The clinical course of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term risk for fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) after treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) may be an important factor in the decision to discontinue this treatment. OBJECTIVE:To provide reliable and precise estimates of the annual risk for fatal PE and the case-fatality rate of disease recurrence ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Douketis JD,Gu CS,Schulman S,Ghirarduzzi A,Pengo V,Prandoni P

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death remains a leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 350,000 deaths each year, and the survival rate of victims remains low. Most survivors face a significant risk for recurrence. The typical substrate is chronic--abnormal myocardium with fibrosis (often from previous my...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Akhtar M,Garan H,Lehmann MH,Troup PJ

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effectiveness of chemotherapy and adjunctive surgery in managing patients with advanced seminoma. DESIGN:Nonrandomized prospective clinical trial of chemotherapy in a cohort of patients with advanced seminoma. SETTING:Referral cancer hospital. PATIENTS:Consecutive sample of 62 patien...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Motzer RJ,Bosl GJ,Geller NL,Penenberg D,Yagoda A,Golbey R,Whitmore WF Jr,Fair WR,Sogani P,Herr H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of In the Clinic is drawn from the clinical information and education resources of the American College of Physicians (ACP), including PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource) and MKSAP (Medical Knowledge and Self Assessment Program). Annals of Internal Medicine editors develop In the Clinic f...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： McDermott MT

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within 4 days, two oncology patients in the Clinical Research Unit had bacteremia causes by group Y Neisseria meningitidis. Three additional patients, identified by prevalence survey, were found to have nasopharyngeal colonization with that serogroup, compared with only one employee (not associated with patients) and ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cohen MS,Steere AC,Baltimore R,von Graevenitz A,Pantelick E,Camp B,Root RK

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether prolonging the duration of tamoxifen administration beyond the cessation of a combined chemotherapy regimen benefits patients with primary breast cancer with positive findings in axillary nodes who benefit initially from the combined regimen. DESIGN:Nonrandomized, nonconcurrent cohort st...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fisher B,Brown A,Wolmark N,Redmond C,Wickerham DL,Wittliff J,Dimitrov N,Legault-Poisson S,Schipper H,Prager D

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite extensive literature, the diagnostic role of d-dimer for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) remains unclear, reflecting multiple d-dimer assays and concerns about differing sensitivities and variability. PURPOSE:To systematically review trials that assessed sensitivity, specific...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stein PD,Hull RD,Patel KC,Olson RE,Ghali WA,Brant R,Biel RK,Bharadia V,Kalra NK

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral sildenafil and intravenous epoprostenol have independently been shown to be effective in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of adding oral sildenafil to long-term intravenous epoprostenol in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. DESIGN:A 16-week...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Simonneau G,Rubin LJ,Galiè N,Barst RJ,Fleming TR,Frost AE,Engel PJ,Kramer MR,Burgess G,Collings L,Cossons N,Sitbon O,Badesch DB,PACES Study Group.

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical ecologists propose the existence of a unique illness in which multiple environmental chemicals, foods, drugs, and endogenous C. albicans have a toxic effect on the immune system, thereby adversely affecting other bodily functions. The proposal uses some concepts that superficially resemble those that apply to...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1989-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical students may be at high risk for occupational exposures to blood. OBJECTIVE:To measure the frequency of medical students' exposure to infectious body substances, to identify factors that affect the probability of such exposure, and to suggest targets for the prevention of such exposure. DESIGN:Revi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Osborn EH,Papadakis MA,Gerberding JL

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the usefulness of computed tomography (CT) brain scanning in alcoholic patients with withdrawal seizures (n = 151) and other neurologic problems (n = 87) and compared the findings of a detailed neurologic examination to the results of CT scanning. In patients with seizures, nearly 50% of CT scans were nor...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Feussner JR,Linfors EW,Blessing CL,Starmer CF

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypophosphatemic osteomalacia that remits after resection of a coexisting tumor has been described in 35 patients. Because the associated neoplasms have been of mesenchymal origin, it has been inferred that this tumor-induced osteomalacia syndrome is uniquely related to tumours of this derivation. However, in the pres...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lyles KW,Berry WR,Haussler M,Harrelson JM,Drezner MK

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with systemic lupus erythematosus randomly received inactivated bivalent (A/NJ and A/Victoria) influenza vaccine or saline in a double-blind study. During 20 weeks of follow-up, no deterioration in major organ function or increase in disease flares was observed in the immunized group as compared with th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Williams GW,Steinberg AD,Reinertsen JL,Klassen LW,Decker JL,Dolin R

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether diabetic patients, when compared with nondiabetic patients, have a higher incidence of restenosis after coronary stenting, and, if so, whether restenosis is attributable to lesion or procedural differences or to a greater biologic tendency for late loss of minimum diameter in diabetic pat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Carrozza JP Jr,Kuntz RE,Fishman RF,Baim DS

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1972 and January 1976 an outbreak of dialysis dementia affected 20 patients maintained by long-term hemodialysis. The clinical picture was characterized by an insidious onset of altered behaviour, dementia, speech disturbance, myoclonus, and convulsions. Nineteen patients died, but one patient has su...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dunea G,Mahurkar SD,Mamdani B,Smith EC

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between oral contraceptives and death from thromboembolism shown by studies of vital statistics, and the contribution of cigarette smoking to these deaths are reviewed. In 1968 a British study showed that a slight increase in deaths from thromboembolism had occurred in young women, proportional to th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Masi AT

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analysis is the process of combining study results that can be used to draw conclusions about therapeutic effectiveness or to plan new studies. We review important design and statistical issues of this process. The design issues include protocol development, objectives, literature search, publication bias, measur...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： L'Abbé KA,Detsky AS,O'Rourke K

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because only limited evidence suggests that elastic stockings prevent the post-thrombotic syndrome in patients with symptomatic deep venous thrombosis (DVT), these stockings are not widely used. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of compression elastic stockings for prevention of the post-thrombotic syndrom...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Prandoni P,Lensing AW,Prins MH,Frulla M,Marchiori A,Bernardi E,Tormene D,Mosena L,Pagnan A,Girolami A

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment advances and outcomes data have raised new concerns about how to optimize care for patients with HIV infection. This paper reviews evidence on 1) the relation between experience and type of training and patient outcomes, 2) the relation between the components of primary care and patient outcomes, and 3) prim...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hecht FM,Wilson IB,Wu AW,Cook RL,Turner BJ

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed the course of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in 21 eyes of 14 immunosuppressed patients. In two patients, other organisms, specifically Toxoplasma and Candida, also appeared to be causing retinal disease simultaneously. Post-mortem examination was done on 10 eyes from seven patients. At initial presentati...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Egbert PR,Pollard RB,Gallagher JG,Merigan TC

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently implemented a full-featured electronic health record in our independent, 4-internist, community-based practice of general internal medicine. We encountered various challenges, some unexpected, in moving from paper to computer. This article describes the effects that use of electronic health records has had...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Baron RJ,Fabens EL,Schiffman M,Wolf E

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adiponectin and resistin are recently discovered adipokines that may provide a molecular link between adiposity and type 2 diabetes. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether total and high-molecular-weight adiponectin and resistin are associated with future risk for type 2 diabetes, independent of obesity and other kn...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Heidemann C,Sun Q,van Dam RM,Meigs JB,Zhang C,Tworoger SS,Mantzoros CS,Hu FB

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:New recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on the use of nontraditional, or novel, risk factors in assessing the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of asymptomatic persons. METHODS:Systematic reviews were conducted of literature since 1996 on 9 proposed nontraditional markers o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A sensitive and acceptable screening regimen for women at high risk for breast cancer is essential. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is highly sensitive for diagnosis of breast cancer but has variable specificity. PURPOSE:To summarize the sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Warner E,Messersmith H,Causer P,Eisen A,Shumak R,Plewes D

更新日期：2008-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the major cancer killer of women in the United States. Recent advances in therapy promise more effective control of this illness. The development of hormone receptor analysis permits us to better understand the mechanisms of action of steroid and peptide hormones and increases the likelihood of using ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some important health policy topics, such as those related to the delivery, organization, and financing of health care, present substantial challenges to established methods for evidence synthesis. For example, such reviews may ask: What is the effect of for-profit versus not-for-profit delivery of care on patient out...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bravata DM,McDonald KM,Shojania KG,Sundaram V,Owens DK

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:For the diagnosis of M7, the bone marrow aspirate shows a leukemic cell infiltrate that comprises 30% or more of all cells. These cells are identified as being of megakaryocyte lineage by the platelet peroxidase reaction on electron microscopy or by tests with monoclonal or polyclonal platelet-specific antibodies. Mye...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bennett JM,Catovsky D,Daniel MT,Flandrin G,Galton DA,Gralnick HR,Sultan C

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavior modification applied to the treatment of obesity has evolved from the environmental control of eating behavior to a broader approach characterized by systematic manipulation of all factors associated with eating and exercise patterns. This approach has shown success in helping obese persons lose modest amount...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Foreyt JP,Goodrick GK

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two patients with thyroiditis caused by Coccidioides immitis, presented thyroid symptoms and findings were characteristic of subacute thyroiditis. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid proved useful in establishing the diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis. This is the first report of coccidioidomycosis presenting...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Loeb JM,Livermore BM,Wofsy D

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review epidemiologic studies on the association between homocyst(e)ine level and risk for cardiovascular disease and the potential benefits of homocysteine-decreasing therapies. DATA SOURCES:Computerized and manual searches of the literature on total homocysteine levels and cardiovascular disease. STUDY SE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Eikelboom JW,Lonn E,Genest J Jr,Hankey G,Yusuf S

更新日期：1999-09-07 00:00:00