ADULTS with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) often have a renal disorder termed "HIV-associated nephropathy," which is characterized clinically by proteinuria and renal failure and ...

PEMPHIGUS is an intraepidermal blistering disease in which there is a loss of adhesion between cells, a process called acantholysis, as a consequence of autoantibodies' binding to the cell surface.¹ It occurs in two distinct forms. In pemphigus foliaceus, ...

AT the time of diagnosis, at least 25 percent of patients with early breast cancer have clinically undetectable metastases. If patients with this status could be identified at the time of diagnosis, one could apply early, intensive chemotherapy to women ...

POSTMENOPAUSAL women and women who have undergone oophorectomy have a higher risk of coronary artery disease than premenopausal women of similar ages.^{1 2 3} Smokers have an early natural menopause.⁴ A recent report suggests that when the confounding ...

THE polymorphonuclear leukocyte (neutrophil) is a critical element in the host response to bacterial and fungal infections. Its microbicidal activity depends to a large extent on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase, which can be ...

THE measurement of geographic variations in rates has recently gained favor as a way to identify the inappropriate use of services. The routine collection of hospital-discharge information has produced large data bases that make it possible to analyze ...

IN a society conscious of its bowels, enduring a fecal impaction and its treatment may be a severe humiliation. Impactions can occur in any age group, but in certain groups — especially incapacitated or institutionalized elderly people — the disorder is ...

Presentation of Case

A 34-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever, diarrhea, persistent jaundice, and a worsening gait disturbance.

The patient was apparently well until four months earlier, when abdominal pain developed and he was ...

AN unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for treating patients who have hypercholesterolemia has followed the publication of the findings of the Lipid Research Clinics trial and the Helsinki Heart Study.^{1 , 2} These studies have demonstrated that therapy with ...

IN the past few years, physicians, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry have directed much attention to lowering the level of blood cholesterol to treat or prevent coronary heart disease. This awareness of hypercholesterolemia as a medical problem ...

Anastos — Maximi Bournia Anastos, M.D., of Cambridge, died on July 2. She was 55.

Dr. Anastos received her degree from Faculty of Medicine, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1960. She was a member of the American Psychiatric Association.

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To the Editor: Necrotizing vasculitis of the nerves may occur in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),^{1 , 2} but its pathogenesis remains obscure.³ Despite the isolation of HIV from peripheral-nerve homogenates^{4 5 6} and the rare ...

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I AM a physician who contracted the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) from a young patient while working as a resident at a well-known teaching hospital. Almost three years have passed since the diagnosis — a terrible three years for my wife, my ...

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The sixth edition of Radiation Oncology is now presented with a new format, radically different from that of previous editions. Some of the original features that made this textbook attractive to radiation oncologists have been maintained. Several ...

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Nursing

Clinical Pharmacology and Nursing Management. Third edition. By Roberta Todd Spencer, Lynn Wemett Nichols, Gladys B. Lipkin, Helen M. Sabo, and Frances M. West, with four other contributors. 1314 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, ...

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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 ...