Mammary tuberculosis: report on 52 cases.

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：:Asthma is an inflammatory disease characterized by infiltration of the airways by eosinophils and ensuing bronchial hyperresponsiveness. The activation of eosinophils and their recruitment to the airways are strongly influenced by T-lymphocytes and their products. There is now evidence that successful therapy of asthm...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Milgrom H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged infectious disease with a significant morbidity and mortality. The major clinical features include persistent fever, chills/rigor, myalgia, malaise, dry cough, headache, and dyspnoea. Older subjects may present without the typical febrile response. Common lab...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Hui DS,Chan MC,Wu AK,Ng PC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For millennia, the smile has been recognised as a powerful communication device, offering benefits to both giver and receiver with few drawbacks. A sign of compassion, empathy and friendliness, smiling can benefit healthcare professionals and their patients, helping to build a relationship of trust. But beware the fal...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Beamish AJ,Foster JJ,Edwards H,Olbers T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild and self-limiting fever following bleomycin use is common, and a fatal hyperpyrexial response occurs rarely. In previously reported cases, such hyperpyrexia occurred either after the initial administration of the drug or during subsequent therapy following an initial pyrexial response. We describe a fatal hyperpy...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Leung WH,Lau JY,Chan TK,Kumana CR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High flow arteriogenic priapism is uncommon and usually occurs after trauma to the genitoperineal area. The onset of prolonged erection can be delayed and is often relatively pain free. Arteriography in this case illustrated the causative bilateral arteriocavernosal fistulae and pseudoaneurysms. Treatment consisted of...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gujral S,MacDonagh RP,Cavanagh PM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of angina with a single drug often proves unsatisfactory because of dose-related unwanted effects or occasionally an adverse effect on the angina. A combination of a beta-blocking agent and a calcium antagonist drug might achieve satisfactory control of angina at acceptable doses of each drug. Widespread app...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Geddes JS

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verrucous carcinoma is a rare skin malignancy of squamous cell origin. It is characterised by negligible cellular atypia and a low mitotic rate. These are reflected in slow locally invasive behaviour and very infrequent metastatic spread. The tumour is also recognised in oral and anogenital sites. Cutaneous lesions pr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Munro NA,Smith C,Purushotham AD

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disc herniation at the thoracic the spine level is more common than generally thought. Localisation of pain may be vague and may erroneously point to cardiopulmonary, gastrointestinal, genito-urinary or even psychiatric disease. Magnetic resonance imaging is the investigation of choice, especially if spinal cord compr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Pal B,Johnson A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one patients with radiolucent common bile duct stones received medical treatment. Nineteen had Rowachol, a terpene preparation, eight (42%) achieving complete stone disappearance within 3 to 48 months. Fifteen (including 3 of the above) took Rowachol with bile acid (chenodeoxycholic in 11, ursodeoxycholic in 4)...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Somerville KW,Ellis WR,Whitten BH,Balfour TW,Bell GD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity to digoxin was monitored in 437 consecutive recipients in a comprehensive drug surveillance programme, Adverse reactions developed in 19.5% and, in contrast to previous reports, were generally of a relatively benign nature. There were no drug-related deaths, but patients with adverse reactions spent longer in...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Henry DA,Lowe JM,Lawson DA,Whiting B

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective measurements of serum thyrotrophin and thyroxine concentrations were made in six patients with primary hypothyroidism treated consecutively with an incremental regimen of oral thyroxine. A fall in thyrotrophin occurred over several months, accompanied by a concurrent slow rise in serum thyroxine. Those pat...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ghose RR,Upadhyay HP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of myxoedema coma is reported where the administration of chlorpromazine resulted in a prolonged dystonic reaction. A similar challenge with a butyrophenone when the patient was on thyroxine caused a similar but much abbreviated response. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Wood GM,Waters AK

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine infants were examined who presented with rectal bleeding in the first month of life. In 64% of these children no cause was found. Infantile diarrhoea, haemorrhagic disease of the newborn and anal fissure were the most common diagnoses made. The mortality in the entire group was less than 3%. It is concluded...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Levene MI

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoconstriction increases impedance to ventricular ejection and impairs the performance of the dilated myopathic heart. Vasodilator drug therapy by reducing vascular resistance, increasing vascular compliance and increasing vascular capacitance improves cardiac function and relieves the signs and symptoms of congesti...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Cohn JN

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The healthcare industry has seen an increase in the adoption of team training, such as crew resource management (CRM), to improve teamwork and coordination within acute care medical teams. A meta-analysis was carried out in order to quantify the effects of CRM training on reactions, learning, behaviour and clinical ca...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： O'Dea A,O'Connor P,Keogh I

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59 year old woman presented with acute onset of fever, chills, diaphoresis, vague chest discomfort, and was found to be hypotensive and tachypnoeic. An electrocardiogram demonstrated sinoatrial block with a junctional rhythm between 50 and 80 beats/min. All cultures were negative and imaging studies unrevealing. Her...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Medarov B,Tongia S,Rossoff L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological and family studies suggest that lung cancer results from the combined effects of age, smoking and genetic factors. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is also an independent risk factor for lung cancer and coexists in 40-60% of lung cancer cases. METHODS:In a two-stage case-control ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Young RP,Hopkins RJ,Hay BA,Epton MJ,Mills GD,Black PN,Gardner HD,Sullivan R,Gamble GD

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the relationship between panic and other symptoms of anxiety disorders. The approach to classification of these disorders described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition) of the American Psychiatric Association is outlined. It is concluded that there are subst...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Brandon S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venepuncture is commonly regarded as a trivial procedure allocated to the most junior medical staff. The result of this policy is that junior doctors are required to perform a minimally invasive procedure on consenting patients without any structured venepuncture training or assessment. Consequently, inexperienced doc...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： McConnell AA,Mackay GM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemorrhage of small bowel origin may prove to be a clinical and diagnostic challenge, particularly when the bleeding is massive and continuous. Such a case is described where the source of blood loss was a jejunal vascular abnormality. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Saunders MP

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The post mortem examination or autopsy is a trusted method of identifying the cause of death. Patients and their families may oppose an autopsy for a variety of reasons, including fear of mutilation or owing to religious and personal beliefs. Imaging alternatives to autopsy have been explored, which may prov...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ahmad MU,Sharif KA,Qayyum H,Ehsanullah B,Balyasnikova S,Wale A,Shanmuganandan A,Siddiqui MRS,Athanasiou T,Kemp GJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic effects of paracetamol in overdose quantities are well recognised but the occurrence of anaphylactoid reactions to paracetamol is infrequently identified by consumers and health care professionals. Nevertheless adverse reactions to this drug, even in therapeutic doses, can have fatal or near fatal consequenc...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ayonrinde OT,Saker BM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged coma resulting from hypoxic brain injury is usually associated with a dismal chance of return to independent existence. In this report a case is described of a 60 year old man who recovered and returned to work as a university professor after being in a vegetative state at least 8 weeks after a prolonged cer...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Falk RH

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various tumours, in particular lymphomas, have been reported in association with azathioprine treatment, both after renal transplantation and in other conditions. A case is reported here of acute myeloid leukaemia associated with azathioprine therapy for rheumatoid arthritis, and this is now the third case reported in...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gilmore IT,Holden G,Rodan KS

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Video evaluation of resuscitation is becoming increasingly integrated into practice in a number of clinical settings. The purpose of this review article is to examine how video may enhance clinical care during resuscitation. As healthcare and available therapeutic interventions evolve, re-evaluation of accepted paradi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lowe DJ,Dewar A,Lloyd A,Edgar S,Clegg GR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old girl presented with a swelling in the right axilla from which Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare was cultured. The gland was excised and she made an uneventful recovery. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Colley EW,Cox RA

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative prevalence of abnormalities of coronary flow reserve and oesophageal function was ascertained in 32 syndrome X patients with typical angina chest pain, a positive exercise test, and normal coronary arteries. Coronary flow reserve in response to a hyperaemic dose of papaverine was measured using an intraco...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chauhan A,Mullins PA,Gill R,Taylor G,Petch MC,Schofield PM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of the antinociceptive action of flupirtine, a novel non-opioid analgesic, were investigated in animals. It was found that this effect could be abolished by pre-treatment with reserpine. Furthermore, it could be dose-dependently antagonized by yohimbine and changes in the EEG of the rat observed after a...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Szelenyi I,Nickel B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma is an uncommon cause of Cushing's syndrome, which rarely responds to conventional treatment. A patient presenting with Cushing's syndrome secondary to adrenocortical carcinoma underwent surgical resection. Postoperatively, she developed metastatic disease resistant to con...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Chan NN,Isaacs AJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00