TRANSMURAL myocardial infarction is frequently associated with total coronary-artery occlusion by thrombus.¹ A few studies of the treatment of acute myocardial infarction with intracoronary thrombolysis have shown that successful early recanalization ...

DIETS containing large amounts of carbohydrate improve glucose tolerance in healthy subjects^{1 , 2} and reduce,^{3 4 5 6} or at least do not increase,^{7 , 8} hyperglycemia in diabetic patients. Recognizing this, the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the ...

EFFECTIVE immunologic control of influenza A virus infection has not yet been achieved, and the disease remains a serious health problem.¹ Because the antibody response induced by each infection is highly specific for the viral strain that is responsible ...

LEAD has been associated with both hypertension and nephrosclerosis for over a century.¹ When hypertension and renal failure occur together, it is often impossible to determine whether renal disease is the cause or the consequence of hypertension. If a ...

THE widespread impression that corticosteroids are potentially ulcerogenic originated from the accumulation of early anecdotal reports describing the development, exacerbation, and complication of peptic ulcers in steroid-treated patients.^{1 2 3 4} It was ...

IN recent years, treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia combining multiagent chemotherapy with Central-nervous-system irradiation has led to prolonged survival. However, in boys the prognosis is more severe because testicular relapses¹ ...

DURING the past two decades our ideas about the regulation of bone formation have been expanded by new findings at the molecular, cellular, and tissue level. At the molecular level we have learned how collagen, the major component of bone matrix, is ...

Presentation of Case

A 25-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of liver disease.

He was well until seven weeks earlier, when he experienced the onset of malaise, daily fever, chilliness, night sweats, and headache. Anorexia developed, and he ...

For many years the dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus has been based on the belief that there are two major classifications of carbohydrates: simple and complex. It has been believed that simple sugars (glucose, sucrose, and fructose) are rapidly ...

Corticosteroids, after all, do lead to ulcers in the stomach and duodenum, according to Messer and his colleagues in this issue of the Journal.¹ Their confirmation of that much-buffeted notion makes opportune some historical, clinical, and statistical ...

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To the Editor: In a recent report by Hersh et al. (Jan. 6 issue),¹ the serum levels of thymosin α₁, a hormone isolated from the thymus,² were evaluated by means of a specific radioimmunoassay³ in 10 homosexual men having the acquired immunodeficiency ...

To the Editor: Hersh et al. recently described high levels of circulating thymosin α₁ in homosexual men being evaluated for possible AIDS.¹ The authors then speculated that the high levels might have resulted from an attempt by the thymus to stimulate ...

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To the Editor: Over an 11-week period, I undertook 27 measurements of the noise in rooms with two, three, and four patients on the surgery floor of a Veterans Administration hospital. The ward and the number of patients in a room to be used for each ...

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Here, the editor has achieved his goal of providing a practical approach to coronary arteriography. This first edition will surely become a definitive reference for cardiologists and cardiac radiologists performing coronary arteriography and cardiac ...

In organic or vasospastic occlusive disease of the coronary arteries, the experimental and clinical emphasis, until quite recently, has been on the secondary myocardial effect of the resulting ischemia. Only limited attention has been paid to the possible ...

The heart is a pump, an organ of much simpler function than, say, the brain or the kidney. It is testimony to the sophistication of nature and to the comparatively low level of our "high" technology that we have not yet been able to replace the pumping ...

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Efforts in patient care may be subdivided into preventive medicine, curative medicine, and rehabilitative medicine. This book focuses on rehabilitative medicine as it applies to ischemic heart disease. Its stated objectives include discussions of the ...

Books that educate the lay public in methods of preventing heart disease are always welcome, provided that they are clearly written, realistic in their advice, and free of gimmickry. Both these books fulfill these criteria admirably.

The book by Chobanian ...

Patients and their families deal with 75 to 90 per cent of self-identified "illnesses" without consulting physicians or nurses. Furthermore, patients bring to their encounters with health-care professionals their own beliefs and attributions of symptoms, ...

Biomedical Science

Adrenoceptors and Catecholamine Action. Part B. (Neurotransmitter Receptors. Vol. 1.) Edited by George Kunos. 327 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1983. $75.

Biostatistics in Clinical Medicine. By Joseph A. Ingelfinger, Frederick Mosteller, ...

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are now being accepted for a conference entitled "Tumor Markers in Cancer Control." The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, February 20–22. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15.

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These guidelines are in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals." (The complete document is available in the June 12, 1982, issue of the British Medical Journal and the June 1982 issue of the Annals of ...