Neurovascular microsurgery: a model for laboratory investigation and the development of technical skills.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how often patients with renal artery stenosis (RAS) managed without revascularization progress to accelerated hypertension and/or renal failure. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We examined the outcomes of 68 patients (mean +/- SEM age, 71.8 +/- 0.9 years) with high-grade (>70%) RAS identified between 1989 ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Chábová V,Schirger A,Stanson AW,McKusick MA,Textor SC

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify preliminary studies on patients with melanoma exposed to β-blockers that suggested a reduced risk of disease recurrence and death. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Data were obtained from all consecutive patients diagnosed as having melanoma between January 1, 1993, and December 31, 2009, at the Department of ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： De Giorgi V,Gandini S,Grazzini M,Benemei S,Marchionni N,Geppetti P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient with a hypersensitive carotid sinus reflex and syncope may pose special challenges in evaluation and treatment. Specifically, although the finding of carotid sinus hypersensitivity may indeed indicate an exaggerated vagal tone that causes syncope, it may also be a chance association in a patient with synco...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Sugrue DD,Wood DL,McGoon MD

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with a progressive neurologic disorder that was characterized by mental deterioration, supranuclear vertical gaze paresis, and foam cells or sea-blue histiocytes in the bone marrow are described and compared with patients who were previously described as having " neurovisceral storage disease with vertic...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Yan-Go FL,Yanagihara T,Pierre RV,Goldstein NP

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco use is a global pandemic. The most common pharmacological treatments of tobacco use and dependence include nicotine replacement therapy and nonnicotine medications. Bupropion sustained release (SR) is the only first-line nonnicotine medication recommended by the US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guide...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Hays JT,Ebbert JO

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risedronate sodium is a pyridinyl bisphosphonate effective for treatment and prevention of postmenopausal and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Some bisphosphonates have been associated with upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract adverse effects. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of upper GI tra...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Taggart H,Bolognese MA,Lindsay R,Ettinger MP,Mulder H,Josse RG,Roberts A,Zippel H,Adami S,Ernst TF,Stevens KP

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 53 patients with horseshoe kidney (9 in the present series), 45 underwent operation for an abdominal aortic aneurysm: 40 electively and 5 on an emergency basis. The remaining eight patients underwent revascularization for arteriosclerosis obliterans. Of the 53 patients, 35 (66%) had renal artery anomalies. The anom...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Sidell PM,Pairolero PC,Payne WS,Bernatz PE,Spittel JA Jr

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the years 1960 through 1966, vagotomy and pyloroplasty was performed for duodenal ulceration in 182 patients. Elective operation was performed in 84% of cases, and intractability of symptoms was the major indication. For emergency operations, bleeding was the main indication. Eight of 182 patients died in the posto...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Pemberton JH,van Heerden JA

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:A recently recognized sporadic case of "legionnaires' disease" occuring in Minnesota is described. The patient, a previously healthy 58-year-old woman, became seriously ill with progressive pneumonia in the spring of 1977. Her illness was unresponsive to the usual antibiotics (penicillin and cephalothin) prescribed fo...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Keys TF

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and central obesity and mortality in elderly patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We identified 7057 patients 65 years or older from 5 cohort studies assessing mortality risk using either waist circumference (WC) or waist-hi...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Sharma S,Batsis JA,Coutinho T,Somers VK,Hodge DO,Carter RE,Sochor O,Kragelund C,Kanaya AM,Zeller M,Park JS,Køber L,Torp-Pedersen C,Lopez-Jimenez F

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the long-term outcome of patients presenting with synchronous lymphoma and severe liver dysfunction and to describe the outcome of patients treated with initial mechlorethamine-based therapy used as a bridge to more conventional chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We reviewed the clinical course...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Ghobrial IM,Wolf RC,Pereira DL,Fonseca R,White WL,Colgan JP,Habermann TM,Inwards DJ,Markovic SN,Ansell SM,Micallef IN,Porrata LF,Witzig TE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients taking customary doses of levothyroxine have slightly elevated serum thyroxine (T4), apparently normal serum triiodothyronine, suppressed serum thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone; TSH) concentrations, and no clinical symptoms of hyperthyroidism. Recent reports suggest that these patients may have a...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Ross DS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of sumatriptan on migraine-related workplace productivity loss. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial, adult migraineurs self-injected 6 mg of sumatriptan or matching placebo to treat a moderate or severe migraine within the fi...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Schulman EA,Cady RK,Henry D,Batenhorst AS,Putnam DG,Watson CB,O'Quinn SO

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly caused a global pandemic associated with a novel respiratory infection: coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) is necessary to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 infection, but-owing to its essential metabolic roles-it may b...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Baughn LB,Sharma N,Elhaik E,Sekulic A,Bryce AH,Fonseca R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pacemaker therapy is most commonly initiated because of symptomatic bradycardia, usually resulting from sinus node disease. Randomized multicenter trials assessing the relative benefits of different pacing modes have made possible an evidence-based approach to the treatment of bradyarrhythmias. During the past several...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Kaszala K,Huizar JF,Ellenbogen KA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study of 224 male patients from Rochester, Minnesota, diagnosed with cryptorchidism during the period from 1935 through 1974 was conducted to assess the frequency of subsequent testicular neoplasms. Age-specific rates for testicular neoplasm in this community were used to estimate an expected number for co...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Benson RC Jr,Beard CM,Kelalis PP,Kurland LT

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of changes underway in modern clinical bacteriology laboratories. Panel-based molecular diagnostics are now available for numerous applications, including, but not limited to, detection of bacteria and select antibacterial resistance markers in positive blood culture bottles, detection of acute gast...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Patel R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients who had coryneform bacterial endocarditis affecting a prosthetic valve are presented and 64 case reports are reviewed. Diagnostic difficulties occur because coryneform bacteria often are fastidiuos, with long incubation periods, and often contaminate blood cultures. Although some coryneform bacteria are...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Van Scoy RE,Cohen SN,Geraci JE,Washington JA 2nd

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total respiratory resistance (Rrs) was studied by the forced oscillation technique at a frequency of 3 cps in 76 normal subjects (36 men, 40 women), ages 21 to 64 years. Slopes (equivalent to specific conductance) assuming a linear relationship with zero intercept between 1/Rrs and thoracic gas volume (TGV) were compu...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Jiemsripong K,Hyatt RE,Offord KP

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between Jan. 1, 1976, and Dec. 31, 1985, at our institution, 37 patients who had undergone prior complete surgical resection of non-small-cell lung cancer received definitive thoracic radiation therapy (TRT) for locally recurrent disease. Of the 37 recurrences, 33 were in the pulmonary parenchyma or the hilar, mediast...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Shaw EG,Brindle JS,Creagan ET,Foote RL,Trastek VF,Buskirk SJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography has been a procedure of choice for diagnosing cardiac mass lesions, the advent of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) provided better visualization of cardiac structures, especially those at a considerable depth from the chest wall, and lesions that involve th...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Reeder GS,Khandheria BK,Seward JB,Tajik AJ

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the esophageal motility of patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma or Barrett esophagus with high-grade dysplasia before and after photodynamic therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In this prospective study conducted between January 1998 and October 1999, esophageal motility testing of the lower esophageal...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Malhi-Chowla N,Wolfsen HC,DeVault KR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric and gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas continue to be a major health burden globally and collectively represent the third leading cause of cancer death. Among patients with metastatic disease, most die of their cancer because of the limited number of modestly effective treatment regimens available today. The pro...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Elimova E,Mizrak Kaya D,Harada K,Ajani JA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that chromosomal rearrangements (CRs) can distinguish low risk of progression (LRP) from intermediate and high risk of progression (IHRP) to prostate cancer (PCa) and if these CRs have the potential to identify men with LRP on needle biopsy that harbor IHRP PCa in the prostate gland. P...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Vasmatzis G,Kosari F,Murphy SJ,Terra S,Kovtun IV,Harris FR,Zarei S,Smadbeck JB,Johnson SH,Gaitatzes AG,Therneau TM,Rangel LJ,Knudson RA,Greipp P,Sukov WR,Knutson DL,Kloft-Nelson SM,Karnes RJ,Cheville JC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyoderma gangrenosum is a painful, noninfectious, ulcerating skin disorder often associated with systemic disease. Thalidomide has been used to treat many inflammatory dermatologic conditions and has been reintroduced in the United States to treat immune-modulated diseases such as pyoderma gangrenosum. The patient des...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Federman GL,Federman DG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient simulator has been developed for training, certification, modeling, and demonstrating problems in the management of critical-care patients. The Critical Care & Hemodynamic Monitoring Training System consists of a personal computer, software, and a replica of a human torso designed to enable students to pract...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Saliterman SS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sympathetic nervous system plays a key role in regulating arterial blood pressure in humans. This review provides an overview of sympathetic neural control of the circulation and discusses the changes that occur in various disease states, including hypertension, heart failure, and obstructive sleep apnea. It focus...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Charkoudian N,Rabbitts JA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A need exists for a self-report questionnaire that reliably and accurately measures symptoms and that distinguishes patients with functional gastrointestinal disease from those with other conditions. We have developed such an instrument, the bowel disease questionnaire, and herein describe details of its discriminator...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Talley NJ,Phillips SF,Wiltgen CM,Zinsmeister AR,Melton LJ 3rd

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze a large cohort of patients who underwent exercise testing and also report sex differences in other exercise heart rate (HR) parameters to determine whether separate sex-based equations to predict peak HR are indicated. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients aged 40 to 89 years who performed treadmill exerc...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Sydó N,Abdelmoneim SS,Mulvagh SL,Merkely B,Gulati M,Allison TG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00