Adverse effects of D-penicillamine in rheumatoid arthritis.

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：:The data from population-based, randomized trials of the mammographic screening of women aged 40 to 49 years are limited by retrospective subgroup analysis, low statistical power, and the use of older mammographic techniques. Nonetheless, meta-analysis involving the most recently reported data from all similarly desig...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sickles EA,Kopans DB

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical symptoms account for more than half of all outpatient visits, but the specific causes and treatments of many common symptoms are frequently not well established. Because clinical research has primarily targeted specific diseases, symptoms-based research is still an emerging field of scientific inquiry, and op...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kroenke K

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mesenchymal stem cells can differentiate into endothelial cells and participate in angiogenesis in adults. In experimental models of acute myocardial infarction, mesenchymal stem cells led to the recovery of cardiac function through the formation of a new vascular network. OBJECTIVE:To describe treatment wi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Guiducci S,Porta F,Saccardi R,Guidi S,Ibba-Manneschi L,Manetti M,Mazzanti B,Dal Pozzo S,Milia AF,Bellando-Randone S,Miniati I,Fiori G,Fontana R,Amanzi L,Braschi F,Bosi A,Matucci-Cerinic M

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 3000 people in Bennington, Vermont, 19% of the population, had a diarrheal illness during the first and second weeks of June 1978. Persons affected reported abdominal cramps (86%), diarrhea (82%), malaise (73%), and headache (47%). The mean duration of illness was 4.6 days. The illness was associated wit...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Vogt RL,Sours HE,Barrett T,Feldman RA,Dickinson RJ,Witherell L

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of massive cocaine intoxication on lung water and ascites accumulation and the effect of beta- and alpha-adrenergic blockade on survival in massive cocaine intoxication in the mouse. DESIGN:The effect of massive cocaine intoxication on lung water, ascitic fluid accumulation, and...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Robin ED,Wong RJ,Ptashne KA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe more explicitly the components of competence required of the internist, The American Board of Internal Medicine has analyzed the medical encounter and defined the major variables involved: the abilities required of the internist, the tasks that must be performed to solve a medical problem, the medical illn...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Acute pancreatitis (AP) varies in severity, prompting development of systems aimed at predicting prognosis to help guide therapy. Although several prediction approaches are available, their test characteristics and clinical utility are not completely understood. Purpose:To evaluate the test characteristics ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Di MY,Liu H,Yang ZY,Bonis PA,Tang JL,Lau J

更新日期：2016-10-04 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：Background:The safety and effectiveness of dual therapy (direct oral anticoagulant [DOAC] plus P2Y12 inhibitor) versus triple therapy (vitamin K antagonist plus aspirin and P2Y12 inhibitor) in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is unclear. Purpose:To exami...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Khan SU,Osman M,Khan MU,Khan MS,Zhao D,Mamas MA,Savji N,Al-Abdouh A,Hasan RK,Michos ED

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with rheumatoid arthritis developed a syndrome resembling lupus erythematosus while being treated with penicillamine. All patients had previous mucocutaneous reactions to chrysotherapy. Manifestations included pleurisy in five of six patients, rashes in three, nephritis in two, and neurologic disturbances...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chalmers A,Thompson D,Stein HE,Reid G,Patterson AC

更新日期：1982-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Lack of confidence in postpolypectomy surveillance guidelines may be a factor in the observed low adherence rates among providers. OBJECTIVE:To assess the 2006 postpolypectomy colonoscopy surveillance guidelines, which recommend 3-year follow-up colonoscopy for individuals with high-risk adenomas (defined a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Laiyemo AO,Murphy G,Albert PS,Sansbury LB,Wang Z,Cross AJ,Marcus PM,Caan B,Marshall JR,Lance P,Paskett ED,Weissfeld J,Slattery ML,Burt R,Iber F,Shike M,Kikendall JW,Lanza E,Schatzkin A

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomyocardial biopsy was done 119 times in 98 patients receiving doxorubicin therapy once every 3 weeks and 41 times in 27 patients receiving doxorubicin therapy weekly. Factors contributing to the degree of anthracycline-induced endomyocardial injury were evaluated. Neither age, sex, type of malignancy, concomitant ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Torti FM,Bristow MR,Howes AE,Aston D,Stockdale FE,Carter SK,Kohler M,Brown BW Jr,Billingham ME

更新日期：1983-12-01 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：:Physician performance failures are not rare and pose substantial threats to patient welfare and safety. Few hospitals respond to such failures promptly or effectively. Failure to ensure the quality and safety of the performance of colleagues is a breach of medicine's fiduciary responsibility to the public. A major rea...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Leape LL,Fromson JA

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis was diagnosed after age 13 in 25 patients. All had an elevated sweat chloride and either a sibling with cystic fibrosis or typical pulmonary infection or digestive symptoms caused by exocrine pancreatic deficiency. Fourteen had long-standing pulmonary or digestive symptoms. In contrast, four of eight p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stern RC,Boat TF,Doershuk CF,Tucker AS,Miller RB,Matthews LW

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 1994, 40% of U.S. gun owners who had recently acquired a firearm did so without a background check. No contemporary estimates exist. Objective:To estimate the proportion of current U.S. gun owners who acquired their most recent firearm without a background check, by time since and manner of acquisition, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Miller M,Hepburn L,Azrael D

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations on which preventive services to routinely incorporate into primary care for specific populations. Behavioral counseling interventions are preventive services designed to help persons engage in healthy behaviors and limit unhealthy ones. The USPSTF'...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Curry SJ,Grossman DC,Whitlock EP,Cantu A

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasodilator drugs were initially administered to patients with primary pulmonary hypertension based on the unproven hypothesis that pulmonary vasoconstriction played an important role in the pathogenesis of the disease. There were early reports of hemodynamic and clinical improvement after treatment with various vasod...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Packer M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) seeks to provide reliable and accurate evidence-based recommendations to primary care clinicians. However, clinicians indicate frustration with the lack of guidance provided by the USPSTF when the evidence is insufficient to make a recommendation. This article describes...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Petitti DB,Teutsch SM,Barton MB,Sawaya GF,Ockene JK,DeWitt T,U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe pulmonary hypertension without pulmonary fibrosis occurred in 10 patients with the CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia), reputedly a benign variant of progressive systemic sclerosis. Time from the initial symptom, Raynaud's phenomenon, to the r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Salerni R,Rodnan GP,Leon DF,Shaver JA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of circulating T- and B-lymphocyte rosettes were done in 20 healthy controls and 29 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, including 18 receiving rifampin chemotherapy. Eight of the 18 patients in the rifampin group (44%) had significant suppression of their T-cell rosettes as compared with patients with tuberc...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gupta S,Grieco MH,Siegel I

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical school graduates are avoiding primary care. The very aspects that once attracted students have been subverted. The breadth of practice that was once appealing has become the breadth of heavy-handed scrutiny, as politicians and business leaders have demanded quality--simplistically defined as dogmatic adherence...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Norenberg DD

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In observational studies or nonrandomized experiments, treated and control groups may differ in their outcomes even if the treatment has no effect; this may happen if the groups were not comparable before the start of treatment. The groups may fail to be comparable in either of two ways: They may differ with respect t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosenbaum PR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hyperuricemia is associated with risk for cardiovascular disease and death. However, the role of uric acid independent of established risk factors is uncertain. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relation of serum uric acid level to incident coronary heart disease, death from cardiovascular disease, and death from al...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Culleton BF,Larson MG,Kannel WB,Levy D

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the electropharmacology, clinical applications, side effects, and hemodynamic profile of intravenous amiodarone. DATA SOURCES:The MEDLINE database was searched for English-language material, including reports of clinical trials and in vivo studies, review articles, and abstracts presented at national...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Desai AD,Chun S,Sung RJ

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the amount of variation in in-hospital mortality and length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay that can be accounted for by clinical data available at ICU admission. DESIGN:Inception cohort study. SETTING:Forty-two ICUs in 40 hospitals, including 26 hospitals that were randomly selected and 14 la...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Knaus WA,Wagner DP,Zimmerman JE,Draper EA

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some physicians seem to be willing to sanction deception of insurance companies. Little is known about public attitudes regarding this practice. OBJECTIVE:To assess public attitudes regarding physician deception of insurance companies. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey using clinical vignettes. SETTING:Philad...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Alexander GC,Werner RM,Fagerlin A,Ubel PA

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Between September 1972 and January 1976 an outbreak of dialysis dementia affected 20 patients maintained by long-term hemodialysis. The clinical picture was characterized by an insidious onset of altered behaviour, dementia, speech disturbance, myoclonus, and convulsions. Nineteen patients died, but one patient has su...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dunea G,Mahurkar SD,Mamdani B,Smith EC

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00