BEFORE 1976, no causal relation between Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and influenza vaccination had been epidemiologically documented, and few cases after vaccination had been reported.^{1 , 2} In 1976, however, after the largest influenza vaccination ...

A VARIETY of approaches have been used to make treatment decisions in patients with clinically suspected deep-vein thrombosis.¹ Until the past decade, physicians were content to base these decisions on clinical diagnosis. This practice has changed as an ...

KAWASAKI syndrome (KS; also known as Kawasaki disease and mucocutaneous lymph-node syndrome) is a febrile illness of unknown origin that occurs predominantly in children under five years of age. Features of the syndrome, described first in Japan by ...

Signals to Islet Cells

External Signals

The islets achieve their physiologic goals through appropriately timed and quantitated responses to signals that inform them about events taking place else-where in or near the body. These signals reach the islet ...

IN a study by De Luise, Blackburn, and Flier,¹ ouabain binding by sodium pumping units (sodium-potassium-ATPase) in red cells from obese subjects was shown to be significantly lower than in red cells from subjects with normal weights. This finding ...

SEVERE pulmonary hypertension mainly due to hypoxic vasoconstriction may develop in patients with chronic airflow obstruction and acute respiratory failure.¹ Experiments in isolated rat lungs have implied that the calcium antagonist verapamil inhibits ...

THE development of recurrent Crohn's disease after an intestinal resection has been estimated to occur in 3 per cent¹ to 100 per cent² of patients. This variation is associated with many factors, among which are the precise definition of recurrence, the ...

VITAMIN-D-dependent (or pseudo-vitamin-D-deficient) rickets is characterized by clinical and biochemical features of vitamin-D-deficient rickets and by remission of these features during treatment with supraphysiologic doses of vitamin D or of 25-...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 12-month-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of a cervical mass.

He was born of an uncomplicated first full-term gestation and a normal delivery. At 2 1/2 months of age otitis media developed and resulted ...

Only 50 years ago, Burrill Crohn, Leon Ginzburg, and Gordon Oppenheimer read their paper on regional ileitis.¹ The evolution of our understanding of this fascinating and cruel disease is of such recent origin that the first two authors are, happily, still ...

"Diagnostic related groups" (DRGs) have become the watchwords of the health-services research, regulatory, and planning agencies. Introduced in 1975 by Thompson et al.,¹ they were intended as a means of grouping patients by discharge diagnosis to measure ...

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To the Editor: Glycosylated hemoglobins are products of a nonenzymatic, irreversible Amadori rearrangement between glucose and the N-terminal valine of the beta chains of adult hemoglobin A.¹ They constitute at most 10 per cent of the total hemoglobin in ...

To the Editor: Major subfractions of human serum high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), HDL₂ (density, 1.063 to 1.125), and HDL₃ (density, 1.125 to 1.210), have been thought to be derived from different metabolic pathways. The precursors of HDL₃ are secreted ...

To the Editor: The study by Priebe et al. in the February 21, 1980 issue, which compares the relative efficacy of cimetidine and antacid in the prevention of acute gastrointestinal bleeding,¹ has raised questions about the validity of the Hemoccult slide ...

To the Editor: Both Parkinson's disease and cardiac abnormalities primarily affect the elderly population, and it is not rare to find these disorders coexisting in the same patient. Furthermore, some dopaminergic agents, including levodopa, have been ...

To the Editor: Bartter's syndrome is characterized by the presence of hypokalemia, hyper-reninemia, and most often low blood pressure, in the absence of a recognizable cause for these changes. The nature of the disease is obscure; unresponsiveness to ...

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The first official record of Hansen's disease (HD)* in Massachusetts appeared in 1882. A man in Salem was said to have the tubercular form of the disease.¹ He was isolated at the Salem almshouse, and he died there in March 1883. The disease was also ...

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The past decade has seen dramatic advances in the evaluation and treatment of disturbances in cardiac rhythm and conduction. Indicating the growth of knowledge and interest in this field are numerous textbooks and specialized symposiums designed to keep ...

Considering the immense clinical importance of cardiovascular disease, it is surprising that there are so few general textbooks of cardiovascular pathology. Dr. Olsen's book, the first edition of which was published in 1973, is an attempt to fill this ...

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Anatomy

Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students. Second edition. By Richard S. Snell. 886 pp., illustrated. Boston, Little, Brown, 1981. $28.95.

Morphogenesis and Pattern Formation. By Thomas G. Connelly, Linda L. Brinkley, and Bruce M. Carlson. 302 pp. New ...

HEALTH CARE PRODUCTIVITY

A conference entitled "Improving Health Care Productivity" will be held at the Twin Bridges Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., on July 1 and 2.

Contact Gerry Liebes, Program Development Div., OPM/WED, 1900 E St., N.W., Rm. 7H39, ...