PREGNANCY occurs frequently in couples who have been diagnosed as infertile but who either have received no treatment or have stopped all treatment. In studies that included both treated and untreated infertile couples, the proportion of pregnancies that ...

THE polycystic-ovary syndrome is one of the major causes of infertility and subfertility in women. Although the syndrome was initially defined by a triad of clinical findings (obesity, hirsutism, and secondary amenorrhea) and a specific histologic picture ...

CARCINOMA of the stomach occurring after an operation for benign peptic-ulcer disease was described by Balfour in 1922.¹ Although it was initially considered rare, by 1972 more than 1100 cases of gastric cancer after surgery for peptic-ulcer disease had ...

HYPERTENSION is both a cause and an effect of renal disease. Frequently this relation becomes clinically manifest only when both conditions are advanced. Sensitive measures are needed to unravel the nature of the relation of these two phenomena at the ...

MORTALITY rates and measures of life expectancy are used widely by planners and policy makers to compare and monitor health across communities.¹ For example, mortality statistics have demonstrated both a shift in disease patterns to chronic diseases and a ...

Retroperitoneum

Lymph Nodes, Tumors, and Retropehtoneal Hemorrhage

Assessment of retroperitoneal lymph nodes is a common clinical necessity for which CT and lymphangiography are the prime imaging examinations. The frequency of technically unsatisfactory ...

THE pathogenesis of mitral-valve prolapse is unclear. However, it has been associated with thoracoskeletal abnormalities,^{1 , 2} connective-tissue disorders,^{3 4 5} and coagulopathies.⁶ Affected tissues in these disorders are embryologically derived from ...

Presentation of Case

First admission. A 69-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of mitral-valve disease.

The patient was considered an unreliable informant. He gave a history of rheumatic fever in childhood. Thereafter he was well until ...

Elsewhere in this issue Collins et al. eloquently call attention to a long-known but poorly understood fact of human infertility: a substantial portion of patients will conceive while under study or after cessation of treatment.¹ The call these authors ...

THE term "polycystic-ovary syndrome" is best reserved for describing a clinical but not a specific pathophysiologic syndrome, since the cause of the disorder encompasses several different abnormalities with similar clinical presentations.^{1 , 2} The ...

Isolated systolic hypertension (systolic blood pressure above 160 mm Hg accompanied by diastolic pressure below 90 mm Hg) is found in approximately 25 to 30 per cent of men and women over 75.¹ Although convincing evidence indicates that elderly patients ...

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To the Editor: In their article in the May 5 issue Kawakami et al.¹ provided an extensive analysis of data from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Both arterial and venous blood gases differed significantly between the patients who ...

To the Editor: In 1978 we reported increased absenteeism and decreased psychological well-being after the labeling of hypertensive patients who were previously unaware of their disorder.¹ Although the majority of subsequent investigations into labeling ...

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To the Editor: In their editorial on Avorn and Soumerai's report concerning the impact of clinical pharmacists on the quality of drug-therapy decisions (June 16 issue),^{1 , 2} Melmon and Blaschke offer the opinions that educating pharmacists for the sole ...

IN the 1920s, when I was a young boy, my father's practice was typical of any internist's at that time. His office occupied most of the ground floor of our home on Pine Street in Philadelphia, which like Harley Street in London, provided office space for ...

These two new books reflect the dramatic changes that have occurred in patients' expectations and in physicians' practices in caring for dying patients. Scientific advances allow physicians to offer more effective treatments for life-threatening ...

Home care is becoming an important alternative to hospital or nursing-home care throughout the nation. Recent events, such as President Reagan's intervention on behalf of a young girl in Iowa to allow her discharge from the hospital and to have the ...

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Education, History, and Biography

Alzheimer's Disease: A guide for families. By Lenore S. Powell and Katie Courtice. 288 pp. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1983. $17.95 (cloth); $8.95 (paper).

The Complete Health Care Advisor. By Henry Berman, Diane ...

PROGRAMS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-UPSTATE MEDICAL CENTER

The Center will present several programs in the coming months: the 34th annual "Postgraduate Review Course in Ophthalmology" (December 2 and 3, in Syracuse, N. Y.); "New Modalities in the ...

The National Health Service (NHS), the austere but nevertheless popular centerpiece of Great Britain's welfare state, faces a future of scant real growth and intensifying political controversy as the principal source of debate between a newly reelected ...