Adrenal insufficiency and bilateral adrenal enlargement: demonstration by computed tomography.

abstract：:Gastric outlet obstruction by gall stone is a rare complication of a common disorder. Two cases are reported here. The investigations are conducted along the same lines as for pyloric stenosis. The diagnosis can be made with a barium meal or gastroscopy. Treatment is by surgical intervention after adequate resuscitati...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ah-Chong K,Leong YP

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some antifungal agents have been tested qualitatively in various associations against species of Candida, Cryptococcus and Torulopsis. The method used was the channel test and the results are confirmed by comparison with the serial dilution test in agar. The antagonism in vitro with the combination of amphotericin B i...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dupont B,Drouhet E

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defence against the reactive oxidants produced during aerobic metabolism is a complex process and is provided by a system of enzymes and antioxidant compounds capable of preventing excess radical production, neutralising free radicals and repairing the damage caused by them. Regulation of the antioxidant system must p...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Szaleczky E,Prechl J,Fehér J,Somogyi A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound guidance has been reported to facilitate the performance of lumbar punctures (LPs). However, the use of ultrasound guidance has not yet received consistent conclusions. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of ultrasound-guided LPs. PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane Libr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Shu L,Huang J,Liu JC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with alcoholic cardiomyopathy is described in whom cardiovascular function capacity and radiological heart size fluctuated widely with periods of heavy drinking and abstinence. On two occasions, cessation of drinking resulted in clinical recovery from severe degrees of congestive failure and in complete reve...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Kupari M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient presented with tracking of pus from a chronic appendiceal abscess along the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh. In the absence of such a tunnel, which is only present in a small proportion of individuals, the infection would have resulted in a subinguinal psoas abscess. Although pus may conceivably extend ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gatt D

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with chronic pancreatitis presented with a series of massive upper gastrointestinal haemorrhages due to bleeding into the pancreatic duct. This report emphasizes the value of intensive investigation before surgery, since it may be impossible to identify the site of bleeding at laparotomy. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ribbans WJ,Pounder RE,Lindsay I

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is reported of a patient presenting with recurrent acute myocardial infarction due to stent thrombosis resulting from possible clopidogrel resistance caused by interaction between clopidogrel and anti-tuberculosis drugs. A brief overview of drug interaction as a risk factor for clopidogrel resistance is given...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Srinivasan M,Smith D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) associated with disseminated intravascular clotting (DIC) is usually fatal. Such a combination generally occurs at the term of pregnancy or in the immediate postpartum period. A case of AFE with DIC following a hypertonic-saline-induced abortion, is reported. The patient was in the midtri...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ballas S,Lessing JB,Michowitz M

更新日期：1983-02-01 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：:Acute ventilatory failure is a challenging yet increasingly common medical emergency reflecting the growing burden of respiratory disease. It is not a diagnosis in itself but the end result of a diversity of disease processes culminating in arterial hypoxaemia and hypercapnia. This review focuses on key management iss...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chakrabarti B,Calverley PM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral subconjunctival haemorrhage was observed on 5 separate occasions in 4 patients presenting a fulminant form of acute severe asthma. Four of these episodes required ventilatory support. All patients recovered from their asthma attack after treatment with bronchodilators, corticosteroids, and oxygen. The incide...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rodriguez-Roisin R,Torres A,Agustí AG,Ussetti P,Agustí-Vidal A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute oliguric renal failure following gentamicin and linocomycin therapy is described. Renal biopsy showed an acute interstitial nephritis. This was associated with high serum gentamicin levels and the later development of ototoxicity. Withdrawal of antibiotics and conservative measures was followed by rapi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bell GM,Thomson D

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although risk assessment is an integral part of management, there are currently no risk calculators of long-term mortality after acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The aim was to provide risk equations for 10-year and 20-year mortality following ACS. METHODS:Patients hospitalised with ACS from December 1990 to ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Magri CJ,Debono R,Calleja N,Galea J,Fava S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with coronary atherosclerosis present with angina, myocardial infarction and sudden death, most often caused by atherosclerotic stenosis complicated by spasm and/or occlusive thrombosis. All of these events have been shown to exhibit similar diurnal rhythms, with a peak incidence in the morning after waking a...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Selwyn AP,Raby K,Vita JA,Ganz P,Yeung A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer related deaths among women worldwide. The disease in women occurs at a younger age in Iran than in western communities. OBJECTIVE:To determine the practice of breast self examination (BSE) among 25-54-year-old women in Shiraz, southern Iran. METHODS:Using a ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Simi A,Yadollahie M,Habibzadeh F

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiazide diuretics used alone to treat hypertension can cause hypokalaemia in a substantial proportion of patients. The possibility exists that any benefit of reducing high blood pressure by such treatment may be offset by an increased mortality due to arrhythmias initiated by hypokalaemia. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Poole-Wilson PA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to report the incidence of hospital-acquired hypophosphataemia and hyperphosphataemia along with their associated in-hospital mortality. METHODS:We included 15 869 adult patients hospitalised at a tertiary medical referral centre from January 2009 to December 2013, who had normal serum phosphate le...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Thongprayoon C,Cheungpasitporn W,Chewcharat A,Petnak T,Mao MA,Srivali N,Bathini T,Vallabhajosyula S,Qureshi F,Kashani K

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Leuco-erythroblastosis has many known associations (Burkett, Cox and Fields, 1965; Weick, Hagedorn and Linman, 1974; Retief, 1964), but the only ones related to drug therapy are the well established response to haematinics (Burkett et al., 1965) and one possible case following anti-epileptic therapy (Retief, 1964). Th...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Trenchard PM,Wells CE,Jarriwalla AG

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head injury from physical abuse is unfortunately a common occurrence in our society. It is a major cause of mortality and long-term physical and psychological disability in children. Diagnosis of non-accidental head injury may be difficult, as most infants present with non-specific clinical findings and without extern...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rajaram S,Batty R,Rittey CD,Griffiths PD,Connolly DJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "natural childbirth" denotes an approach to childbirth characterised by a bias towards physical and mental hygiene in the management of pregnancy and labour. It emerged in Britain in the interwar period, partly as a response to the growing interventionism of mainstream obstetrics. Its appeal since then has re...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Moscucci O

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with associations of hereditary neuropathies and heritable skeletal disorders not previously reported. The first patient had Marfan's syndrome and hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy Type 1. The second patient had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Klippel-Feil syndrome and tomaculous neuropathy. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chattopadhyay AK,Kandler RH,Sharrack B

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to determine the effects of long-term insulin therapy on the development and regression of lipid perturbations and experimental cholesterol atherosclerosis in rabbits: (1) Insulin administration for 15 days significantly reduced plasma lipid levels and free fatty acids in rabbits fed a high-chol...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Marquié G

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the quality and the quantity of food ingested are relevant to the genesis of risk factors for coronary heart disease and the two are inseparable. Nevertheless they have a major common pathway through hypertension, which may well be the most important consequence of a high-protein, high-carbohydrate, high-fat, hig...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Brook CG

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on "second look" pelviscopic control in 438 cases of pelvic endometrosis, additional hormonal antigonadotrophin therapy with danazol represents the most effective treatment for endometriosis. The rationale is well explained by Dmowski and Scommegna (1976). As endocrine treatment alone cannot control severe cases...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Mettler L,Semm K

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postherpetic neuralgia is defined as pain persisting, or recurring, at the site of shingles at least three months after the onset of the acute rash. Thus defined, at least half of shingles sufferers over the age of 65 years develop postherpetic neuralgia. In addition to increasing age, less important risk factors for ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bowsher D

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the occurrence of primary hyperaldosteronism in two sisters. Although this is only the second published report of familial Conn's syndrome, it does have implications for the relatives of patients with Conn's syndrome and these are discussed. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： London N,Swales J,Hollinrake K,Bell P,Heagerty A

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol is a major cause of liver cirrhosis in the Western world and accounts for the majority of cases of liver cirrhosis seen in district general hospitals in the UK. The three most widely recognised forms of alcoholic liver disease are alcoholic fatty liver (steatosis), acute alcoholic hepatitis, and alcoholic cirr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Walsh K,Alexander G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is good evidence that D-penicillamine can induce polymyositis, the exact pathogenic mechanism remains unclear. We report two patients with psoriatic arthritis and primary biliary cirrhosis respectively, who developed polymyositis while receiving D-penicillamine treatment for their primary diseases. Whet...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Aydintug AO,Cervera R,D'Cruz D,Ramírez G,Asherson RA,Khamashta MA,Hughes GR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Priapism is a pathological condition of penile erection that persists beyond, or is unrelated to, sexual stimulation. Pathologically and clinically, two subtypes are seen-the high flow (non-ischaemic) variety and the low flow (ischaemic) priapism. The low flow type is more dangerous, as these patients are susceptible ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Cherian J,Rao AR,Thwaini A,Kapasi F,Shergill IS,Samman R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00