Systematic review: surveillance for breast cancer in women treated with chest radiation for childhood, adolescent, or young adult cancer.

abstract：Background:In 1994, 40% of U.S. gun owners who had recently acquired a firearm did so without a background check. No contemporary estimates exist. Objective:To estimate the proportion of current U.S. gun owners who acquired their most recent firearm without a background check, by time since and manner of acquisition, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Miller M,Hepburn L,Azrael D

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicine has long sought to match diagnostic and treatment approaches to the particular needs and risks of individual patients. The decreasing cost and increasing ease of genetic sequencing have propelled the rise of precision medicine. Precision medicine aims to use genetic and other information to provide care tailo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kiryluk K,Goldstein DB,Rowe JW,Gharavi AG,Wapner R,Chung WK

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, liver transplantation has been used to treat patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP). OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical course of patients with FAP who received partial-liver transplantation from living donors. DESIGN:Case series. SETTING:University hospital in Matsumoto, Japan. PA...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Takei Y,Ikeda S,Hashikura Y,Ikegami T,Kawasaki S

更新日期：1999-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Computerized axial tomography permits accurate cross-sectional radiographic visualization of visceral organs. Thus, "radiographic area" of an organ slice can be calculated and converted to actual area from a standard grid printed on the roentgenogram. Because the width between slices is known, the volume of an organ s...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Heymsfield SB,Fulenwider T,Nordlinger B,Barlow R,Sones P,Kutner M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriohepatic dysplasia (Alagille's syndrome) is presumed to be one of the familial intrahepatic cholestatic syndromes, all of which present with neonatal jaundice or failure to thrive, or both. We report the findings in five patients with this syndrome, four of whom have been followed into adulthood. In addition to ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Riely CA,Cotlier E,Jensen PS,Klatskin G

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Combining endoscopic therapy and beta-blockers may improve outcomes in patients with cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices. PURPOSE:To assess whether a combination of endoscopic and drug therapy prevents overall and variceal rebleeding and improves survival better than either therapy alone. DATA SOURCE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gonzalez R,Zamora J,Gomez-Camarero J,Molinero LM,Bañares R,Albillos A

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chemoprevention offers promise as a strategy for reducing morbidity and mortality from breast cancer in women. This review examined the evidence for the effectiveness of chemoprevention in women without a history of breast cancer. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE (1966 to December 2001). STUDY SELECTION:English-language,...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kinsinger LS,Harris R,Woolf SH,Sox HC,Lohr KN

更新日期：2002-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Folate deficiency is a frequent cause of anemia in alcoholics, but little attention has been paid to its prevention. Folic acid was readily soluble in wines of high ethanol content at concentrations of 10 microgram/ml. Lactobacillus casei folate activity of folic acid added to wines was well maintained during a month'...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaunitz JD,Lindenbaum J

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising health care expenditures have led to numerous cost-control proposals. An examination of the ethical questions surrounding the role that physicians play in the control of health care costs suggests that unilateral rationing decisions by individual physicians at the bedside are morally unacceptable. Such decision...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sulmasy DP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 20 July and 15 Octoboer 1975, five cases of human infection with Babesia microti were diagnosed on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. The illness was characterized by fever, drenching sweats, shaking chills, myalgia, arthralgia, extreme fatigue, and a mild-to-moderate hemolytic anemia. None of the patients had a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Reubush TK 2nd,Cassaday PB,Marsh HJ,Lisker SA,Voorhees DB,Mahoney EB,Healy GR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathologic and neurochemical studies of older adults with Down's syndrome and those with Alzheimer's disease reveal striking similarities. Genetic studies indicate that near relatives of patients with Alzheimer's disease are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, and the risk appears to be age speci...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cutler NR,Heston LL,Davies P,Haxby JV,Schapiro MB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Valid measurement of physician performance requires accurate identification of patients for whom a physician is responsible. Among all patients seen by a physician, some will be more strongly connected to their physician than others, but the effect of connectedness on measures of physician performance is not...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Atlas SJ,Grant RW,Ferris TG,Chang Y,Barry MJ

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with variant angina refractory to medical therapy pose a difficult management problem. We report two patients with variant angina who had focal spasm in coronary arteries with fixed obstructions of less than 20% of the luminal diameter. Ischemic episodes were accompanied by malignant ventricular arrhythmias a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sussman EJ,Goldberg S,Poll DS,MacVaugh H 3rd,Simson MB,Silber SA,Kastor JA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and myasthenia gravis has been infrequently reported. We report another case and show the coexistence of autoantibodies to the platelet glycoprotein IIb and IIIa complex and the acetylcholine receptor. Autoantibody levels were followed during 8 weeks of tr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson MJ,Woods VL Jr,Tani P,Lindstrom JM,Schmidt D,McMillan R

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We diagnosed Waldenström's macroglobulinemia in a father and three offspring. Clinical and subclinical autoimmune disorders occurred excessively in the family. The HLA haplotype A2, B8, DRw3 was detected in all patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and all but one family member with autoimmune manifestations. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Blattner WA,Garber JE,Mann DL,McKeen EA,Henson R,McGuire DB,Fisher WB,Bauman AW,Goldin LR,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In September 1978, cases of hepatitis B in two patients treated by the same dentist led to investigation of a dental practice in Baltimore, Maryland. The dentist had had acute hepatitis B in June 1978 and had remained positive for hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen over the ensuing 6 months. He had ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hadler SC,Sorley DL,Acree KH,Webster HM,Schable CA,Francis DP,Maynard JE

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is currently unknown whether intensive insulin treatment of diabetes decreases the risk for cardiovascular complications by lowering glucose levels or increases the risk by postulated direct atherogenic effects. This article reviews published data from two long-term, randomized clinical trials that compared ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Genuth S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of what is formally taught in medicine is about the knowledge, skills, and behaviors required of a physician, including how to express compassion and respect for patients at the bedside. What is learned, however, includes not only admirable qualities but also behaviors and qualities that are inconsistent with eth...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lehmann LS,Sulmasy LS,Desai S,ACP Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee.

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Stroke rates in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) who are not receiving anticoagulant therapy vary widely across published studies; the resulting effect on the net clinical benefit of anticoagulation in AF is unknown. Objective:To determine the effect of variation in published AF stroke rat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Shah SJ,Eckman MH,Aspberg S,Go AS,Singer DE

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary deficiency of vitamin B-12 has been reported, yet most people ingesting vitamin-B12-deficient diets even for many years appear to achieve a balance that does not lead to overt signs and symptoms of deficiency. I present the case of a vegan of 25 years' duration who developed severe neurologic abnormalities due...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Carmel R

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare generalists' and cardiologists' estimates of baseline cardiovascular risk and the outcomes of preventive therapy. DESIGN:Cross-sectional mail survey using written case simulations of typical patients from primary prevention trials for hypercholesterolemia and isolated systolic hypertension, and te...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Friedmann PD,Brett AS,Mayo-Smith MF

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe more explicitly the components of competence required of the internist, The American Board of Internal Medicine has analyzed the medical encounter and defined the major variables involved: the abilities required of the internist, the tasks that must be performed to solve a medical problem, the medical illn...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine which procedures nephrologists do in practice, where they learned the procedures, and how much training they recommend to achieve and maintain clinical competence in each. DESIGN:Mailed survey. PARTICIPANTS:A random sample of 700 members of the American College of Physicians who were identified...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Tape TG,Wigton RS,Blank LL,Nicolas JA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether initial treatment is necessary in relatively asymptomatic patients with stage III and IV non-Hodgkin's lymphomas of favorable histologic types was studied by retrospective analysis. Two groups of patients were studied: [1] 44 nonprotocol patients, followed since 1963, in whom initial treatment ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Portlock CS,Rosenberg SA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 5379 patients who had received radiation treatment at our institution for benign conditions of the head and neck, 318 developed thyroid cancer 3 to 42 years later. We report follow-up observations (median interval from diagnosis to recurrence or last contact, 10 years; longest interval, 31) for 296 of these patient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schneider AB,Recant W,Pinsky SM,Ryo UY,Bekerman C,Shore-Freedman E

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Whether statin type influences hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence or mortality in chronic hepatitis B or C virus infection is unknown. Objective:To assess the relationship between lipophilic or hydrophilic statin use and HCC incidence and mortality in a nationwide population with viral hepatitis. Des...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Simon TG,Duberg AS,Aleman S,Hagstrom H,Nguyen LH,Khalili H,Chung RT,Ludvigsson JF

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulimarexia, an eating disorder that is characterized by binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting or abuse of cathartic or diuretic drugs, has been defined as both a sequela of anorexia nervosa and a distinct eating disorder. In this review the presentation, prevalence, and complications of the various eating di...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Harris RT

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of orally administered ampicillin, 2 g/d, with that of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, 320 mg/d-1600 mg/d, given for 2 or 6 weeks for outpatient management of acute uncomplicated renal infection in women. Of 98 women participating in the trial, 60 had renal infections with susceptible strains, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stamm WE,McKevitt M,Counts GW

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persons with abdominal aortic aneurysm are more likely to have a higher prevalence of risk factors for and clinical manifestations of cardiovascular disease. It is unknown whether these factors explain the high mortality rate associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm. OBJECTIVE:To describe the risk for mort...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Newman AB,Arnold AM,Burke GL,O'Leary DH,Manolio TA

更新日期：2001-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of quinidine and three alternate antiarrhythmic drugs on serum digoxin concentration in 63 patients before and during administration of quinidine, procainamide, disopyramide, or mexiletine. Quinidine increased digoxin concentration by at least 0.5 nmol/L in 21 of 22 patients: Mean serum digoxin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Leahey EB Jr,Reiffel JA,Giardina EG,Bigger JT Jr

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00