| [plasmapheresis in series in pregnant women severely sensitized to rh factor]. | | 1999 | 96495 |
| sub-specificities of hepatitis bs antigen. | a preliminary survey of hbsag subtypes shows that ayw is the most common subtype in pakistan. adw. was detected in one blood donor and ayr in a baluchi female with acute viral hepatitis. | 1999 | 96287 |
| [infections of the airways--when are antibiotics indicated?]. | | 2000 | 2193309 |
| antigen recognition in the gastrointestinal tract: death to the dogma. | | 2000 | 1955758 |
| workshop report from the division of research grants, national institutes of health. molecular genetic approaches to the analysis of malignant transformation--a pathology b study section workshop. | | 2000 | 1692768 |
| [summary of air pollutant levels at the three locations of the national autoexhaust monitoring station in tokyo from january to december 1977 (author's transl)]. | | 2000 | 86369 |
| effects of blood glucose concentration on thermogenesis and glucose disposal during hyperinsulinaemia. | 1. the thermogenic and cardiovascular responses to glucose ingestion or infusion are altered by undernutrition. these changes may be due, in part, to alterations in the blood glucose concentration. this study investigates the effect of variation in the blood glucose concentration on the thermogenic and cardiovascular responses to a hyperinsulinaemic glucose clamp. 2. ten healthy post-absorptive subjects (six male, aged 21-30 years) were studied on two occasions. baseline measurements were made f ... | 2000 | 2169378 |
| [prevalence study on dementia and alzheimer disease]. | an epidemiological survey on dementia and alzheimer disease (ad) was carried out in a community of 5055 persons over the age of 55 at jingan district of shanghai. diagnoses were made according to the diagnostic criteria of dementia of dsm-iii-r and of ad of nincds-adrda. it was found that dementia is not uncommon in the aged, and ad was the leading category of dementia. the age and sex adjusted prevalence rate of dementia was 2.57% in those over 55, 3.46% in those over 60, and 4.61% in those ove ... | 2000 | 2174278 |
| correlation of light and scanning electron microscopy a new method for exfoliative cytology. | a method for preparing locator slides for light and scanning electron microscopy has been developed. these slides make possible correlation of light and scanning electron microscopy of individual cells. some examples of the value of this method are given. | 2001 | 58516 |
| staining and destaining polyacrylamide gels: a comparison of coomassie blue and fast green protein dyes. | | 2001 | 58568 |
| [the postnatal ontogeny of gonadal endocrine function in the water vole arvicola terrestris with differing coat colors]. | | 2001 | 2193473 |
| dynamic computed tomography and functional imaging in cerebral arterial occlusive disease: analysis in the chronic phase. | dynamic ct was conducted on 10 patients with internal carotid artery (ica) or middle cerebral artery (mca) occlusion or stenosis and 14 controls. all the patients were chronic phase and they only presented small infarctions on ct. those with ica or mca occlusions and insufficient collateral circulations showed delayed mean transit time and peak time of the affected side on functional image and in parameter analysis (p less than 0.01) compared with those of controls. a statistically significant p ... | 2001 | 1950468 |
| [radioautographic analysis of retinofugal projections in the primitive bony fish polypterus senegalus c]. | retinofugal pathways of polypterus senegalus c. have been examined by means of the radioautographic method. contralaterally the retina projects to the hypothalamus, thalamus, pretectum and tectum. an important ipsilateral component has been observed. no retinal projection to the mesencephalic tegmentum has been identified. comparing the primary optic system of polypterus with that of other body fish, indicates that this species possesses a combination of characteristics which are both actinopter ... | 2001 | 95000 |
| [school attendance and developmental pathology in children]. | | 2001 | 94988 |
| the time course of effects of cadmium and 3-methylcholanthrene on activities of enzymes of xenobiotic metabolism and metallothionein levels in the plaice, pleuronectes platessa. | plaice were treated with an acute dose of a polyaromatic hydrocarbon (3-methylcholanthrene, 3-mc) or cadmium, or 3-mc and cadmium by i.p. injection. the effects on hepatic detoxication systems, cytochrome p-450 (ethoxyresorufin o-deethylase, erod), udp-glucuronyl transferase, glutathione s-transferase, glutathione peroxidase activities, total glutathione (gsh), metallothionein and cd and zn in the cytosol were studied over a 14 day period. 3-mc increased erod (7-18-fold), glucuronyl transferase ... | 2002 | 2869905 |
| [suitable dwellings also for the disabled (author's transl)]. | (1) the construction and adaptation of dwelling which are supposed to provide a permanent focal point in the lives of the disabled are approved in purely residential areas. (2) von den verschiedenen möglichkeiten trägerschaftlicher zuordnung einer wohnstätte für behinderte erscheint der eingetragene verein als die geeignetste rechtsform. (3) wohnstätten mit mindestens sechs behinderten unterliegen den bestimmungen des heimgesetzes (heimvertrag, mitwirkung). (4) wünschenswert wäre es, dass die bu ... | 2002 | 134435 |
| [working conditions of technical engineering workers in factory management and shop work]. | | 2002 | 133048 |
| [psychiatry in transition]. | | 2002 | 3616324 |
| president's message. | | 2002 | 1084193 |
| [thallium poisonings]. | | 2002 | 117317 |
| accessory valve cusp as a cause of outflow tract obstruction in atrio-ventricular and ventriculo-arterial discordance. | congenital corrected transposition of the great arteries in which there is both an atrio-ventricular and a ventriculo-arterial discordance has surgical significance only in consequence of the associated cardiac anomalies. their surgical correction is subject to multifarious problems. an exceedingly rare cause of a left-ventricular outflow tract obstruction erroneously interpreted preoperatively in an eight-year-old boy is reported. in an l-transposition with inversion of both ventricles, the dia ... | 2002 | 3376088 |
| [editorial: weak back--a widespread disease]. | | 2002 | 127987 |
| [triple endoscopy in bronchial carcinoma]. | | 2002 | 124310 |
| heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. | | 2002 | 1867675 |
| trend analysis of jaw jerk action potential-amplitude data. | the amplitude of the jaw jerk action potential (msp) is a parameter with potential diagnostic value. it has apparently a large and irregular variation which has not yet been subjected to a thorough analysis. it is important to know if samples of msp contain trends. the occurrence of trends indicates that the average value is influenced in a principally different way by changes in the number of observations per sample than if trends do not occur. if, for instance, there is a positive linear trend ... | 2002 | 155078 |
| [myocardiopathia gravidarum]. | 8 cases of the clinical syndrom known as cardiomyopathy of pregnancy have been presented. in 6 of them cardiac insufficiency during the last weeks of pregnancy was the prevailing symptomatology. in 2 the characteristic symptoms consisted of severe arrythmia at the beginning of the puerperium. common symptoms were cardiomegaly and characteristic changes in the electrocardiogram. in all patients the disease subsided entirely some weeks after delivery. | 2002 | 136157 |
| effect of activated lymphocytes on the regulation of hematopoiesis: enhancement and suppression of in vitro bfu-e growth by t cells stimulated by autologous non-t cells. | autologous mixed lymphocyte culture (amlr) is an immunologic response with memory and specificity and plays a role in immune regulation. effects of t cells activated by amlr were studied in the regulation of in vitro erythropoiesis. amlr-activated t cells were cocultured with autologous non-t, nonphagocytic peripheral blood mononuclear cells for assaying erythroid progenitor cells (bfu-e). t cells activated for 3 days in amlr showed significant enhancement of in vitro colony growth by bfu-e. in ... | 2002 | 2869804 |
| thoraco-abdominal injuries in combat casualties on the cambodian border. | this article deals with the experience in the management of combined thoraric and abdominal injuries caused by combat casualties, and is based on experience gained in the international committee of the red cross (icrc) hospital in khao-i-dang, thailand. during a 3 month period a total of 123 patients injured by various battle conditions at the thailand-cambodian border were admitted to the icrc hospital. the thorax was involved in 31 patients, but only 8 of these had a combination of thoracic an ... | 2002 | 3376087 |
| federation dentaire internationale. | | 2003 | 275429 |
| [radioprotective effects of ym-08310 on normal and malignant tissues (author's transl)]. | | 2003 | 213767 |
| [guidelines for the recognition, prevention and control of hospital infections]. | | 2003 | 187868 |
| collection of hordeum spontaneum c. koch emend. bacht. from southwest asia studied in the neighborhood of moscow. | wild barley hordeum spontaneum c. emend. is of interest from several aspects (bakhteev, 1974). it is not only a very near relative of cultivated barley h. sativum jessen, but also a potentially very promising donor for use in hybridization. with these facts in mind and, in particular, recalling n. i. vavilov's remarks [on the occasion of publication of r. e. regel's article "on the origin of cultivated barleys" (1917)], appropriate investigations were started. in the present case 77 specimens of ... | 2003 | 162039 |
| [roentgenologic study of diffuse scleroderma (author's transl)]. | | 2003 | 162139 |
| huntington's disease. cerebrospinal fluid gaba levels in at-risk individuals. | gamma-aminobutyric acid (gaba) was measured by the ion-exchange fluorometric method in csf from 22 individuals at risk for huntington's disease (hd), six individuals with hd, and five neurologically normal controls. the mean (+/- sd) gaba level in the specimens from patients with hd was 142 +/- 27 pmoles/ml, whereas that of the normal control specimens was 297 +/- 87 pmoles/ml. the mean gaba level of the specimens from the individuals at risk for hd was 209 +/- 79 pmoles/ml; however, nine of the ... | 2003 | 152621 |
| [evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of paradentosis therapy (author's transl)]. | the x2 test of goodness of fit was used to assess the correlation between empirically determined distributions of a number of characteristics used in parodontology and the model of normal distribution. there was found a more or less pronounced asymmetry in the statistical distributions of some clinical and biochemical tests. it is recommended to use 10g x or square root of x in order to achieve approximation to the normal distribution. inaccuracies in interpretation of clinical data due to negle ... | 2003 | 152529 |
| [u. m. mirakhmedov]. | | 2003 | 152029 |
| [electroneuromyography and condition of the neuromuscular spindles in collagenoses]. | | 2003 | 153588 |
| [50th anniversary of the unveiling of the wilhelm-konrad-röntgen memorial in leningrad]. | | 2003 | 149334 |
| effects of inappropriate laws in developing countries--an illustrative case. | laws in developing countries are frequently archaic and unrevised. this is particularly true of those laws governing abortion, sterilization, and suicides. even those laws controlling new and/or harmful drugs are lacking, inappropriate, or irrelevant to patterns of living, socioeconomic, political and environmental constraints, and the realities of communities which they purport to serve. the traditional practices of the indigenous peoples are frequently out of step with the changes taking place ... | 2004 | 515334 |
| haemostatic variables associated with diabetes and its complications. | to study the possible role of an "increased thrombotic tendency" in the vascular complications of diabetes several tests of haemostatic function were carried out on 91 men and 63 women with diabetes aged 35-54 years and the results compared with findings in 686 men and 393 women of the same age in the northwick park heart study. mean values for factors vii and x, fibrinogen, and platelet adhesiveness were higher in the diabetics, but mean fibrinolytic activity and whole blood platelet counts wer ... | 2004 | 509177 |
| hamartoma (mesenchymoma) of the chest wall in infancy. | chest wall hamartoma, commonly known as mesenchymoma, is very rare in infants and usually present at birth. this lesion is a focal overgrowth of normal skeletal elements, histologically, it is benign. the radiographic appearance is that of a partially mineralized extrapleural mass involving one or more ribs. surgical ablation seems to be the proper treatment and is curative. nine cases of this condition are presented, including long-term follow-up in 4. | 2004 | 441372 |
| necrotising enterocolitis. | | 2004 | 2870107 |
| recovery of functional dna inserts by electroendosmotic elution during gel electrophoresis. | in contrast to all previous preparative electrophoresis apparatus which used a pump, electroendosmotic elution uses bound electrical charges at the end of the separating gel to generate a buffer flow. the electroendosmotic flow increased with increasing currents and decreasing buffer concentrations: its exact characteristics for the built apparatus were determined. the electroendosmotic device was able to separate two dna fragments differing in size by only 5% with a recovery over 95%. as demons ... | 2004 | 2833722 |
| direct evidence for a stimulatory effect of hyperglycemia per se on peripheral glucose disposal in type ii diabetes. | the effect of hyperglycemia per se on glucose uptake by muscle tissue was quantitated in six controls and six type ii diabetics by the forearm technique, under conditions of insulin deficiency induced by somatostatin (srif) infusion (0.7 mg/h). blood glucose concentration was clamped at its basal value during the first 60 min of srif infusion and then raised to approximately 200 mg/dl by a variable glucose infusion. plasma insulin levels remained at or below 5 microu/ml during srif infusion, inc ... | 2004 | 2870077 |
| stromal expression of 72 kda type iv collagenase (mmp-2) and timp-2 mrnas in colorectal neoplasia. | we undertook an in situ hybridization study to localize the mrnas for the 72 kda type iv collagenase (mmp-2) and its specific inhibitor (timp-2) in 12 colorectal carcinomas, 3 adenomas, and 4 uninvolved resection margins to see how their distributions correlated with that of the reported distribution of mmp-2 protein. labeling for mmp-2 and timp-2 mrnas was detectable in 10 of 12 carcinomas and in 2 of 3 adenomas. unexpectedly, we found much stronger signals for mmp-2 and timp-2 mrnas within the ... | 2005 | 1323219 |
| [the experience of using therapeutic and diagnostic manipulations under ultrasonic control for the purposes of medical flight expertise]. | the paper deals with an experience in application of diagnostics and treatment of 28 pilots with the use of medical manipulations under ultrasound control. the procedure of the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal space organs is covered in detail; an effectiveness of such type of surgery is shown. a wide use of these invasive methods of diagnostics and treatment for the purpose of aeromedical certification is recommended. | 2005 | 1307045 |
| a study of growth pattern in indian childhood cirrhosis. | | 2005 | 1278936 |
| use sensitivity in providing drug literature. | | 2005 | 1615841 |
| use sensitivity in providing drug literature. | | 2005 | 1615841 |
| [anterior choroidal artery syndromes]. | three cases of anterior choroidal artery territorial infarction, diagnosed by computerized tomography, with the triad of hemiplegia, hemianaesthesia and hemianopia, pure motor stroke and ataxic hemiparesis are described. major and minor (lacular) infarctions in the territory of the anterior choroidal artery involve almost exclusively the basal segment of the posterior limb of the internal capsule and manifest themselves by symptoms of long pathway lesion. based on the published case reports and ... | 2005 | 1809518 |
| distribution of aflatoxin b1 in tissues of mink (mustela vison). | seven female mink (mustela vison) were injected intraperitoneally with a single dose of 100 mug aflatoxin b1 (14 c-label and unabeled). they were sacrificed 1, 2, 4, and 24 h after dosing. liver, instestines, stomach, lung, kidney, brain, pancrease, spleen, urinary bladder, uterus, and bile were removed and examined for the retained radioactivity. 1 h after dosing, intestines and their contents retained the largest amount of 14c-radioacivity (18.9% of the amount that was administered) which was ... | 2005 | 1265773 |
| [editorial: leg pain: new aspects of the problem of ischialgia (author's transl)]. | | 2005 | 1236698 |
| letter: other questions for house-staff applicants. | | 2005 | 1196350 |
| neurological disorders in aids: a study of 18 cases. | neurological disorders were studied in 18 patients diagnosed to have aids and their findings are analysed. amongst the problems seen were toxoplasmosis (9), cryptococcal meningitis (5), tuberculous meningitis (1), aids dementia complex (3), peripheral neuropathy (2), vertebrobasilar stroke, and a possible aids myelopathy in one case each. their findings are discussed, and literature on the neurological disorders in aids reviewed. | 2005 | 2517434 |
| subclinical neuropathy in lead workers. | evidence is presented for a minimal defect of peripheral nerve function in a group of lead accumulator workers without clinical evidence of a neurological lesion. of the 19 men examined, 13 had blood levels above 80 mug./100 ml. and seven had haemoglobin levels below 12 g./100 ml., showing that considerable exposure to lead was occurring. | 2005 | 4315996 |
| anaerobes at work. | | 2005 | 1366625 |
| [developments in the care for patients with cancer]. | | 2005 | 1370732 |
| [new trends in maternal and child health]. | | 2005 | 549247 |
| influence of preoperative left ventricular function on results of homograft replacement of the aortic valve for aortic regurgitation. | the effect of preoperative left ventricular function on eraly and late prognosis was assessed in 69 patients with aortic regurgitation who underwent homograft replacement of the aortic valve. patients were divided into two groups: group a (38 patients) had an ejection fraction of 0.46 or more and group b (31 patients) had an ejection fraction of 0.45 or less. clinical data, hemodynamic data, and operative results were compared in the two groups. in group a there was one early death (2.6%) and th ... | 2005 | 556399 |
| [possibilities and effects of breast reconstruction after breast cancer. experiences at the institute goustave-roussy]. | | 2005 | 547841 |
| [technic of the peroperative use of doppler in neurosurgery]. | intraoperative doppler exploration during neurosurgery was used during treatment of intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (avm) and cerebral revascularization by extra-intra cranial anastomosis (eica). it was also employed to study behavior of cortical arteries under different conditions. during treatment of aneurysms, doppler can show, prior to clipping, whether blood flow through. the flow is regular--spasm of supply artery provokes acceleration of blood rate. after clipping it i ... | 2005 | 3294324 |
| [hepatologic dispensaire for blood donors]. | by means of hepatological examinations of 119 blood donors who became conspicuous by liver screenings in 57 cases we could prove an adipose degeneration without, in 16 cases a fatty degeneration of the liver without, in 9 cases an adipose degeneration with and in 15 cases a fatty degeneration of the liver with mesenchymal reaction. only 9 blood donors had normal liver findings. 90% of the punctured blood donors had an overweight up to a maximum of 35 kg in comparison to the ideal weight. 30% of ... | 2005 | 538987 |
| if reliance on epidemiology were to become epidemic, we would need to assess its social validity. | | 2006 | 1890043 |
| if reliance on epidemiology were to become epidemic, we would need to assess its social validity. | | 2006 | 1890043 |
| effects of stimulus level on forward-masked psychophysical tuning curves in quiet and in noise. | forward-masked psychophysical tuning curves were obtained from normal-hearing listeners at different probe levels in quiet and in a broadband background noise. in quiet, tuning-curve shape changed with probe level. for six listeners, tuning curves became broader with increasing probe level, primarily due to a decrease in the low-frequency slopes. for one listener, tuning curves became narrower with increasing probe level. the addition of a background noise, which was presented continuously at a ... | 2006 | 2269730 |
| results of meniscal repair and partial meniscectomy in stable knees. | in a study using matched pairs of 50 patients, meniscal repair was compared with partial meniscectomy in knees without major ligament injuries. there was a failure rate of 24% after meniscal repair in a follow up from 6 to 9 years after operation. a further meniscectomy was needed in 16% of those who had had a partial meniscectomy. function was better after meniscal repair, but the compliance rate was lower because of the prolonged rehabilitation. repair led to less osteoarthritis than menisecto ... | 2006 | 1809716 |
| [intrapericardial lipoma with stenosis of the left bronchus and pulmonary artery]. | in a 1-year-6 month-old girl with asthma, a chest magnetic resonance imaging revealed an intrapericardial lipoma at the site of the transverse sinus behind the great arteries. the tumor compressed the left bronchus and pulmonary artery resulting in the stenosis. under cardiopulmonary bypass, the tumor was successfully removed. the stenosis of the left bronchus and pulmonary artery were released. | 2006 | 1593168 |
| endobronchial rupture from endotracheal reintubation with an endotracheal tube guide. | endotracheal tube guides are often used to facilitate endotracheal tube exchange in patients whose airways are difficult to intubate. the absence of reported complications with this technique suggests it is a safe technique; however, we report a case of endobronchial rupture associated with such a guide. diagnosis and management of tracheobronchial tears and alternative approaches to difficult reintubation are described. | 2006 | 2627389 |
| effects of propofol on cerebral hemodynamics and metabolism in patients with brain trauma. | the authors determined the effect of propofol on cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure, and cerebral arteriovenous oxygen content difference in severely brain-injured patients during orthopedic treatment of fractures of the extremities. the glasgow coma scale score was 6 or 7 at the time of the study. data were collected in the operating room before and during (5 and 15 min) administration of propofol (2 mg/kg iv bolus immediately followed by a 150 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 infusion) before sur ... | 2006 | 2118315 |
| in memoriam: peter mitchell, 1920-1992. | | 2006 | 1474903 |
| [a case of turner's syndrome with ulcerative colitis]. | | 2006 | 2600511 |
| the correlation of middle ear aeration with mastoid pneumatization. the mastoid as a pressure buffer. | atelectatic ears, which by definition are poorly aerated, are also usually associated with poor mastoid pneumatization. on the other hand, otosclerotic patients, whose middle ears are usually exceptionally well aerated, also have excellent mastoid pneumatization. three unusual cases are presented, in which partial atelectasis developed in stapedectomized patients. in each case the mastoid was later found to be nonpneumatized, and further analysis revealed that their stapes fixation had in effect ... | 2006 | 1418937 |
| acute improvement of cardiac function with intravenous l-propionylcarnitine in humans. | as the myocardial carnitine content, a key control factor in myocardial oxidative metabolism and energy transfer, is reduced in heart failure, administration of l-propionylcarnitine (lpc), a potent analogue of l-carnitine, potentially may improve cardiac function, possibly through a positive inotropic effect. as its hemodynamic profile is unknown in humans, 32 fasting normotensive patients with coronary artery disease received either 15 mg/kg of lpc (n = 16) or vehicle (mannitol/acetate, n = 16) ... | 2006 | 1383625 |
| higher formant normalization results from auditory integration of f2 and f3. | two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that higher formant normalization results from the auditory integration of f2 and f3 when they are within 3 bark of each other. in the first experiment, formants 3-5 were manipulated in both a "hid"-"head" continuum (in which f2 and f3 are within 3 bark of each other) and a "hood"-"hud" continuum (in which f2 and f3 are not within 3 bark of each other). it was found that there was a shift in identification consistent with the higher formant n ... | 2006 | 2762105 |
| herniation of rae tube through split boyle davis gag. | | 2007 | 2268034 |
| herniation of rae tube through split boyle davis gag. | | 2007 | 2268034 |
| [a case of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia surgically treated based on electrophysiological diagnosis]. | there was presented a case of recurrent ventricular tachycardia in the patient after myocardial infarction. considering uneffective pharmacotherapy and several cardiac arrests, the patient underwent guided endo-cardiotomy based on complex electrophysiological diagnostics (including intraoperative examination). postoperative period was uncomplicated. there were no recurrences of ventricular tachycardia during 18-month follow-up. | 2007 | 2082073 |
| cough threshold to citric acid in diabetic patients with and without autonomic neuropathy. | the cough reflex has been investigated in insulin dependent diabetic patients with and without autonomic neuropathy. the cough response to inhaled citric acid was determined in eight patients with diabetes who had severe autonomic neuropathy and compared with that in 10 who had no evidence of neuropathy. the patients with autonomic neuropathy had a higher median threshold for the cough response to citric acid (median 50%, range 20- greater than 100%) than non-neuropathic control patients (median ... | 2007 | 3212754 |
| cough threshold to citric acid in diabetic patients with and without autonomic neuropathy. | the cough reflex has been investigated in insulin dependent diabetic patients with and without autonomic neuropathy. the cough response to inhaled citric acid was determined in eight patients with diabetes who had severe autonomic neuropathy and compared with that in 10 who had no evidence of neuropathy. the patients with autonomic neuropathy had a higher median threshold for the cough response to citric acid (median 50%, range 20- greater than 100%) than non-neuropathic control patients (median ... | 2007 | 3212754 |
| white cell counting in red cells and platelets: how few can we count? | | 2007 | 2360229 |
| chorionic villus sampling for prenatal diagnosis in wales using dna probes--5 years' experience. | chorionic villi were sampled from 125 women who requested prenatal diagnosis, either for genetic disorder or because of advanced maternal age. of these, 105 samples were obtained by the transcervical route and 20 were obtained by the transabdominal approach. the sampling success rate was 97 per cent (122/125). the mean maternal age of the patients was 31 years (range 17-44) and the mean gestational age at which the chorionic villus sampling was performed was 10 weeks (range 7-13 weeks). seventy- ... | 2007 | 2267238 |
| special issue on behavioral pharmacology. | | 2007 | 1955809 |
| [intubation of cadavers in medical training]. | | 2007 | 1948930 |
| raising health care capital through the public equity markets. | | 2007 | 1949002 |
| echocardiographic determination of aortic and pulmonary valve areas in subjects with normal hearts. | two-dimensional and doppler echocardiography were performed in 70 subjects (aged 1 day to 16 years, body surface area from 0.08 to 2.1 m2) to determine aortic and pulmonary valve areas in normal children and adolescents. valve areas were determined by the continuity equation using echo-determined ventricular outflow tract diameters and doppler-determined flow velocities from the outflow tracts and corresponding great arteries. left ventricular outflow tract diameter ranged from 0.3 to 2.2 cm and ... | 2007 | 1892085 |
| reliability of prognostic models in malignant melanoma. a 10-year follow-up study. | certain histologic and clinical features of malignant melanoma have been shown to be indicators of prognosis, both collectively and individually. even though the predictive value of these features is well established, long-term survival is occasionally seen in individuals with multiple poor prognostic factors. to further examine this phenomenon, histologic sections from 53 patients with malignant melanoma excised between the years 1977 and 1980 in whom reliable clinical follow-up data were obtai ... | 2007 | 1951981 |
| from the centers for disease control. eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome--new mexico. | | 2007 | 2810660 |
| class i and class ii major histocompatibility complex antigens on hepatocytes: importance of the method of detection and expression in histologically normal and diseased livers. | methodological differences in major histocompatibility complex (mhc) antigen detection were investigated on isolated, viable hepatocytes and cryostat hepatic sections from 27 children with liver disorders, six of whom had normal histology. class i antigens were constantly found on sections using a three step immunoperoxidase technique after acetone/chloroform fixation, other techniques being less sensitive, or on isolated hepatocytes by indirect immunofluorescence alone. with mechanical isolatio ... | 2007 | 1864983 |
| comparison of within-group variabilities across older and younger adults: a meta-analysis. | the hypothesis that individual differences in performance scores increase with increasing adult age was reviewed. a meta-analysis of memory articles appearing in the journal of gerontology from 1985 to 1990 was conducted to examine potential age differences in within-group variabilities. there was no strong evidence in the data reported here that overall younger adults are consistently more alike in their memory abilities than are older adults. this result was obtained whether the younger group ... | 2007 | 1838980 |
| [instruction in self care by patients with chronic respiratory failure]. | | 2007 | 2630706 |
| new advances in anesthesia. | pharmacologic advances in anesthesia over the last decade have focused on drug safety, shorter durations of action, reversibility, and ease of administration. this is reflective of major changes in the focus of patient care from inpatient to outpatient settings as well as from available risk management data that support the investigation of these new drugs. the pharmacologic advances discussed included those drugs in current practice as well as experimental drugs yet to be released for general c ... | 2007 | 2047291 |
| the effects of race on norepinephrine clearance. | eighteen normotensive and 19 unmedicated hypertensive black and white male subjects were studied twice, during a 10 meq sodium diet for 5 days and a 200 meq sodium diet for 4 days. the subjects received an infusion of 3h-norepinephrine (3h-ne) during both low and high sodium diets to measure ne clearance. dietary sodium and blood pressure classification had no effect on 3h-ne clearance. infusion of pressor doses of ne also failed to alter 3h-ne clearance. both normotensive and hypertensive black ... | 2007 | 1865747 |
| [patient's autonomy--it can be supported]. | | 2007 | 1797178 |
| percutaneous transjugular portosystemic shunt. | --to determine the effectiveness of the palmaz balloon expandable stent for the creation of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. the device is designed to achieve portal decompression in patients with variceal hemorrhage secondary to portal hypertension. | 2007 | 1829120 |
| peptide-nucleic acid interactions: possible recognition determinants of eco ri endonuclease. | | 2008 | 2986169 |
| peptide-nucleic acid interactions: possible recognition determinants of eco ri endonuclease. | | 2008 | 2986169 |
| what every diabetes educator needs to know about hypoglycemia. | | 2008 | 2642796 |
| [value of irrigation-suction drainage in the treatment of early infection of joint implants]. | the analysis of follow-up examinations on 77 patients at the endo-klinik who were treated with suction irrigation drainage for acute postoperative infection after joint replacement surgery during the last 12 years showed a success rate up to a maximum of 60%. the success of this treatment increased, the earlier and more thoroughly it was performed. only when the suction irrigation drainage is combined with radical excision of infected soft tissue this operation can save the implant and prolong i ... | 2008 | 2582888 |
| is transpiration an important mechanism for release of 222rn to the atmosphere? | | 2008 | 2584022 |
| [natural feeding, an important factor in reducing the index of infant mortality]. | | 2008 | 2518712 |