Hypoglycemia occurs in the terminal phase of several of the animal malarias: Plasmodium knowlesi infection in rhesus monkeys,¹ P. lophurae in ducks,² and P. berghei in rats³ and mice.⁴ This complication has been attributed to exhaustion of the host's ...

One of the so-called minor sexually transmitted diseases, chancroid, is endemic throughout the tropics. The local genital infection with Hemophilus ducreyi is painful and debilitating. Untreated, chancroid may progress to produce phagodendritic ulceration ...

Rotavirus infection in newborn babies in Melbourne was first observed in December 1974 during an epidemic of diarrhea in an intensive-care ward of the Royal Children's Hospital.¹ Simultaneously, outbreaks of acute diarrhea due to rotavirus in newborn ...

A SYNDROME of severe hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension develops in some infants within minutes or hours after birth. In addition, some of these infants have increased airway resistance, decreased lung compliance, and infiltrates that are consistent ...

Syncope is a prevalent and potentially dangerous phenomenon in the elderly that remains unexplained in over 50 per cent of cases, despite expensive, highly technologic medical evaluations.^{1 , 2} Although this common event is often difficult to explain even ...

Glucocorticoids

Glucocorticoids have complex effects on calcium regulation and bone metabolism. Clinically, glucocorticoid excess causes impaired skeletal growth and decreased bone mass.²⁵ Yet it seems likely that glucocorticoids have a physiologic role ...

Just as treatment for the acute phase of a myocardial infarction has undergone radical changes in the past decade, so has the perception of what constitutes proper post-infarction evaluation. Although physicians can still learn much from the clinical ...

A DISTINCT facial flush after ingestion of an alcoholic drink occurs in some diabetic patients treated with chlorpropamide.^{1 , 2} Leslie and Pyke^{3 , 4} have proposed that this response, now known as the chlorpropamide–alcohol flush,³ is a dominantly ...

Presentation of Case

A 35-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain and a mass.

She was well until eight months earlier, when she began to have diffuse, crampy abdominal pain. She was seen at another hospital, where a mixture ...

A preponderance of xenobiotics, including chemical carcinogens and drugs as well as such physiologic compounds as steroids and prostaglandins, are metabolized by the mixed-function oxidases that contain cytochromes P-450.^{1 2 3 4} In 1973 Kellermann and ...

"The relation of apneic spells, so commonly seen in premature infants, and sudden infant death remains speculative." So it was in 1977, so it is in 1983.

A review of some of the studies in the intervening years is timely. In 1977 Shannon et al.¹ reported ...

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To the Editor: In a patient with coronary vascular disease who is under treatment with beta-adrenergic blockade, hypoglycemia is a pernicious disorder that is difficult to recognize. We saw a 57-year-old man who was taking propranolol (15 mg four times a ...

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For some time now we have been curious about the reactions of people we meet socially to being told, "I am a nurse." First reactions to this statement include the comment, "I never met a nurse socially before"; stories about the person's latest ...

The challenge of reviewing a new textbook of medicine, although considerably smaller than that of planning, editing, writing, and publishing it, is nonetheless formidable. I have tried to read and consider this book from the perspective of its potential ...

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Considering the large amount of material published on the structure and function of the rest of the gastrointestinal tract, the colon has been relatively neglected, perhaps because it has been considered a dispensable, nonvital organ. This book is ...

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Applied Drug Therapy of the Rheumatic Diseases begins with a preface that apologizes to the reader for what the book is not meant to cover. Certainly, the title alone would tell us that it is not a review of physiotherapy, psychotherapy, or surgical ...

Here it is the editors' intention to introduce renal immunology to the practicing nephrologist. To this end, they have assembled an impressive list of authorities. The first section includes discussions of immunologic methods, experimental glomerular and ...

MEDICINE

Diseases of the Pleura. Edited by Jacques Chrétien and Albert Hirsch. 370 pp., illustrated. New York, Masson, 1983. $95.

The Dying Patient: The medical management of incurable and terminal illness. By Eric Wilkes. 336 pp. Ridgewood, N.J., George ...

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts for a poster session are now being accepted for a symposium entitled "Infections in the Compromised Host: Laboratory Diagnosis and Treatment." The symposium will be held in Philadelphia on November 17 and 18. The deadline for ...

A congressional inquiry, designed originally to evaluate current methods of securing human organs for transplantation, has helped alert federal policy makers to inadequacies in that system. But along the way, the inquiry also uncovered some other serious ...