Leprosy is a chronic bacillary disease that infects approximately 11 million people throughout the world. The host response to leprosy covers a wide spectrum.¹ In the lepromatous form there are widespread loose infiltrates with Mycobacterium leprae that ...

Alcohol consumption has traditionally been associated with hyperuricemia and, in susceptible persons, the precipitation of acute gouty arthritis.¹ Early studies indicated that a decrease in the renal excretion of uric acid could account for ethanolinduced ...

IN diabetic acidosis, protons from the ketoacids that are produced titrate bicarbonate and other buffers while the ketone anions accumulate in plasma. This process leads to an increase in the unmeasured anions in plasma and is responsible for an increased ...

IN contemplating the health hazards of such diverse entities as pharmaceutical agents, nutritional ingredients, industrial products, air pollution, and personal habits, readers must evaluate evidence obtained in a manner that differs substantially from ...

Calcium ions (Ca⁺⁺) are vital in many biologic processes, including a variety of enzymatic reactions, activation of excitable cells, coupling of electrical activation to cellular secretion, hemostasis, and the metabolism of bone. The development of drugs ...

Local thrombolytic therapy has previously been used in selected patients to treat obstructive arterial lesions.^{1 2 3} The methods of these earlier investigators involved insertion of a catheter into an occluding arterial lesion and continuous "blind" ...

Presentation of Case

A 73-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of chrondritis of the left ear.

She was well until nine weeks earlier, when she had a left earache; erythromycin was prescribed, without improvement. Five weeks before admission ...

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease chiefly involving the skin and peripheral nerves (and nasal mucosa in lepromatous disease), and Mycobacterium leprae is the etiologic agent. The association of chronic skin disease with anesthesia or hypesthesia ...

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To the Editor: Systemic penicillin therapy is generally the antibiotic treatment of choice in bacterial endocarditis and is commonly given in large doses intravenously for prolonged periods. Complications of treatment, although rare, include ...

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To the Editor: The report by Worley et al. (August 12 issue)¹ describing increased sodium–lithium countertransport in the erythrocytes of pregnant women parallels a recent study of ours.

We studied three groups of women in the third trimester of ...

To the Editor: Lithium therapy for manic-depressive illness takes about one week to become effective. Hence, neuroleptic drugs must often be initially administered with lithium to control acute mania quickly. This lag is much longer than one would expect ...

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To the Editor: The epidemiologic study of neonatal mortality in low-birth-weight infants by Paneth et al. credits neonatal intensive care for the continuing decline in neonatal mortality.¹ No other explanation was offered, although the authors did not ...

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Perinatal obstetricians, surgeons, ultrasonographers, pediatricians, bioethicists, and physiologists from centers active in fetal treatment (13 centers in 5 countries) gathered at Santa Ynez Valley, California, from July 19 to 23, 1982, for a conference ...

This atlas represents the effort of five authors to cover the entire field of radiology of the ear, nose, and throat in one relatively short work. The book is divided into five parts: the temporal bone, the paranasal and facial bones, computed tomography, ...

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The authors of this two-volume set devote the entire first volume (over 1000 pages) to bone imaging. As an atlas, the book succeeds in transmitting the authors' vast experience with total body imaging. The quality of the radiographic and nuclear-scan ...

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COMPUTERS AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

A conference entitled "Computer Applications in Critical Care Medicine" will be held at the Registry Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., on January 27 and 28. The fee is $245.

Contact Sharon Luczu, Phoenix Baptist Hospital ...

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As pointed out in my previous report¹ Congress, in a recent policy edict supported by the Reagan administration, directed the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop a new Medicare-payment system, the intent of which was to moderate the ...