Endomyocardial firbrosis and Löffler's endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica.

abstract：:The protean neurological manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are reviewed. Both the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system may be affected and many of the complications may occur in individuals with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related complex, or who are seroposit...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Kennedy PG

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis (PsO) is a chronic skin disease. This study aims to evaluate clinical and subclinical response to calcipotriol+betamethasone foam, in patients with PsO, comparing, for the first time, data from microvascular ultrasound (MicroV) and shear wave elastography (SWE) with Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI). ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Guazzaroni M,Ferrari D,Lamacchia F,Marisi V,Tatulli D,Marsico S,Orlacchio A,Floris R,Bianchi L,Dattola A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of stress mechanisms in hypertension have focussed on the cardiovascular and neuroendocrine reactions to challenging or threatening psychosocial stimuli. Fixed hypertension may develop in some animal models following chronic exposure to psychosocial conflict. Acute experiments in humans show that marked...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Steptoe A

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of second-generation calcium antagonists are dihydropyridines, some of which show vascular selectivity. Several new dihydropyridines have been developed with comparable pharmacodynamic properties to existing calcium antagonists in this class and greatly improved kinetic half-lives. Of these agents, amlodi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Opie LH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with diabetes mellitus and associated neuropathy, who presented with painless foot swelling and no history of trauma. X-Rays revealed recent underlying fractures-in one of a metatarsus, and the other of a proximal phalanx. These were assumed to be 'stress' fractures unassociated with pain beca...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gill G,Benbow S,Tesfaye S,Kaczmarczyk E,Kaye L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72 year old man developed acute myeloblastic leukaemia two years after he had been treated with local curative therapy and chemotherapy for a solitary plasma cytoma of the ilium. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Maharaj D,Dolan G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital clubbing has been a well recognised feature of several distinct clinical conditions, including respiratory, cardiac, and gastrointestinal diseases since the Hippocratic era. However, clubbing associated with Behçet's disease has not been reported before. We describe a case of clubbing in a young man with Behçe...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Benekli M,Güllü IH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 114 patients (52 males and 62 females) with long-standing pernicious anaemia, hypoferritinaemia was found in 27 (23.7%) and hypochromic microcytic anaemia in 19 (16.6%). Our findings indicate that iron deficiency is a common yet neglected complication of long-standing pernicious anaemia and warrants greater diagnos...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Atrah HI,Davidson RJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enabling healthcare staff to report concerns is critical for improving patient safety. Junior doctors are one of the groups least likely to engage in incident reporting. This matters both for the present and for the future, as many will eventually be in leadership positions. Little is known about junior doct...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Hooper P,Kocman D,Carr S,Tarrant C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well documented sporadic case of multiple endocrine adenomatosis (MEA) type I, with the pituitary tumour presenting as a prolactinoma, is described in a 28-year-old female. Primary amenorrhoea, resulting from hyperprolactinaemia, was the first symptom of the polyglandular neoplasia. A gastrinoma was removed from the...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Vandeweghe M,Braxel K,Schutyser J,Vermeulen A

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In severe appendicitis, the effect of a single intravenous dose of metronidazole (500 mg) was compared with cefoxitin (1 g). The antibiotics were given by random allocation once the diagnosis had been established at operation. In the metronidazole group, 5 out of 48 patients developed a wound infection whilst in hospi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Corder AP,Bates T,Prior JE,Harrison M,Donaldson PJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-centre double-blind randomized study is reported in which the effect on mortality of oral disopyramide (300 mg loading dose, then 100 mg qds) was compared with placebo in 1985 patients entering hospital with suspected acute myocardial infarction. Treatment was commenced with 24 hr of onset of symptoms (mean ti...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors：

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess body weight, as defined by the body mass index (BMI), has been associated with several diseases and includes subjects who are overweight (BMI≥25-29.9 kg/m(2)) or obese (BMI≥30 kg/m(2)). Overweight and obesity constitute the fifth leading risk for overall mortality, accounting for at least 2.8 million adult deat...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bardou M,Barkun AN,Martel M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herniation of a thoracic disc in an acromegalic giant is reported. Degenerative changes in the spine in association with dorsal kyphosis, and the additional strain, resulted in the disc prolapse. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chhang WH,Sharma BS,Dash RJ,Kak VK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fatal case of occult foramen magnum meningioma is described which presented with features of cervical myelopathy confirmed by cervical myelogram. Surgical decompression led to initial improvement followed by progressive deterioration and death. Postmortem examination revealed a 4 cm diameter foramen magnum meningiom...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chakravarty K,Scott DG,Dick D,Visick J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the development of synchronous bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome in a woman with metastatic colorectal cancer, undergoing treatment with recombinant interleukin 2. A carpal tunnel decompression was carried out on the hand which was more severely affected, with a gradual recovery in median nerve function. To t...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Heys SD,Mills KL,Eremin O

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the remarkable advances in cardiovascular therapeutics over the past four decades, little impact has been made on either the incidence or mortality rate of congestive heart failure and it remains a major clinical and public health problem. Recent practice audits have suggested that proven efficacious therapies...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： McAlister FA,Teo KK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five per cent of patients with germ cell tumours of the testis will develop a further tumour in the contralateral testis. Standard treatment in such cases is a second orchidectomy, resulting in infertility, hormone replacement, and psychological morbidity. In this case report we explore the role of testis conservation...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sawyer EJ,Oliver RT,Tobias JS,Badenoch DF

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a very common disorder, which results in an increase in fracture risk. The annual cost attributable to hip, vertebral, and wrist fractures in England and Wales is pound 1.7 billion. Significant mortality and morbidity are associated with osteoporotic fractures. The method that is most widely used for t...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Christodoulou C,Cooper C

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum potassium concentration was normal (greater than or equal to 3.6 mmol/l) in 29 of 32 patients with the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone excess (SIADH) associated with a bronchogenic carcinoma. In 11 of the patients there was no significant change in serum potassium concentration after correction of...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Padfield PL,Morton JJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of severe chronic iron deficiency anaemia secondary to blood loss from gastric angiodysplasia. The clinical features, diagnosis and management of this uncommon condition are discussed. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Tung KT,Millar AB

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (PCD) is an important terminal pathway for cells of multicellular organisms, and is involved in a variety of biological events that include morphogenesis, maintenance of tissue homeostasis, and elimination of harmful cells. Dysfunction of PCD leads to various diseases in humans, especially variou...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sun Y,Peng ZL

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute necrotizing pancreatitis in a 53-year-old man with an ectopic adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) producing bronchial carcinoma is described. The aetiology of acute pancreatitis in relation to steroid therapy and malignancy is discussed and it is suggested that excess endogenous steroid production may also cau...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Clague HW,Warren B,Krasner N

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of nilvadipine on the peripheral circulation in the lower extremities using a duplex system of two-dimensional colour and pulse Doppler ultrasonography were studied in 32 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and mild essential hypertension. The patients (19 men and 13 women) were randomly divided into tr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sone H,Okuda Y,Mizutani M,Kawakami Y,Bannai C,Yamashita K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Cushing's syndrome rarely become pregnant. This is a high risk situation both for the fetus and the mother, if untreated. We report a patient with Cushing's syndrome due to adrenocortical adenoma who became pregnant and was successfully treated with ketoconazole during the last period of pregnancy. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Amado JA,Pesquera C,Gonzalez EM,Otero M,Freijanes J,Alvarez A

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made in rodents of the interactions between a range of psychotropic drugs, narcotic agonist and partial agonist analgesics, and pain. In rodents, tricyclic antidepressants do not alone reduce pain responses but, in combination with morphine or pentazocine, clomipramine enhances analgesic activity afte...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lee RL,Spencer PS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonic strictures are very common and are a frequent finding on double contrast barium examination; they very often reflect the presence of malignancy, diverticular disease, ischaemia, inflammatory bowel disease, and rarely mycobacterial disease. A case of mycobacterial disease mimicking malignancy is presented; this...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rees JR,Longstaff A,Rigby HL,Smith DL,Dixon AR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teams within surgery have been through countless cycles of refinement with an ever-increasing list of surgical team members. This results in a more dispersed team, making effective teamwork harder to achieve. Furthermore, the ad hoc nature of surgical teams means that team familiarity is not always given. The impact o...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Kumar H,Morad R,Sonsati M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8 month old Caucasian girl, with congenital central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome (Ondine's Curse), was discharged with her home ventilation managed by her parents. Her subsequent neurophysical development assessed at 22 months of age was satisfactory. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chang YL,Meerstadt PW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans peritonitis developed in a 48-year-old man with a perforated gastric ulcer who subsequently was treated with intravenous amphotericin B. The drug penetrated well into the inflamed peritoneal cavity and eradicated the organism from the peritoneal fluid. Nevertheless, at post-mortem, Candida organisms w...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Peterson LR,Kelty RH,Hall WH,Votava HJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00