Pyelonephritis associated with Legionella pneumophila, serogroup 4.

abstract：:In an unprecedented approach to viral discovery, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) was cloned before it was established by conventional methods of viral detection or by genomic characterization. Hepatitis C virus is a small (10-kb), single-stranded RNA virus with a genomic organization that places it in the family Flaviviri...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Alter HJ

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine if the combination of ganciclovir and intravenous cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin is effective in patients with cytomegalovirus pneumonia after bone marrow transplant. DESIGN:Consecutive entry trial with treatment for a minimum of 14 days. PATIENTS:Consecutive sample of 25 patients with bo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Reed EC,Bowden RA,Dandliker PS,Lilleby KE,Meyers JD

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Introduction of a universal varicella vaccine program for U.S. children in 1996 sparked concern that less-frequent exposure to varicella would decrease external boosting of immunity to varicella zoster virus and thereby increase incidence of herpes zoster (HZ). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the varicella v...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hales CM,Harpaz R,Joesoef MR,Bialek SR

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The content, role, and purpose of internal medicine, organized as an American specialty 100 years ago, have been marked by ambivalence from the beginning. Nevertheless, molded to a large extent by external events, including the strategic and symbolic importance of surgery in American medicine, the rise of university m...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stevens R

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[Figure: see text]. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Morganstein JC

更新日期：2020-05-19 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：:Physicians are often asked to make prognostic assessments but often worry that their assessments will prove inaccurate. Prognostic systems were developed to enhance the accuracy of such assessments. This paper describes an approach for evaluating prognostic systems based on the accuracy (calibration and discrimination...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Justice AC,Covinsky KE,Berlin JA

更新日期：1999-03-16 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：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：BACKGROUND:Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is increasingly used to treat multiple malignant and nonmalignant conditions. The risk for cardiovascular disease after the procedure has not been well-described. OBJECTIVE:To compare rates and hazards of cardiovascular-related hospitalization and death among p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chow EJ,Mueller BA,Baker KS,Cushing-Haugen KL,Flowers ME,Martin PJ,Friedman DL,Lee SJ

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rate of use of prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in high-risk hospital patients. DESIGN:A retrospective medical record review. SETTING:A community-wide study in 16 short-stay hospitals in central Massachusetts. PATIENTS:A total of 2017 patients with multiple risk factors for venous th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson FA Jr,Wheeler HB,Goldberg RJ,Hosmer DW,Forcier A,Patwardhan NA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electrical cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation is associated with an increased risk for embolic stroke. Screening for atrial thrombi with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) before cardioversion should, in many patients, safely permit cardioversion to be done earlier than would be possible ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Klein AL,Grimm RA,Black IW,Leung DY,Chung MK,Vaughn SE,Murray RD,Miller DP,Arheart KL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral sildenafil and intravenous epoprostenol have independently been shown to be effective in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of adding oral sildenafil to long-term intravenous epoprostenol in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. DESIGN:A 16-week...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Simonneau G,Rubin LJ,Galiè N,Barst RJ,Fleming TR,Frost AE,Engel PJ,Kramer MR,Burgess G,Collings L,Cossons N,Sitbon O,Badesch DB,PACES Study Group.

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of low-molecular-weight heparin with standard heparin for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis after total hip arthroplasty. DATA IDENTIFICATION:Studies were identified by MEDLINE search and review of bibliographies of retrieved articles. Hospital resou...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson DR,O'Brien BJ,Levine MN,Roberts R,Wells PS,Hirsh J

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Castleman disease, an unusual condition of unknown cause consisting of a massive proliferation of lymphoid tissue, remains a clinicopathologic diagnosis. Three histologic variants (hyaline vascular, plasma-cell, and mixed) and two clinical types (localized and multicentric) of Castleman disease have been des...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Herrada J,Cabanillas F,Rice L,Manning J,Pugh W

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia developed in four of five siblings, whose father succumbed to the same disease. The pattern of immune deficiency in the leukemic siblings resembled that found in nonfamilial cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and was correlated with the severity of clinical involvement. In three siblin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Blattner WA,Strober W,Muchmore AV,Blaese RM,Broder S,Fraumeni JF Jr

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between current non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use and fatal peptic ulcers or upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. DESIGN:Nested case control study using a linked Medicaid-death certificate database. SETTING:Tennessee Medicaid enrollees aged 60 and g...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Griffin MR,Ray WA,Schaffner W

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether oral acyclovir reduces the incidence of recurrent herpes labialis in otherwise healthy patients with proven frequently recurrent disease. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial. SETTING:Outpatient facility of the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Heal...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rooney JF,Straus SE,Mannix ML,Wohlenberg CR,Alling DW,Dumois JA,Notkins AL

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the status of emergency, urgent, routine, and selective angiography after intravenous thrombolytic therapy. DATA SOURCES:Relevant English-language articles published from January 1985 to July 1990 were identified through MEDLINE. STUDY SELECTION:For emergency angiography, four major randomized studi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Topol EJ,Holmes DR,Rogers WJ

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical activity has been related to enhanced bone mass and improved physical functioning and thus may reduce the risk for osteoporotic fracture. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether higher levels of physical activity are related to lower incidence of hip, wrist, and vertebral fractures. DESIGN:Prospective coho...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gregg EW,Cauley JA,Seeley DG,Ensrud KE,Bauer DC

更新日期：1998-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the current knowledge about breast cancer in black women--including epidemiology, risk factors, screening practices, pathology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcome--with emphasis on issues that might explain why the survival rate in this population of women is lower than that in white wome...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moormeier J

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine risk factors for community-acquired and nosocomial group B streptococcal disease in adults. DESIGN:Case-control study. SETTING:3 metropolitan areas in the United States with an aggregate population of 6.6 million persons. PATIENTS:219 nonpregnant adults with invasive group B streptococcal infe...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Jackson LA,Hilsdon R,Farley MM,Harrison LH,Reingold AL,Plikaytis BD,Wenger JD,Schuchat A

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The youthful habits and family attitudes of medical students who later developed or died from one of five disease states were different from those of healthy classmate controls to begin with. In medical school, the total disorder group had significantly more nervous tension, anxiety, and anger under stress, had more i...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Thomas CB

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In deciding whether to undertake a dietary program to reduce serum cholesterol levels, a person must consider how much benefit to expect. We developed a model that assumes cholesterol reduction is effective and safe in reducing the risk for death from ischemic heart disease. In the model, we considered asymptomatic ad...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Taylor WC,Pass TM,Shepard DS,Komaroff AL

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a high molecular weight antigen of the Legionnaires' disease (LD) bacterium by column chromatography. The antigen was composed of 35% carbohydrate, 2.6% protein, 1.8% phospholipid, and 1% 2-keto-3-deoxyoctonate and was important in the host's antibody response because it inhibited the indirect immunofluore...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Johnson W,Elliott JA,Helms CM,Renner ED

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels after bilateral adrenalectomy could be secondary to a pituitary tumor, under replacement with cortisol, or an abnormality in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal feedback loop. To distinguish between these possibilities, ACTH levels were measured before and after corti...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Koletsky RJ,Dluhy RG,Crantz FR,Williams GH

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiologic studies were done in 32 patients with aortic stenosis. In 24 patients with intact A-V conduction, A-H intervals ranged from 55 to 145 msec and were prolonged in two. Two had split His bundle potentials. The H-V intervals ranged from 25 to 94 msec and were prolonged in 12. The mean H-V interval was 6...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dhingra RC,Amat-y-Leon F,Pietras RJ,Wyndham C,Deedwania PC,Wu D,Denes P,Rosen KM

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The news media are often criticized for exaggerated coverage of weak science. Press releases, a source of information for many journalists, might be a source of those exaggerations. OBJECTIVE:To characterize research press releases from academic medical centers. DESIGN:Content analysis. SETTING:Press rele...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Woloshin S,Schwartz LM,Casella SL,Kennedy AT,Larson RJ

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00