With the increased survival rate of premature infants, especially those of very low birth weight, there has been a concomitant increase in retrolental fibroplasia, now known as retinopathy of prematurity. Severe retinopathy of prematurity has nearly ...

Platelet-activating factor has been chemically characterized as a unique ether phospholipid, acetyl-glyceryl-ether-phosphorylcholine (AGEPC).^{1 2 3} Platelet-activating factor derived its name from its capacity to induce platelet aggregation and the release ...

IT is widely believed that chloramphenicol is poorly absorbed after intramuscular administration.¹ This opinion is largely based on the results of a single study in adults by DuPont et al.,² who found that plasma chloramphenicol levels after oral ...

Escherichia coli is the most common bacterial species isolated from endogenous infections of the female urinary tract.¹ Uropathogenic strains usually originate in the colon. From the stool they are inoculated onto the vaginal introitus and periurethral ...

Hypophosphatemia is a frequent laboratory finding in patients with respiratory illness and particularly in those with respiratory infections.¹ Among the multisystem effects of hypophosphatemia, skeletal-muscle dysfunction has been reported.² Indeed, Lotz ...

Parents and pediatricians are concerned about the possibility that children may acquire infection from other children when they visit their doctor's office. Some office waiting areas are designed to separate sick and well children in an attempt to reduce ...

Thyroid nodules continue to be a source of concern to patients, and their management remains a controversy among physicians. Several diagnostic techniques have been proposed to distinguish benign nodules (the majority) from malignant lesions (the minority)...

Presentation of Case

A 37-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of bilateral uveitis that was unresponsive to treatment.

She was in excellent health until six months earlier, when she began to experience "throbbing" right retro-orbital ...

Concerted efforts of neonatologists throughout the world to lower infant mortality rates have focused almost exclusively on instruments and techniques to salvage sick and immature newborns. The striking success in reducing neonatal mortality in the past ...

Escherichia coli, the most common facultative anaerobe among the flora that inhabit the healthy human large intestine, has an important role in maintaining normal physiologic functions. But it is also the most common gram-negative human pathogen, ...

Elsewhere in this issue, Aubier and his associates report their observations on eight patients with hypophosphatemia-related diaphragm weakness and pulmonary insufficiency that improved after administration of potassium phosphate.¹ An ever-increasing ...

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From the title I assumed that this would be a voluminous tome and that the editors were indeed courageous to tackle the task of covering all the technical details of the commonly used procedures in cardiovascular diagnosis. However, on receiving the book ...

The preface to this second edition of a textbook first published in 1975 gives as its target audience the "vocational trainee" in general practice in the United Kingdom. As a textbook on family practice for the trainee's North American counterpart, the ...

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REHABILITATION MEDICINE

The 62nd Annual Session of the American Congress of ...