Effect of nivazol in Nelson's syndrome.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A surgical approach to airway management may be essential in situations of difficult or failed airway, where immediate airway access is needed to provide oxygenation. However, the procedure is uncommonly performed and expertise among emergency clinicians may be limited. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study wa...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Alshareef H,Al Saawi A,Almazroua F,Alyami H,Reilly GO,Mitra B

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68 year old man developed cranial diabetes insipidus 3 years after the diagnosis of myelofibrosis, coincident with a marked increase in nucleated cell count. No mass lesion was demonstrable on computed tomographic or magnetic resonance imaging. It is suggested that hypothalamic damage was caused by local infiltratio...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dornan TL,Gillett G,Jones PA,Jeffcoate WJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:The interpretation of gastrin release is confused because of variation in the technique of the radioimmuoassay of gastrin, the lack of a standard stimulus for the release of gastrin and diversity in the method used to express the results. These problems have been analysed (a) by examining the cross-reactivity of three...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Russel RC,Bloom SR,Fielding LP,Bryant MG

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF STUDY:The aim of the study is to describe the prevalence of illicit drug use in England and Wales using data from the UK Survey of Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs (NMURx) programme and to compare against the well-established Crime Survey England and Wales (CSEW). The rationale is that recreational and ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ng FL,Rockhill K,Black J,May KP,Whittington MD,Wood DM,Dargan PI,Green JL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of infusions of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on platelet deposition at atherosclerotic sites in vivo in man have been examined. Thirteen patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease received intravenous PGE1 25 mg/kg/min for 6 hours daily for 5 days. Prostaglandin E1 had no effect on platelet uptake at athero...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sinzinger H,O'Grady J,Fitscha P

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is a chronic disorder which often entails debilitating cardiovascular and renal complications. Hypertension mostly arises as a complex quantitative trait that is affected by varying combinations of genetic and environmental factors. Secondary hypertension has been encountered with increasing frequency. Th...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sukor N

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:The insulin resistance/metabolic syndrome is characterised by the variable coexistence of hyperinsulinaemia, obesity, dyslipidaemia, and hypertension. The pathogenesis of the syndrome has multiple origins, but obesity and sedentary lifestyle coupled with diet and still largely unknown genetic factors clearly interact ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Kolovou GD,Anagnostopoulou KK,Cokkinos DV

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To audit the current UK outpatient workload and compare this to the national standards as set out by the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) in A Quality Urological Service for Patients in the New Millennium published in October 2000. PARTICIPANTS:520 UK (NHS) and 21 Republic of Ireland (non-NH...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gilmore PE,Shackley DC,Clarke NW,Betts CD,O'Flynn KJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of fetal tension pneumoperitoneum following gastric perforation due to aerophagy is described. Comment is made on the probably pathogenesis. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Hutchinson GH,Alderson DM,Turnberg LA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae is common, but it is rarely life-threatening. A case is reported in a previously healthy adult whose illness was severe enough to require treatment with intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) for 14 days and which resolved after treatment with corticosteroids. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： McGonigle R,Wagstaff JK

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome treated from the outset continuously for more than a year with the histamine H2-receptor antagonist cimetidine is reported. Symptomatic response has been dramatic and sustained, marked endoscopic improvement has been observed with healing of oesophageal, gastric and sto...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Larkworthy W,Davies HL

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) traumatic brain injury (TBI) age-based clinical prediction rules identify children at very low risk of a significant head injury who can safely avoid CT. Our goal was to independently validate these prediction rules. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study....

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Schonfeld D,Bressan S,Da Dalt L,Henien MN,Winnett JA,Nigrovic LE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repetitive laboratory testing in stable patients is low-value care. Electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions are easy to disseminate but can be restrictive. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of a minimally restrictive EHR-based intervention on utilisation. SETTING:One year before and after interve...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chin KK,Krishnamurthy A,Zubair T,Ramaswamy T,Hom J,Maggio P,Shieh L

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe case of the cast syndrome is described following Harrington rod distraction and application of a body cast. The case was unusual as it presented late with no warning symptoms and progressed rapidly to death. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Kennedy RH,Cooper MJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal disease in Churg-Strauss syndrome is generally thought to be benign in nature, thereby distinguishing this rare condition from other necrotizing vasculitides. We report a case in which acute renal failure developed during the aggressive vasculitic phase of the illness requiring dialysis therapy. After one week o...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Davenport A,McDicken I,Goldsmith HJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroperitoneal fibrosis, either idiopathic or associated with aortic inflammatory aneurysm, is a chronic fibrotic disease that causes progressive obstruction of ureters and vessels around the lower abdominal aorta. Treatment is often difficult (surgery) or hazardous (steroids). We report a case of a woman with retrop...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Frankart L,Lorge F,Donckier J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described who developed acute pericarditis during a severe first attack of Crohn's disease. The opportunity was taken to measure levels of circulating immune complexes, both during the acute phase of the illness and during convalescence; no significant change in these levels from normal values was found. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Manomohan V,Subbuswamy SG,Willoughby CP

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the relationship between cognitive impairment and conventional measures of disability in multiple sclerosis (MS), quality of life (QOL) and employment status using the brief international cognitive assessment for multiple sclerosis (BICAMS) in the routine outpatient clinic. METHODS:62 patients wi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Campbell J,Rashid W,Cercignani M,Langdon D

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of severe and irreversible alopecia occurring in patients with common variable immunodeficiency are described. In all three cases, hair loss developed after the diagnosis of immune deficiency; one of the patients also had extensive vitiligo. A fourth patient had vitiligo in the absence of alopecia. No chan...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Spickett G,Prentice AG,Wallington T,Webster AD,Chapel H

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with disseminated ovarian carcinoma presented with symptoms of hypocalcaemia secondary to hypomagnesaemia. The low serum magnesium (0.4 mmol/l) appeared to be due to renal leakage with no evidence of ureteric obstruction or hydronephrosis on intravenous urogram. Parathyroid hormone activity (serum levels and...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Leese GP,Jung RT,Browning MC

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman presented with painful enlargement of her parotid and submandibular glands. She was shown to have the previously unreported combination of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Sjögren's syndrome, Hashimoto's disease, and myasthenia gravis. Parotid gland biopsy and bone marrow examination showed the presence of...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Savage AW,Shareef DS,Maher EJ,Bennett MH,Thomas DJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since January 1974, alternate cadaveric renal transplants were treated with antilymphocyte globulin (Behringwerke) om addotopm to prednisone and azathioprine. Thirty patients were treated in this way. 53% of patients receiving ALG had a functioning graft at six months as opposed to 40% in the control group. This diffe...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jakobsen J,Flatmark A,Sodal G,Thorsby E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strips form canine saphenous veins were incubated with (3H)-noradrenaline and mounted for superfusion. 5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT inhibited the release of tritium caused by sustained electrical stimulation (2 Hz, 150 mA, 0.1 msec) being about 10 times more potent than noradrenaline. 5-HT inhibited contractions induced ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Müller-Schweinitzer E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with nephrotic syndrome developed fatal fulminant hepatitis B following withdrawal of prednisolone or cyclophosphamide. Immunosuppressive therapy probably enhanced hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication and widespread infection of hepatocytes; its withdrawal permitted a return of immune competence resulting ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Onwubalili JK

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In less than ideal situations wounds have to be closed without extensive cleaning using sterile adhesive strips (Steristrips). This prospective analyses the efficiency of this technique and compares it to the more conventional approach. METHODS:Altogether 147 lacerations were closed with sterile strips with...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Maharaj D,Sharma D,Ramdass M,Naraynsingh V

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young man who presented with a 3 week history of fever and severe headache accompanied by mild leukocytosis, was found to have lymphocytic meningitis due to Coxiella burnetti. Thus, Q fever can present as lymphocytic (aseptic) meningitis responsive to tetracycline with no evidence of pulmonary involvement. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Schattner A,Kushnir M,Zhornicky T,Fenakel G

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In Sweden, patient malpractice claims are handled administratively and compensated if an independent physician review confirms patient injury resulting from medical error. Full access to all malpractice claims and hospital discharge data for the country provided a unique opportunity to assess the validity of pa...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Pukk-Härenstam K,Ask J,Brommels M,Thor J,Penaloza RV,Gaffney FA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish a cerebral hypoxia ischaemic model in piglets and to explore the early diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) as well as the expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE). METHODS:Twenty four 3 day old piglets were permanently ligated common carotid arteries b...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Cheng Y,Liu GR,Guan JT,Guo YL,Li YK,Wu RH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00