Pituitary stones.

abstract：:Nine of 81 members of two families were found to have renal problems. Three patients in one family had renal-retinal dysplasia with probable recessive inheritance. Of the 6 patients in the second family, one received a kidney transplant from his brother who initially had no detectable renal abnormality but later devel...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Avasthi PS,Erickson DG,Gardner KD

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine, from the perspective of primary care physicians, the value of mental status findings and ancillary tests in diagnosing dementia or its causes. DATA SOURCES:Studies identified using MEDLINE and bibliographies of pertinent articles. STUDY SELECTION:Selection based on availability of information on...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Siu AL

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of a resistance-training program on walking endurance in a healthy, community-dwelling elderly population. DESIGN:12- week randomized, controlled trial comparing a resistance- training group with a nonexercising control group. SETTING:Hospital-affiliated outpatient exercise facility....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ades PA,Ballor DL,Ashikaga T,Utton JL,Nair KS

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent, widely publicized meta-analysis of 42 clinical trials concluded that rosiglitazone was associated with an approximately 43% increased risk for myocardial infarction and an approximately 64% increased risk for cardiovascular death. The sensitivity of these conclusions to several methodological choices was not...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Diamond GA,Bax L,Kaul S

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome had biliary obstruction resulting from benign strictures of the biliary tract. Stenosis of the distal common bile duct with differing degrees of irregularity of the smaller intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts was seen in association with either cryptosporidial...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Margulis SJ,Honig CL,Soave R,Govoni AF,Mouradian JA,Jacobson IM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five of 70 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus seen over a 5-year period had peripheral blood films suggestive of hyposplenism. Technetium-99m-sulfur colloid scans showed no splenic activity in three patients. One of these three patients, who had a spontaneous remission of persistent thrombocytopenia concurrent...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dillon AM,Stein HB,English RA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kindreds affected by maturity-onset type of hyperglycemia in young people were studied. The postglucose-load hyperglycemia segregated as an autosomal dominant trait; it was always mild, never requiring insulin, and generally seemed to start in the first two decades of life. Glucose, insulin, glucagon, and growth h...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Barbosa J,Ramsay R,Goetz FC

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because clinical diagnosis is inaccurate, objective testing is usually considered necessary when patients present with suspected deep venous thrombosis (DVT). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a negative result on a quantitative latex D dimer assay eliminates the need for further investigation in patients with...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bates SM,Kearon C,Crowther M,Linkins L,O'Donnell M,Douketis J,Lee AY,Weitz JI,Johnston M,Ginsberg JS

更新日期：2003-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive palliative care, as exemplified by many state-of-the-art hospice programs, is the standard of care for the dying. Although palliative care is very effective, physicians, nurses, patients, families, and loved ones regularly face clinically, ethically, legally, and morally challenging decisions throughout ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Quill TE,Lee BC,Nunn S

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomerular-fixed antibody was eluted from the kidney of a 17-year-old patient who died 2 weeks after the onset of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Elevated titers of antibodies to streptococcal enzymes were found in the serum but not in the glomerular eluate. Streptococcal M protein and anti-M protein react...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rodríguez-Iturbe B,Rabideau D,García R,Rubio L,McIntosh RM

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between blood pressure before stroke and survival after the event, was examined in the Manitoba study cohort of 3983 men. The last recorded blood pressure before the first stroke and the change in blood pressure from a measurement 5 years earlier were used. Increasing magnitude of systolic blood pressure ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rabkin SW,Mathewson FA,Tate RB

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many investigations consider the presence of e antigen (HBeAg) valuable in predicting which patients with acute hepatitis B are at risk of remaining infected and developing chronic liver disease. We tested this hypothesis in a retrospective study of serial samples from patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis. We fo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Werner BG,Blumberg BS

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Travelers' diarrhea causes substantial morbidity and postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate nonabsorbable rifaximin for prevention of travelers' diarrhea. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. SETTING:Guadalajara, Mexico. PARTICIPANTS:U.S. students. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： DuPont HL,Jiang ZD,Okhuysen PC,Ericsson CD,de la Cabada FJ,Ke S,DuPont MW,Martinez-Sandoval F

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental findings in animals and epidemiologic studies in humans provide strong evidence that hypertension promotes the onset and progression of atherosclerosis. However, effective antihypertensive therapy has not consistently reduced the incidence of cardiac events in the major trials of treatment for mild hypert...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： O'Kelly BF,Massie BM,Tubau JF,Szlachcic J

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed the therapeutic efficacy of antithyroid drugs for Graves disease. Sixty-nine patients were divided into three categories according to their response: 28 (40.6%) were unable to achieve a remission; 6 (8.7%) achieved a remission and subsequently had a relapse; and 35 (50.7%) were able to sust...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Solomon BL,Evaul JE,Burman KD,Wartofsky L

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severe aplastic anemia is a life-threatening bone marrow failure disorder. High-dose cyclophosphamide therapy followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation cures the disease. However, it requires a suitable donor and carries the risk for graft-versus-host disease. A small pilot study demonstrated that h...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brodsky RA,Sensenbrenner LL,Smith BD,Dorr D,Seaman PJ,Lee SM,Karp JE,Brodsky I,Jones RJ

更新日期：2001-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:As cardiovascular risk increases in China, interest in strategies to mitigate it is growing. However, national information about the prevalence and treatment of high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is limited. Objective:To assess the prevalence and treatment of high CVD risk as well as variations in risk ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lu J,Lu Y,Yang H,Bilige W,Li Y,Schulz W,Masoudi FA,Krumholz HM

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis is prototypic of the immunologic glomerulonephritides. It most commonly follows streptococcal infection of the pharynx or skin. The diagnosis is usually not difficult when a nephritic clinical presentation (with such manifestations as hematuria, edema, and hypertension) is as...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Nissenson AR,Baraff LJ,Fine RN,Knutson DW

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Castleman disease, an unusual condition of unknown cause consisting of a massive proliferation of lymphoid tissue, remains a clinicopathologic diagnosis. Three histologic variants (hyaline vascular, plasma-cell, and mixed) and two clinical types (localized and multicentric) of Castleman disease have been des...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Herrada J,Cabanillas F,Rice L,Manning J,Pugh W

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe pulmonary hypertension without pulmonary fibrosis occurred in 10 patients with the CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia), reputedly a benign variant of progressive systemic sclerosis. Time from the initial symptom, Raynaud's phenomenon, to the r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Salerni R,Rodnan GP,Leon DF,Shaver JA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For an estimated 10 million trips abroad by U.S. residents in 2002, "visiting friends and relatives" (VFR) was a purpose for travel. Made up largely of foreign-born U.S. residents and their children, this population shows disparities in the number of reported cases of many preventable travel-related illnesses compared...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Angell SY,Cetron MS

更新日期：2005-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiation therapy is one of many treatment options for patients with prostate cancer. PURPOSE:To update findings on the clinical and biochemical outcomes of radiation therapies for localized prostate cancer. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE (2007 through March 2011) and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Tria...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bannuru RR,Dvorak T,Obadan N,Yu WW,Patel K,Chung M,Ip S

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical devices have become an integral part of hospital-based care but also predispose patients to more than 850 000 device-related infections annually. Devices predispose to infection by damaging or invading epithelial and mucosal barriers to infection, by supporting growth of microorganisms and thus serving as rese...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stamm WE

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posttransplantation acute renal failure (ARF) occurs in roughly 25% of recipients of organs from deceased donors. Inflammation in the donor organ is associated with risk for ARF. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether administering corticosteroids to deceased organ donors reduces the incidence and duration of ARF i...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kainz A,Wilflingseder J,Mitterbauer C,Haller M,Burghuber C,Perco P,Langer RM,Heinze G,Oberbauer R

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This article applies major economic concepts, such as supply, demand, monopoly, monopsony, adverse selection, and moral hazard, to central features of U.S. health care. These illustrations help explain some of the principal problems of health policy-high cost and the uninsured-and why solutions are difficult to obtain...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fuchs VR

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite some impressive recent gains, improving the glaring deficiencies in health care quality is proving to be very hard. Improvement is local, rather than system-wide, and is sustained with difficulty, rather than becoming an intrinsic feature of care. My right knee will probably need to be replaced soon. This has ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Berwick DM

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors slow renal disease progression and reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes. Patients' out-of-pocket costs pose a barrier to using this effective therapy. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the cost-effectiveness to Medicare of first-dollar coverage ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosen AB,Hamel MB,Weinstein MC,Cutler DM,Fendrick AM,Vijan S

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Federated Council for Internal Medicine (FCIM) comprises the American Board of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine, Association of Professors of Medicine, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, and the Society of General Internal Medicine. The Co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data indicate that the lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) is morphologically similar to animal lentiviruses, such as equine infectious anemia and visna viruses. This finding, together with the cross-reactivity of the core proteins of LAV with those of the equine infectious anemia virus and a similarity in g...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Montagnier L

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary prevention of Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia (all-cause dementia) is an important public health goal. Evidence to date is insufficient to recommend any lifestyle change to prevent or delay the onset of dementia. OBJECTIVE:To assess the association between objectively measured midlife ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Defina LF,Willis BL,Radford NB,Gao A,Leonard D,Haskell WL,Weiner MF,Berry JD

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00