The effect of small amounts of alcohol on the clinical course of chronic pancreatitis.

abstract：:We describe a woman with an unusual case of thromboembolism of the mesenteric artery in whom multiple thrombi were subsequently found in the aorta and right heart chambers on transesophageal echocardiography. Further evaluation revealed a deficiency of protein C and S plasma proteins, inhibitors of the clotting system...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Onwuanyi A,Sachdeva R,Hamirani K,Islam M,Parris R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential blepharospasm is a progressive, bilateral, involuntary facial spasm. In this study, we conducted a prospective analysis of myectomy for the treatment of this condition in 21 patients. The procedure consisted of extirpation of the muscles that close the eyelids (protractors), which include the pretarsal, pres...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Jones TW Jr,Waller RR,Samples JR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal wall pain (AWP) is a common and underrecognized cause of chronic abdominal pain. The etiology of AWP varies. History and physical examination are critical to an accurate diagnosis of AWP. Trigger point injection using either a corticosteroid, a local anesthetic, or a combination of both often gives relief of...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Sweetser S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over a decade, the field of stem cell research has advanced tremendously and gained new attention in light of novel insights and emerging developments for regenerative medicine. Invariably, multiple considerations come into play, and clinicians and researchers must weigh the benefits of certain stem cell platforms...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Zacharias DG,Nelson TJ,Mueller PS,Hook CC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we review the symptoms, physical findings, and test results in 131 patients with acoustic neurinoma. The earliest symptoms are unilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and dysequilibrium. As the disease progresses, facial numbness, facial weakness, and headaches become more prominent. Physical findings other than hea...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Harner SG,Laws ER Jr

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide external validation of the diagnostic accuracy of the Sleep Apnea Clinical Score (SACS) tool in a new setting and patient population. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We conducted a prospective cohort study. Potential participants were adult family medicine patients. We excluded patients with a SACS of 0, kno...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Grover M,Mookadam M,Chang YH,Parish J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica were described separately more than 100 years ago. However, the original reports of both conditions were neglected for many years. After the article by Horton et al on giant cell arteritis in the 1930s and studies published by others in the 1940s, giant cell arteritis be...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Hunder GG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the age- and sex-adjusted incidence of melanoma in adults 61 years or older in Olmsted County, Minnesota, from 1970 through 2009. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Using Rochester Epidemiology Project resources, 397 patients were identified who were 61 years or older and who received a first lifetime diagnosi...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Olazagasti Lourido JM,Ma JE,Lohse CM,Brewer JD

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal apoplexy is a clinical entity characterized by spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage from rupture of a visceral vessel. We describe a 34-year-old man who presented with abdominal apoplexy due to rupture of an ileocolic aneurysm. Subsequent biochemical and genetic analysis confirmed the diagnosis of Ehlers-D...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Hassan I,Rasmussen TE,Schwarze U,Rose PS,Whiteman DA,Gloviczki P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the attitudes of Olmsted County, Minnesota, adults about environmental tobacco smoke in restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:In this population survey,2014 adults were contacted by random digit dial methods between February 28 and May 5, 2000, and asked to participate in a tel...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Kottke TE,Aase LA,Brandel CL,Brekke MJ,Brekke LN,DeBoer SW,Hayes SN,Hoffman RS,Menzel PA,Thomas RJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association of coronary artery calcium (CAC) and coronary heart disease (CHD) events among young and elderly individuals. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS:This is a secondary analysis of data from a prospective, multiethnic, population-based cohort study designed to study subclinical atherosclerosis....

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Tota-Maharaj R,Blaha MJ,Blankstein R,Silverman MG,Eng J,Shaw LJ,Blumenthal RS,Budoff MJ,Nasir K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe clinical, radiological, and histopathologic features of diffuse bronchiolar disease due to chronic occult aspiration. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We identified 4 patients encountered from July 2001 to January 2004 who had persistent respiratory symptoms and lung Infiltrates and who were eventually diagn...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Barnes TW,Vassallo R,Tazelaar HD,Hartman TE,Ryu JH

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with hypertension have a high prevalence of insulin resistance and are at relatively high risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. It is becoming increasingly evident that antihypertensive agents have disparate metabolic effects. For example, recent clinical trials indicate that agents that interrupt the re...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Stump CS,Hamilton MT,Sowers JR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of advanced laparoscopic techniques and robot-assisted technology has resulted in several new surgical approaches for treating organ-confined prostate cancer. Outcomes with these new or minimally Invasive techniques should be assessed carefully to ensure that they are similar to or surpass patients' on...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Humphreys MR,Gettman MT,Chow GK,Zincke H,Blute ML

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide angiography was used to study the effects of supine and upright bicycle exercise and handgrip exercise in 17 (12 well-trained) normal subjects before (control) and immediately after the administration of propranolol (160 mg/day for 4 days). Cardiac hemodynamic values were related to position in that contr...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Clements IP,Offord KP,Baron DW,Brown ML,Bardsley WT,Harrison CE Jr

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade, major advances have been made in vitamin D research that transcend the simple concept that vitamin D is Important for the prevention of rickets in children and has little physiologic relevance for adults. Inadequate vitamin D, in addition to causing rickets, prevents children from attaining the...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Holick MF

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a diffuse, systemic disease that affects the coronary, cerebral, and peripheral arterial trees. Disruption of atherosclerotic plaques leads to thrombus formation and arterial occlusion. This unpredictable and potentially life-threatening atherothrombotic sequence underlies clinical events such as an...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Vorchheimer DA,Becker R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), increasing the prevalence of healthy lifestyle choices is a global imperative. Currently, cardiac rehabilitation programs are a primary way that modifiable risk factors are addressed in the secondary prevention setting after a cardiovascular (CV) event/diagnosis. Even ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Arena R,Guazzi M,Briggs PD,Cahalin LP,Myers J,Kaminsky LA,Forman DE,Cipriano G Jr,Borghi-Silva A,Babu AS,Lavie CJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To record long-term follow-up data on patients with chronic idiopathic meningitis. DESIGN:We retrospectively reviewed the outcome of 49 patients who were examined at the Mayo Clinic between 1978 and 1990. MATERIAL AND METHODS:For all patients, symptoms, signs, laboratory values, results of imaging studies, ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Smith JE,Aksamit AJ Jr

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experience with 40 patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome at all Mayo Clinic suggests that traditional clinical criteria for diagnosis are often absent or invalid. Patients are younger have a shorter duration of symptoms, and often present without prior gastric surgery. Clinical, roentgenographic, and end...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Regan PT,Malagelada JR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia is the currently preferred term for widespread musculoskeletal pain, typically accompanied by other symptoms such as fatigue, memory problems, and sleep and mood disturbances, for which no alternative cause can be identified. Earlier there was some doubt about whether there was an "organic basis" for thes...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Clauw DJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine, an episodic headache disorder, is one of the most common complaints encountered by primary-care physicians and neurologists. Nevertheless, it remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Rational migraine treatment necessitates an accurate diagnosis, identification and removal of potential triggering factors, an...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Capobianco DJ,Cheshire WP,Campbell JK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical records of 293 patients who underwent renal transplantation were analyzed for the occurrence of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae infections in relation to splenectomy. Splenectomy was done in 236 (81%) graft recipients before or concomitant with transplantation. Bacteremia developed in f...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Bourgault AM,Van Scoy RE,Wilkowske CJ,Sterioff S

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three critically ill patients who displayed indirect evidence of transient corticotropin deficiency. All these patients were elderly, were poorly nourished, and had unexplained hypotension intraoperatively or immediately postoperatively. During the hypotensive episodes, they had inappropriately low plasma ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Kidess AI,Caplan RH,Reynertson RH,Wickus GG,Goodnough DE

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapidly growing literature strongly suggests that exercise, specifically aerobic exercise, may attenuate cognitive impairment and reduce dementia risk. We used PubMed (keywords exercise and cognition) and manuscript bibliographies to examine the published evidence of a cognitive neuroprotective effect of exercise. M...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Ahlskog JE,Geda YE,Graff-Radford NR,Petersen RC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous spontaneous electromyographic activity and responses to electrical stimulation of the facial nerve in the surgical field were monitored in 48 patients undergoing primary removal of an acoustic neuroma. The operative and postoperative results in these patients were compared with the results in 48 patients wh...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Harner SG,Daube JR,Ebersold MJ,Beatty CW

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Usual causes of intolerance to thyroxine sodium include coronary artery disease, advanced age, untreated adrenal insufficiency, and severe hypothyroidism. We describe 4 patients with iron deficiency anemia and primary hypothyroidism. After treatment with thyroxine sodium, these patients developed palpitations and feel...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Shakir KM,Turton D,Aprill BS,Drake AJ 3rd,Eisold JF

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three case reports in this article illustrate the diagnostic methods used and the treatment course encountered for many patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP). Each case addresses an aspect of DPNP: pain that appears to be refractory to initial therapy, DPNP occurring with other medical conditions, ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Belgrade MJ,Cole BE,McCarberg BH,McLean MJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High blood pressure is a major individual and public-health issue because of its wide prevalence and associated complications. More women than men have hypertension, but until recently, women have been relatively underrepresented in clinical trials. Gender differences in the physiology, genetics, and treatment benefit...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Hayes SN,Taler SJ

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 1970s, investigators have been interested in the relationship between dietary marine fish oils and plasma lipoproteins. Previous studies have shown that consumption of a diet rich in marine fatty acids results in altered lipid profiles, prolonged bleeding times, reduced platelet aggregation, and decrea...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Ballard-Barbash R,Callaway CW

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00