ALTHOUGH infants and children have accounted. for only 1 to 2 percent of cases of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) reported to the Centers for Disease Control (1079 patients as of July 18, 1988), estimates show that the incidence is rising. ...

IDIOPATHIC hypercalciuria is the abnormality associated most frequently with calcium nephrolithiasis and is thus considered a major cause of this disease.^{1 2 3} Several pathogenetic subtypes of idiopathic hypercalciuria have been proposed, including ...

CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia is the most common form of leukemia in Europe and North America. Although some patients remain in good health for 10 years or more, the median period of survival for patients with advanced disease is less than 2 years.¹ ...

ALTHOUGH renal cysts are the distinguishing feature of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, frequent extrarenal manifestations include liver cysts,^{1 2 3 4} diverticulosis,⁵ berry aneurysms,⁶ abdominal aortic aneurysms,⁷ and annuloaortic ectasia.⁸ ...

AUTOSOMAL dominant polycystic kidney disease L is characterized by multiple renal cysts that increase in number and size with age. It is one of the most common hereditary diseases, occurring in 1 in 400 to 1 in 1000 people¹ and accounting for about 12 ...

BECAUSE of the revolution that overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie, the invasion by Somalia, the adoption of Marxism–Leninism, continuing civil war, and repeated famine in the past 14 years, Ethiopia has frequently been mentioned in Western headlines. ...

TISSUE plasminogen activator (t-PA) is a naturally occurring protein that catalyzes the conversion of the inactive proenzyme plasminogen into the active serine protease plasmin. It is one of two major endogenous mammalian enzymes with this property and is ...

Presentation of Case

A 62-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of increasing peripheral edema.

There was a four-year history of Sjögren's syndrome, with a dry mouth and Raynaud's phenomenon. Two years before entry a test for antinuclear ...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is the most common inherited disorder that leads to renal failure in adults. It is not a subtle ailment. The kidneys enlarge, often massively, because of the formation of innumerable fluid-filled cysts, which ...

Health care in Ethiopia, as described in this issue by Hodes and Kloos, presents a disturbing case of stagnation during what has probably been the most active decade of this century in international health.¹ The 1978 Alma Ata conference sponsored by the ...

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To the Editor: In May, the National Cancer Institute took the unprecedented step of providing practicing oncologists with unpublished data on adjuvant systemic treatment of patients with breast cancer.¹ The purpose of the communication was apparently to ...

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To the Editor: The fertility rate among female patients with the salt-losing form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia was reviewed by Mulaikal et al. (Jan. 22, 1987, issue).¹ Only one patient with salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia was found to ...

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To the Editor: Many procedures performed in children use predictive formulas to enhance technical efficacy. To increase the accuracy with which lumbar puncture is performed and to minimize the rate of traumatic puncture, we conducted a 12-month ...

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To the Editor: Schwartz et al. (April 7 issue)¹ use past trends to project physician requirements in 2000. Amid complex changes in medical care organization and financing, other ways of addressing the future, such as the exploration of alternative ...

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This is an innovative addition to the outstanding surgical books available in this area of clinical care. As outlined in the preface, the approach differs from that of the other standard textbooks. There are nine sections — one on the body as a whole and ...

This is the second edition of a book first published in 1981; at the same time, it is also the seventh edition of Ferguson's Surgery of the Ambulatory Patient, first published 46 years ago (fifth edition, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1974). That ...

This book presents the care of the injured in a single volume divided into two general segments. The first 40 percent of the book addresses the organization of trauma care, general concepts of emergency room care, diagnosis, shock, post-injury sepsis, ...

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Abdominal herniorrhaphy is often scoffed at by chief residents as a surgical operation best relegated to the junior resident or intern. The experienced surgeon, however, appreciates the technical intricacies of herniorrhaphy, which test the mettle of even ...

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These guidelines are in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals." (The complete document is available in the June 12, 1982, issue of the British Medical Journal and the June 1982 issue of the Annals of ...