RECENT studies have renewed the controversy over what constitutes the optimal diet for the preterm infant. The Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics defines the optimal diet for the infant with a low birth weight as one that ...

THE third trimester of pregnancy is a critical period for adipose-cell hyperplasia.^{1 , 2} During this period maternal–fetal undernutrition has been shown to be associated with less frequent obesity in early adult life.³ Because diabetes occurring during ...

CHRONIC granulomatous disease in childhood is a rare syndrome characterized by extreme susceptibility to bacterial infection.¹ In patients with this disease the oxidase activity that normally accompanies phagocytosis by neutrophils and monocytes is ...

IN the early 1970s only a few somewhat idiosyncratic, health-oriented people jogged. Since then distance running has become a cultural fascination for 31 million people in the United States¹ and has spawned a billion-dollar sporting-goods industry, as ...

"PRUNE BELLY" refers to the lax, wrinkled abdomen of abdominal-muscle hypoplasia. It is most common in males and is usually accompanied by urinary-tract abnormalities.¹ Its cause is a subject of debate.² We report on identical female twins discordant for ...

CONVENTIONAL hemodialysis requires heparin anticoagulation to prevent clotting in the dialysis assembly. Hemodialysis of the patient who is at high risk for hemorrhage is complicated by a 10 to 30 per cent incidence of bleeding, which results from ...

HARRIES et al. recently reported that cigarette smokers were less likely to have ulcerative colitis than nonsmokers.¹ Bureš et al. have observed a similar association.² Harries' paper was followed by an extraordinary case report by de Castella, on a young ...

FLOW-directed right-heart catheterization is used extensively to monitor the hemodynamic status of critically ill patients. After acute myocardial infarction, measurements of the cardiac index and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure are useful in several ...

Presentation of Case

A 72-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of purpura and impaired renal function.

There was a long history of hypertension, managed in recent years with hydrochlorothiazide. Myocardial infarction occurred 15 years before ...

Chronic granulomatous disease might be regarded as an "experiment of nature," though the experiment is uncontrolled. The quest for knowledge about the disease has certainly spurred acquisition of information about the mechanisms by which white cells ...

The myriad components of cigarette smoke include some potent toxic and pharmacologic agents. Of those whose effects are known, most are unequivocally bad.¹ That is no reason, however, to assume a priori that all the effects must be bad, and indeed an ...

Almost 13 years have passed since Swan and associates reported their experience with the flow-directed catheter for right-heart catheterization at the bedside.¹ This procedure is now accepted worldwide and used routinely in the care of the critically ill ...

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To the Editor: A substantial risk for the transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) exists when there is intimate contact with persons having either acute^{1 , 2} or chronic HBV infection.³ Because of this risk, the Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

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To the Editor: Increased urinary lysozyme concentrations in histiocytic medullary reticulosis have been reported.¹ This rare disease is considered to be a neoplasm of true histiocytes and to be connected with fever, lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenic ...

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To the Editor: Intravenous immunoglobulin has recently been shown to be effective in treating autoimmune thrombocytopenia (May 27 issue)^{1 , 2} and autoimmune neutropenia (July 22 issue).³ Another rare but well-defined, immunologically mediated ...

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To the Editor: Adverse reactions to new drugs or other therapeutic interventions are familiar, but government regulations or funding policies may also produce unexpected adverse effects.

In California, until recently, Medicaid (Medi-Cal) regulations, ...

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To the Editor: Recently a Florida farmer traveled 80 miles (130 km) to deliver a truckload of watermelons to a grocery distributor. The grocer, however, did not pay for the watermelons. The reason? The truck hatch had opened during the trip, and on ...

IN a Special Report on his recent trip to Poland, Webster discussed a number of important public-health problems.¹ However, he did not discuss the effect of the state of war in Poland on the health of the population or the complex moral and political ...

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Here is a book devoted to the foremost pathologic process responsible for mortality and morbidity in the developed countries. It is the most recent volume in the Butterworths pathology series, whose other titles include Pathology of Congenital Heart ...

The first of these two books, Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram, provides a good review of the basic concepts of electrocardiography and arrhythmia analysis. The authors are experienced nurses who have cared for critically ill patients with a ...

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Golding's is a single-author book that was first published in 1966. The 1982 (fourth) edition has been revised and upgraded and does, indeed, contain newer concepts such as seronegative spondylarthritis and the roles of crystals in the pathogenesis of ...

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Biomedical Science

Atlas of Surgical and Sectional Anatomy. By Bok Y. Lee. 322 pp., illustrated. Norwalk, Conn., Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1982. $35.

Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and control. Edited by Alfred S. Evans and Harry A. Feldman. ...

SEMINARS IN MEDICINE OF THE BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL, BOSTON

Two seminars will be held in February in Grossman Conference Center of Kirstein Hall at 4:30 p.m.: "Pathogenesis and Management of Lipoprotein Disorders" (February 8); and "The Mortality of Stem ...