Primary cardiac amyloidosis: an angiocardiographic clue to early diagnosis.

abstract：:In addition to gonorrhea and syphilis, both of which may develop primarily at anorectal or pharyngeal sites, a number of conditions, including Neisseria meningitidis urethritis, nonspecific urethritis, anorectal herpes, condyloma acuminatum, amebiasis, giardiasis, shigellosis, typhoid fever, enterobiasis, and hepatiti...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Owen WF Jr

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little evidence exists to support the theory that small-bore nasogastric tubes prevent gastroesophageal reflux and microaspiration in intubated patients. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether gastroesophageal reflux and microaspiration in intubated patients can be reduced by the use of a small-bore nasogastric tub...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ferrer M,Bauer TT,Torres A,Hernández C,Piera C

更新日期：1999-06-15 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：:Active-control noninferiority trials are being performed with increasing frequency when standard placebo-controlled trials are considered unethical. Three attributes are optimally required to establish noninferiority: 1) The treatment under consideration exhibits therapeutic noninferiority to the active control; 2) th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaul S,Diamond GA

更新日期：2006-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the cholesterol-rich very low density (VLD) lipoproteins of subjects with type III hyperlipoproteinemia are distinctively enriched in apolipoprotein E, a radial immunodiffusion assay for apolipoprotein E in whole plasma was developed. Its diagnostic usefulness was tested in randomly selected (n = 174) and hype...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kushwaha RS,Hazzard WR,Wahl PW,Hoover JJ

更新日期：1977-11-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of weight-bearing exercise training and subsequent detraining on lumbar bone mineral content in postmenopausal women. DESIGN:Non-randomized, controlled, short-term (9 months) trial and long-term (22 months) exercise training and detraining (13 months). SETTING:Section of applied p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dalsky GP,Stocke KS,Ehsani AA,Slatopolsky E,Lee WC,Birge SJ Jr

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of myocardial ischemia in patients with cocaine addiction. DESIGN:Myocardial ischemia in chronic cocaine users was detected by serial 24-hour electrocardiographic ambulatory (Holter) monitoring and exercise treadmill testing in chronic cocaine users. The Holter tapes were co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Nademanee K,Gorelick DA,Josephson MA,Ryan MA,Wilkins JN,Robertson HA,Mody FV,Intarachot V

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on body weight and weight change collected from nationally representative samples of U.S. adults are reviewed. The body mass index (weight [kg]/height [m2]) has a low correlation with height and is used to compare body weights between persons of differing heights. The BMI varies to a greater degree in women than ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Williamson DF

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with variant angina refractory to medical therapy pose a difficult management problem. We report two patients with variant angina who had focal spasm in coronary arteries with fixed obstructions of less than 20% of the luminal diameter. Ischemic episodes were accompanied by malignant ventricular arrhythmias a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sussman EJ,Goldberg S,Poll DS,MacVaugh H 3rd,Simson MB,Silber SA,Kastor JA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death remains a leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 350,000 deaths each year, and the survival rate of victims remains low. Most survivors face a significant risk for recurrence. The typical substrate is chronic--abnormal myocardium with fibrosis (often from previous my...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Akhtar M,Garan H,Lehmann MH,Troup PJ

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Corticosteroid injections (CSIs) and physical therapy are used to treat patients with the shoulder impingement syndrome (SIS) but have never been directly compared. OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of 2 common nonsurgical treatments for SIS. DESIGN:Randomized, single-blind, comparative-effectiveness,...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rhon DI,Boyles RB,Cleland JA

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe how the results of bone densitometry affect women's decisions about measures to prevent fractures and to determine whether labeling women as having below-normal bone density has adverse effects. DESIGN:Mail survey of a random sample of women. SETTING:Four community hospitals in the San Francisco...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rubin SM,Cummings SR

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and myasthenia gravis has been infrequently reported. We report another case and show the coexistence of autoantibodies to the platelet glycoprotein IIb and IIIa complex and the acetylcholine receptor. Autoantibody levels were followed during 8 weeks of tr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson MJ,Woods VL Jr,Tani P,Lindstrom JM,Schmidt D,McMillan R

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data suggest that the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) differ among U.S. racial/ethnic groups. PURPOSE:To evaluate racial/ethnic disparities in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection rates and COVID-19 outcomes, factors contributing to disparities, and intervent...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mackey K,Ayers CK,Kondo KK,Saha S,Advani SM,Young S,Spencer H,Rusek M,Anderson J,Veazie S,Smith M,Kansagara D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have a role in preventing cardiac arrest in patients at risk for life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Purpose:To compare ICD therapy with conventional care for the primary prevention of death of various causes in adults with ischemic or nonischemic cardiom...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kolodziejczak M,Andreotti F,Kowalewski M,Buffon A,Ciccone MM,Parati G,Scicchitano P,Uminska JM,De Servi S,Bliden KP,Kubica J,Bortone A,Crea F,Gurbel P,Navarese EP

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the U.S. health care system are evident. Sustainable health care reform must go beyond financing expanded access to care to substantially changing the organization and delivery of care. The FRESH-Thinking Project (www.fresh-thinking.org) held a series of workshops during whi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Arrow K,Auerbach A,Bertko J,Brownlee S,Casalino LP,Cooper J,Crosson FJ,Enthoven A,Falcone E,Feldman RC,Fuchs VR,Garber AM,Gold MR,Goldman D,Hadfield GK,Hall MA,Horwitz RI,Hooven M,Jacobson PD,Jost TS,Kotlikoff LJ

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred ninety-eight patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia received marrow transplants after intensive chemotherapy and total body irradiation. Multivariate analysis showed disease status at time of transplantation to be the most powerful predictor of survival. The probability of long-term survival for alloge...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Thomas ED,Clift RA,Fefer A,Appelbaum FR,Beatty P,Bensinger WI,Buckner CD,Cheever MA,Deeg HJ,Doney K

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Description:The purpose of this guidance statement is to guide clinicians on colorectal cancer screening in average-risk adults. Methods:This guidance statement is derived from a critical appraisal of guidelines on screening for colorectal cancer in average-risk adults and the evidence presented in these guidelines. N...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Qaseem A,Crandall CJ,Mustafa RA,Hicks LA,Wilt TJ,Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians.

更新日期：2019-11-05 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：:Glomerular-fixed antibody was eluted from the kidney of a 17-year-old patient who died 2 weeks after the onset of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Elevated titers of antibodies to streptococcal enzymes were found in the serum but not in the glomerular eluate. Streptococcal M protein and anti-M protein react...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rodríguez-Iturbe B,Rabideau D,García R,Rubio L,McIntosh RM

更新日期：1980-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the risk for chronic renal disease associated with regular use of nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). DESIGN:Multicenter case-control study. PATIENTS:Patients were 554 North Carolina residents (age range, 30 to 79 years) hospitalized between 1980 and 1982 with a discharge d...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sandler DP,Burr FR,Weinberg CR

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classification of acute leukemia has almost invariably been based on the morphologic diagnosis into two broad categories: acute lymphocytic and acute myeloid leukemia. Despite the wide range of morphologic variation in both groups, strict criteria to define the subgroups have only recently been proposed. The conve...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An outbreak of seven cases (in six patients and one health care worker, all of whom had AIDS) of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis occurred in a hospital in Chicago. The hospital had a respirator-fit testing program but no acid-fast bacilli isolation rooms. OBJECTIVE:To identify risk factors for transmission...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kenyon TA,Ridzon R,Luskin-Hawk R,Schultz C,Paul WS,Valway SE,Onorato IM,Castro K

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the relation between housestaff coverage schedules and the occurrence of preventable adverse events. DESIGN:Case-control study. SETTING:Urban teaching hospital. PATIENTS:All 3146 patients admitted to the medical service during a 4-month period. MEASUREMENTS:A previously tested confidential self-r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Petersen LA,Brennan TA,O'Neil AC,Cook EF,Lee TH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate prospectively the use of an artificial neural network to identify myocardial infarction in patients presenting to an emergency department with anterior chest pain. DESIGN:Prospective, blinded testing. SETTING:Tertiary university teaching center. PATIENTS:A total of 331 consecutive adult patient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Baxt WG

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:To standardize the cutoff points of serum cortisol values in the evaluation of Cushing's syndrome during a low- and high-dose dexamethasone suppression test, daily serum cortisol measurements (0800 hours and 1600 hours) and urinary 17-hydroxycorticosteroids were compared (Study A). Forty-seven subjects were studied (1...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ashcraft MW,Van Herle AJ,Vener SL,Geffner DL

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective health care is a core determinant of successful aging, and medications are one of the most important therapeutic tools of health care providers. Most older adults use at least one prescription drug. Costs for these drugs are a substantial out-of-pocket expense for Medicare beneficiaries, and low-income older...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Murray MD,Callahan CM

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00