Coccidioidomycosis of the thyroid.

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：:The prevalence of sleep apnea was studied in 46 middle- and older-aged men with "essential hypertension." Thirty-four age- and weight-similar normotensive men were also studied. Fourteen hypertensive men and three controls had sleep apnea syndrome, as defined as greater than ten apneas per hour of sleep. Hypertensive ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fletcher EC,DeBehnke RD,Lovoi MS,Gorin AB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the use of thyroid function tests to monitor therapy in patients taking levothyroxine. DATA IDENTIFICATION:Studies published between 1966 and January 1990 were identified through computer searches and references of identified studies. STUDY SELECTION:Studies that included a careful description of ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Helfand M,Crapo LM

更新日期：1990-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Injection insulin therapy is not readily accepted by patients and many health care providers; therefore, less invasive options for insulin therapy are desirable. PURPOSE:To examine the efficacy, safety, and patient acceptability of inhaled insulin therapy in nonpregnant adults with diabetes mellitus. DATA ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ceglia L,Lau J,Pittas AG

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:After decades of silence, the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM) has made considerable efforts to come to terms with its role and actions during the Nazi era (1933 to 1945). This is particularly important because, with more than 27 000 members, the DGIM is the largest medical society in present-day Germany. S...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hofer HG,Forsbach R,Fölsch UR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Triplex vaccine was developed to enhance cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific T cells and prevent CMV reactivation early after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT). Objective:To determine the safety and efficacy of Triplex. Design:First-in-patient, phase 2 trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02506933). Setting:3...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Aldoss I,La Rosa C,Baden LR,Longmate J,Ariza-Heredia EJ,Rida WN,Lingaraju CR,Zhou Q,Martinez J,Kaltcheva T,Dagis A,Hardwick N,Issa NC,Farol L,Nademanee A,Al Malki MM,Forman S,Nakamura R,Diamond DJ,TRIPLEX VACCINE St

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the most effective and safe dose of enoxaparin to prevent deep venous thrombosis in high-risk surgical patients. DESIGN:A double-blind, randomized, multicenter clinical trial. SETTING:Private, university, and government hospitals in the United States. PATIENTS:572 patients having elective hip ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Spiro TE,Johnson GJ,Christie MJ,Lyons RM,MacFarlane DE,Blasier RB,Tremaine MD

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest that patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (MI) in December have poor outcomes, and some studies have hypothesized that the cause may be the infrequent use of evidence-based therapies during the December holiday season. OBJECTIVE:To compare the care and outcomes of ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Meine TJ,Patel MR,DePuy V,Curtis LH,Rao SV,Gersh BJ,Schulman KA,Jollis JG

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year follow-up evaluation of young men with fixed and reproducible orthostatic proteinuria showed no evidence of progressive renal disease. Follow-up information was obtained on 43 of the original 64 patients and detailed information was secured on 36. All had normal renal function and only six patients continued...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Springberg PD,Garrett LE Jr,Thompson AL Jr,Collins NF,Lordon RE,Robinson RR

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocarditis is a relatively frequent infection in intravenous drug users. We compared features in the cases of 102 patients with those in intravenous drug users with other causes of fever to identify risk factors predictive of endocarditis. Logistic regression analysis showed cocaine use to be strongly associated wit...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chambers HF,Morris DL,Täuber MG,Modin G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much time and effort are spent on designing primary research studies. Similar care must be given to planning systematic reviews. The review should be based on an important, well-focused question that is relevant to patient care. By formulating the question properly, the criteria that primary studies must meet to be in...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Counsell C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney transplantation is safe, cost-effective, and beneficial for patients with end-stage renal disease. The number of patients who can receive transplants is severely limited by the availability of donor organs. Because most patients do not have a suitable living, related donor, transplant programs now rely on the u...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Waltzer WC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe hypocalcemia secondary to magnesium depletion has been described in numerous patients with gastrointestinal disorders. The development of profound hypomagnesemia in chronic renal disease is a rare finding. We studied three patients with advanced renal failure and magnesium depletion. Severe hypocalcemia also wa...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mennes P,Rosenbaum R,Martin K,Slatopolsky E

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some important health policy topics, such as those related to the delivery, organization, and financing of health care, present substantial challenges to established methods for evidence synthesis. For example, such reviews may ask: What is the effect of for-profit versus not-for-profit delivery of care on patient out...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bravata DM,McDonald KM,Shojania KG,Sundaram V,Owens DK

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive palliative care, as exemplified by many state-of-the-art hospice programs, is the standard of care for the dying. Although palliative care is very effective, physicians, nurses, patients, families, and loved ones regularly face clinically, ethically, legally, and morally challenging decisions throughout ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Quill TE,Lee BC,Nunn S

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether patients understand that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces only chronic stable angina and not myocardial infarction (MI) or associated mortality. OBJECTIVE:To compare cardiologists' and patients' beliefs about PCI. DESIGN:Survey. SETTING:Academic center. PARTICIPANTS:...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rothberg MB,Sivalingam SK,Ashraf J,Visintainer P,Joelson J,Kleppel R,Vallurupalli N,Schweiger MJ

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled clinical trial compared three-drug and four-drug combination chemotherapy in 109 patients with advanced small-cell anaplastic carcinoma of the lung. The combination of vincristine, 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (CCNU), cyclophosphamide, and methotrexate was significantly superior to the com...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hansen HH,Dombernowsky P,Hansen M,Hirsch F

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with systemic lupus erythematosus randomly received inactivated bivalent (A/NJ and A/Victoria) influenza vaccine or saline in a double-blind study. During 20 weeks of follow-up, no deterioration in major organ function or increase in disease flares was observed in the immunized group as compared with th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Williams GW,Steinberg AD,Reinertsen JL,Klassen LW,Decker JL,Dolin R

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of difficulties in antemortem diagnosis of systemic aspergillosis, a radioimmunoassay to an Aspergillus fumigatus carbohydrate was developed and evaluated in patients with mycotic or bacterial infections. Antigenemia was detected in sera obtained antemortem from four of seven patients with systemic aspergillos...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weiner MH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging under loading stress is hypothesized to improve the diagnostic value of magnetic resonancel imaging (MRI) for musculoskeletal conditions. This article reviews 57 studies about MRI under physiologic loading stress performed in an upright or sitting position or under axial loading by using a compression device. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dahabreh IJ,Hadar N,Chung M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary deficiency of vitamin B-12 has been reported, yet most people ingesting vitamin-B12-deficient diets even for many years appear to achieve a balance that does not lead to overt signs and symptoms of deficiency. I present the case of a vegan of 25 years' duration who developed severe neurologic abnormalities due...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Carmel R

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to surge in the United States and globally. OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology of COVID-19-related critical illness, including trends in outcomes and care delivery. DESIGN:Single-health system, multihospital retrospective cohort study. SETTING...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anesi GL,Jablonski J,Harhay MO,Atkins JH,Bajaj J,Baston C,Brennan PJ,Candeloro CL,Catalano LM,Cereda MF,Chandler JM,Christie JD,Collins T,Courtright KR,Fuchs BD,Gordon E,Greenwood JC,Gudowski S,Hanish A,Hanson Iii C

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of combined idiopathic immune neutropenia and immune thrombocytopenia (thromboneutropenia). Therapy with prednisone was ineffective. Treatment with vincristine raised the patient's platelet count but did not increase the neutrophil count. Splenectomy led to a prompt complete remission. Using radioimmu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Linker CA,Newcom SR,Nilsson CM,Wolf JL,Shuman MA

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a new perspective with which to understand what for a half century has been known as the "placebo effect." We argue that, as currently used, the concept includes much that has nothing to do with placebos, confusing the most interesting and important aspects of the phenomenon. We propose a new way to underst...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moerman DE,Jonas WB

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome had biliary obstruction resulting from benign strictures of the biliary tract. Stenosis of the distal common bile duct with differing degrees of irregularity of the smaller intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts was seen in association with either cryptosporidial...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Margulis SJ,Honig CL,Soave R,Govoni AF,Mouradian JA,Jacobson IM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients with chronic type B hepatitis were treated with corticosteroids in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial lasting 28 days. Ten patients received prednisolone, 60 mg/d for 2 weeks, then 30 mg/d for another 2 weeks; 5 patients received placebo. Serum aminotransferase levels decreased signi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoofnagle JH,Davis GL,Pappas SC,Hanson RG,Peters M,Avigan MI,Waggoner JG,Jones EA,Seeff LB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amantadine HCl administration has resulted in accelerated resolution of influenza A illness. Prolonged abnormalities in pulmonary function have been described in uncomplicated influenza A. To study the effect of amantadine on these changes, we evaluated young adults with documented natural influenza A with clear chest...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Little JW,Hall WJ,Douglas RG Jr,Hyde RW,Speers DM

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilson's disease is an inherited disorder of copper accumulation that is fatal if untreated. Because penicillamine, the established treatment, is toxic in a substantial number of patients, we studied the efficacy of zinc treatment. We induced a negative or neutral copper balance in five out of five patients with Wilso...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brewer GJ,Hill GM,Prasad AS,Cossack ZT,Rabbani P

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most frequent cancer worldwide, responsible for approximately 1,000,000 deaths annually, most of them in the Far East and in sub-Saharan Africa. It usually presents at an advanced stage and has a poor prognosis. There is evidence of an etiologic role for hepatitis B virus infection in t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Di Bisceglie AM,Rustgi VK,Hoofnagle JH,Dusheiko GM,Lotze MT

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To critically evaluate the evidence for recommending the screening of asymptomatic men for prostate cancer with a blood test to detect a prostate-specific antigen (PSA). DATA SOURCES:Relevant articles on screening for prostate cancer were identified from MEDLINE searches, from the authors' files, and from th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kramer BS,Brown ML,Prorok PC,Potosky AL,Gohagan JK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00