SINCE the introduction of external cardiac massage in 1960,¹ cardiopulmonary resuscitation has frequently been attempted in community and university hospitals.^{2 3 4 5} At the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, physicians perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

ANORECTAL and intestinal infections with a variety of pathogens occur commonly in homosexually active men,^{1 2 3 4} but the relative importance of these various pathogens and their clinical manifestations in homosexual men have not been carefully assessed. ...

THE acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined as biopsy-confirmed Kaposi's sarcoma or life-threatening opportunistic infections in previously healthy persons who are under 60 years of age and who have no underlying immunosuppressive condition.¹ ...

STILLBIRTH, which is defined as fetal loss during the late second or third trimester of pregnancy, occurs once in each 80 to 100 births.^{1 , 2} Of the approximately 25 per cent of stillbirths in which the fetus is abnormal, one half have a single-gene, ...

CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia is usually a monoclonal B-cell neoplasm^{1 , 2} of middle-aged and elderly adults. Although rare cases have been reported in children,^{3 4 5} none has been studied with modern immunologic and cytogenetic techniques. We have ...

DIAGNOSTIC and therapeutic aspiration of fluid from various body cavities is a common procedure. The amount of fluid that can be removed safely at one time is limited by potential complications. In patients with cirrhosis of the liver and ascites, a ...

ANOMALOUS origin of the right coronary artery from the left sinus of Valsalva is a rare congenital abnormality. For many years pathologists classified it as a minor anomaly of no clinical importance. Recently, manifestations of myocardial ischemia have ...

THE Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome is a nutritional neurologic disorder that is due to thiamine deficiency. Although Wernicke's encephalopathy represents the acute phase of the syndrome, Korsakoff's psychosis represents its chronic continuum. Thiamine is a ...

Presentation of Case

A 26-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever of unknown origin.

The patient was a native of India and was studying in this country during the preceding two years. Three months before admission he returned to his ...

Decisions to initiate or forgo life-prolonging procedures, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, present profound medical and ethical dilemmas for the physician, nurse, patient, family, and society. The physician's self-image as the advocate and ...

The first cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma in homosexual men were reported just over two years ago.^{1 , 2} Since that time, worldwide interest and concern about what has become known as the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (...

In this issue, Mueller et al. analyze the cost effectiveness of various procedures routinely used in the post-mortem analysis of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths.¹ It is a convincing analysis as far as genetic disorders are concerned, but their ...

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To the Editor: Hepatitis B vaccine has been administered to a growing number of persons since the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control was published in 1982.¹ Side effects in initial study groups of some 12,000 patients included only ...

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This book is coauthored by a social psychologist and a psychiatrist who have reviewed the literature in English and visited China twice (1975 and 1979). Biographical sketches of four Chinese psychiatrists and a reprinting of seven articles by the Chinese, ...

Given the proliferation of psychotherapies and the incessant search for self-actualization, it has been said that we live in a therapeutic age. Within this cultural context, Zilbergeld's book is a provocative and unsettling survey of the field of ...

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Although the locus of psychiatric care has moved from inpatient to outpatient settings and hospital stays are shorter, there are still large numbers of psychiatric patients who require hospitalization. This is therefore an important new book.

The editor ...

PROGRAMS OF ROSWELL PARK MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

The Institute will offer three programs in the coming months in Buffalo: "Metastasis" (October 6 and 7); "Molecular Events in Differentiation and Neoplasia" (November 10); and "Up-date in Neurological Oncology" (...

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