Each year 1.5 million patients are hospitalized in coronary care units in the United States for suspected acute myocardial infarction.¹ Because of initial uncertainty in the diagnosis, many of these patients are admitted to "rule out" myocardial ...

When intravascular catheter-associated infection is suspected, it is standard practice to remove the catheter and submit an intravascular segment to the microbiology laboratory for diagnostic culture. The semiquantitative culture method developed by Maki ...

In spite of advances over the past several decades in the understanding and treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, the incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis has not decreased.^{1 , 2} Ketoacidosis is the leading cause of death in young patients with ...

The appearance of unregulated B-lymphocyte proliferations in organ-transplant recipients is a recent observation that has produced new concerns about the role of immunosuppressive agents and viruses in the development of neoplasia.¹ In particular, the ...

Extension of the life span has become an increasingly prominent subject in the media. Vitamins, nutrient supplements, minerals, and skin creams have been aggressively promoted as being able to delay aging and prolong life. Books on longevity and life ...

Among the most hotly contested and emotional courtroom battles are those involving child-custody disputes. These are the cases that could not be settled amicably between the parties in divorce and separation actions. Reforms in divorce law have removed a ...

Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura is a syndrome characterized by bleeding due to a reduced number of platelets and normal or increased numbers of marrow megakaryocytes. The thrombocytopenia in this disorder is due to IgG antibodies that are ...

Presentation of Case

An 18-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of abdominal pain and an eating disorder.

He was well until six years earlier, when he began to notice a persistent sore throat and dysphagia. He was admitted to another hospital,...

Cerebral edema causes or contributes to death in diabetic ketoacidosis under two distinct circumstances — in comatose patients and during treatment in conscious patients.

In 1936 Dillon et al.¹ found cerebral edema in eight patients, primarily adults who ...

Little question remains that the causative agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the newly recognized retrovirus, human T-cell lymphotropic virus Type III (HTLV-III).^{1 2 3 4 5} AIDS, the AIDS-related complex, and asymptomatic HTLV-III ...

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To the Editor: A cure rather than a treatment has long been the goal of those caring for and those suffering from hemophilia. Encouraging results were obtained some years ago with the transplantation of normal livers into a dog with mild hemophilia^{1 , 2} ...

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To the Editor: Striking polyuria may follow paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.^{1 2 3} Reflex diuresis and natriuresis with tachycardia in dogs have been proposed,⁴ since another putative mechanism, antidiuretic hormone, was shown not to change after ...

To the Editor: nutritional status has been shown to be a very important determinant of plasma somatomedin C concentrations.¹ Recent studies have suggested that somatomedin C measurements may be better indicators of nutritional repletion in malnourished ...

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These three books offer a continuum in patient care from the field and the emergency department (including the general treatment of the patient), to the management of one specific organ system.

The first, Trauma: The First Hour, is written for emergency ...

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As improvements in immunosuppression have evolved for renal allograft recipients, so too has the opportunity to provide other life-replenishing organ transplants. During the 1970s the services of most transplantation units were limited to the care of ...

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It would be difficult to substantiate the proposition that the world needs another comprehensive textbook of aesthetic surgery. Only injectable collagens and suction lipectomy have brought change to this field since I reviewed two books, both titled ...

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Education, History, Biography and Public Press

The Doctor Stories. By William Carlos Williams; compiled by Robert Coles. 142 pp. New York, New Directions, 1984. $13.50.

Doctors and Slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West ...

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LAW

The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, in conjunction with the American Society of Law and Medicine, will offer a course, entitled "Epidemiology and the Law," at the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, ...