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abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was designed to identify differences among internists in their attitudes about diabetes and how those attitudes influence practice behavior. METHODS:A cross-sectional study of 55 internists in an academic medical center was done using the Diabetes Attitude Scale (DAS-3), a valid and reliable meas...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Egede LE,Michel Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a wealth of publications extolling the virtues of the double contrast barium enema (DCBE), it is clear that change is only gradual and that in many institutions the single contrast, full column barium enema (BE) is still the routine method of colonic investigation. Much of this may be due to a persistent belie...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Young J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight women were tested with a standard three-hour oral glucose tolerance test before and after three years of using a combination-type oral contraceptive containing mestranol and ethynodiol diacetate (Ovulen). At the three-year test time there was a significant elevation of the patients' weights and their 1-, ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Spellacy WN,Buhi WC,Birk SA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many hospitalized anemic patients do not undergo appropriate evaluation. We hypothesized that specific clinical variables were likely to be important in triggering evaluation for iron deficiency anemia. METHODS:We prospectively identified 637 consecutive anemic patients without acute gastrointestinal bleedi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Ioannou GN,Spector J,Rockey DC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a cholestatic liver disease that usually presents in middle-aged women. Women are about ten times more commonly affected than men. The case of a 78-year-old man with PBC who presented with pruritus is discussed. Liver biopsy and antimitochondrial antibody serology were diagnostic of ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Dash A,Kragel P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented a case of primary testicular carcinoid in an otherwise asymptomatic 50-year-old white man treated by right orchiectomy; a postoperative abdominal CT scan was normal. Histologically and cytologically the tumor resembled carcinoids of midgut origin. Most primary testicular carcinoid tumors are not clin...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Walker AN,White CR,Erickson DJ,Powell S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To deliver effective care, healthcare systems should understand patients' preferences for weight management across a spectrum of needs. Our objective was to describe patients' perceptions of what helps or hinders weight loss and maintenance. METHODS:Semistructured interviews were conducted with patients who ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pfoh ER,Flench R,Varghai NH,King M,Heinberg LJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marked increase in the number of cases of shigellosis was reported in Kentucky in 1988. To examine reasons for this increase, we reviewed the 389 cases of shigellosis reported from 1986 through 1989. Ninety-three percent (285/305) of cases due to known species were due to Shigella sonnei. Sixty-two percent (243/389)...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pelletier AR,Finger RF,Sosin DM

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiodarone, a benzofuran derivative, has proven useful in the control of serious cardiac arrhythmias. We reviewed the English language medical literature to characterize clinical, radiographic, scintigraphic, pathologic, diagnostic, and prognostic data concerning amiodarone pulmonary toxicity. Our review showed that f...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Fraire AE,Guntupalli KK,Greenberg SD,Cartwright J Jr,Chasen MH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citalopram is the newest selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) available in the United States. It is currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of major depression. However, a number of studies have found it to be effective in the treatment of panic disorder as well. While there h...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Brauer HR,Nowicki PW,Catalano G,Catalano MC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported is the fifth known case of Addison's disease due to adrenal involvement by North American blastomycosis (Blastomyces dermatitidis infection). The fact that amphotericin B therapy precipitated an addisonian crisis suggests that patients with disseminated blastomycosis should have their adrenal function and res...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Chandler PT

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was performed to examine the effect of stress on pregnancy outcome in women who underwent assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures. METHODS:In a controlled clinical study of healthy volunteers in an academic research environment, stress was measured subjectively by administering patient ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Lovely LP,Meyer WR,Ekstrom RD,Golden RN

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented an unusual case of CJD in which the magnetic resonance images obtained four months before death revealed high signal intensity in the caudate nuclei bilaterally. These findings correspond to severe involvement of this region at autopsy. This radiologic pattern has not generally been included in the d...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pearl GS,Anderson RE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucralfate is an unabsorbed antiulcer drug that binds to gastrointestinal tissue and protects it from acid and pepsin. Twenty-two arthritic patients taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were given sucralfate concomitantly for two weeks in an attempt to lessen gastrointestinal side effects. Changes from...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Caldwell JR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterize pain and exposure after Prolift placement and identify risk factors. METHODS:A case series of women who underwent Prolift vaginal mesh were surveyed. Pain was assessed using a visual analog scale. Exposure was evaluated clinically. RESULTS:Of 183 eligible patients, 160 completed the survey,...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Illston JD,Garris JB,Richter HE,Wheeler TL 2nd

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients with cirrhosis have a high rate of 30-day hospital readmission that affects their quality of life and contributes to increased healthcare-related costs. The aim of our study was to identify frequency, predictors, and preventable causes of hospital readmissions among patients with decompensated cirrh...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Agrawal K,Kumar P,Markert R,Agrawal S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pneumococcal endocarditis in an infant is reported together with a review of seven cases previously described in the literature. The prominent presenting symptoms of this usually fatal disease consisted of tachycardia, tachypnea, and cardiomegaly. A new murmur was heard in six of the eight patients. Fever wa...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Tolaymat A,Rhatigan RM,Levin S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endorphins and narcotics have been implicated in the exacerbation of neurologic deficits after stroke. To test the theory that narcotic antagonists might offer an improvement in neurologic sequelae following stroke, we administered various doses of naloxone intraperitoneally to 50 adult gerbils 45 minutes after caroti...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Benzel EC,Musgrove CC 2nd,Kesterson L

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the current use of β-blockers in patients with compelling indications for use, following the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS:We performed a multicenter retrospective observational study using data from all of the patients admitted to five institutions for...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Pinner N,Oliver W,Veasey T,Starr J,Eudaley S,Hutchison A,Wargo K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred sixty-two adolescents being seen for sick or well visits at two suburban private pediatric practices completed an anonymous, written questionnaire about drug habits. The respondents' ages ranged from 14 to 17 years; all were white and from middle-class or upper-middle-class families. The adolescents report...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Schwartz RH,Hayden GF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac ascites is a rare condition. Diagnosis is aided by liver histology, which characteristically shows diffuse hepatic congestion affecting the centrilobular region. In our case of refractory ascites due to constrictive pericarditis, diagnosis was delayed because centribular hepatic congestion was absent histologi...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Kirsch M,Fleshler B

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described two cases of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma, characterized by sedimentation level seen on unenhanced cerebral CT, in patients receiving anticoagulation therapy. Anticoagulation or coagulopathy may be important in producing sedimentation levels. The "sedimentation level" is a more accurate term th...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Huang TY,Ahn SS

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old farmer had signs and symptoms of dinitrophenol poisoning after crop spraying with a herbicide containing derivatives of 2,4-dinitrophenol. Dinitrophenol causes toxicity by the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria of cells throughout the body. In man the classic syndrome consists of...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Leftwich RB,Floro JF,Neal RA,Wood AJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic splenosis is rare, with fewer than two dozen reported cases. Patients uniformly have a history of splenectomy with combined abdominal and thoracic trauma. Clinical signs and symptoms are usually absent, and the condition is most often discovered on routine chest radiography. The interval between trauma and cl...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Buchino JJ,Buchino JJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study goals were to document the incidence of elevated blood pressure (BP) values in public high school students in Tulsa, Oklahoma; to determine whether age and sex are risk factors; and to encourage adolescents with abnormal screening BP values to seek medical care. Over a 2-year period, 5537 adolescents aged 14...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： O'Quin M,Sharma BB,Miller KA,Tomsovic JP

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study supports the plea by a number of psychiatrists for thorough psychiatric and psychologic screening of all persons seeking sexual reassignment surgery. The patient, a female impersonator taking estrogen, was seriously considering such an operation in order to cope with identity problems and an inability ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Roback H,McKee E,Vogelfanger R,Corney R

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Guidelines have recommended that risk stratification be performed in patients diagnosed with an acute pulmonary embolism (PE). No study has described the use of risk stratification in routine clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to measure the frequency and impact of risk stratification on treatm...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Stamm JA,Long JL,Kirchner HL,Keshava K,Wood KE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potentially serious iatrogenic hand injuries occurred in three patients in a general medicine practice. All resulted from technologic advances in patient care. Each resulted in substantial economic and emotional costs. One patient sustained a serious residual disability. Such injuries have rarely been reported in the ...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Burris JF,Fairchild PG

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporary tissue expander can generate an excess of full-thickness skin that can be recruited into an adjacent area of tissue deficiency caused by scar contracture. The creation of a pseudobursa enhances the functional improvement gained by this technique. Now in its developmental stage, tissue expansion carries a...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Hagerty RC,Zubowitz VN

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodular fasciitis is a benign proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in the subcutaneous tissues. The lesions are generally small and solitary, arising commonly in the upper extremities of adults and in the head and neck region of infants and children. A history of trauma may precede these reactive lesions, b...

journal_title：Southern medical journal

authors： Zuber TJ,Finley JL

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00