Glomerulonephritis in sarcoidosis: causal relationship unproven.

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：:One hundred and thirteen patients were entered into a randomized, prospective double-blind, placebo controlled trial to assess the use of co-trimoxazole in reducing wound infections after dog bites. Although there was a reduction in the wound infection rate from 13.8% in the placebo group to 5.5% in the treatment grou...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jones DA,Stanbridge TN

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing awareness on the part both of the media and the profession of the need to co-operate in providing information and education on medical matters. This co-operation should be strongly encouraged. Where children are concerned the opportunities for education are great. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jolly H

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradenigo's syndrome, which is characterised by the triad of suppurative otitis media, pain in the distribution of the trigeminal nerve, and abducens nerve palsy may give rise to potentially fatal complications. Knowledge of the aetiology and appropriate investigations can lead to early diagnosis. A case is reported w...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Motamed M,Kalan A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small bowel perforation occurs in up to 2 percent of patients with abdominal tuberculous. Patients present with an acute abdomen. Resection of the diseased segment and 18 months treatment with anti-tuberculosis drugs is recommended. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Aston NO,de Costa AM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 84 year old woman who was a heavy smoker presented with clinical features suggestive of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive lung disease complicated by left ventricular failure. She responded poorly to treatment and then the finding of stridor, only when she was in the supine position, led to the diagnosis of...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Antonios TF,Singer DR,Millard FJ,Wilson AG,MacGregor GA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report is the first description to our knowledge of a clinical case of bacterial calcification in human infective endocarditic vegetations. Partial calcification of bacteria within vegetations may be a further mechanism of bacterial protection from host defences and antibiotics. Similar calcification has r...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Poller DN,Curry A,Ganguli LA,Routledge RC

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve healthy volunteers took part in a randomised, double-blind, balanced, cross-over study to investigate the effect of misoprostol on the pharmacokinetics of propranolol. The subjects took propranolol 80 mg twice daily by mouth plus either misoprostol 400 micrograms twice daily or placebo by mouth for 14.5 days, f...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bennett PN,Fenn GC,Notarianni LJ,Lee CE

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 78-year-old woman with clinical acute hypopituitarism in whom pathologic findings showed lymphocytic hypophysitis and retroperitoneal fibrosis. Lymphocytic hypophysitis should be included in the differential diagnosis of hypopituitarism at any age. The association with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Alvarez A,Cordido F,Sacristán F

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 44 year old man who developed external ophthalmoplegia and predominantly respiratory, truncal and bulbar weakness with brisk reflexes, histological evidence of an inflammatory myopathy and a high titre of acetylcholine receptor antibodies, one month after starting hydroxyurea and allopurinol for chronic my...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bergin PS,Gale AN

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Essential Skills in the Management of Surgical Cases (ESMSC) is a novel 3-day international undergraduate surgical masterclass. Its current curriculum (Cores integrated for Research-Ci4R) is built on a tetracore, multiclustered architecture combining high-fidelity and low-fidelity simulation-based learning (...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Sideris M,Hanrahan J,Tsoulfas G,Theodoulou I,Dhaif F,Papalois V,Papagrigoriadis S,Velmahos G,Turner P,Papalois A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under certain circumstances, living wills or advance directives may carry legal force in the UK. This paper traces the development of advance directives, clarifies their current legal position and discusses potential problems with their use. Case histories are used to illustrate some of the common dilemmas which docto...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Stewart K,Bowker L

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a young competitive body-builder who abused anabolic steroid drugs and developed profound symptomatic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism. With the help of prescribed testosterone (Sustanon) he stopped taking anabolic drugs, and later stopped Sustanon also. Hypogonadism returned, but was successfully...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gill GV

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple lymphomatous polyposis is an uncommon but distinctive form of gastrointestinal lymphoma. Clinical symptoms may closely resemble those of colorectal carcinoma and diagnostic confusion may result. The condition has a characteristic pathological appearance and immunophenotype which is important in allowing disti...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Carder PJ,Gouldesbrough DR

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative transluminal endoscopic illumination is of benefit to locate angiodysplasias of the small bowel at laparotomy in the quiescent non-bleeding phase. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Scott SD,Royle GT

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since January 1974, alternate cadaveric renal transplants were treated with antilymphocyte globulin (Behringwerke) om addotopm to prednisone and azathioprine. Thirty patients were treated in this way. 53% of patients receiving ALG had a functioning graft at six months as opposed to 40% in the control group. This diffe...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Jakobsen J,Flatmark A,Sodal G,Thorsby E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary choriocarcinoma of the ovary arising, presumably, from a germ cell is extremely rare. The patient, a 16 year old girl who presented with dysuria and frequency of micturition developed fatal haemoperitoneum due to rupture of a pure primary nongestational ovarian choriocarcinoma. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Raju GC,Woo J,Marchack D,Naraynsingh V

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the general use of all non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and their relation to upper gastrointestinal bleeding in view of National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines published in July 2001 in the UK. METHODS:Cross sectional study on all patients who were referred for endoscopy...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lim CH,Heatley RV

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By 30 June 1984, only 99 confirmed and probable cases of toxic shock syndrome (TSS) had been reported in the British Isles. Sixty-three were related to menstruation in women aged 14 to 54 years who used tampons of various brands and absorbencies; 33 (52%) of these cases were in girls under 20. Five women died (8%) and...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： de Saxe MJ,Hawtin P,Wieneke AA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum thyrotrophin has been measured before and after the intravenous administration of 200 micrograms of thyrotrophin-releasing hormone in 91 white subjects (33 stable diabetic patients and 58 healthy controls), none of whom had any clinical evidence of thyroid or pituitary dysfunction. Seven of the diabetic subjects...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Small M,Cohen HN,MacLean JA,Beastall GH,MacCuish AC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Churg-Strauss syndrome is a systemic vasculitis. Its most frequent complications are heart diseases and asthma. Usually, cardiological manifestations are pericarditis, cardiac failure and myocardial infarction. Endobronchial granulomas identified by bronchoscopy are unusual. We present the case of a man with congestiv...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Alvarez-Sala R,Prados C,Armada E,Del Arco A,Villamor J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the occurrence of primary hyperaldosteronism in two sisters. Although this is only the second published report of familial Conn's syndrome, it does have implications for the relatives of patients with Conn's syndrome and these are discussed. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： London N,Swales J,Hollinrake K,Bell P,Heagerty A

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients are described in whom one or more carotid territory transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) were preceded by sneezing, straining, or bending over. It is argued that the mechanism involved dislodgment of embolic material from the site of carotid atheroma. This mechanism should be considered as an alternative ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Harrison MJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart involvement by amyloid deposition remains the most challenging of all organ sytems that may become involved, in what is generally a systemic disease. The correct diagnosis of amyloid type is critical to selection of the appropriate and wide range of therapies. The treatment of amyloid heart disease comprises two...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dubrey SW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroperitoneal fibrosis, either idiopathic or associated with aortic inflammatory aneurysm, is a chronic fibrotic disease that causes progressive obstruction of ureters and vessels around the lower abdominal aorta. Treatment is often difficult (surgery) or hazardous (steroids). We report a case of a woman with retrop...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Frankart L,Lorge F,Donckier J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72 year old man developed acute myeloblastic leukaemia two years after he had been treated with local curative therapy and chemotherapy for a solitary plasma cytoma of the ilium. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Maharaj D,Dolan G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clomipramine may affect reproduction in male rats and dogs, while other psychotropic drugs can affect sperm motility in vitro. This study investigates the motility of hamster sperm and the fertilization of hamster eggs in vitro with epididymal sperm from alpha-chlorohydrin-pretreated males, and after preincubation wit...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Stein DM,Schnieden H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The grade cricket competition, also known as premier cricket, supplies players to the state and national teams in Australia. The players involved are generally high-performing amateur (subelite) club cricketers. However, to date, there is no study on the injury epidemiology of Australian grade cricket. AIM:...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Soomro N,Redrup D,Evens C,Strasiotto LP,Singh S,Lyle D,Singh H,Ferdinands RED,Sanders R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) remains one of the most debilitating toxicities associated with cancer treatment. In recent decades, significant strides have been made in our understanding of the pathophysiology of CINV, making way to more effective targeted pharmacotherapies, especially 5-hydroxytrypt...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Tageja N,Groninger H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The leukocyte count is frequently used to evaluate suspected bacterial infections but estimates of its test performance vary considerably. We evaluated its accuracy for the detection of serious bacterial infections in febrile children. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Paediatric emergency department...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： De S,Williams GJ,Hayen A,Macaskill P,McCaskill M,Isaacs D,Craig JC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00