Recurrent glomerulonephritis.

abstract：:Fibrosing colonopathy is a recently described complication of cystic fibrosis, of unknown aetiology but possibly related to treatment with high-dose pancreatic enzyme supplements. We have used a whole gut perfusion technique to study subclinical gut inflammation in cystic fibrosis patients; concentrations of haemoglob...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Croft NM,Marshall TG,Ferguson A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review presents our experience in the use of propranolol in the management of cardiac infarction. The drug has now been shown to have a definite place, not only in the prevention of cardiac infarction, but also in the treatment of some of the complications. The drug has also been advocated because it may minimiz...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sloman G,Hunt D,Ross D

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present the case report of a child with abdominal epilepsy who had suffered from abdominal pain for several months under the label of psychogenic pain. The important historical clues were pallor and cold sweating during the paroxysm, followed by lethargy and prolonged sleep. An abnormal electroencephalogra...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Singhi PD,Kaur S

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythromelalgia is an unusual condition characterized by attacks of burning pain in the hands and feet with local congestion and increased skin temperature. We report a case of erythromelalgia, with transient hypertension and elevated urinary catecholamines successfully treated by hypnotherapy. Such an association has...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chakravarty K,Pharoah PD,Scott DG,Barker S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the West Indies, and is a major health problem today being among the 10 most common causes of death in the English-speaking territories of the region. Most patients have essential hypertension. Renal failure, stroke, and cardiac failure are the most common complicatio...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Grell GA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical techniques are well suited to analysis of growth data. In the past there has been much emphasis on the mathematical description of shape and changes of shape as exemplified by the allometric equation. More recently these methods have been less popular and shape analysis has been handled largely by modern ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Preece MA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To review the clinical and pathological factors associated with fulminant amoebic colitis (FAC) requiring colonic resection and its outcome. METHODS:We retrospectively identified adult patients admitted to our centre between June 2007 and December 2011 with FAC who underwent colonic resection and were diagnosed w...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chaturvedi R,Gupte PA,Joshi AS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism in pregnancy is discussed and illustrated with appropriate cases. The dangers of the usage of high doses of antithyroid drugs and of propranolol are described. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Edwards OM

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The painful pathological condition of the penis, priapism, is usually associated with serious destructive changes which lead to impotence if treatment is with-held or delayed. Conservative therapy is slow, uncertain and usually ineffective. Early surgical decompression of the corpora cavernosa, repeated if necessary, ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ihekwaba FN,Lawani J

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What is the place of medico-historical cases in the professional practice of the disciplinary field of medicine and biology? How can these patients from the past be used for teaching and continuing medical education? How to justify their place in biomedical publications? In this article, we explain all the legitimacy ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Charlier P,Donnell S,Lippi D,Nerlich A,Asensi V,Perciaccante A,Appenzeller O,Bianucci R

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paget's disease of bone is a relatively common condition in the UK affecting up to 5% of the population over the age of 55 years with particularly high prevalence in the North West of England. The majority of those affected are asymptomatic. Its precise cause remains unknown, and until recently, choice of treatment of...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ooi CG,Fraser WD

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four hour intragastric acidity was measured in nine volunteer subjects in a single-blind placebo-controlled cross-over study comparing the effects of famotidine with ranitidine. The volunteer subjects received famotidine (40 mg at night), famotidine (20 mg at night), ranitidine (300 mg at night) or placebo in a...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Santana IA,Lanzon-Miller S,Pounder RE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of eosinophilic fasciitis, with the unusual features of pulmonary and pleural involvement. Similar cases which involve the lungs have been reported after exposure to L-tryptophan, but there is no relevant drug history in this case. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Killen JW,Swift GL,White RJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28 year old female patient with Cushing's syndrome due to an adrenal adenoma also suffered from recurrent urinary infections (proteus), tonsillitis (streptococcus), permanent candidiasis and perimandibular abscess (Staphylococcus pyogenes). Suppression of cellular and humoral immunity was confirmed by in vitro tests...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Würzburger MI,Prelević GM,Brkić SD,Vucković S,Pendić B

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, randomized clinical trial comparing cefaclor with amoxycillin in the treatment of acute otitis media with effusion (OME) in infants and children is being conducted at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Although the randomization code has not yet been broken, the results of treating the first 55 childre...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bluestone CD,Beery QC,Michaels RH,Zanotti ML,Stool SE,Grundfast KM,Wright CM,Mandel EM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high proportion (40%) of patients with definite myocardial ischaemia who were questioned on admission to a Cardiac Monitoring Unit had experienced preceding chest pain which had been misinterpreted by both the patients themselves and doctors as 'indigestion' and which had often been inappropriately treated. 'Indiges...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Simpson FG,Kay J,Aber CP

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elective root replacement in Marfan syndrome has improved life expectancy in affected patients. Three forms of surgery are now available: total root replacement (TRR) with a valved conduit, valve sparing root replacement (VSRR) and personalised external aortic root support (PEARS) with a macroporous mesh sleeve. TRR c...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Treasure T,Takkenberg JJ,Pepper J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mirizzi syndrome is an unusual presentation of gallstones which occurs when a gallstone becomes impacted in either Hartmann's pouch of the gallbladder or the cystic duct, causing obstruction of the common hepatic duct by extrinsic compression. The diagnosis of this syndrome is of importance because surgery in its ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Pemberton M,Wells AD

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described who developed acute peripheral neuropathy of Guillain-Barré type occurring shortly after commencement of captopril for moderately severe hypertension and resolving after discontinuation of the drug. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chakraborty TK,Ruddell WS

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:There are approximately 35 000 in-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year. Successful resuscitation requires integration of the medical science, training and education of clinicians and implementation of best practice in the clinical setting. In 2015, the International Liaison Committee on Res...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Carberry J,Couper K,Yeung J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 77-year old woman with pituitary-driven Cushing's disease is described. The condition was completely controlled on long-term treatment with metyrapone. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Donckier J,Burrin JM,Ramsay ID,Joplin GF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of fatal pseudomembranous enterocolitis associated with ampicillin therapy is described and possible mechanisms for its production discussed. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Read L,Cove-Smith JR

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that acetylcholine antagonists at the neuromuscular junction and elsewhere can act by blocking the ionic channels opened by acetylcholine as well as by competing with acetylcholine for receptor sites. This type of uncompetitive antagonism can be distinguished from competitive antagonism in various wa...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rang HP

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic receptors are present on several different cells in lung and are predominantly involved in bronchoconstriction and mucus secretion. Muscarinic receptor activation leads to breakdown of phosphoinositides in airway smooth muscle cell membranes, which leads to intracellular calcium release and contraction. Mus...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Barnes PJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is a major problem worldwide; it is the leading cause of hospitalisation and is posing a huge financial burden. Advances in healthcare have contributed to increased life expectancy, with a resultant increase in the number of patients with chronic heart failure. For many patients who are still severely sy...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Patel S,Nicholson L,Cassidy CJ,Wong KY

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：PURPOSE:How medical students learn and develop the characteristics associated with good teaching in medicine is not well known. Information about this process can improve the academic preparation of medical students for teaching responsibilities. The purpose of this study was to determine how different experiences cont...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Henry BW,Haworth JG,Hering P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21 year old woman presenting with galactorrhoea, hyperprolactinaemia, and a pituitary mass on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is described who was referred to us before planned pituitary surgery. Although a thorough history did not suggest hypothyroidism, laboratory studies revealed profound primary hypothyroidism....

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Brändle M,Schmid C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral lymphadenopathy is rarely observed, whereas mesenteric lymphadenopathy is found occasionally on laparotomies in patients with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy was reported only once in an autopsy of a patient with FMF. Our case is the second one, and the first one to be di...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rimon D,Meir Y,Cohen L

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has shown that sicker patients are less satisfied with their healthcare, but specific effects of adverse health outcomes have not been investigated. The present study aimed to assess whether patients who experience adverse outcomes, in hospital or after discharge, differ in their evaluation...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Marang-van de Mheen PJ,van Duijn-Bakker N,Kievit J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00