| the use of a pharmacological indicator to investigate compliance in patients with a poor response to antirheumatic therapy. | twenty-six patients with rheumatoid arthritis which was poorly controlled despite high dose d-penicillamine were studied. compliance was assessed by standard methods (return tablet count and interview). in addition low-dose phenobarbitone was included in the penicillamine formulation as a pharmacological indicator of compliance. using these techniques incomplete compliance was apparent in 11 patients (42%). all such patients were identified by the pharmacological marker. only one admitted poor c ... | 2009 | 3179627 |
| the use of a pharmacological indicator to investigate compliance in patients with a poor response to antirheumatic therapy. | twenty-six patients with rheumatoid arthritis which was poorly controlled despite high dose d-penicillamine were studied. compliance was assessed by standard methods (return tablet count and interview). in addition low-dose phenobarbitone was included in the penicillamine formulation as a pharmacological indicator of compliance. using these techniques incomplete compliance was apparent in 11 patients (42%). all such patients were identified by the pharmacological marker. only one admitted poor c ... | 2009 | 3179627 |
| [contribution of phlebography in the surgical treatment of chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities]. | in which circumstances does a surgeon request phlebograms and which ones? what is the contribution of phlebography regarding therapeutic indications and surgical technique. | 2011 | 3043471 |
| radiographic anatomy of the calcaneus. part iii: superior surface. | | 2012 | 3430354 |
| [long-term problems in hemodialysis]. | | 2015 | 4347355 |
| twenty-six year old woman with premature ventricular contractions and diagnostic auscultatory and echocardiographic findings. | | 1989 | 267325 |
| variant angina pectoris. clinical presentations, coronary angiographic patterns, and the results of medical and surgical management in 42 consecutive patients. | | 2000 | 95923 |
| [cardiovascular disorder syndrome in sepsis]. | the authors have observed 126 patients with sepsis and made a conclusion that all of them had cardio-vascular insufficiency. the use of hyperbaric oxygenation resulted in better activity of the cardio-vascular system. | 2013 | 3798658 |
| clinicopathological conference. | | 2015 | 4295884 |
| focal dermal hypoplasia syndrome (goltz syndrome): the first dental case report. | | 2012 | 3466146 |
| alpha fetoprotein levels in amniotic fluid and maternal serum and their use in screening in pregnancy. | during the period january 1975--july 1977 alpha fetoprotein was measured in 263 amniotic fluid samples and 44 maternal serum samples taken in the second trimester of pregnancy. the importance of careful interpretation of results is discussed. | 1999 | 85285 |
| [torsion of the colonic epiploic appendages]. | operations were carried out on 21 patients with torsion of epiploic appendages of the colon (sigmoid 19, ascending 1, hepatic flexure 1). this pathologic condition has no specific manifestations and occurs under the mask of other emergencies. the suggested symptom of "pain displacement" in combination with other signs allowed the correct diagnosis to be established before the operation in two thirds of patients. patients with torsion of epiploic appendages must be subjected to an emergency opera ... | 2006 | 1388218 |
| magnetic resonance imaging in infants exposed to cocaine prenatally: a preliminary report. | | 2007 | 1914354 |
| reduction of ferricytochrome c, methemoglobin and metmyoglobin by hydroxyl and alcohol radicals. | we have studied the reaction of ferricytochrome c, methemoglobin and metmyoglobin with oh and alcohol radicals (methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol and glycerol). these radicals can be divided into three groups: 1. the oh radicals which reduce the ferricytochrome c with a yield of (30 +/- 10)% and methemoglobin with a yield of (40 +/- 10)%. they do not reduce metmyoglobin. the reduction is not a normal bimolecular reaction but is most probably an intramolecular electron transfer of a protein radi ... | 1978 | 222335 |
| double phakomatosis. | in the phakomatoses--von recklinghausen's disease, the sturge-weber syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, and von hippel-lindau disease--pathologic changes in the eye are often evident. most cases are described as a single entity. the following is a case report of concomitant sturge-weber syndrome and von recklinghausen's disease in which both conditions involved the eye. | 1998 | 105694 |
| clinical evaluation of warthin's tumor. an analysis of 43 cases. | forty-three patients with warthin's tumor (26 males and 17 females) were analyzed and the following results were obtained: all tumors were related to the parotid gland with no bilateral involvements. the ages of the patients were 20-84 years old and the average age was about 62. the interval between tumor recognition and first examination was 1 week to 16 years with the average interval of 20-22 months. the method of treatment was complete enucleation. however, radiation therapy was also done in ... | 1998 | 107138 |
| how the nurse copes with grief. care of the child with cancer. | | 1998 | 107941 |
| radiology in nicaragua: lessons from a radiologic paramedic training effort. | the authors, during repeated visits and a sabbatical period, participated in the initiation of a program to train radiologic technologists in nicaragua. the training program, its objectives, and the level of development of nicaraguan radiology in 1977-1978 are described. the results achieved and problems encountered are discussed. although the training was effective, all of the goals could not be accomplished because of political unrest. nevertheless, lessions were learned and conclusions reache ... | 1999 | 116511 |
| diagnostic value of rectal mucosal acetylcholinesterase levels in hirschsprung's disease. | acetylcholinesterase (ache) activity was measured in rectal biopsy specimens obtained from 68 children aged between 2 days and 14 1/2 years in whom hirschsprung's disease was suspected. the diagnosis was subsequently established in 12; in these, the mean ache activity was found to be 30.5 x 10(-7) units/g tissue (range 16.9 to 63.0). the 56 non-hirschsprung cases had a mean of 5.0 x 10(-7) units/g tissue (s.d. 2.2), the highest value in this group being 10.9. the results were unaffected by age, ... | 1999 | 85002 |
| does driving cause cancer and diabetes? | | 1999 | 88661 |
| [kw-1062 treatment of respiratory tract infections (author's transl)]. | | 2000 | 101622 |
| [problems of electrocardiographic and vectorcardigoraphic diagnosis in postero-basal myocardial infarct and in right branch block]. | | 2000 | 97684 |
| studies on papanicolaou staining. i. visible-light spectra of stained cervical cells. | this paper presents visible-light absorbance spectra of the nuclei and cytoplasms of ten types of cervical cells stained by the papanicolaou technique, together with tables summarizing the data. it is concluded that for automated image processing of papanicolaou smears the most suitable wavelengths are 531 nm to maximize the contrast of cell against background and a wavelength in the range 560 nm to 605 nm (with a mean at 575 nm) to maximize the contrast of the nucleus against the cytoplasm. | 2000 | 94521 |
| acute non-a, non-b hepatitis: specific ultrastructural alterations in endoplasmic reticulum of infected hepatocytes. | | 2001 | 87721 |
| a simple method for measuring the frequency response of an electromagnetic flowmeter. | | 2002 | 127898 |
| d-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase from wheat germ-1. | | 2003 | 165385 |
| [prevention of recurring adhesions after tuboplasty. ii. importance of grafts with free pezitoneum (author's transl)]. | we have greatly improved in prevention of adhesions after tuboplasty, using peritoneal grafts on crude surfaces (28 cases off 92 tuboplasties). first results seem to confirm the interest of this method. | 2003 | 161984 |
| an interview with robert l. clyman. the role of the pedodontist. | | 2003 | 154075 |
| experimental feeding of dde and pcb to female big brown bats (eptesicus fuscus). | twenty-two female big brown bats (eptesicus fuscus) were collected in a house attic in montgomery county, maryland. seventeen were fed mealworms (tenebrio molitor larvae) that contained 166 ppm dde; the other five were fed uncontaminated mealworms. after 54 days of feeding, six dosed bats were frozen and the remaining 16 were starved to death. in a second experiment, 21 female big brown bats were collected in a house attic in prince georges county, maryland. sixteen were fed mealworms that conta ... | 2004 | 404435 |
| what is a biological? | | 2005 | 1888493 |
| experimental evidence of ischemic thresholds and functional recovery. | impaired blood flow below certain critical levels and an insufficient supply of energy-rich substrates cause failure of neuronal function, triggering biochemical disturbances that eventually lead to ischemic cell damage. | 2005 | 1440719 |
| s-100 immunoreactivity identifies a subset of hair cells in the utricle and saccule of a fish. | certain hair cells of fish exhibit strong immunoreactivity to an s-100 antibody. by their spatial locations in the utricle and saccule, these hair cells appear to possess a relatively short kinocilium and a roughly ovoid cell shape. in the utricle, these cells are predominantly located in the striola. in the saccule, these cells are found within the central area of the epithelium. in both of these epithelia the strongly immunoreactive hair cells coincide with the locations of hair cells possessi ... | 2007 | 2228790 |
| alpha-thalassemia: prenatal diagnosis and neonatal implications. | homozygous alpha-thalassemia major, or bart's hemoglobinopathy, is the most common etiology of nonimmune hydrops in those of oriental descent. the prenatal diagnosis can now be made utilizing dna hybridization technique from fetal cells obtained by either amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling. a case is reviewed documenting the utilization of dna studies in managing patients known or suspected to have a history of alpha-thalassemia major. | 2007 | 2222628 |
| early experience with in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer and gamete intrafallopian transfer in a nigerian hospital. | we present our early experience with in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer (ivf-et) and gamete intrafallopian transfer (gift) in a nigerian hospital. twenty-one patients were recruited, 11 patients for the ivf-et program and 10 for the gift program. in the ivf program the oocyte recovery rate was 100%, the fertilization rate was 66% and the cleavage rate was 97% but no live pregnancies were achieved. in contrast, one live delivery was achieved with gift. these results suggest that both ivt-et a ... | 2007 | 1976550 |
| hemodynamic and electrophysiologic effects of amlodipine, a new long-acting calcium antagonist: preliminary observations. | | 2008 | 2530867 |
| hypoglycemia, hormones and cytokines in fatal meningococcal septicemia. | a unique case report with sequential measurements of the plasma concentrations of glucoregulatory hormones, interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor during development of hypoglycemia in fatal meningococcemia is presented. hormonal explanations for hypoglycemia like hyperinsulinemia or defective hypoglycemic counter-regulation were excluded. plasma concentrations of interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor were skyhigh. the putative relation between cytokines and hypoglycemia in sepsis is discusse ... | 2008 | 2292658 |
| studies on the effect of long-term use of low dose aspirin in kawasaki disease. | | 2011 | 3148261 |
| the illusion of catch-up growth in premature infants. use of the growth index and age correction. | growth data of 61 premature infants who were observed for 29 months were analyzed to determine if there is validity to the concept of catch-up growth. weight, length, and head circumference were recorded at each visit. for each measurement, a growth index was calculated to facilitate comparison of infants of different ages and sexes. the age of a child at each visit was also corrected for prematurity by subtracting the number of weeks premature from the postnatal chronological age to generate a ... | 2012 | 3578164 |
| [clinical study of cefmenoxime in thoracic surgery. transfer of cefmenoxime to lung tissue and pleural fluid and prophylaxis of postoperative infections]. | twenty-six patients who underwent pulmonary resection for the lung disease were administered 1 g of cefmenoxime (cmx) by intravenous drip infusion just before the operation. the cmx levels in the serum, lung tissue and pleural fluid were measured using the agar-well technique. the effect of the drug on the prophylaxis of postoperative infections was investigated. the obtained results are summarized as follows; 1. the peak concentration of cmx in the serum was 58.23 micrograms/ml 1 hour after sta ... | 2012 | 3480362 |
| [analysis of the health and social status of 50 very old patients]. | | 2012 | 3442863 |
| pathological hyperprolactinemia suppresses hot flashes in menopausal women. | hyperprolactinemia impairs pituitary-gonadal function in young women, but its effect in menopausal women is not known. the purpose of this report is to describe the effect of hyperprolactinemia on gonadotropin secretion and hot flashes in menopausal women before and after treatment with a dopamine agonist. we studied two such women with prolactinomas. both had plasma lh and fsh levels in the range found in premenopausal women and no hot flashes. treatment with bromocriptine was associated with n ... | 2012 | 3346363 |
| [somatic effects of radiation]. | | 2012 | 3254662 |
| [prognostication of the outcome of traumatic disease and the optimal therapy at the initial period]. | | 2012 | 3247108 |
| reaction of helenalin with hydrogen chloride. | | 2013 | 4712638 |
| reaction of helenalin with hydrogen chloride. | | 2013 | 4712638 |
| [early prognosis of intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants]. | between july 1979 and june 1984 an intracerebral haemorrhage developed in 87 premature infants (mean gestational age 29.5 weeks, mean birth weight 1156g). 46 of these died, 41 infants survived. their psychomotoric development was followed up to a mean age of 19 months. in 63% of the patients the haemorrhage occurred during the first four days of life. its frequency was highest in premature infants of 27 to 30 weeks of gestation. the survival rate was influenced by the gestational age and by the ... | 2013 | 3748036 |
| [volvulus caused by massive intestinal ascariasis]. | | 2013 | 3986032 |
| staging of malignant lymphoma by laparotomy and splenectomy: review of the literature. | | 2014 | 4624308 |
| interactions of endotoxin with cortisol and acute phase proteins in septic shock neonates. | crp, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein and haptoglobin were studied in 13 septic shock neonates. endotoxin was recovered from eight infants. serum cortisol concentration from infants with endotoxemia (917 +/- 596 ng/ml) was significantly higher than that from infants without endotoxemia (398 +/- 239 ng/ml). serum cortisol correlated well with immature neutrophil counts defined as the unit "band/neutrophil". increased cortisol level and immature neutrophil counts preceded the elevation of crp, alpha 1-ac ... | 2014 | 3953280 |
| what is our responsibility? | | 2015 | 4486929 |
| to prevent accidents, examine the hazards. | | 2015 | 4481042 |
| proceedings: urinary hydroxyproline and leucocyte ascorbic acid levels in patients bearing breast tumour with skeletal metastases. | | 2015 | 4366262 |
| [case of ovarian thecoma]. | | 2015 | 4350562 |
| [studies on the effect of sulfamethoxypyrazine (longum) on carbohydrate metabolism in diabetic patients]. | | 2016 | 4822858 |
| the scoop on sugar. | | 2012 | 3371737 |
| [laryngeal suspension microsurgery]. | | 2005 | 1230948 |
| the moral limits to federal funding for kidney disease. | in the current era of cost-containment, congress may reconsider its support for the end-stage renal disease program. substantial reductions in funding for this program could be made by eliminating non-beneficial, marginally beneficial, and relatively inefficient modes of treatment. these measures, however, will only postpone the inevitable day when clearly beneficial treatment must be withheld. | 2006 | 3294741 |
| possible role of insulin deficiency and growth hormone in severe retinopathy. | | 2010 | 2863521 |
| hypothyroidism and sex chromosomes. | the observation of campbell and price in 1979 that their unit had diagnosed four subjects with both klinefelter's syndrome and congenital hypothyroidism raised the suspicion of an association between the two conditions. this, and the published reports of an xx male, five xxy males, and one mosaic xy/xxy with congenital or acquired forms of hypothyroidism, together with the higher incidence in women and the absence of sex difference among inherited congenital cases, suggested a possible sex chrom ... | 2005 | 3367350 |
| [treatment of breastplate deformities: assessment using ct scanning and functional tests]. | a study to evaluate both the pre- en postoperative functional and morphologic status of major anterior chest wall deformities. four of the eight patients suffered from a progressive reduction in physical capabilities. preoperative pulmonary function tests demonstrated restriction in pulmonary function. in the postoperative period there was progressive return to normal physical strength without objective improvement in pulmonary function. pre- and postoperative thoracometric study by ct scan allo ... | 2007 | 1950309 |
| psychoneurophysiological implications in the pathogenesis and treatment of psoriasis. | | 2008 | 2609893 |
| [value of determining myoglobin and creatine phosphokinase levels in the evaluation of the cardiovascular status in children with acute pneumonia]. | | 2011 | 3205644 |
| preferences, attitudes and personality as determinants of salt intake. | thirty-six female subjects took part in a study involving using pre-weighed table and cooking salt pots, along with complete urine collections for 7 days. urinary sodium excretion was determined, and was used as an estimate of sodium (salt) intake. other measures taken were, most preferred concentration of salt in soup, blood pressure, body weight and height, along with questionnaires on general food preferences, attitudes to adding table salt to foods, and the eysenck personality inventory (epi ... | 2013 | 3771282 |
| children in the extremes of physical and psychological measurements. | | 2014 | 4186946 |
| thyroid carcinoma metastatic to pituitary. | | 2014 | 4032051 |
| [continuous measurement of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production during abdominal aortic surgery]. | | 2014 | 3938818 |
| chronic bronchitis in foundry workers in vojvodina: ventilatory capacity in foundry workers. | | 2015 | 4422404 |
| [uterine metastasis from a colloid epithelioma of the appendix]. | | 2015 | 4350561 |
| the epidermal component of pityriasis lichenoides. | | 2016 | 5057378 |
| vegetables? | | 2016 | 4847369 |
| neurologic manifestations of rheumatic fever. | | 2016 | 4759729 |
| [pruritus therapy in the light of spa methods]. | | 2016 | 4728797 |
| jaundice. clinical pearls and perils revisited. | i recount some clinical "pearls and perils" to help reassess the contributions of abdominal ultrasound, cholangiography, needle biopsy of the liver, and laparoscopy. abdominal ultrasound demonstrates stones in the gallbladder in approximately 98% of cases, but in only 15% in the common bile duct, whereas computerized tomography scan reveals them in greater than or equal to 50%. on cholangiography a blood clot (in hemobilia) may closely resemble a common duct stone, as may spasm or tumor of the d ... | 2003 | 2958535 |
| the emergence of a health insurance system in a developing country: the case of south korea. | in an attempt to understand the social forces and the economic and political conditions under which new social policies emerge in developing countries, this study outlines factors affecting the introduction of the health insurance system in south korea. the emergence of the south korean health insurance system was influenced by changing labor needs of the industrial sector, increasing social expectations, external and international pressures, increasing medical costs, and class conflict. these p ... | 2008 | 2600387 |
| injury to the glenoid fossa. | an illustrated case of fracture through the confines of the glenoid fossa by the mandibular condyle is presented. the mechanism of injury and postinjury sequelae of this rarely reported but frequently suspected occurrence are discussed and a treatment rationale proposed. the key to the diagnosis of this entity is an awareness of vector forces directed to the region of the glenoid fossa with or without evidence of subcondylar fracture. | 2014 | 3945692 |
| serum alphafetoprotein (afp) in bilharziasis. | two hundred and eighty-four patients of various ages from an endemic area, diagnosed as having bilharziasis by the presence of living schistosoma haematobium's ova in the mid-stream urine sample, have been investigated for the presence of alphafetoprotein (afp) in the serum. one hundred and forty-one (49.6%), were positive; no false positives have occurred. radioimmunoassay is capable of increasing the positivity rate still further. the detection of afp will be of limited value as a screening te ... | 2000 | 89881 |
| [physiology of the continence organ before and following pouch-anal anastomosis]. | | 2008 | 2474969 |
| isograft and allograft control studies for murine cardiac transplantation. | | 2013 | 3547848 |
| [transketolase activity as a parameter for the vitamin b1 provision in some dermatoses (herpes zoster, psoriasis, drug eruptions, excema, and urticaria) (author's transl)]. | | 2003 | 153861 |
| long-term enteral feeding: a retrospective comparison of delivery via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and nasoenteric tubes. | the use of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (peg) tubes for enteral feeding is widespread, although their superiority to other feeding devices, such as nasoenteric tubes (net), has not been substantiated. we retrospectively compared clinical outcomes in patients who received enteral feeding via peg (n = 80) or net (n = 29) from 1984 to 1988. mean follow-up was 192 days in the peg group and 141 days in the net group. changes in nutritional and performance status were similar in both groups. as ... | 2007 | 1951237 |
| report of the second public health service aids prevention and control conference. women and aids. | | 2011 | 3147491 |
| a medical center-based tertiary reference laboratory. experience at mayo medical laboratories (mml). | | 2012 | 3415449 |
| "where" and "what" in vision. | the mixture of a few horizontal and vertical line segments embedded in an aggregate of diagonal line segments can be rapidly counted and their positions rapidly determined by a parallel (preattentive) process. however, the discrimination between horizontal and vertical orientation (that is, discrimination of a single conspicuous feature) requires serial search by focal attention. under recent theories of attention, focal attention has been assumed to be required for the recognition of different ... | 2012 | 4001937 |
| present criteria for the diagnosis of in vivo of olivopontocerebellar atrophy. | we present 6 cases of olivopontocerebellar atrophy (opca) of dèjérine-thomas type. the diagnosis was based on an appropriate clinical picture, anomalous brainstem auditory evoked potentials (baep) and computerized tomography (ct) and/or magnetic nuclear resonance (mnr) imaging which demonstrated atrophy of the cerebellum and the pons. we believe that these methods will provide greater uniformity in the diagnosis of such an heterogeneous entity as opca. | 2011 | 3163874 |
| hematological effect of supplementing anemic children with vitamin a alone and in combination with iron. | ninety-nine anemic children aged 1-8 y were divided into four groups. each group was supplemented for 2 mo with vitamin a, iron, vitamin a plus fe, or a placebo. clinical, hematological, and fe biochemical evaluations were performed at the beginning and end of the study. vitamin a supplementation produced significant elevations in the serum levels of retinol, blood hemoglobin, hematocrit, erythrocytes, serum fe, and percent transferrin saturation (%ts) and had no effect on total fe binding capac ... | 2012 | 3414574 |
| [management of alcoholism, drug intoxication, and attempted suicide]. | | 2013 | 3845138 |
| [a caries index of therapeutic value]. | | 2014 | 4155565 |
| [interactions between pregnancy and diabetes]. | | 2014 | 3911462 |
| cardiac and great vessel trauma: assessment, pathophysiology, and intervention. | | 2005 | 3320442 |
| chlorpromazine and the untreated chronic schizophrenic: a long-term trial. | | 2016 | 4862704 |
| familial abnormalities of suppressor-cell function in systemic lupus erythematosus. | we tested the hypothesis that abnormalities of central immune function are genetically controlled in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. we used an in vitro suppressor-cell assay to evaluate central immunoregulation in 15 patients, 50 of their clinically healthy family members and 41 normal persons. impaired suppressor-cell function was found in 11 patients; there was no correlation between disease activity and test results. abnormal suppressor-cell activity was also found in 13 first-de ... | 1956 | 314587 |
| an approach to improving the six-handed technique in oral rehabilitation. | | 1967 | 276540 |
| playing and the growth of imagination. | | 1972 | 422489 |
| [a case of the lower esophagus lined by columnar epithelium (author's transl)]. | | 1973 | 422885 |
| a therapeutic trial of disodium cromoglycate in gastrointestinal allergy. | | 1976 | 415493 |
| antidiuretic hormone elevation in psychosis. | | 1976 | 420904 |
| acrocephalopolysyndactyly type iv: a new genetic syndrome in 3 sibs. | | 1977 | 421359 |
| clinical conference. crigler-najjar syndrome (type i) in an adult male. | | 1978 | 422012 |
| 3rd industrial and environmental neurology congress. prague 25-28th june 1979 [abstracts]. | | 1979 | 550690 |
| [correlations between the processes of cell differentiation and development of blood vessels in the (chick embryo) adenohypohhysis]. | utilizing semi-thin and, respectively, thick sections after indian ink injections, we have analyzed morphohistogenesis and vessel development in the adenohypophysis of chick embryos from the 4th to the 19th incubation day. our preliminary results indicate that a close correlation exists between cellular differentiation and vasculogenesis. vessels begin to enter the gland only at the 6th day when the first endocellular granules become detectable, and, from the 10th day, they markedly increase in ... | 1980 | 550895 |