Retrospective analysis of the use of inferior vena cava filters in routine hospital practice.

abstract：:Mathematical techniques are well suited to analysis of growth data. In the past there has been much emphasis on the mathematical description of shape and changes of shape as exemplified by the allometric equation. More recently these methods have been less popular and shape analysis has been handled largely by modern ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Preece MA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a recognised complication of pregnancy, contributing to more than 12% of all maternal deaths. Estimated incidence rates vary considerably from 4.3 to 210 strokes per 100,000 deliveries. Atherosclerosis is rare in young adults, and so other causes of stroke become increasingly likely. Aetiological factors imp...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Treadwell SD,Thanvi B,Robinson TG

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postgraduate medical education (PME) quality assurance at Health Education England (HEE) currently relies upon survey data. As no one metric can reflect all aspects of training, and each has its limitations, additional metrics should be explored. At HEE (West Midlands), we explored the use of learner outcomes, special...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Pinnell J,Tranter A,Cooper S,Whallett A

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism in pregnancy is discussed and illustrated with appropriate cases. The dangers of the usage of high doses of antithyroid drugs and of propranolol are described. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Edwards OM

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin was first synthesised 100 years ago and its preparation and marketing is generally reckoned to have been the foundation of the pharmaceutical industry. For most of the time since then it has been used for the relief of pain and fever. The modern phase of aspirin use commenced with the reporting in 1974 of a ra...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Elwood PC,Hughes C,O'Brien JR

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leg ulcer is a leading cause of morbidity among older subjects, especially women in the Western world. About 400 years BC, Hippocrates wrote, "In case of an ulcer, it is not expedient to stand, especially if the ulcer be situated on the leg". Hippocrates himself had a leg ulcer. The best treatment of any leg ulcer dep...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sarkar PK,Ballantyne S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case report of a 67 year old man who presented with a fluctuating level of consciousness and myoclonic jerks caused in part by hypercalcaemia. The diagnosis of cerebral neoplastic angioendotheleosis was only made later on brain biopsy and is the first report of the occurrence of hypercalcaemia in neoplastic ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Wierzbicki AS,Gibbs JM,Lidov HG,Lolin Y,Thomas PK

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old housewife with a 14-year history of relapsing polyneuropathy of unknown cause who has apparently responded to azathioprine therapy is described. The place of this form of treatment in idiopathic polyneuropathy is discussed. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Pentland B

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) and radiology in one hundred consecutive elderly patients were reviewed to assess the efficacy, safety and acceptability of endoscopy in this age group. False positive radiological features occurred in two of nine patients with normal endoscopic examinations. The rema...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Stanley TV,Cocking JB

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described who developed acute peripheral neuropathy of Guillain-Barré type occurring shortly after commencement of captopril for moderately severe hypertension and resolving after discontinuation of the drug. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chakraborty TK,Ruddell WS

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 71 year old lady who presented with weight loss, rectal bleeding and bilateral foot drop having been previously fit and well. Clinical examination, laboratory investigation and postmortem examination confirmed the diagnosis of active Crohn's disease and acute peripheral neuropathy. The clinical course of t...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gariballa SE,Gunasekera NP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Submucosal dissection of the oesophagus is a rare oesophageal disorder. We report a patient who had recurrent episodes of dissection and achalasia. Both recurrence and the association with achalasia are to our knowledge unique. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Hooper TL,Gholkar J,Smith SR,Manns JJ,Moussalli H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of hyperemesis gravidarum at 9 weeks' gestation is described for which no cause could initially be found. Intravenous feeding was needed as a life preserving measure and following improvement on this regime the patient went into a thyrotoxic crisis which was successfully diagnosed and treated. The continuing pr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Valentine BH,Jones C,Tyack AJ

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial nephritis is an inflammatory process within the renal interstitium, and was one of the first observations made in the description of renal histopathology. Many different conditions are associated with an interstitial nephritis, and as a clinical diagnosis the term has little use unless causation is define...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dhillon S,Higgins RM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made in rodents of the interactions between a range of psychotropic drugs, narcotic agonist and partial agonist analgesics, and pain. In rodents, tricyclic antidepressants do not alone reduce pain responses but, in combination with morphine or pentazocine, clomipramine enhances analgesic activity afte...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lee RL,Spencer PS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with severe pulmonary hypertension due to pulmonary arteriolar obliteration complicating a long standing CREST variant of systemic sclerosis showed improvement in cardiac output and exercise tolerance during treatment with captopril, which was discontinued because of persistent systemic hypotension. It is su...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Prouse PJ,Lahiri A,Gumpel JM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasting plasma and urinary calcium and urinary hydroxyproline are known to rise at the menopause, reflecting increased bone resorption. Oestradiol valerate and cyclic oestradiol valerate/DL-norgestrel are shown to reduce this evidence of increased bone loss. It is concluded that these preparations will be effective in...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Crilly RG,Marshall DH,Nordin BE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is much more common in tropical than in temperate countries. Visitors to the tropics are thus at risk from HBV, though the degree of risk, and the routes of infection involved are uncertain. We report serological markers of HBV in two groups of 2nd World War soldiers, who served ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gill GV,Bell DR,Vandervelde EM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective training of facilitator/ tutors is crucial to the success of a problem-based learning approach to medical education. New skills are needed to accomplish the change from giver of information to facilitator of learning, coach, and guide. This paper outlines considerations for the design of a tutor training...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Wetzel MS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-year-old girl developed generalised anhidrosis following typhoid fever. Elaborate investigations disclosed nothing abnormal. A skin biopsy revealed the presence of atrophic as well as normal eccrine glands. This appears to be the third case of its kind in the English literature. It is postulated that typhoid feve...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Raveenthiran V

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis (ST) is difficult and it commonly presents at an advanced stage. The management and follow up is complicated by a lack of guidance on the appropriate use and interpretation of spinal magnetic resonance studies (MR). AIMS:A retrospective study was performed at a UK centre...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Cormican L,Hammal R,Messenger J,Milburn HJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic acidosis and hyperlactataemia are important, independent findings in acute illness, and the combination of these abnormalities carries a grave prognosis. Despite this there is still controversy about the most appropriate therapy of lactic acidosis, and the relationship of commonly used acid base measurements...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Nimmo GR,Grant IS,Mackenzie SJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported impact of human monoclonal IgM antibody (HA1A) on the mortality rate from Gram-negative bacteraemia aroused considerable interest in its use in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. However, the commercial preparation of HA1A was extremely expensive. With this in mind, the Infirmary's Drugs and Therapeutics Committee ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bell E,McCartney C

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of adenocarcinoma of the lung, in which high titre anticardiolipin antibodies were associated with recurrent venous thromboses resistant to all forms of therapy, is described. It is suggested that such an autoimmune response may be a contributory factor in the para-neoplastic development of vascular thromboses....

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Shaukat MN,Hughes P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tienilic acid is a diuretic-uricosuric compound whose natriuretic site of action is in the cortical diluting segment of the distal nephron. Oral doses of 250 mg given to normal human volunteers provided peak blood levels of 10--11 micrograms/ml at 3--4 hours after administration. Approximately 40% of the dose was reco...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dubb JW,Stote RM,Maass AR,Hwang BV,Familiar RG,Alexander F

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are wide variations in survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The aim of this survey was to describe how equipment provision of resuscitation trolleys was deployed in a range of clinical ward areas. METHODS:The equipment in randomly selected resuscitation trolleys in all 14 South West Thames Re...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Hogh L,Kane I,Bhalla A,Ward MC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue auto-antibodies were investigated in fifty-one patients (twenty-five female, twenty-six male) receiving practolol for ischaemic heart disease or dysrhythmias and compared with those found in 204 patients (fifty-eight female, 146 male) with ischaemic heart disease who did not receive practolol. Antinuclear facto...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jachuck SJ,Stephenson J,Bird T,Jackson FS,Clark F

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of adult pyloric obstruction caused by the delayed presentation of a congenital gastric diverticulum. The derivation, classification and treatment of these abnormalities are discussed. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Hale PC,O'Flynn WR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute and long-term haemodynamic effects of pindolol, practolol, alprenolol, oxprenolol, acebutolol, penbutolol, metoprolol, atenolol, propranolol and timolol in patients with uncomplicated hypertension as reported in the literature were analysed. The long-term effects of these beta-adrenoceptor antagonists on pla...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Man in't Veld AJ,Schalekamp MA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old patient with treated Conn's syndrome due to multiple bilateral adrenocortical adenomata developed primary hyperparathyroidism. At operation, a parathyroid adenoma and a thyroid colloid nodule were found. Although adrenocortical adenomata and hyperplasia are common findings in multiple endocrine adenopath...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Fertig A,Webley M,Lynn JA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00