PREMATURE ovarian failure is the cessation of menses, accompanied by elevated serum gonadotropin levels, before the age of 40.¹ Although most cases are idiopathic, known causes include immunologic disorders with production of antiovarian or antireceptor ...

THE acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the clinically overt, end-stage manifestation of a prolonged infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).¹ The mean interval from infection to the development of AIDS is estimated to be four to ...

HUMAN insulin-like growth factors I and II (IGF I and II) ^{1 , 2} are homologues of proinsulin and share with it all of its biologic properties.^{3 , 4} They elicit two types of biologic effects: rapid insulin-like effects and slower growth-promoting effects. ...

THERE is widespread agreement that ethics requires that each clinical trial begin with an honest null hypothesis.^{1 , 2} In the simplest model, testing a new treatment B on a defined patient population P for which the current accepted treatment is A, it is ...

IN 1978, Todd et al.¹ described a multisystem clinical syndrome (toxic shock syndrome) characterized by the sudden onset of fever, rash, vomiting and diarrhea, hypotension, conjunctival injection, and strawberry tongue, followed by desquamation during ...

THE rate of glomerular filtration is governed by the imbalance between positive hydraulic forces that promote fluid movement into Bowman's space and negative oncotic forces that retard such movement.^{1 , 2} The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) may be ...

Presentation of Case

A 26-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of obstructive jaundice.

There was a history of inflammatory bowel disease that began at the age of 14 years and was treated successfully on an outpatient basis with prednisone. ...

Of all life's inequalities, the contrast between the X and Y chromosomes is one of the most fundamental and certainly one of the most intriguing. The X is large — about 6 percent of the genomic DNA; the Y is less than half that size. The X has over 100 ...

There is a time-honored saying that the humanity of a society can be measured by how well it cares for its neediest citizens. Children with handicaps certainly constitute such a group, and it is instructive at this time of upheaval in health care to ...

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To the Editor: It is well known that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents can cause acute renal failure in patients with underlying risk factors.¹ We have seen two patients with unrecognized multiple myeloma who presented with severe acute renal failure ...

To the Editor: For decades, most medical schools have had substantially more applicants than they could admit and have used scores on standardized tests, grades in pre-professional courses, and essays or interviews to select the most highly qualified. In ...

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Beginning an education in the intricacies of magnetic resonance imaging can be a difficult and confusing experience. Elster appreciates this and has attempted to design his book as an introductory as well as a reference work for the neophyte who is making ...

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Although there may be some ambiguity in its title, this book clearly emphasizes conventional radiography and fluoroscopy. In this respect, the richly illustrated work presents a fairly complete spectrum of cardiac abnormalities as they may manifest ...

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Medicine

Handbook of Geriatrics. Edited by Steven R. Gambert, Dalton M. Benson, and Krishan L. Gupta. 406 pp. New York, Plenum, 1987. $29.50.

Infectious Arthritis. (Clinics in Rheumatic Diseases. Vol. 12, No. 2.) Edited by Frank R. Schmid. Approx. 220 pp.,...

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The federal government, propelled by the first widely publicized indications of serious presidential and congressional concern over the spread of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is moving rapidly to increase the resources it allocates to ...