Primary biliary cirrhosis is one of the most suitable forms of chronic liver disease for treatment by liver transplantation.¹ Even when these patients have end-stage disease, they appear to withstand the major surgery better than patients with other types ...

The major determinants of the immediate and long-term outcomes of acute myocardial infarction are the size of the infarct and the functional status of the residual myocardium.^{1 2 3 4 5} The value of the electrocardiogram in diagnosing and localizing an ...

The Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) estimates that the 1975 physician-to-population ratio of 1.77 per thousand will climb to 2.45 per thousand in 1990.¹ In its final recommendations, GMENAC concluded that there will be an ...

IT is widely held that in patients with brain death who are receiving continued ventilation and full medical care, spontaneous cessation of the heartbeat will ensue within a period of hours or a few days.^{1 2 3} In this report, we describe a middle-aged man ...

Several recent studies of patients with granulocytopenia have shown that the prophylactic administration of oral trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) is effective in preventing sepsis with Enterobacteriaceae.^{1 2 3 4 5} However, we have recently seen two ...

Although the H₂-receptor antagonist cimetidine suppresses gastric secretion induced by all stimuli,¹ there are reports of resistance to cimetidine.^{2 3 4 5} After abdominal surgery in three patients, we observed life-threatening gastric hypersecretion of ...

Endocrinologists, particularly those with a special interest in thyroid disease, have been fortunate that several specific and sensitive tests that can establish the diagnosis of thyroid dysfunction have been developed over the past decade. The three most ...

Presentation of Case

A 42-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital under cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

She was first seen in the clinic at the age of nine years because of infrequent nocturnal bouts of abdominal pain and vomiting of six months' ...

English has become the lingua franca of medicine, and any major English-language medical journal is now likely to have a substantial international readership. This journal is no exception. Approximately 20 per cent of our subscribers live outside North ...

Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease of unknown cause that predominantly affects middleaged women.¹ The syndrome of primary biliary cirrhosis arises as a consequence of a chronic nonsuppurative destructive cholangitis that involves the ...

A major threat to patients with granulocytopenia and cancer is infection. Most infections develop from either endogenous or hospital-acquired organisms colonizing the alimentary tract and upper airways. Total reverse isolation with laminar air-flow rooms ...

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Although the term "interventional radiology" may have been coined in the mid-1960s to describe this evolving subspecialty of diagnostic radiology, it still lacks definition. Margulis stressed fluoroscopically guided manipulation as the essence of ...

After a long gestation period, the specialty of nuclear medicine was born in the late 1940s. World War II had ended, and abundant reactor-produced radioactive tracers became generally available to physicians and hospitals. The growth and development of ...

The first book from the Central Registry at the University of Iowa, entitled Intracranial Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, had a major impact in clinical neuroscience. The high incidence of rebleeding was documented; the problem of delayed ...

Anatomy

Atlas of the Human Skull. By Margaret M. Waddington. 196 pp., illustrated. Rutland, Vt., Academy Books, 1981. $85.

Anesthesiology

Paediatric Anaesthesia: Trends in current practice. Edited by G. Jackson Rees and T. Cecil Gray. 194 pp., ...

FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN LUPUS

The Lupus Foundation is offering to medical students, summer fellowships for research in lupus.

Contact Dr. Naomi Rothfield, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington Ave., Farmington, CT 06032; or call (...

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