Congenital absence of the intrahepatic segment of the inferior vena cava with azygos continuation presenting as a mediastinal mass.

abstract：:Current maintenance immunosuppressive regimens for transplantation are based on three classes of drugs: corticosteroids, immunophilin-binding agents (eg, cyclosporin and tacrolimus), and antimetabolites (eg, azathioprine and mycophenolate). Drugs from the various classes inhibit the immune system at different points a...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Vella JP,Sayegh MH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the role of presynaptic receptors in the modulation of neurotransmitter release indicates two types of presynaptic receptors. By means of presynaptic inhibitory autoreceptors a neurotransmitter can regulate its own release. In addition, presynaptic receptors are acted upon by other endogenous compounds, ei...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Langer SZ,Arbilla S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Supreme Court judgement in 'Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board' has caused a change in the law concerning the duty of doctors on disclosure of information to patients regarding risks. The law now requires a doctor to take reasonable care to ensure that the patient is aware of any material risks involved in any ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lee A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient demonstrating a previously not reported constellation of polyglandular autoimmune syndrome type III (including autoimmune thyroiditis, Graves' ophthalmopathy, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and vitiligo), coeliac disease and sarcoidosis is described. This may be a random association but might als...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Papadopoulos KI,Hallengren B

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystinuria is an autosomal recessive disorder in renal tubular and intestinal transport of dibasic amino acids, which results in increased urinary excretion of cystine, ornithine, lysine and arginine. It affects 1 in 20 000 people and is caused by a defect in the rBAT gene on chromosome 2. Development of urinary tract...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ahmed K,Dasgupta P,Khan MS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with calcific constrictive pericarditis due to rheumatoid arthritis is presented: the literature reveals only one previous case which was attributed to the long duration of the rheumatoid arthritis. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Manji H,Raven P

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:A doubld-blind crossover study of oral domperidone (10 mg t.d.s.) involving 48 patients suffering from chronic postprandial dyspepsia, showed a significant relief of symptoms on active treatment compared to placebo. The trial lasted eight weeks, the crossover in medication taking place at four weeks. Side effects were...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Englert W,Schlich D

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish an updated clinical profile of adenocarcinoma of the lung. DESIGN:Retrospective review of clinical charts, chest radiography, and computed tomography of consecutive patients who attended Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong between June 1995 and December 1997. RESULTS:In the 115 patients studied, 13% wer...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lam B,Lam WK,Lam CL,Ooi GC,Ho JC,Wong MP,Tsang KW

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity to digoxin was monitored in 437 consecutive recipients in a comprehensive drug surveillance programme, Adverse reactions developed in 19.5% and, in contrast to previous reports, were generally of a relatively benign nature. There were no drug-related deaths, but patients with adverse reactions spent longer in...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Henry DA,Lowe JM,Lawson DA,Whiting B

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of amino acid supplements to peritoneal dialysis fluid has been studied in 8 patients with compromised renal function requiring peritoneal dialysis. By the addition of 10 ml of Vamin-glucose solution to each one litre of peritoneal dialysate, amino acid losses were curtailed, no significant alterations oc...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jackson MA,Talbot S,Thomas DW,Lee HA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary choriocarcinoma of the ovary arising, presumably, from a germ cell is extremely rare. The patient, a 16 year old girl who presented with dysuria and frequency of micturition developed fatal haemoperitoneum due to rupture of a pure primary nongestational ovarian choriocarcinoma. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Raju GC,Woo J,Marchack D,Naraynsingh V

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with acute leukaemia and other malignancies susceptible to varicella were vaccinated with the Oka-strain live attenuated varicella vaccine during maintenance chemotherapy. All recipients showed no adverse clinical reactions. There was no spread of vaccine virus. Seroconversion was 94% in seronegati...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Haas RJ,Belohradsky B,Dickerhoff R,Eichinger K,Eife R,Holtmann H,Goetz O,Graubner U,Peller P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cardiorespiratory diseases can complicate human immunodeficiency virus infection. Primary pulmonary hypertension is a rare clinical disorder which carries a bad prognosis. More than 90 cases of HIV-associated primary pulmonary hypertension have been reported to date. Although its pathogenesis remains unknown, ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Golpe R,Fernandez-Infante B,Fernandez-Rozas S

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：PURPOSE:Large population studies now demonstrate that frailty is prevalent in all adult age groups. Limited data exist on the association between frailty and surgical outcome in younger patients. The aim of the study was to explore the agreement between frailty identification tools and collect pilot data on their predi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dale MacLaine T,Baker O,Burke D,Howell SJ

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued that as the major occupational cancer risks become matters of historical interest, research epidemiologists working in the field should broaden their approaches to encompass life style factors. In the investigation of possible low-cancer risks, it no longer makes any sense to confine their data-collecting...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Roe FJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular complications of cirrhosis include cardiac dysfunction and abnormalities in the central, splanchnic and peripheral circulation, and haemodynamic changes caused by humoral and nervous dysregulation. Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy implies systolic and diastolic dysfunction and electrophysiological abnormalities...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Møller S,Henriksen JH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six Arabs subjects (three postpubertal, two prepubertal and one pubertal) from three interrelated Omani families with male pseudohermaphroditism due to 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were evaluated. These subjects had been raised as girls since birth as they were born with a clitoral-like phallus and ambiguous externa...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： al-Attia HM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm currently accounts for about 1 in 200 deaths and is a critical surgical emergency with an average hospital mortality of 50%. The combination of acute massive haemorrhage in an elderly patient with pre-existing medical disease is highly lethal and a major challenge for any health care...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Brimacombe J,Berry A

更新日期：1994-04-01 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 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome can rarely present with pre-excited atrial fibrillation. In this condition the short refractory period of the accessory pathway can lead to rapid atrioventricular conduction. There is then a danger that at high heart rates the irregular broad complex tachycardia that results can dete...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Adlam D,Azeem T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new formulation of propofol appears to be approximately equipotent to the previous formulation when used as an infusion to supplement nitrous oxide anaesthesia in patients premedicated with morphine. Preliminary haemodynamic studies indicate that the emulsion formulation causes more arterial hypotension than the o...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Coates DP,Prys-Roberts C,Spelina KR,Monk CR,Norley I

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new UK Foundation Programme is competency based, with a trainee's progression dependent on achieving and demonstrating a range of competencies. However, we do not know whether all rotations, comprising different combinations of specialties, will enable the foundation programme trainees to acquire these competencie...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Higgins R,Cavendish S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with carcinoma of the stomach invading multiple adjacent organs and fungating through the anterior abdominal wall was treated by en bloc multiple organ resection and abdominal wall reconstruction. The patient is alive and well at the time of writing, six months after the operation. The rationale for embarkin...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chu KM,Lai DT,Stern HS,Sheldon DM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described with severe haemorrhage from a lumbar artery following percutaneous renal biopsy. The exact source of haemorrhage in this previously unreported complication proved difficult to locate even at surgical exploration. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jamison MH,Coward RA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) was performed on 28 elderly patients (mean age 82 years) who were dysphagic and intolerant of naso-gastric feeding. Twenty-six patients were recovering from a stroke; the interval between the onset of stroke and PEG averaged 63 days. The procedure was successful and well toler...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Finucane P,Aslan SM,Duncan D

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leg ulcer is a leading cause of morbidity among older subjects, especially women in the Western world. About 400 years BC, Hippocrates wrote, "In case of an ulcer, it is not expedient to stand, especially if the ulcer be situated on the leg". Hippocrates himself had a leg ulcer. The best treatment of any leg ulcer dep...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sarkar PK,Ballantyne S

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:In order to assess the neurohormonal responses to oral administration of two drugs with different antihypertensive mechanisms, and their implications for long-term efficacy, we studied the changes in plasma renin activity, aldosterone, catecholamines and blood pressure after two cross-over periods of treatment with ca...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rabinad E,Gaya J,Rivera F,Ingelmo M,Balcells A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00