CURRENTLY available medical therapy is effective in controlling angina at rest in the vast majority of hospitalized patients.¹ The long-term prognosis when these patients are given standard medical treatment alone, however, is poor. Several studies report ...

ALTHOUGH pheochromocytoma is an unusual cause of hypertension, it is a particularly treacherous one. Therefore, clinicians have welcomed recent reports that its diagnosis can be established in most cases with a blood test — the radioenzymatic assay of ...

EXERCISE is characterized by a marked increase in glucose turnover, in which use by muscle and production by the liver are markedly stimulated.^{1 , 2} With prolonged exercise (longer than 90 minutes), liver glycogen stores are depleted, and the rate of ...

THE adult respiratory-distress syndrome (ARDS) — acute respiratory failure due to noncardiogenic pulmonary edema — is a complex sequela of shock, systemic sepsis, battlefield or highway trauma, viral respiratory infections, and many other insults. This ...

CANCERS of the larynx are the most common head and neck tumors treated by the otolaryngologist. Because of the frequency of laryngeal cancer and the emotional climate surrounding the decisions involved in its treatment, one must understand the principles ...

THE Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is a transforming herpesvirus that selectively infects B lymphocytes, causes infectious mononucleosis,¹ and may have a role in the development of Burkitt's lymphoma,² nasopharyngeal carcinoma,³ and the lymphoid disorders ...

Presentation of Case

A 55-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of splenomegaly.

He was in good health until six months earlier, when he began to experience easy fatigability, anorexia, and aches in the buttocks and thighs. Three months before ...

The proposed "pro-competitive" overhaul of the ways in which health care is financed and delivered has sparked great interest and controversy among a wide range of participants in the health-care field. When first proposed, the notion of increasing ...

Now that the calcium blockers are available, how does this change the modern management of angina pectoris? Although there are relatively unusual causes of angina, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and aortic stenosis, the vast majority of these ...

IN the past, medical care had goals that were easily stated but hard to accomplish; today they seem to have grown even more difficult to achieve. In simplest terms, these goals are excellence, equity, and efficiency. Excellence has been much discussed and ...

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To the Editor: Reports of overwhelming infections in immunodeficient homosexuals are increasing at a startling rate.^{1 2 3 4} Promiscuity, viruses of the herpes group, including cytomegalovirus, and recreational drugs are not new and do not explain the ...

To the Editor: In the November 12 issue Terman et al. concluded that when plasma from patients with breast cancer was perfused over purified protein A immobilized in a collodion-charcoal matrix and subsequently reinfused, a partial remission was induced ...

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To the Editor: In 1960, Schulman et al.¹ described an eight-year-old girl with a lifelong bleeding tendency that was related to the presence of thrombocytopenia. The patient also had bouts of jaundice, anemia, and reticulocytosis. Marrow aspirates ...

To the Editor: We wish to report the case of a woman who became pregnant while receiving systemic chemotherapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia and who gave birth to a normal infant during the 34th week of gestation.

A 22-year-old woman was diagnosed as ...

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Until recently, nuclear-magnetic-resonance imaging (NMRI) was a highly esoteric technique available to only a few instrumental specialists, several of whom are authors of this book. It seems likely that a much wider scope of clinical investigations using ...

It has been nine years since computed tomography (CT) was introduced by Hounsfield and Ambrose as a diagnostic tool for the study of neurologic disease. In this short time, CT scanning has produced remarkable advances in the diagnosis and management of ...

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Plain-film radiography of the abdomen is still a frequently performed study, despite the new imaging methods. An updated monograph on this subject has been needed. McCort and his collaborators are thorough and scholarly; the illustrations are such that no ...

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The ability to look into body cavities with a fiberoptically illuminated endoscope has spawned a variety of "oscopy" procedures — bronchoscopy, laparoscopy, cystoscopy, culdoscopy, and gastroscopy, to name a few. Although most of these new methods began ...

This is not a monograph but instead a selected series of presentations by some of our most distinguished investigators and clinicians at a symposium designed to integrate the current state of knowledge of the clinical management of wounds as based on ...

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WOMEN IN MEDICINE

A "Leadership Workshop for Women in Medicine" will be held in Tucson, Ariz., April 23–25.

Contact the American Medical Women's Association Professional Resources Research Ctr., 2302 E. Speedway, Suite 206A, Tucson, AZ 85719; or call (602)...

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