Screening for peripheral artery disease and cardiovascular disease risk assessment with the ankle-brachial index in adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement.

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:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotypes play critical roles in lipid metabolism and are believed to influence risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). Despite many population studies, however, the impact of apoE polymorphism on risk for CHD remains uncertain. PURPOSE:To qualitatively and quantitatively assess the e...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Song Y,Stampfer MJ,Liu S

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a clinical perspective on bilateral massive adrenal hemorrhage and an algorithm for its diagnosis and treatment. DATA IDENTIFICATION:Case reports were identified through a computer search using MEDLIN (1976 to 1987), and from bibliographies in review articles (up to 1978). STUDY SELECTION:Twelve re...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rao RH,Vagnucci AH,Amico JA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S activity may be compromised in patients with the nephrotic syndrome and contribute to a thrombotic diathesis. Protein S is found in two forms in plasma as free and functionally active protein S, and complexed to C4b-binding protein. When compared with controls, patients with nephrotic syndrome had reduced fu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Vigano-D'Angelo S,D'Angelo A,Kaufman CE Jr,Sholer C,Esmon CT,Comp PC

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Warfarin reduces the risk for ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) but increases the risk for hemorrhage. Dabigatran is a fixed-dose, oral direct thrombin inhibitor with similar or reduced rates of ischemic stroke and intracranial hemorrhage in patients with AF compared with those of war...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Freeman JV,Zhu RP,Owens DK,Garber AM,Hutton DW,Go AS,Wang PJ,Turakhia MP

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated candidiasis has become an important infection, particularly in immunocompromised and postoperative patients. Although serologic tests may, in some settings, facilitate a premortem diagnosis, the disease is usually diagnosed by comprehensive clinical evaluation. Detection of the relatively newly recognized...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Edwards JE Jr,Lehrer RI,Stiehm ER,Fischer TJ,Young LS

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-infected patients with sustained immunologic improvement from antiretroviral therapy may be able to discontinue chemoprophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). OBJECTIVE:To compare PCP incidence in HIV-infected patients who had sustained CD4+ lymphocyte counts greater than 200 cells/mm3 a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Yangco BG,Von Bargen JC,Moorman AC,Holmberg SD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some health plans profile physicians on the basis of their relative costs and use these profiles to assign physicians to cost categories. Physician organizations have questioned whether the rules used to attribute costs to a physician affect the cost category to which that physician is assigned. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mehrotra A,Adams JL,Thomas JW,McGlynn EA

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine men with stage III or unresectable stage II malignant germ cell tumors and no previous chemotherapy received treatments with the VAB-6 protocol. The VAB-6 regimen is a 1-year program beginning with three successive inductions at 3-to-4-week intervals: day 1--cyclophosphamide, 600 mg/m of body surface area ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Vugrin D,Herr HW,Whitmore WF Jr,Sogani PC,Golbey RB

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, acupuncture is embedded in naturalistic theories that are compatible with Confucianism and Taoism. Such ideas as yin-yang, qi, dampness, and wind represent East Asian conceptual frameworks that emphasize the reliability of ordinary, human sensory awareness. Many physicians who practice acupuncture rejec...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaptchuk TJ

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

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：:Between 1978 and 1985, the number of active internists in the United States increased from 64,000 to 91,000, and by 1998 the number will have increased to 141,000. This growth represents an increase of 121% for a 20-year period, during which time the population of the United States is expected to increase only 19%. Th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kletke PR,Schleiter MK,Tarlov AR

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：:Meningitis caused by enteric gram-negative bacilli is relatively uncommon but is very difficult to treat despite susceptibility in vitro to many antimicrobics. A major problem appears to be poor entry of many drugs into the central nervous system. Moxalactam is an investigational cephalosporin that attains concentrati...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Olson DA,Hoeprich PD,Nolan SM,Goldstein E

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Five patients with chronic renal failure who were undergoing maintenance hemodialysis developed a self-limited bullous dermatosis restricted to light exposed areas, primarily involving the dorsa of the hands. Porphyrin levels and phototesting were normal, but histologic sections of the bullae showed thickening of venu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gilchrest B,Rowe JW,Mihm MC Jr

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old girl with a clinical diagnosis of adult-type juvenile rheumatoid arthritis developed a severe hepatotoxic reaction to 3.6 g of aspirin per day. This was associated with a microangiopathic anemia and transient congestive cardiac failure. She responded well to steroids, and when all laboratory test finding...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sbarbaro JA,Bennett RM

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To standardize the cutoff points of serum cortisol values in the evaluation of Cushing's syndrome during a low- and high-dose dexamethasone suppression test, daily serum cortisol measurements (0800 hours and 1600 hours) and urinary 17-hydroxycorticosteroids were compared (Study A). Forty-seven subjects were studied (1...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ashcraft MW,Van Herle AJ,Vener SL,Geffner DL

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety commonly accompanies serious illness. However, in some patients anxiety is the primary manifestation of illness. Diagnostic criteria for these "primary" anxiety disorders have been redefined in the most recent revision of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. We discuss thes...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brown JT,Mulrow CD,Stoudemire GA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old man had polar extremes of B cell dysfunction: systemic lupus erythematosus evolving into common variable hypogammaglobulinemia. He presented in 1974 with seizures and six other criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus; his antinuclear antibody titer was 1:1024 and IgG level, 2870 mg/dL. After 5 months o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sussman GL,Rivera VJ,Kohler PF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To define the clinical and hematologic effects of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) on patients with chronic severe neutropenia. DESIGN:Open-label, phase II study of rhGM-CSF. SETTING:Inpatient hematology and surgery clinic at a university medical center. P...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ganser A,Ottmann OG,Erdmann H,Schulz G,Hoelzer D

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently developed radioligand binding techniques permit direct investigation of the alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors for catecholamines in a wide variety of tissues. These techniques allow the receptors to be quantitated, characterized, and studied under varying conditions of physiologic and pathophysiologic inte...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pandemic potential of influenza A (H5N1) virus is a prominent public health concern of the 21st century. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative pandemic (H5N1) mitigation and response strategies. DESIGN:Compartmental epidemic model in conjunction with a Markov mod...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Khazeni N,Hutton DW,Garber AM,Owens DK

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A survey of general internist members of the American College of Physicians (ACP) in 1986 found that they did a large number and variety of procedures in their practices. Since then, changes in the practice of medicine, regulatory requirements, and availability of subspecialists may have affected the number ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Wigton RS,Alguire P,American College of Physicians.

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the incidence of reversible renal insufficiency in patients with hypertensive nephrosclerosis undergoing antihypertensive therapy. DESIGN:Retrospective analysis of 73 patients in a long-term blood pressure control study that compared the effects of an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Toto RD,Mitchell HC,Lee HC,Milam C,Pettinger WA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk for hypertension after kidney donation remains uncertain. PURPOSE:To see whether normotensive adults who donate a kidney develop higher blood pressure and risk for hypertension compared with nondonor adults acting as control participants. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Science Citation Index we...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Boudville N,Prasad GV,Knoll G,Muirhead N,Thiessen-Philbrook H,Yang RC,Rosas-Arellano MP,Housawi A,Garg AX,Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network.

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bayesian inference is usually presented as a method for determining how scientific belief should be modified by data. Although Bayesian methodology has been one of the most active areas of statistical development in the past 20 years, medical researchers have been reluctant to embrace what they perceive as a subjectiv...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Goodman SN

更新日期：1999-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In AIDS, nodular skin disease can result from various causes. OBJECTIVE:To report a new manifestation of microsporidial infection presenting as nodular skin disease with underlying osteomyelitis. DESIGN:Case report. SETTING:Tertiary-care military medical center in Washington, D.C. PATIENT:A 36-year-old w...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kester KE,Turiansky GW,McEvoy PL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To critically assess original studies evaluating the role of preoperative pulmonary function testing in predicting postoperative outcomes. DESIGN:MEDLINE search of English-language articles from 1966 to 1987 using the following medical subjects headings respiratory function tests, lung, lung diseases, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zibrak JD,O'Donnell CR,Marton K

更新日期：1990-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether oral acyclovir reduces the incidence of recurrent herpes labialis in otherwise healthy patients with proven frequently recurrent disease. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial. SETTING:Outpatient facility of the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Heal...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rooney JF,Straus SE,Mannix ML,Wohlenberg CR,Alling DW,Dumois JA,Notkins AL

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00