Extraintestinal manifestations in patients with diverticulitis.

abstract：:9-(1,3-dihydroxy-2-propoxymethyl) guanine (ganciclovir) was used to treat 41 patients (median age, 37 years) with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and cytomegalovirus gastrointestinal infection. Sites of infection were the colon in 31, the esophagus in 5, the rectum in 4, and the small bowel in 1. Patients recei...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chachoua A,Dieterich D,Krasinski K,Greene J,Laubenstein L,Wernz J,Buhles W,Koretz S

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young adults with cystic fibrosis have lower blood pressures than control subjects of similar age and sex. The low blood pressure may be related to the excessive loss of salt in the sweat of these patients. A beneficial effect of the cystic fibrosis gene may be protection against developing hypertension in both the ho...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lieberman J,Rodbard S

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain if mitral valve prolapse is inherited we studied 45 probands and 179 first-degree relatives. Echocardiographic mitral prolapse was present in 54 of 179 first-degree relatives (30%); at least one first-degree relative was affected in 29 families, including members of two generations in 23 families. The num...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Devereux RB,Brown WT,Kramer-Fox R,Sachs I

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the available data on the treatment of chronic stable angina and formulate a rational approach to the use of pharmacologic therapy, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). DATA SOURCES:A MEDLINE search of English-language literature publ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Solomon AJ,Gersh BJ

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma lipid and lipoprotein-cholesterol levels were measured in 10 insulin-dependent (Type I) diabetics taking their usual dose of conventionally administered insulin during 6 months of a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion delivered with a small, portable, battery-powered pump. With this insulin delivery system...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dunn FL,Pietri A,Raskin P

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) family of peptides, binding proteins, and receptors are ubiquitous and important for normal human growth and development. Modern techniques including specific radioimmunoassays, radioreceptor assays and recombinant DNA technology have improved our understanding of the role of IGFs ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： LeRoith D,Clemmons D,Nissley P,Rechler MM

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the current knowledge about breast cancer in black women--including epidemiology, risk factors, screening practices, pathology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcome--with emphasis on issues that might explain why the survival rate in this population of women is lower than that in white wome...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moormeier J

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nurse care management programs for patients with chronic illness have been shown to be safe and effective. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a telephone-mediated nurse care management program for heart failure reduced the rate of rehospitalization for heart failure and for all causes over a 1-year period. DES...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： DeBusk RF,Miller NH,Parker KM,Bandura A,Kraemer HC,Cher DJ,West JA,Fowler MB,Greenwald G

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:As the third decade since AIDS was first recognized comes to an end, extraordinary advances have occurred in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of HIV infection and AIDS. As a result of these successes, it is now time to focus on future challenges. Paramount among these is reaching the goal of truly controll...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dieffenbach CW,Fauci AS

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. PURPOSE:To update a systematic review about the benefits of aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in adults aged 40 years or older and to evaluate effect modification in subpopulations. DATA SOURCES:MEDLI...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Guirguis-Blake JM,Evans CV,Senger CA,O'Connor EA,Whitlock EP

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The content, role, and purpose of internal medicine, organized as an American specialty 100 years ago, have been marked by ambivalence from the beginning. Nevertheless, molded to a large extent by external events, including the strategic and symbolic importance of surgery in American medicine, the rise of university m...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stevens R

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of fluvastatin, a synthetic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, combined with moderate alcohol consumption on lipid profiles and hepatic function in patients with primary hypercholesterolemia. DESIGN:Randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study. S...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Smit JW,Wijnne HJ,Schobben F,Sitsen A,De Bruin TW,Erkelens DW

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review evidence about thyroxine suppressive therapy in patients with thyroid nodules, including the clinical importance and natural history of nodules and the effects and potential side effects of thyroxine therapy. DATA SOURCES:English-language articles published from 1986 to December 1996 were identified ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gharib H,Mazzaferri EL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the distribution of and risk factors for colonization and infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci; to evaluate the molecular epidemiology of these strains; and to assess the effect of interventions, including 1) strict adherence to infection control procedures and 2) restricted use of va...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Morris JG Jr,Shay DK,Hebden JN,McCarter RJ Jr,Perdue BE,Jarvis W,Johnson JA,Dowling TC,Polish LB,Schwalbe RS

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy of continuous intravenous infusion of prostacyclin (epoprostenol) in primary pulmonary hypertension. DESIGN:Randomized trial with 8-week treatment periods and nonrandomized treatment for up to 18 months. SETTING:Four referral centers. PATIENTS:Sequential sample of 24 patient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rubin LJ,Mendoza J,Hood M,McGoon M,Barst R,Williams WB,Diehl JH,Crow J,Long W

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. PURPOSE:To systematically review benefits and harms of low-dose aspirin for preventing morbidity and mortality from preeclampsia. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, PubMed, and Cochrane Centra...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Henderson JT,Whitlock EP,O'Connor E,Senger CA,Thompson JH,Rowland MG

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chemoprevention offers promise as a strategy for reducing morbidity and mortality from breast cancer in women. This review examined the evidence for the effectiveness of chemoprevention in women without a history of breast cancer. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE (1966 to December 2001). STUDY SELECTION:English-language,...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kinsinger LS,Harris R,Woolf SH,Sox HC,Lohr KN

更新日期：2002-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Five of 70 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus seen over a 5-year period had peripheral blood films suggestive of hyposplenism. Technetium-99m-sulfur colloid scans showed no splenic activity in three patients. One of these three patients, who had a spontaneous remission of persistent thrombocytopenia concurrent...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dillon AM,Stein HB,English RA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reviews have compared the efficacy and tolerability of newer second-generation antidepressants with those of placebo or older treatments, but comparative evidence for use of second-generation antidepressants to treat major depressive disorder has not been evaluated. PURPOSE:To systematically evaluate compar...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hansen RA,Gartlehner G,Lohr KN,Gaynes BN,Carey TS

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with clinically overt myocarditis in the setting of systemic lupus erythematosus were analyzed in terms of associated clinical and serologic features. Myositis and antibodies to nuclear ribonucleoprotein (RNP) were present in all. A retrospective review in 140 consecutive patients with systemic lupus ery...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Borenstein DG,Fye WB,Arnett FC,Stevens MB

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visits to physicians for genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection continue to increase. Most patients with symptomatic infections have recurrences, but no studies of the long-term clinical course of genital herpes are available. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the frequency of HSV recurrences decreases o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Benedetti JK,Zeh J,Corey L

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful outcomes after cardiopulmonary resuscitation remain disappointingly infrequent, in animal studies, administration of exogenous vasopressin during closed- and open-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation has recently been shown to be more effective than optimal doses of epinephrine in improving vital o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lindner KH,Prengel AW,Brinkmann A,Strohmenger HU,Lindner IM,Lurie KG

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy of pulmonary hypertension is limited by the low potency and adverse effects of current pulmonary vasodilators. The hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in human pulmonary hypertension are not known. We administered nitroglycerin to nine patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension. Nitroglycerin increased card...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Pearl RG,Rosenthal MH,Schroeder JS,Ashton JP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old woman from Mendoza, Argentina, was severely bitten by a dog that died 4 days later. Before death, the dog was nervous, aggressive, and had occasional seizures. Ten days after the woman had been bitten, rabies vaccine treatment was begun: 14 daily doses of suckling mouse brain vaccine followed by 2 booste...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Porras C,Barboza JJ,Fuenzalida E,Adaros HL,Oviedo AM,Furst J

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that 26% of U.S. adults, or about 34 million people aged 20 to 75 years, are overweight. The survey used a body mass index of 27.8 kg/m2 or greater for men and 27.3 or greater for women to define overweight. Prevalence of overweight increases with advan...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Van Itallie TB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of cognitive impairment among elderly primary care patients and to compare diagnostic evaluations and use of health services among patients with and those without cognitive impairment. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Academic primary care group practice. PATIENTS:3954 pa...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Callahan CM,Hendrie HC,Tierney WM

更新日期：1995-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 289 men with nongonococcal urethritis in a randomized, double-blind study with minocycline, 100 mg once or twice daily for 7 or 21 days. Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated before treatment from 167 (58%). The pretherapy isolates from 82 men re-examined 6 to 8 days after initiation of treatment were viable....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stimson JB,Hale J,Bowie WR,Holmes KK

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although HIV infection is more prevalent in people younger than age 45 years, a substantial number of infections occur in older persons. Recent guidelines recommend HIV screening in patients age 13 to 64 years. The cost-effectiveness of HIV screening in patients age 55 to 75 years is uncertain. OBJECTIVE:To...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sanders GD,Bayoumi AM,Holodniy M,Owens DK

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current magnetic resonance techniques generate high signal from venous blood and show thrombi as filling defects. Magnetic resonance direct thrombus imaging (MRDTI) directly visualizes acute thrombus. OBJECTIVE:To determine the accuracy of MRDTI for diagnosis of acute symptomatic deep venous thrombosis (DVT...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fraser DG,Moody AR,Morgan PS,Martel AL,Davidson I

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Folate deficiency is a frequent cause of anemia in alcoholics, but little attention has been paid to its prevention. Folic acid was readily soluble in wines of high ethanol content at concentrations of 10 microgram/ml. Lactobacillus casei folate activity of folic acid added to wines was well maintained during a month'...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaunitz JD,Lindenbaum J

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00