PROTEIN S is a vitamin K–dependent plasma protein¹ that functions to inhibit blood clotting by serving as a cofactor for another plasma protein, activated protein C.^{2 , 3} Activated protein C inhibits the clotting cascade at the levels of factor V and ...

UNTIL recently, nephritis was the most frequent cause of mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, and it continues to be a major cause of death, end-stage renal failure, and other serious morbidity. Numerous uncontrolled^{1 , 2} and ...

WITHIN the past decade important insights into the molecular and cellular pathogenesis of sickle-cell (hemoglobin S) disease have emerged, providing a basis for rational approaches to therapies.¹ In marked contrast, few clinical data currently exist on ...

EARLY reports suggested that Reye's syndrome was a rare disease with a high mortality rate.^{1 , 2} More recent studies have suggested a higher incidence of the disease and improving mortality rates.^{3 , 4} Surveillance statistics from the Centers for Disease ...

THE spectrum of clinical manifestations of infection with the genital serovars of Chlamydia trachomatis (serovars D through K) includes nongonococcal urethritis,¹ urethral syndrome in women,² mucopurulent cervicitis,³ epididymitis,⁴ endometritis,⁵ ...

ALTHOUGH the total incidence of cerebral hemorrhage is high, comparatively few reports concerning the familial occurrence of this disease have been published.^{1 , 2} In 1935 Arnason described 10 families with a high incidence of cerebral hemorrhage and ...

DESPITE extensive research on many aspects of obesity, only recently have investigators begun to understand why some persons remain lean for years with no effort to control food intake, whereas others become obese in spite of strenuous efforts to limit ...

Presentation of Case

A 53-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever and rapid neurologic deterioration.

He was well until 10 months earlier, when he was admitted to this hospital because of progressive symmetric, ascending motor weakness ...

IN homozygous sickle-cell disease, deoxygenation of red cells causes the polymerization of hemoglobin S and transformation of the intracellular fluid into a viscoelastic gel. This process is most prominent in particularly dense red cells that have a high ...

Public and private expenditures on health care rose from 5 to 11 per cent of the gross national product between 1960 and 1983. Although there is no magic formula for determining a precise limit on what a country can afford to spend for health care, there ...

"The United States will soon have to begin rationing medical care." Although we hear this warning with increasing frequency,¹ taken literally the statement is sheer nonsense. It is nonsense because the United States has always rationed medical care, just ...

There is increasing pressure on doctors to serve two masters. Physicians in practice are being enjoined to consider society's needs as well as each patient's needs in deciding what type and amount of medical care to deliver. Not surprisingly, many ...

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Neurology

The Clinical Neurosciences is a five-volume work on neurology, neurosurgery, neuropathology, neuroradiology, and neurobiology. Each chapter has its own author; there is an editor for each section and a chief editor for the set of five volumes.

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The consensus that there is a poor prognosis for recovery from traumatic injury to the central nervous system has hampered exploration of the potential for at functional improvement subsequent to brain injury. This book explores the restorative capacity ...

This book's goal of documenting the importance of geriatric neurology is achieved through the provision of a systematic, up-to-date review of the neurobiology of aging and the clinical practice of neurology in the elderly. The book is divided into six ...

This is a book written for a mixed audience. It examines the psychological and social aspects of multiple sclerosis and appears to be designed primarily for paramedical workers involved in the long-term care of patients with severe disabling disease. The ...

These two welcome monographs about epilepsy are reviewed together not only because of the accident of their simultaneous release but also because they share several points of excellence and address similar audiences. The approach to seizures has for years ...

The staining properties of tissue components and the patterns thus revealed are essential elements of the diagnostic process in pathology. As the jacket of this book announces, the Oxford University Press has addressed the practicing pathologist with a ...

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PROGRAMS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

The University's Kettering Laboratory ...

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