POSTINFECTIOUS encephalomyelitis, an acute perivenular inflammatory and demyelinating disease, is the most common neurologic complication of measles. Measles encephalomyelitis is rare in children under two years of age, but complicates about one in 1000 ...

IN 1943 Weiss et al. established that cardiac involvement in patients with progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is a distinct clinical and pathological entity.¹ Although the frequency of myocardial fibrosis reported in autopsy scries has ranged ...

AFTER Borel et al.^{1 , 2} reported on the biologic effects and immunosuppressive properties of cyclosporine, an undecapeptide metabolic product of the fungi Cylindrocarpon lucidium and Trichoderma polysporum, Kostakis et al.³ observed that heterotopic ...

THE interstitial lung diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders of the lower respiratory tract characterized by derangements of the alveolar walls and loss of functional alveolar capillary units.^{1 2 3} More than 100 agents are known to cause ...

MEDICATION errors in the care of hospitalized patients are reported to occur as often as 1 in every 20 to 1 in every 6 doses of medication administered.^{1 2 3 4} In January 1982, we investigated an outbreak of severe, unexplained illness occurring on a ...

TYPE I glycogen-storage disease, an inherited absence or deficiency of glucose-6-phosphatase activity in the liver, kidney, and intestines, is associated with the accumulation of glycogen in those organs. The lack of glucose-6-phosphatase activity in the ...

ALTHOUGH the vasa vasorum, the nutrient vessels in the wall of the human aorta, have been studied in some detail,¹ there has been disagreement concerning the presence or extent of vasa vasorum in the coronary arteries. As early as 1876 Köster² suggested ...

Presentation of Case

A 58-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a pulmonary lesion.

He was in a stable state of health until four months earlier, when he experienced the first of several bouts of amaurosis fugax in the left eye accompanied ...

Scleroderma is well characterized as a fibrotic disorder that is either localized or generalized in extent; when it is localized it is called morphea, or linear scleroderma, and there are essentially no systemic implications; when it is generalized, the ...

"The situation regarding the care of chronic disease in this community is such that certain measures must be taken in the near future to improve the conditions if Boston is to retain its place as a progressive medical center,"¹ cautioned an editorial in ...

Within the past few years, a wide array of freestanding out-of-hospital health-care delivery systems have gained the public's attention. Much of the current interest in these new approaches is due to wide-spread participation by large multihospital ...

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To the Editor: Even though changes in the OKT4/OKT8 ratio have been described by many different groups of researchers in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as well as in healthy persons considered to be at risk for this disease,¹ ...

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This second edition of Intensive Review of Internal Medicine offers a dynamic approach to the broad field of internal medicine. A homestudy course, it includes audiocassettes of lectures that are transcribed verbatim in the accompanying two-volume ...

Until the day when practitioners can phone computers for answers to their clinical questions, the general textbook of medicine will remain their first informational resource.

Which book should be kept within reach? This is a question of training, judgment,...

This is a welcome addition both to the standard textbooks of medicine and to the increasing number of works on primary care and ambulatory medicine. In scope and format it stands somewhere between those two categories.

This textbook is of a size ...

Clinical Diagnosis addresses the fundamental skills of history taking and physical diagnosis and their correlation with pathophysiology. All are cornerstones of medical education, and this book is highly recommended. It contains numerous clearly ...

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MEDICAL ETHICS

A conference entitled "Foregoing Life-Sustaining Food and Water: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Considerations" will be held at The Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, March 23 and 24.

Contact Maxine Mantell, Society for Health and Human ...

IN the October 25, 1982, issue of the Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration announced its intention to change the status of metaproterenol in metered-dose inhalers from a prescription to a nonprescription medication.¹ In March 1983, over-the-...