Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island. Clinical features.

abstract：PURPOSE:To review methods of preventing or minimizing the adverse effects associated with the transfusion of passenger leukocytes present in cellular blood components and to define groups of patients who are at risk for adverse effects. DATA SOURCES:English-language articles on transfusion medicine. STUDY SELECTION:O...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lane TA,Anderson KC,Goodnough LT,Kurtz S,Moroff G,Pisciotto PT,Sayers M,Silberstein LE

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has supported screening for gonorrhea and chlamydia in asymptomatic, sexually active women (including pregnant women) who are younger than 25 years or at increased risk but not in other patient populations. PURPOSE:To update the 2005 and 2007 systematic reviews for the U.S. Preventive Serv...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zakher B,Cantor AG,Pappas M,Daeges M,Nelson HD

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antioxidant vitamins are thought to play a role in atherosclerosis. Supplementation of these nutrients has been explored as a means of reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. PURPOSE:To assess the evidence of the effectiveness of vitamin supplementation, specifically vitamins A, C, and E; beta-caro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Morris CD,Carson S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current standard initial therapies for deep venous thrombosis are low-molecular-weight heparin and unfractionated heparin. In a dose-ranging study of patients with symptomatic deep venous thrombosis, fondaparinux had efficacy and a safety profile similar to those of low-molecular-weight heparin (daltepar...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Büller HR,Davidson BL,Decousus H,Gallus A,Gent M,Piovella F,Prins MH,Raskob G,Segers AE,Cariou R,Leeuwenkamp O,Lensing AW,Matisse Investigators.

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional interpretation of clinical trials relies heavily on the classic p value. The p value, however, represents only a false-positive rate, and does not tell the probability that the investigator's hypothesis is correct, given his observations. This more relevant posterior probability can be quantified by an ex...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Diamond GA,Forrester JS

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three patients with hyperparathyroidism from six families with the multiple endocrine adenomatosis (MEA) I-syndrome were tested by secretin provocation. In nine cases this led to increases in serum gastrin ranging from 298 to 13 300 pg/ml, whereas the maximum rise in gastrin in the other 14 patients was 32 pg/m...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lamers CB,Buis JT,van Tongeren J

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk for hypertension after kidney donation remains uncertain. PURPOSE:To see whether normotensive adults who donate a kidney develop higher blood pressure and risk for hypertension compared with nondonor adults acting as control participants. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Science Citation Index we...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Boudville N,Prasad GV,Knoll G,Muirhead N,Thiessen-Philbrook H,Yang RC,Rosas-Arellano MP,Housawi A,Garg AX,Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network.

更新日期：2006-08-01 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

abstract：:Molecular analysis of normal and abnormal human globin genes and their gene products has recently provided information on the precise genetic events that result in hemoglobinopathies. In the case of structurally abnormal hemoglobins, the following mechanisms can be invoked: single nucleotide base substitutions leading...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Forget BG

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare generalists' and cardiologists' estimates of baseline cardiovascular risk and the outcomes of preventive therapy. DESIGN:Cross-sectional mail survey using written case simulations of typical patients from primary prevention trials for hypercholesterolemia and isolated systolic hypertension, and te...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Friedmann PD,Brett AS,Mayo-Smith MF

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether prolonging the duration of tamoxifen administration beyond the cessation of a combined chemotherapy regimen benefits patients with primary breast cancer with positive findings in axillary nodes who benefit initially from the combined regimen. DESIGN:Nonrandomized, nonconcurrent cohort st...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fisher B,Brown A,Wolmark N,Redmond C,Wickerham DL,Wittliff J,Dimitrov N,Legault-Poisson S,Schipper H,Prager D

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between oral contraceptives and death from thromboembolism shown by studies of vital statistics, and the contribution of cigarette smoking to these deaths are reviewed. In 1968 a British study showed that a slight increase in deaths from thromboembolism had occurred in young women, proportional to th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Masi AT

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk for venous thromboembolism during pregnancy or postpartum is uncertain. OBJECTIVES:To estimate the relative and absolute risk for deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism during pregnancy and postpartum and to describe trends in incidence. DESIGN:Population-based inception cohort study using ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Heit JA,Kobbervig CE,James AH,Petterson TM,Bailey KR,Melton LJ 3rd

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous epidemiologic studies of staphylococcal infections in newborn infants and surgical patients provide clues to the method of infection in toxic shock syndrome. In newborn infants, staphylococci were shown to be transmitted most often by the hands of nursery personnel to the umbilical stump, which afforded a war...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mortimer EA

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the major cancer killer of women in the United States. Recent advances in therapy promise more effective control of this illness. The development of hormone receptor analysis permits us to better understand the mechanisms of action of steroid and peptide hormones and increases the likelihood of using ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1977-06-01 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：:Arterial blood gas analysis is used to evaluate oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange and acid-base status. Few studies identify indications for arterial blood gas analysis, especially with regard to optimizing the quality of patient care. General indications in severely ill adults usually include pathophysiologic ab...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Raffin TA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of the presence of a patent foramen ovale on the right-to-left shunt in patients with respiratory failure who receive positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). DESIGN:Convenience sample with randomized application of PEEP. SETTING:General intensive care unit of a university teaching h...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cujec B,Polasek P,Mayers I,Johnson D

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These supplemental recommendations provide guidelines for a monovalent influenza A(H1N1) vaccine for protection against a newly emerged variant of influenza that has recently caused outbreaks among children and young adults in Asia. Guidance is provided for the use of this monovalent vaccine, which contains 15 microgr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for 6 weeks achieves sustained virologic response (SVR) rates of 95% in some patients. If effective, shorter therapeutic courses could improve adherence and treatment costs. OBJECTIVE:To determine factors predictive ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kohli A,Kattakuzhy S,Sidharthan S,Nelson A,McLaughlin M,Seamon C,Wilson E,Meissner EG,Sims Z,Silk R,Gross C,Akoth E,Tang L,Price A,Jolley TA,Emmanuel B,Proschan M,Teferi G,Chavez J,Abbott S,Osinusi A,Mo H,Poli

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To appraise the measurement properties of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) classification of stable angina pectoris. DATA SOURCES:Relevant articles were identified through a MEDLINE search (1976 to November 1991). Bibliographies of retrieved articles were also reviewed. STUDY SELECTION:Studies chos...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cox J,Naylor CD

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the temporal characteristics of cocaine-induced coronary vasoconstriction in humans and to assess the relation between cocaine-induced coronary vasoconstriction and the blood concentration of cocaine and its main metabolites. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial. SETTING:Card...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brogan WC 3rd,Lange RA,Glamann DB,Hillis LD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1950s witnessed prodigious growth in our knowledge of the chemical nature of the gene, the mechanisms by which the information inherent in its sequence of nucleotide units was conveyed to the cell's machinery for synthesizing proteins, and the mode of operation of that machinery. Watson and Crick raised the curtai...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoagland MB

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the detection of tuberculostearic acid (TBSA) in bronchial aspirate and bronchoalveolar lavage specimens is useful for the rapid diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis in patients suspected of having the disease. SETTING:A pulmonary clinic in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS:Forty pati...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Pang JA,Chan HS,Chan CY,Cheung SW,French GL

更新日期：1989-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfasalazine is metabolized by intestinal bacteria, resulting in the release of sulfapyridine and 5-aminosalicylate. The drug is useful in the treatment of active ulcerative colitis as well as in preventing relapses of the disease in remission. Although effective in active Crohn's disease as well, sulfasalazine appea...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Peppercorn MA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the National Cooperative Gallstone Study, therapy with chenodiol, 750 or 375 mg/d, for 2 years resulted in confirmed, complete gallstone dissolution in 14% and 5% of patients, respectively, and partial dissolution (greater than 50%) in 27% and 18%. The present study was done to determine the frequency with whic...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Marks JW,Baum RA,Hanson RF,Hersh T,Hightower NC Jr,Mekhjian H,Schaefer RA,Soloway RD,Thistle JL,Thomas FB

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low back pain is common, but a herniated intervertebral disk is the cause in only a small percentage of cases. Most symptomatic disk herniations result in clinical manifestations (pain, reflex loss, muscle weakness) that resolve with conservative therapy, and only 5% to 10% of patients require surgery. Sciatica is usu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Deyo RA,Loeser JD,Bigos SJ

更新日期：1990-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dietary and lifestyle modification efforts are the primary treatments for people who are obese or overweight. The effect of dietary counseling on long-term weight change is unclear. PURPOSE:To perform a meta-analysis of the effect of dietary counseling compared with usual care on body mass index (BMI) over ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dansinger ML,Tatsioni A,Wong JB,Chung M,Balk EM

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-infected patients with sustained immunologic improvement from antiretroviral therapy may be able to discontinue chemoprophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). OBJECTIVE:To compare PCP incidence in HIV-infected patients who had sustained CD4+ lymphocyte counts greater than 200 cells/mm3 a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Yangco BG,Von Bargen JC,Moorman AC,Holmberg SD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease of carbohydrate metabolism. However, it should also be considered a vascular disease because diabetic patients have a strong predilection for atherosclerosis. With the increasing prevalence and earlier age at onset of diabetes, the projected effect of diabetes on cardiov...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hurst RT,Lee RW

更新日期：2003-11-18 00:00:00