Prevalence and characteristics in coding, classification and diagnosis of diabetes in primary care.

abstract：:Asthma is an inflammatory disease characterized by infiltration of the airways by eosinophils and ensuing bronchial hyperresponsiveness. The activation of eosinophils and their recruitment to the airways are strongly influenced by T-lymphocytes and their products. There is now evidence that successful therapy of asthm...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Milgrom H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who developed persistent nephrogenic diabetes insipidus associated with renal tubular acidosis, renal resistance to parathyroid hormone, aminoaciduria and proximal tubule pattern proteinuria in the presence of a reduced glomerular filtration rate (19-24 ml/min). A review of the previous reports of ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Neithercut WD,Spooner RJ,Hendry A,Dagg JH

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of digoxin toxicity presenting with clinical and electroencephalographic evidence of encephalopathy without other features of digoxin toxicity. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Greenaway JR,Abuaisha B,Bramble MG

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercalcaemia occurs in up to 80% of patients with adult T-cell leukaemia-lymphoma (ATLL) associated with human T-cell leukaemia virus-1 infection. Elevated serum levels of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, implicated in the pathogenesis of hypercalcaemia in lymphoma, and of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP), ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Johnston SR,Hammond PJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review considers some of the more common problems in the interpretation of the results of biochemical tests and, where possible, highlights ways in which errors can be identified or avoided. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ayling RM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 114 patients (52 males and 62 females) with long-standing pernicious anaemia, hypoferritinaemia was found in 27 (23.7%) and hypochromic microcytic anaemia in 19 (16.6%). Our findings indicate that iron deficiency is a common yet neglected complication of long-standing pernicious anaemia and warrants greater diagnos...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Atrah HI,Davidson RJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosis is common in Parkinson's disease (PD), particularly in its later stages. The symptoms range from comparatively minor illusions, vivid dreams, and occasional, non-disturbing visual hallucinations to frank psychosis. The pathogenesis of psychosis in PD is not fully known. Management of psychosis in PD requires...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Thanvi BR,Lo TC,Harsh DP

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:It has long been accepted that communication is of central importance in healthcare, and a core aspect of clinical competence. Many educational institutions and Royal Colleges now reflect this and consider communication skills a priority in postgraduate examination. The new examination "Practical Assessment of Clinica...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dacre J,Richardson J,Noble L,Stephens K,Parker N

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Ganglioneuroblastoma in the spinal region is rare, the treatment of choice being surgical excision. We present a 21 year old male who was diagnosed to have this condition in the dorsolumbar spinal region. The tumour was extending intraspinally and was unresectable. Combination chemotherapy with Adriamycin (doxorubicin...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Raina V,Kamble R,Tanwar R,Singh SP,Sharma S

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：:A 32 year old man with alcohol-induced pain over a right submandibular swelling is described. Excision biopsy of this swelling revealed chronic sialadenitis and the symptoms promptly ceased following this excision. We speculate on the possible pathophysiological mechanism. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Okany CC,Akinsete I,Akinyanju OO

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For gastroenterology, The Royal College of Physicians reiterates the common practice of two to three consultant ward rounds per week. The Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operated a 26-bed gastroenterology ward, covered by two consultants at any one time. A traditional system of two ward rounds per...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Singh S,Lipscomb G,Padmakumar K,Ramamoorthy R,Ryan S,Bates V,Crompton S,Dermody E,Moriarty K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most consultants are involved in the training and assessment of several grades of doctors in training especially senior house officers (SHOs) and specialist registrars. In the medical and other specialties there is an increasing trend towards assessing junior doctors' competency using the record of in-training assessm...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Carr SJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine infants were examined who presented with rectal bleeding in the first month of life. In 64% of these children no cause was found. Infantile diarrhoea, haemorrhagic disease of the newborn and anal fissure were the most common diagnoses made. The mortality in the entire group was less than 3%. It is concluded...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Levene MI

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal free gas seen radiologically as air under the diaphragm nearly always indicates a perforated abdominal viscus that requires surgical intervention. Rarely, however, the presence of a pneumoperitoneum may not indicate an intra-abdominal perforation and thus may not require laparotomy. Such a situation is...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Williams NM,Watkin DF

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:Staging for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) requires accurate assessment of the mediastinal lymph nodes which determines treatment and outcome. As radiological staging is limited by its specificity and sensitivity, it is necessary to sample the mediastinal nodes. Traditionally, mediastinoscopy has been used for eva...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Medford AR,Bennett JA,Free CM,Agrawal S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34 year old female presented with weight loss and hepatomegaly. Liver biopsy revealed clinically unsuspected metastatic choriocarcinoma. Severe haemorrhage occurred, and the patient died following complications after laparotomy. The possibility of choriocarcinoma should be remembered in women of child-bearing age wh...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Alveyn CG,Loehry CA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that endoscopic haemostasis is beneficial for patients with a bleeding peptic ulcer. The relevance of such data to management outside of RCTs is unclear. Therefore we examined management of patients with a bleeding peptic ulcer in a UK teaching hospital. METHOD...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Mahadeva S,Linch M,Hull MA

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:Antenatal appendicular perforation leading to localized meconium peritonitis and intestinal obstruction is reported in a premature neonate. The baby was successfully treated by a limited ileocaecal resection. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Narasimharao KL,Mitra SK,Pathak IC

更新日期：1987-11-01 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：:This is a case report of a boy who presented with unilateral foot drop approximately 1 year after traumatic injury from skateboarding. Exploratory surgical operation was eventually performed, and histological examination of the surgical specimen revealed leprous peripheral neuropathy of the peroneal nerve. The patient...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Choe W

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary gland lymphoma is associated with Sjögren's syndrome. A case of bilateral submandibular gland and sublingual gland lymphoma, arising in Sjögren's syndrome, is presented. A lymphoma involving more than one salivary gland may occur in Sjögren's syndrome, and there is an increased risk of developing an extrasali...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Law NW,Leader M

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance is an important concern for patients, physicians, healthcare managers, and policymakers. Inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing fuels the evolution of resistance, while poor basic hygiene facilitates the spread of resistant microbes between patients and healthcare staff. The development of infec...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Barlow G,Nathwani D

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：: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