A WIDE variety of autoimmune phenomena have been reported in patients receiving procainamide. These include the clinical syndrome of drug-induced lupus erythematosus and the development of antinuclear and lymphocytotoxic antibodies.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} Numerous ...

LESS than 30 years ago, acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) was regarded as incurable, and patients with the disorder had an average survival of only a few months.¹ Today, with new therapeutic approaches and improved management of the disease, it is ...

RECENT reports have revealed that the mortality rate in patients with congestive heart failure is worse than previously suspected.^{1 2 3 4} Quantitation of the severity of the disease to provide a prognostic guide is complicated by uncertainty regarding ...

ACCELERATED progression of coronary lesions after coronary bypass surgery is well documented in vessels in which the preoperative stenosis of the vessel diameter was greater than 50 per cent.^{1 2 3} This phenomenon became apparent almost immediately when ...

SINCE the recognition of the deleterious effects of cigarette smoking on health, concern has shifted to the health consequences in nonsmokers of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.^{1 , 2} Recent studies have shown that passive smoking by nonsmokers may ...

DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION of chronically mentally ill patients from large state mental hospitals has been a major movement in psychiatry for the past 30 years. The state-hospital population decreased¹ from 559,000 in 1955 to approximately 138,000 in 1980. ...

IN 1969 Rogers et al. described a case of unexplained anemia in association with diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness.¹ The anemia responded only to pharmacologic closes of thiamine. Another such case of "thiamine-responsive anemia" was reported ...

Presentation of Case

A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of myalgia and muscle weakness.

She was well until three weeks earlier, when she awoke with pain in the lumbar region and abdomen that increased during the day. On the following ...

For many years it has been recognized that patients who apparently have the same type of leukemia have different prognoses and different responses to treatment. These differences have been thought to reflect the presence of indistinguishable diseases that ...

IN this issue of the Journal Cohn et al. report that in heart failure central venous plasma norepinephrine is directly related to mortality, and that plasma norepinephrine is the only one of several univariate predictors that independently correlates with ...

Time, the severity of preexisting arterial stenosis, and coronary-artery surgery affect the progression of coronary atherosclerosis. As plaque formation worsens, the probability of acute obstruction increases significantly in medical and surgical ...

Now that health-care costs have reached 10.5 per cent of our gross national product and Medicare alone is approaching 2 per cent,¹ it is not surprising that the search for cost-control strategies has also escalated. What is distressing is the continued ...

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To the Editor: The New York City Department of Health conducted a follow-up study of the first 1410 cases of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) reported in New York City to quantify more accurately the morbidity, mortality, and clinical and ...

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To the Editor: Hypogonadism in men is a well-established complication of prolactin-secreting pituitary tumors.¹ Bromocriptine therapy effectively suppresses recurrent hyperprolactinemia after surgery,² restores sexual potency through recovery of ...

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This updated edition of a paperback is a short but relatively complete and authoritative guide for parents. It contains much good advice and makes interesting reading even for an "older" pediatrician.

The relaxed approach is certainly emphasized and ...

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For nearly four decades Caffey's Pediatric X-Ray Diagnosis was almost alone in the field of pediatric radiology. It slowly grew larger and more unwieldy. In the past two years it has been challenged by at least six new entries, among them this work by ...

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The goal of Emergency Pharmacology is to distill into a single volume information on the dosages, appropriate dilutions, and techniques of administration (as well as indications and contraindications) of pharmacologic agents used in the treatment of acute ...

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PSYCHOANALYSIS

The Psychoanalytic Institute of New England will sponsor a program entitled "Reconstruction Revisited" at the Brookline Hospital in Brookline, Mass., on October 29.

Contact the Institute, 97A Avon Hill St., Cambridge, MA 02140; or call (617)...