NIH conference. Asthma.

abstract：:Medical professional codes have long prohibited physician involvement in assisting a patient's suicide. However, despite ethical and legal prohibitions, calls for the liberalization of this ban have grown in recent years. The medical profession should articulate its views on the arguments for and against changes in pu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Snyder L,Sulmasy DP,Ethics and Human Rights Committee, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.

更新日期：2001-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmaceutical companies and other trial sponsors must submit certain trial results to ClinicalTrials.gov. The validity of these results is unclear. PURPOSE:To validate results posted on ClinicalTrials.gov against publicly available U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews on Drugs@FDA. DATA SOURCES...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schwartz LM,Woloshin S,Zheng E,Tse T,Zarin DA

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of patients having calcification within the sella turcica (pituitary stones) have been studied and followed up, one patient for 18 years. A detailed analysis of the radiographic findings and endocrinologic profiles of these two patients is presented. The rarity of bona fide pituitary stones and their benign ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Di Chiro G,Saldino R,McGuffin WL Jr,Sachson RA,Gorden P,Bartter FC

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of weight-bearing exercise training and subsequent detraining on lumbar bone mineral content in postmenopausal women. DESIGN:Non-randomized, controlled, short-term (9 months) trial and long-term (22 months) exercise training and detraining (13 months). SETTING:Section of applied p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dalsky GP,Stocke KS,Ehsani AA,Slatopolsky E,Lee WC,Birge SJ Jr

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Nurse care management programs for patients with chronic illness have been shown to be safe and effective. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a telephone-mediated nurse care management program for heart failure reduced the rate of rehospitalization for heart failure and for all causes over a 1-year period. DES...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： DeBusk RF,Miller NH,Parker KM,Bandura A,Kraemer HC,Cher DJ,West JA,Fowler MB,Greenwald G

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The pursuit of the ideal tumor marker has generated many tests for use in the diagnosis and management of cancer, several of which are now widely available. Tumor markers have five potential uses in patient care: They can be used for screening, for diagnosis, for establishing prognosis, for monitoring treatment, and f...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bates SE

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypophosphatemic osteomalacia that remits after resection of a coexisting tumor has been described in 35 patients. Because the associated neoplasms have been of mesenchymal origin, it has been inferred that this tumor-induced osteomalacia syndrome is uniquely related to tumours of this derivation. However, in the pres...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lyles KW,Berry WR,Haussler M,Harrelson JM,Drezner MK

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocarditis is a relatively frequent infection in intravenous drug users. We compared features in the cases of 102 patients with those in intravenous drug users with other causes of fever to identify risk factors predictive of endocarditis. Logistic regression analysis showed cocaine use to be strongly associated wit...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chambers HF,Morris DL,Täuber MG,Modin G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1978 and 1985, the number of active internists in the United States increased from 64,000 to 91,000, and by 1998 the number will have increased to 141,000. This growth represents an increase of 121% for a 20-year period, during which time the population of the United States is expected to increase only 19%. Th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kletke PR,Schleiter MK,Tarlov AR

更新日期：1987-07-01 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:Studies suggest that vitamin D supplementation may reduce cancer and fracture risks. PURPOSE:To examine the benefits and harms of vitamin D with or without calcium supplementation on clinical outcomes of cancer and fractures in adults. DATA SOURCES:English-language studies identified from MEDLINE and the C...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chung M,Lee J,Terasawa T,Lau J,Trikalinos TA

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine in female tennis and squash players the effect of biological age (that is, the starting age of playing relative to the age at menarche) at which tennis or squash playing was started on the difference in bone mineral content between the playing and non-playing arms. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kannus P,Haapasalo H,Sankelo M,Sievänen H,Pasanen M,Heinonen A,Oja P,Vuori I

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the effects of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on the serologic manifestations and response to treatment of syphilis in intravenous drug users. DESIGN:Cohort study of intravenous drug users. SETTING:Medical clinic in a hospital-based methadone maintenance treatment program in New Yo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gourevitch MN,Selwyn PA,Davenny K,Buono D,Schoenbaum EE,Klein RS,Friedland GH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetanus is an expected complication when disasters strike in developing countries, where tetanus immunization coverage is often low or nonexistent. Collapsing structures and swirling debris inflict numerous crush injuries, fractures, and serious wounds. Clostridium tetani infects wounds contaminated with dirt, feces, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Afshar M,Raju M,Ansell D,Bleck TP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center is a collaborative, integrated training program for primary care pediatricians, internists, and family physicians within one interdisciplinary organization. Since 1970 we have trained more than 200 physicians, prepared them for board certification i...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Strelnick AH,Bateman WB,Jones C,Shepherd SD,Massad RJ,Townsend JM,Grossman R,Korin E,Schorow M

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the influence of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine given to uninfected volunteers on the interpretation of serodiagnostic HIV test results. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:5 AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Units funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Belshe RB,Clements ML,Keefer MC,Graham BS,Corey L,Sposto R,Wescott S,Lawrence D

更新日期：1994-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the clinical and laboratory characteristics of 71 patients with hairy cell leukemia to ascertain whether prognostic factors important for the therapy of the disease existed. Granulocytopenia of less than 500/mu 1 was associated with the occurrence of a serious infection in 46% of the patients, compared to 1...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Golomb HM,Catovsky D,Golde DW

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin breaks the gastric mucosal barrier. We studied the effect of aspirin on this barrier, correlating changes in potential difference and ultrastructure. Mean control potential difference for seven subjects was -48 +/- 1.0 mV. Oral aspirin, 600 mg in 100 ml of saline, reduced potential difference to -39 +/- 1.4 mV...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Baskin WN,Ivey KJ,Krause WJ,Jeffrey GE,Gemmell RT

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper outlines the clinical, serologic, and immunogenetic differences and similarities of Sjögren's syndrome alone (primary) and Sjögren's syndrome associated with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (secondary). The immunoregulation in Sjögren's syndrome is discussed and the incidence of immune...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moutsopoulos HM,Chused TM,Mann DL,Klippel JH,Fauci AS,Frank MM,Lawley TJ,Hamburger MI

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony-stimulating factors are growth factors responsible for the proliferation and the maturation of bone marrow stem cells to fully differentiated granulocytes and monocytes. In addition to their effects on hematopoiesis, some colony-stimulating factors prime mature cells for enhanced chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and k...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weisbart RH,Gasson JC,Golde DW

更新日期：1989-02-15 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：:Advances through basic research have elucidated the disturbances of neurotransmitter function in Parkinson's Dopamine has replaced acetylcholine and norepinephrine as the most studied neurotransmitter, with both conceptual and practical developments, exemplified by the hypothesis of cyclic adenosine monophosphate as a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Calne DB,Kebabian J,Silbergeld E,Evarts E

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：PURPOSE:To review current management of intractable constipation. DATA SOURCES:Original articles and reviews published in the English-language literature between 1965 and 1993 identified by MEDLINE search. Verbal feedback from attendees after presentation of the document as a clinical symposium at the 14th Internation...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Camilleri M,Thompson WG,Fleshman JW,Pemberton JH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated 10 patients with hidradenitis suppurative or acne conglobata who developed arthritis. In contrast to patients with acne fulminans and arthritis, all our subjects were adults over 22 years of age; nine were black; and four were women. Nine patients had episodic inflammatory oligoarthritis affecting mainly ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosner IA,Richter DE,Huettner TL,Kuffner GH,Wisnieski JJ,Burg CG

更新日期：1982-10-01 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：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：:Cost-effectiveness analysis and other forms of decision analysis are becoming more common in the medical literature and are increasingly influential in the development of health policy. Nevertheless, many clinicians find it difficult to apply policies developed from these analyses to individual encounters with patient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Asch DA,Hershey JC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy of pulmonary hypertension is limited by the low potency and adverse effects of current pulmonary vasodilators. The hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in human pulmonary hypertension are not known. We administered nitroglycerin to nine patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension. Nitroglycerin increased card...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Pearl RG,Rosenthal MH,Schroeder JS,Ashton JP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00