RIGHT ventricular cardiomyopathy is currently considered an oddity and a rare cause of life-threatening arrhythmia. Among the causes of sudden death among young people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,¹ mitral-valve prolapse,² and anomalies of the conduction ...

THE long-term ingestion of large quantities of ethanol has been shown to alter a substantial number of physiologic and biochemical variables.¹ Certain of these alcohol-induced changes have been studied in attempts to obtain objective indexes of chronic ...

ONLY one of three patients with juvenile-onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ever acquires diabetic nephropathy. The risk of this complication peaks during the second decade of diabetes and declines thereafter.^{1 , 2} Although this pattern cannot be ...

THE incidence of diabetic nephropathy peaks among patients who have had diabetes for 16 to 20 years and declines sharply thereafter; there is a markedly decreased risk of renal disease in patients who survive with diabetes for 25 years or more. The reason ...

RETINOBLASTOMA is a malignant tumor that - arises in the eyes of children, usually before the age of four years. It affects between 1 in 34,000 and 1 in 15,000 live births in the United States.¹ Thirty to 40 percent of patients with retinoblastoma have a ...

ONE in 500 Americans has a permanent cardiac pacemaker, and new implants are estimated to exceed 120,000 annually.¹ With an average cost per implant of $12,000,² annual expenditures for these implants probably approach $2 billion. Consequently, agencies ...

PAGETOID reticulosis (Woringer-Kolopp disease) is a rare skin disorder consisting of solitary or localized, often hyperkeratotic, cutaneous plaques. Histologically, the involved areas of skin show a prominent infiltrate of cytologically atypical ...

Presentation of Case

A 56-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a question of interstitial lung disease.

He was well until two years earlier, when arthralgia and swelling of the ankles and knees developed, persisted for about a week, and ...

THE sudden death of a young person is always a tragic and emotionally devastating event, particularly since it is often unexpected.^{1 2 3} Over the past decade, increasing attention has been focused on this problem both by physicians and by a concerned ...

A recent large-scale, multiple-site household survey has found that alcohol abuse or dependence is extremely common. Using systematic interview techniques and reliable diagnostic criteria, researchers found that the six-month prevalence among men ranged ...

All doctors can be divided into three groups: those who never think about pacemakers, those who always think about pacemakers, and the rest, who think about pacemakers for the right patients at the right time. The first group occasionally undertreats the ...

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To the Editor: Because we¹ and others^{2 3 4} have found endoscopic laser therapy to be efficacious in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, we found two reports in the June 25 issue^{5 , 6} rather disappointing.

Krejs et al.⁵ reported that ...

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To the Editor: Pang et al. (May 21 issue)¹ described a young woman with hirsutism and polycystic ovarian disease and proposed that her increased secretion of androstenedione was due to a genetic deficiency of ovarian 17-ketosteroid reductase. I disagree ...

To the Editor: Choline serves, within cholinergic neurons, as a precursor to both acetylcholine and such membrane phospholipids as phosphatidylcholine.¹ The availability of extracellular choline, provided by the circulation or formed intrasynaptically ...

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To the Editor: As chairman of the Committee on Children with Disabilities of the American Academy of Pediatrics, I am writing concerning the Sounding Board article by Butler et al. in the July 16 issue.¹ The analysis deserves considerable praise for ...

This ambitious two-volume work, appearing four years after the first edition, succeeds on a grand scale. It is the combined effort of nearly 400 authors from 30 countries, primarily Britain and the Commonwealth nations. This is not a book for weaklings. ...

Since the first edition of this widely known textbook appeared in 1974, it has been updated and revised three times. Its 625 pages make it shorter than some but longer than others, and it contains a remarkable number of high-quality illustrations — a ...

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HEARINGS ON HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION

The hearings will take place in Birmingham, Ala. (Jan. 14 and 15), Los Angeles (Jan. 22 and 23), Houston (Jan. 27 and 28), Seattle (Feb. 5 and 6), Denver (Feb. 18 and 19), Detroit (March 3 and 4), and ...