EPIDEMIOLOGIC comparisons of Greenland Eskimos and mainland Danes have suggested that a diet rich in marine lipids may be associated with a reduction in the incidence of occlusive vascular disease.¹ More recently, studies based on dietary history have ...

THE term "malignant angioendotheliomatosis" describes a pathologic condition characterized by a massive neoplastic proliferation of mononuclear cells within the lumens of capillaries, venules, arterioles, and small arteries. The condition was first ...

THE acquisition of an abnormality of host defense may explain the increased susceptibility to infection observed in patients with burns and burned laboratory animals, as well as in other traumatized patients.^{1 , 2} Consistent with this clinical impression ...

An almost unchallenged tenet of clinical neurology, appearing repeatedly in textbooks, is that cerebral masses lead to drowsiness, stupor, and coma by causing transtentorial or other herniations of brain tissue.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} This is supported by abundant ...

MUCH anxiety has arisen among the estimated 300,000 survivors of polio in the United States because of recent reports about a new muscular weakness, often called the "post-polio syndrome," that develops in some of these persons.¹ It is known that some ...

THE landmark case report of Alzheimer's disease, which was published in 1907,¹ described the autopsy findings in a woman who died at 55 with progressive dementia and in whom newly available silver stains demonstrated the presence of abnormal nerve cells ...

Presentation of Case

A 28-month-old boy was seen in consultation at this hospital because of a question of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

The boy was born of an uncomplicated second pregnancy of 36 weeks' duration of a mother aged 22 years, by a second ...

In the fall of 1984, the Department of Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University had five clinical units located at hospitals scattered throughout the Cleveland metropolitan area. A means of communicating within and between each unit was needed ...

When Alfred Nobel drafted his final will in late 1895, thus providing this enduring and monumental legacy, the world was charged with anticipation and optimism for the 20th century. Mind and hand, the distinctive attributes of our species, were at last ...

To the Editor: Approximately 1 percent of reported cases of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presumed to be due to heterosexual transmission, with the vast majority of these reported in women who have contracted the virus from infected ...

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To the Editor: Clinical diabetes mellitus occurs in approximately 5 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis, and it is estimated that by age 18, 15 percent of such patients will have diabetes, and 50 percent will have diabetic-type results on a glucose ...

To the Editor: Pseudohypophosphatasia is a rare metabolic bone disease that was first described in one child 17 years ago by Scriver and Cameron in the Journal.¹ The patient had the typical findings of classic hypophosphatasia, including clinical and ...

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For most physicians, the subject of preventive medicine is largely one of theoretical, rather than practical, interest. The topic is given only cursory coverage in medical school. Busy practitioners involved with the management of acute and chronic ...

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The authors carefully define their aim in writing this textbook. Their audience is undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents in general medicine. They propose not a specialized treatment of rheumatology, but rather an integrated discussion ...

Biomédical Science

Advances in Enzyme Regulation. Vol. 24. Edited by George Weber. 506 pp., illustrated. Elmsford, N.Y., Pergamon Press, 1985. $160.

Advances in Prostaglandin, Thromboxane. and Leukotriene Research. Vol. 15. Edited by Osamu Hayaishi and ...

MAYO CLINIC

The Clinic will offer a conference entitled "An International Colloquy on Wegener's Granulomatosis and Other Vasculitides of the Respiratory Tract," in Rochester, Minn., May 7–9.

Contact Dr. Richard A. DeRemee, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905;...