Solid tumors in multiple myeloma.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether low bone density and other risk factors for osteoporosis are associated with stress fractures in athletes. DESIGN:Case-control study. SETTING:Institutional sports injury clinic with primary and secondary care. PARTICIPANTS:Twenty-five athletes (nineteen women) with scintigraphically co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Myburgh KH,Hutchins J,Fataar AB,Hough SF,Noakes TD

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of awareness of hypoglycemia is a major limiting factor in the management of type 1 diabetes. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether reduction in the number of episodes of hypoglycemia restores hypoglycemia awareness by influencing beta-adrenergic sensitivity in patients with type 1 diabetes. DESIGN:Controlled ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fritsche A,Stefan N,Häring H,Gerich J,Stumvoll M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some health plans profile physicians on the basis of their relative costs and use these profiles to assign physicians to cost categories. Physician organizations have questioned whether the rules used to attribute costs to a physician affect the cost category to which that physician is assigned. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mehrotra A,Adams JL,Thomas JW,McGlynn EA

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To synthesize new data on breast cancer screening for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE; the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry; and reference lists of reviews, editorials, and original studies. STUDY SELECTION:Eight randomized, controlled trials of mammography and 2 trials evalua...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Humphrey LL,Helfand M,Chan BK,Woolf SH

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978 the Institute of Medicine issued "A Manpower Policy for Health Care," the report of a study of major issues bearing on the availability of an adequate number of physicians for provision of primary care and on potential strategies for an appropriate manpower policy. The report was analyzed by committees of the ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Peterson ML

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with familial Mediterranean fever and amyloidosis who received a cadaver renal transplant 6 1/2 years ago was studied to determine the relation of the serum precursor of secondary amyloid (SAA) to the clinical course and to the deposition of amyloid in the transplant. Amyloid fibrils extracted from the patie...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Benson MD,Skinner M,Cohen AS

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-nine cases of Legionnaires' disease in a 16-month period were identified in visitors to and residents of Bloomington, Indiana. Thirty-five patients had spent at least one night at the Indiana Memorial Union in the 2 weeks before becoming ill. Five of 32 sporadic cases nationwide between 1 January and 31 March 1...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Politi BD,Fraser DW,Mallison GF,Mohatt JV,Morris GK,Patton CM,Feeley JC,Telle RD,Bennett JV

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 23-year-old woman who developed severe myalgias in association with mild hepatitis B surface antigen-positive hepatitis. Muscle biopsy showed myriads of microvacuoles filled with neutral lipid. Prednisone therapy was associated with complete clearing of all clinical and laboratory abnormalities...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Patten BM,Shabot JM,Alperin J,Dodson RF

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opioids are frequently prescribed for acute musculoskeletal injuries and may result in long-term use and consequent harms. PURPOSE:To explore factors associated with persistent opioid use after its prescription for acute musculoskeletal injury. DATA SOURCES:Searches of multiple electronic databases, withou...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Riva JJ,Noor ST,Wang L,Ashoorion V,Foroutan F,Sadeghirad B,Couban R,Busse JW

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effectiveness of chemotherapy and adjunctive surgery in managing patients with advanced seminoma. DESIGN:Nonrandomized prospective clinical trial of chemotherapy in a cohort of patients with advanced seminoma. SETTING:Referral cancer hospital. PATIENTS:Consecutive sample of 62 patien...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Motzer RJ,Bosl GJ,Geller NL,Penenberg D,Yagoda A,Golbey R,Whitmore WF Jr,Fair WR,Sogani P,Herr H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Thirty-two studies (2889 subjects) that investigated the prevalence of the causes of dementia were critically reviewed. Particular attention was paid to potential and actual reversibility. Although dementia manifests itself primarily in old age (particularly age 75 and older), the mean age of patients for the studies ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Clarfield AM

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Palliative care prioritizes symptom management and quality of life throughout the course of serious illness. Regardless of whether care is inpatient or outpatient, primary or subspecialty, a solid understanding of the basics of effective communication, symptom management, and end-of-life care is crucial. This article ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Swetz KM,Kamal AH

更新日期：2018-03-06 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：:We ascertained the incidence of hypercalcemia in 79 consecutive patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis and a control group of 79 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Twenty-two patients developed hypercalcemia (serum calcium greater than 10.5 mg/dl) within 4 to 16 weeks after initiation of chemoth...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Abbasi AA,Chemplavil JK,Farah S,Muller BF,Arnstein AR

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ear involvement is not unusual in autoimmune diseases, but few data on this problem in the Sjögren syndrome are available. OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the incidence of hearing loss is increased in patients with the Sjögren syndrome and to determine what factors might be involved in the pathogenesis of S...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Tumiati B,Casoli P,Parmeggiani A

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine whether patients with Parkinson disease are at an increased risk for postoperative confusion. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review of patients with Parkinson disease who remained in the hospital at least 48 hours after their surgery. Current data were compared with published historical contro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Golden WE,Lavender RC,Metzer WS

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine, through structured methodologic review of published articles, the effectiveness of short-course (< or = 2 weeks) antibiotic therapy for catheter-related Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. DATA SOURCES:English-language publications on catheter-related S. aureus bacteremia identified using MEDLINE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Jernigan JA,Farr BM

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine out of a kindred of 100 members covering five generations were examined and studied, and 34 were hypercalcemic. Sixteen subjects were believed, on the basis of laboratory and clinical observations, to have primary hyperparathyroidism. Eight patients were subjected to exhaustive study to identify polyendocri...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Goldsmith RE,Sizemore GW,Chen IW,Zalme E,Altemeier WA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rate of use of prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in high-risk hospital patients. DESIGN:A retrospective medical record review. SETTING:A community-wide study in 16 short-stay hospitals in central Massachusetts. PATIENTS:A total of 2017 patients with multiple risk factors for venous th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson FA Jr,Wheeler HB,Goldberg RJ,Hosmer DW,Forcier A,Patwardhan NA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the relative sensitivity and specificity of noninvasive methods for detecting aortic insufficiency, we compared the accuracy of auscultation, echocardiography, and pulsed Doppler echocardiography in detecting aortic insufficiency in 106 patients in whom the presence or absence of the lesion was shown by s...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Grayburn PA,Smith MD,Handshoe R,Friedman BJ,DeMaria AN

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients with advanced refractory metastatic breast cancer no longer responsive to chemotherapy were treated in the first phase II efficacy trial of recombinant leukocyte A interferon (IFL-rA), a highly purified single molecular species of alpha interferon prepared by recombinant DNA methods. Patients receive...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sherwin SA,Mayer D,Ochs JJ,Abrams PG,Knost JA,Foon KA,Fein S,Oldham RK

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restrictive cardiomyopathy produced by primary cardiac amyloidosis may have a clinical syndrome identical to noncalcific constrictive pericarditis. We report two patients with amyloidosis and restrictive physiology who had enlarged papillary muscles shown on left ventricular angiocardiogram. Rapid volume expansion wit...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Maule WF,Martin RH

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the radiofrequency ablation method, describe the technique, and discuss the indications, results, and limitations of its use in patients with cardiac tachyarrhythmias. DATA SOURCES:Peer-reviewed reports in the literature by clinical investigators who use radiofrequency catheter ablation as identified...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Manolis AS,Wang PJ,Estes NA 3rd

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence, cause, and characteristics of pleural effusions in hospitalized patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). DESIGN:Retrospective. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 222 patients with AIDS hospitalized between January 1986 and January 1992 at the Medical University of South ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Joseph J,Strange C,Sahn SA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe shortage of organs greatly limits the ability to deliver the miracle of transplantation to people suffering from end-stage organ disease. Contributing to this shortage is a high rate of refusal among families who are asked for permission to remove organs from a recently deceased relative. Mandated choice offe...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Spital A

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:Thirty-five consecutives patients with classic or definite rheumatoid arthritis underwent echocardiography to evaluate the motion of the anterior mitral valve leaflet. Adequate echocardiograms were obtained in 31 patients. All 31 patients showed normal valve motion and a normal EF slope. If meticulous technique was no...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Davia JE,Cheitlin MD,de Castro CM,Lawless O,Niemi L

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the available evidence on various pharmacologic treatments to prevent fractures in men and women with low bone density or osteoporosis. METHODS:Published literature on this topic was identified by using MEDLINE (1966 to December 2...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Qaseem A,Snow V,Shekelle P,Hopkins R Jr,Forciea MA,Owens DK,Clinical Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee of the American College of Physicians.

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess safety, pharmacokinetics, and in-vivo virologic activity of five different combination regimens of zidovudine and didanosine compared with zidovudine alone in patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. DESIGN:Open-label, partially randomized, dose-ranging study. SETTING:U...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Collier AC,Coombs RW,Fischl MA,Skolnik PR,Northfelt D,Boutin P,Hooper CJ,Kaplan LD,Volberding PA,Davis LG,Henrard DR,Weller S,Corey L

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00