Fixed and reproducible orthostatic proteinuria: results of a 20-year follow-up study.

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：:The four main conceptual paradigms of basic biomedical research are that the explication of mechanisms is a primary goal of science; that scientific data must be "hard"; that formulation of hypotheses and counter-hypotheses is a principal creative challenge; and that experiments are the main mechanism for using scient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Feinstein AR

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is an indolent but ultimately fatal disease. Because the natural history of CML varies and quality of life with CML may be excellent until shortly before death, deciding whether and when to pursue unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation is often difficult. OBJECTIVE:To...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lee SJ,Kuntz KM,Horowitz MM,McGlave PB,Goldman JM,Sobocinski KA,Hegland J,Kollman C,Parsons SK,Weinstein MC,Weeks JC,Antin JH

更新日期：1997-12-15 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 half of 42 subjects treated for painful shoulders received classic acupuncture, and one half received a placebo in which the needles did not penetrate the skin. Half of each of these groups was treated in a positive setting to encourage the subject, and half in a negative setting designed to keep encouragement at ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moore ME,Berk SN

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequency and severity of post-thrombotic sequelae after spontaneous axillary-subclavian venous thrombosis remain poorly known. OBJECTIVE:To determine the late sequelae of conventionally treated spontaneous axillary-subclavian venous thrombosis. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:University departm...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Héron E,Lozinguez O,Emmerich J,Laurian C,Fiessinger JN

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1984, both the United Kingdom and the United States received recommendations from panels of experts specifically convened to consider the merits of Depo-Provera (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate [DMPA]) as a long-term contraceptive agent. This study compares the final reports written by these panels. We explore wh...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Richard BW,Lasagna L

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homeless persons have high mortality rates. OBJECTIVE:To ascertain causes of death in a group of homeless persons. DESIGN:Cohort study. PATIENTS:17,292 adults seen by the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program from 1988 to 1993. MEASUREMENTS:Cause-specific mortality rates adjusted for race and rate ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hwang SW,Orav EJ,O'Connell JJ,Lebow JM,Brennan TA

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateral epicondylitis is a common condition for which botulinum toxin has been reported to have a therapeutic role in uncontrolled studies. OBJECTIVE:To determine if an injection of botulinum toxin is more effective than placebo for reducing pain in adults with lateral epicondylitis. DESIGN:Randomized, dou...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Wong SM,Hui AC,Tong PY,Poon DW,Yu E,Wong LK

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A lack of national health goals has allowed physician manpower policy to be dominated by an expansionist philosophy. Scarce resources have been channeled into the production of specialist physicians trained to provide complex and expensive care for uncommon diseases, using other scare and expensive resources and addin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bloom BS,Peterson OL

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether growth hormone replacement in older men improves functional ability. DESIGN:Randomized, controlled, double-blind trial. SETTING:General community. PATIENTS:52 healthy men older than 69 years of age with well-preserved functional ability but low baseline insulin-like growth factor 1 lev...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Papadakis MA,Grady D,Black D,Tierney MJ,Gooding GA,Schambelan M,Grunfeld C

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In alternative medicine, the main question regarding placebo has been whether a given therapy has more than a placebo effect. Just as mainstream medicine ignores the clinical significance of its own placebo effect, the placebo effect of unconventional medicine is disregarded except for polemics. This essay looks at th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaptchuk TJ

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The presence of extracranial carotid disease (ECD) is associated with less favorable clinical outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke caused by intracranial proximal occlusion. Acute intra-arterial treatment (IAT) in the setting of extracranial and intracranial lesions is considered challenging, and ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Berkhemer OA,Borst J,Kappelhof M,Yoo AJ,van den Berg LA,Fransen PSS,Beumer D,Schonewille WJ,Nederkoorn PJ,Wermer MJH,Marquering HA,Lingsma HF,Roos YBWEM,van Oostenbrugge RJ,Dippel DWJ,van Zwam WH,Majoie CBLM,Emmer BJ,

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis reduces the risk for venous thromboembolism after total hip replacement (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR). New oral anticoagulants (NOACs), including direct thrombin inhibitors and factor Xa inhibitors, are emerging options for thromboprophylaxis after these procedures. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Adam SS,McDuffie JR,Lachiewicz PF,Ortel TL,Williams JW Jr

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a sporadic, vitamin-D-resistant osteomalacic syndrome in 19 patients undergoing hemodialysis. The syndrome was found in less than 1.5% of patients from referring dialysis centers. All 19 patients had multiple fractures, severe myopathy, and many developed spontaneous hypercalcemia. Severe osteomalacia with...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hodsman AB,Sherrard DJ,Wong EG,Brickman AS,Lee DB,Alfrey AC,Singer FR,Norman AW,Coburn JW

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with lupus nephritis and marked proteinuria (3.9 g or more/d) that did not respond adequately to treatment with prednisone alone or prednisone in combination with azathioprine were treated with total lymphoid irradiation in an uncontrolled feasibility study. Within 6 weeks after the start of total lymphoi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Strober S,Field E,Hoppe RT,Kotzin BL,Shemesh O,Engleman E,Ross JC,Myers BD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis is prototypic of the immunologic glomerulonephritides. It most commonly follows streptococcal infection of the pharynx or skin. The diagnosis is usually not difficult when a nephritic clinical presentation (with such manifestations as hematuria, edema, and hypertension) is as...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Nissenson AR,Baraff LJ,Fine RN,Knutson DW

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because only limited evidence suggests that elastic stockings prevent the post-thrombotic syndrome in patients with symptomatic deep venous thrombosis (DVT), these stockings are not widely used. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of compression elastic stockings for prevention of the post-thrombotic syndrom...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Prandoni P,Lensing AW,Prins MH,Frulla M,Marchiori A,Bernardi E,Tormene D,Mosena L,Pagnan A,Girolami A

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Iron chelation therapy (ICT) in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) has not been evaluated in randomized studies. Objective:To evaluate event-free survival (EFS) and safety of ICT in iron-overloaded patients with low- or intermediate-1-risk MDS. Design:Multicenter, randomized, double-b...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Angelucci E,Li J,Greenberg P,Wu D,Hou M,Montano Figueroa EH,Rodriguez MG,Dong X,Ghosh J,Izquierdo M,Garcia-Manero G,TELESTO Study Investigators.

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with bladder carcinoma metastatic to lung and brain died of pneumonia. Autopsy examination showed a confluent bronchopneumonia with several small abscesses and acute pyelonephritis with abscess formation. Legionella pneumophila, serogroup 4, was isolated in pure culture from lung tissue postmortem and was al...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dorman SA,Hardin NJ,Winn WC Jr

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Frailty assessment may inform surgical risk and prognosis not captured by conventional surgical risk scores. Purpose:To evaluate the evidence for various frailty instruments used to predict mortality, functional status, or major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) in older adults unde...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kim DH,Kim CA,Placide S,Lipsitz LA,Marcantonio ER

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preventive therapy is an important element of syphilis control efforts. No currently recommended, single-dose alternatives to penicillin G benzathine are available for treatment of incubating syphilis. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of a single 1.0-g dose of azithromycin for treatment of persons recently exp...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hook EW 3rd,Stephens J,Ennis DM

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the current system of disability determination and workers' compensation for occupational lung disease, disabled workers or their survivors can reasonably count on being compensated. However, by rejecting established scientific truth in order to pay workers' compensation in circumstances where disability or deat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Richman SI

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of minocycline in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. DESIGN:A double-blind, randomized, multicenter, 48-week trial of oral minocycline (200 mg/d) or placebo. SETTING:6 clinical centers in the United States. PATIENTS:219 adults with active rheumatoid arthritis who had p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Tilley BC,Alarcón GS,Heyse SP,Trentham DE,Neuner R,Kaplan DA,Clegg DO,Leisen JC,Buckley L,Cooper SM,Duncan H,Pillemer SR,Tuttleman M,Fowler SE

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed the therapeutic efficacy of antithyroid drugs for Graves disease. Sixty-nine patients were divided into three categories according to their response: 28 (40.6%) were unable to achieve a remission; 6 (8.7%) achieved a remission and subsequently had a relapse; and 35 (50.7%) were able to sust...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Solomon BL,Evaul JE,Burman KD,Wartofsky L

更新日期：1987-10-01 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:It has been reported that walnuts reduce serum cholesterol levels in normal young men. OBJECTIVE:To assess the acceptability of walnuts and their effects on serum lipid levels and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidizability in free-living hypercholesterolemic persons. DESIGN:Randomized, crossover feeding t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zambón D,Sabaté J,Muñoz S,Campero B,Casals E,Merlos M,Laguna JC,Ros E

更新日期：2000-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety commonly accompanies serious illness. However, in some patients anxiety is the primary manifestation of illness. Diagnostic criteria for these "primary" anxiety disorders have been redefined in the most recent revision of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. We discuss thes...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brown JT,Mulrow CD,Stoudemire GA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospice providers contend that enrollment reduces the cost of the Medicare programs, but estimates of effects are dated, methodologically limited, and focused on persons with cancer. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effects of hospice care on Medicare program payments during the last year of life from 1996 to 1999...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Campbell DE,Lynn J,Louis TA,Shugarman LR

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several adverse outcomes attributed to atypical antipsychotic drugs, specifically quetiapine, risperidone, and olanzapine, are known to cause acute kidney injury (AKI). Such outcomes include hypotension, acute urinary retention, and the neuroleptic malignant syndrome or rhabdomyolysis. OBJECTIVE:To investig...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hwang YJ,Dixon SN,Reiss JP,Wald R,Parikh CR,Gandhi S,Shariff SZ,Pannu N,Nash DM,Rehman F,Garg AX

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00