...

ORGANISMS that cause nosocomial infections can be transmitted by the hands of physicians, nurses, technicians, and other hospital personnel.^{1 2 3 4} Hand washing is considered the single most important procedure in preventing nosocomial infections, and it ...

DRUG interactions with quinidine are likely to be clinically important, since quinidine is used in the treatment and prophylaxis of potentially serious arrhythmias, and since there is a relatively narrow range between the therapeutic and toxic ...

THE anemia associated with thalassemia provokes a compensatory hyperplasia of the erythroid marrow, which in turn is associated with severe skeletal abnormalities. This study involved two previously splenectomized subjects with anemia and ineffective ...

ORTHOSTATIC hypotension may occur in diverse clinical disorders.¹ If the cause is unknown, the condition is called idiopathic orthostatic hypotension^{2 , 3}; if there is concomitant Central-nervous-system involvement, it is called the Shy-Drager syndrome.⁴

A SELECTIVE deficiency in IgA appears in about one in 700 persons.¹ Many of these persons are healthy,² but there is an increased frequency of infections, autoimmune disorders, atopy, and malabsorption syndromes in such subjects.³ In an attempt to explain ...

Presentation of Case

A 45-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of an abdominal mass.

Six months earlier a routine physical examination performed elsewhere was reported to be negative. Shortly thereafter she noticed a pressure sensation in ...

Bone-marrow formation is a remarkable feat. During fetal life, hematopoietic cells leave their soft beds in the liver and spleen and excavate a safer home inside the skeleton. Hence, these cells must have the ability to migrate to the endosteum and ...

Air pollution from coal smoke brings to mind the grimy cities of the 19th century and the evils accompanying the industrial revolution. It was natural to assume that the polluted air was responsible for many instances of pulmonary disease and that the ...

Most physicians in the United States today have never known a time when the real resources at their disposal were not increasing at a rapid rate. In the 1980s, however, the flow of funds for patient care, research, and teaching is likely to slow down ...

To the Editor: Cognitive impairment is associated with old age, and it becomes especially severe in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT). Several lines of evidence suggest that the memory impairment in SDAT is highly correlated with brain ...

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To the Editor: Chromosome translocations are now known to mark a number of different types of cancer cells,^{1 2 3} including those of Burkitt's lymphoma, acute myeloblastic leukemia (of the M₂ class with maturation), and chronic myelocytic leukemia. It is ...

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With the decline of the classic textbook on the subject of hand surgery and the explosion of data and practitioners in that field, new books are making their appearance almost monthly. These two recent ones compete for the same reader, the primary-trauma ...

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Until now, there have been no comprehensive books in English devoted to the whole of aesthetic surgery. Despite a modern history of nearly 100 years, rapidly increasing public acceptance, and an explosion of surgical techniques, previous books on this ...

The diagnostic radiologist, with an impressive array of modern imaging devices, can provide precise details of radiographic anatomy in what were formerly "blind spots." At the same time, new techniques are being developed through which interventional ...

Let me admit at the outset that I have a strong bias toward the style in which this book has been written. I have a fondness for books that try to teach as if one were a pupil and the author were at one's side. This book is a personal account of ...

This work is the first major English book on regional anesthesia since Regional Block by Daniel Moore (1953). It is the hope of its editors that readers will "find the text useful whatever their field of medicine, and that at the least it will encourage ...

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Biology and Chemistry

Amino Acid Neurotransmitters. (Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology. Vol. 29.) By Francis V. DeFeudis and Paul Mandel. 572 pp. New York, Raven Press, 1981. $59.

Biomedical and Dental Applications of Polymers. (Polymer Science ...

GASTROENTEROLOGY

A course entitled "Practical Gastroenterology for the Internist and the Family Physician" will be held at The Given Institute of Pathobiology in Aspen, Colo., July 26–30. The fee is $275.

Contact the Office of Postgraduate Medical ...