Brief communication: tolerability of meropenem in patients with IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to penicillins.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common diseases, particularly dementia, have large social costs for the U.S. population. However, less is known about the end-of-life costs of specific diseases and the associated financial risk for individual households. OBJECTIVE:To examine social costs and financial risks faced by Medicare beneficiaries ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kelley AS,McGarry K,Gorges R,Skinner JS

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the low mortality and morbidity of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) compared with other public health scourges, is the attention devoted to it misdirected? The SARS experience has provided at least 4 enduring lessons. First, by providing a test of the capacity of each part of the public health system...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Emanuel EJ

更新日期：2003-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three consecutive patients with inferior myocardial infarction were evaluated prospectively, by physical examination and right heart catheterization within 36 hours of the onset of symptoms, to determine whether physical findings can separate such patients into those with and without associated right ventricular...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dell'Italia LJ,Starling MR,O'Rourke RA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alleviating the problems faced by dying persons and their families has drawn substantial public attention, but little is known about the experience of dying. OBJECTIVE:To characterize the experience of dying from the perspective of surrogate decision makers, usually close family members (89%). DESIGN:Prosp...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lynn J,Teno JM,Phillips RS,Wu AW,Desbiens N,Harrold J,Claessens MT,Wenger N,Kreling B,Connors AF Jr

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the influence of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine given to uninfected volunteers on the interpretation of serodiagnostic HIV test results. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:5 AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Units funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Belshe RB,Clements ML,Keefer MC,Graham BS,Corey L,Sposto R,Wescott S,Lawrence D

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy of ciprofloxacin therapy in eradicating convalescent fecal excretion of salmonellae after acute salmonellosis. DESIGN:Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of ciprofloxacin, with prospective follow-up of nonparticipants. SETTING:An acute care community hospital experie...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Neill MA,Opal SM,Heelan J,Giusti R,Cassidy JE,White R,Mayer KH

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42-year-old woman developed goitrous hypothyroidism while receiving ethionamide for treatment of an atypical mycobacterial infection. Five weeks after discontinuation of ethionamide therapy, thyroid function had returned to normal. The goitrogenic effect was studied in vitro by incubating ethionamide in various conc...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Drucker D,Eggo MC,Salit IE,Burrow GN

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred ninety-eight patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia received marrow transplants after intensive chemotherapy and total body irradiation. Multivariate analysis showed disease status at time of transplantation to be the most powerful predictor of survival. The probability of long-term survival for alloge...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Thomas ED,Clift RA,Fefer A,Appelbaum FR,Beatty P,Bensinger WI,Buckner CD,Cheever MA,Deeg HJ,Doney K

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between June 1980 and September 1981 we evaluated 24 cases of endocarditis from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. All of the cases occurred in drug addicts and all were community-acquired. The patients ranged in age from 21 to 59 years and represented an older population than that generally reported for bac...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Levine DP,Cushing RD,Jui J,Brown WJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients with chronic type B hepatitis were treated with corticosteroids in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial lasting 28 days. Ten patients received prednisolone, 60 mg/d for 2 weeks, then 30 mg/d for another 2 weeks; 5 patients received placebo. Serum aminotransferase levels decreased signi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoofnagle JH,Davis GL,Pappas SC,Hanson RG,Peters M,Avigan MI,Waggoner JG,Jones EA,Seeff LB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may cause viral antigenemia, detected primarily as p24 viral core protein. Among 16 patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex studied serially, 12 had or developed antigenemia ranging from 16 to 3006 pg/mL in plasma. The level ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Jackson GG,Paul DA,Falk LA,Rubenis M,Despotes JC,Mack D,Knigge M,Emeson EE

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prediction of perioperative cardiac complications is important in the medical management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Several indices have been developed to aid prediction, but their performance has not been systematically compared. OBJECTIVE:To compare four existing methods for predicting per...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gilbert K,Larocque BJ,Patrick LT

更新日期：2000-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Deaths and injuries related to firearms constitute a major public health problem in the United States. In response to firearm violence and other firearm-related injuries and deaths, an interdisciplinary, interprofessional group of leaders of 8 national health professional organizations and the American Bar Association...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weinberger SE,Hoyt DB,Lawrence HC 3rd,Levin S,Henley DE,Alden ER,Wilkerson D,Benjamin GC,Hubbard WC

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy homosexual men with unexplained persistent diffuse lymphadenopathy enrolled in a prospective natural history study from November 1981 to November 1982. These men had demographic, clinical, and laboratory findings similar to those of homosexual patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Pathologic ex...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Abrams DI,Lewis BJ,Beckstead JH,Casavant CA,Drew WL

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population screening for hemochromatosis done by using the transferrin saturation test has been advocated by experts to permit the initiation of therapeutic phlebotomy before the onset of clinical disease. The discovery of a gene associated with hemochromatosis has made DNA testing another option for screening and dia...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cogswell ME,McDonnell SM,Khoury MJ,Franks AL,Burke W,Brittenham G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few recent data are available on risk factors for perioperative supraventricular arrhythmia (SVA) after noncardiac surgery or on the effect of SVA on clinical outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence, clinical correlates, and effect on length of stay of perioperative SVA in patients having major nonca...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Polanczyk CA,Goldman L,Marcantonio ER,Orav EJ,Lee TH

更新日期：1998-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) therapy has proven efficacy in reducing the rate of coronary and cerebrovascular events in patients 75 years of age or younger with a history of myocardial infarction. However, in patients older than 75 years of age, the efficacy and potentia...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ganz DA,Kuntz KM,Jacobson GA,Avorn J

更新日期：2000-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the sensitivity of herpes simplex virus isolates to acyclovir and the importance of resistant isolates in hospitalized patients. DESIGN:Retrospective incidence cohort study. SETTING:All herpes simplex virus isolates cultured over 1 year from patients followed at a tertiary care center. P...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Englund JA,Zimmerman ME,Swierkosz EM,Goodman JL,Scholl DR,Balfour HH Jr

更新日期：1990-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of the course of systemic lupus erythematosus in pregnant patients hospitalized at UCLA during a 15-year period provided important prognostic information. Women with systemic lupus erythematosus became pregnant if renal function was reasonably well preserved. Pregnancy infrequently posed a ser...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 6-month period in 1983, Escherichia coli O157:H7 was isolated from 19 (15%) of 125 patients with grossly bloody diarrhea and 1 sibling with non-bloody diarrhea in the Calgary area. There was no clustering of the cases geographically or in time. All but 1 had clinical manifestations typical of hemorrhagic coli...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Pai CH,Gordon R,Sims HV,Bryan LE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera of 24 patients with an unexplained pneumonia were tested for the presence of antibodies against the Legionnaires' disease bacterium. Fifteen patients had positive serology. The series comprised 12 male and three female patients ranging in age from 17 to 66 years (mean, 51.1 years). All of the patients had a high ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Meenhorst PL,van der Meer JW,Borst J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exercise stress testing in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms may cause enlargement or rupture of aneurysms. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety of treadmill exercise stress testing in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. DESIGN:Retrospective descriptive study. SETTING:Tertiary care center. PATIE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Best PJ,Tajik AJ,Gibbons RJ,Pellikka PA

更新日期：1998-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothrombin complex concentrates are used in the treatment of the congenital bleeding disorders associated with Factors II, VII, IX, and X deficiencies. They have also been extensively used to treat acquired coagulation abnormalities secondary to vitamin K deficiency, warfarin ingestion, and various types of liver dis...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cederbaum AI,Blatt PM,Roberts HR

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care of persons with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in the United Kingdom resembles that in the United States. However, health care practice in Europe is being influenced by the Saint Vincent Declaration, the joint European World Health Organization-International Diabetes Federation initiative, which ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Keen H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two studies (2889 subjects) that investigated the prevalence of the causes of dementia were critically reviewed. Particular attention was paid to potential and actual reversibility. Although dementia manifests itself primarily in old age (particularly age 75 and older), the mean age of patients for the studies ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Clarfield AM

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Very low calorie diets used to treat moderate and severe obesity produce average weight losses of 20 kg in 12 weeks. This paper reviews the development of very low calorie diets from research on fasting in the late 1950s and examines data on the amount of dietary protein needed to achieve positive nitrogen balance. Th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Wadden TA,Stunkard AJ,Brownell KD

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Frailty assessment may inform surgical risk and prognosis not captured by conventional surgical risk scores. Purpose:To evaluate the evidence for various frailty instruments used to predict mortality, functional status, or major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) in older adults unde...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kim DH,Kim CA,Placide S,Lipsitz LA,Marcantonio ER

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of treating Helicobacter pylori infection on the recurrence of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease. DESIGN:Follow-up of up to 2 years in patients with healed ulcers who had participated in randomized, controlled trials. SETTING:A Veterans Affairs hospital. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 109...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Graham DY,Lew GM,Klein PD,Evans DG,Evans DJ Jr,Saeed ZA,Malaty HM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disease of reversible plasma extravasation and vascular collapse accompanied by hemoconcentration and hypoalbuminemia. Its cause is unknown, although it is believed to be a manifestation of transient endothelial dysfunction due to endothelial contraction, apoptosis...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Druey KM,Greipp PR

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between current non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use and fatal peptic ulcers or upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. DESIGN:Nested case control study using a linked Medicaid-death certificate database. SETTING:Tennessee Medicaid enrollees aged 60 and g...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Griffin MR,Ray WA,Schaffner W

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00