Liver biopsy in hemophilia A.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In AIDS, nodular skin disease can result from various causes. OBJECTIVE:To report a new manifestation of microsporidial infection presenting as nodular skin disease with underlying osteomyelitis. DESIGN:Case report. SETTING:Tertiary-care military medical center in Washington, D.C. PATIENT:A 36-year-old w...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kester KE,Turiansky GW,McEvoy PL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data suggest that the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) differ among U.S. racial/ethnic groups. PURPOSE:To evaluate racial/ethnic disparities in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection rates and COVID-19 outcomes, factors contributing to disparities, and intervent...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mackey K,Ayers CK,Kondo KK,Saha S,Advani SM,Young S,Spencer H,Rusek M,Anderson J,Veazie S,Smith M,Kansagara D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes and applications of informed consent are the subject of confusion and controversy according to a President's Commission report. The Commission suggests shared decision making as the new ideal for physician-patient relationships, but notes that such a changed ideal will not be initiated by court action. Th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Green JA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) therapy has proven efficacy in reducing the rate of coronary and cerebrovascular events in patients 75 years of age or younger with a history of myocardial infarction. However, in patients older than 75 years of age, the efficacy and potentia...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ganz DA,Kuntz KM,Jacobson GA,Avorn J

更新日期：2000-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The data from population-based, randomized trials of the mammographic screening of women aged 40 to 49 years are limited by retrospective subgroup analysis, low statistical power, and the use of older mammographic techniques. Nonetheless, meta-analysis involving the most recently reported data from all similarly desig...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sickles EA,Kopans DB

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the available evidence on various pharmacologic treatments to prevent fractures in men and women with low bone density or osteoporosis. METHODS:Published literature on this topic was identified by using MEDLINE (1966 to December 2...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Qaseem A,Snow V,Shekelle P,Hopkins R Jr,Forciea MA,Owens DK,Clinical Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee of the American College of Physicians.

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorders determined wholly or in part by genetic factors constitute a substantial number of human diseases. This realization has grown during the past 2 decades with the recognition of many specific heritable conditions and the identification of familial risk factors for common disorders. New technologies, such as fe...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Shapiro LJ,Comings DE,Jones OW,Rimoin DL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis was diagnosed after age 13 in 25 patients. All had an elevated sweat chloride and either a sibling with cystic fibrosis or typical pulmonary infection or digestive symptoms caused by exocrine pancreatic deficiency. Fourteen had long-standing pulmonary or digestive symptoms. In contrast, four of eight p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stern RC,Boat TF,Doershuk CF,Tucker AS,Miller RB,Matthews LW

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain death has been discussed extensively for the last 25 years. Most investigators now believe that requiring death of the entire brain as the criterion for brain death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act and the standard clinical tests of brain death outlined in the Report of the Medical Consultants to the Pr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Halevy A,Brody B

更新日期：1993-09-15 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：BACKGROUND:The paucity of public health messages that directly address communities of color might contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in knowledge and behavior related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether physician-delivered prevention messages affect knowledge and information...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Alsan M,Stanford FC,Banerjee A,Breza E,Chandrasekhar AG,Eichmeyer S,Goldsmith-Pinkham P,Ogbu-Nwobodo L,Olken BA,Torres C,Sankar A,Vautrey PL,Duflo E

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the use of L-tryptophan by patients with eosinophilic fasciitis and compare this with its use by patients with progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma). DESIGN:Retrospective and prospective analysis. Six patients with eosinophilic fasciitis were identified retrospectively and two prospectively....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Freundlich B,Werth VP,Rook AH,O'Connor CR,Schumacher HR,Leyden JJ,Stolley PD

更新日期：1990-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the relation between weight variability and death in high-risk, middle-aged men participating in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). DESIGN:Cohort study with 3.8 years of follow-up. SETTING:Multicenter, collaborative, primary prevention trial conducted at 22 clinical centers in ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Blair SN,Shaten J,Brownell K,Collins G,Lissner L

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active-control noninferiority trials are being performed with increasing frequency when standard placebo-controlled trials are considered unethical. Three attributes are optimally required to establish noninferiority: 1) The treatment under consideration exhibits therapeutic noninferiority to the active control; 2) th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaul S,Diamond GA

更新日期：2006-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in blood levels of thyroid hormones have been reported when patients taking synthetic L-thyroxine were shifted from one manufactured form of the hormone to another. Because recent formulation changes have rendered these earlier data obsolete, we did a crossover study to determine differences in bioavailabi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hennessey JV,Burman KD,Wartofsky L

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of physician diagnostic variability on accuracy at a population level depends on the prevalence of diagnoses. OBJECTIVE:To estimate how diagnostic variability affects accuracy from the perspective of a U.S. woman aged 50 to 59 years having a breast biopsy. DESIGN:Applied probability using Bayes'...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Elmore JG,Nelson HD,Pepe MS,Longton GM,Tosteson AN,Geller B,Onega T,Carney PA,Jackson SL,Allison KH,Weaver DL

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Amantadine HCl administration has resulted in accelerated resolution of influenza A illness. Prolonged abnormalities in pulmonary function have been described in uncomplicated influenza A. To study the effect of amantadine on these changes, we evaluated young adults with documented natural influenza A with clear chest...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Little JW,Hall WJ,Douglas RG Jr,Hyde RW,Speers DM

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To define the prevalence, severity, type and pathogenesis of osteopenia in idiopathic hemochromatosis. DESIGN:Prospective study conducted over 18 months. SETTING:Tertiary care center. SUBJECTS:Twenty-two men with idiopathic hemochromatosis and 20 age-matched controls. There were 5 hypogonadal patient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Diamond T,Stiel D,Posen S

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some health plans profile physicians on the basis of their relative costs and use these profiles to assign physicians to cost categories. Physician organizations have questioned whether the rules used to attribute costs to a physician affect the cost category to which that physician is assigned. OBJECTIVE:T...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mehrotra A,Adams JL,Thomas JW,McGlynn EA

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to prevent cytomegalovirus infection among seronegative patients having marrow transplants, a globulin with high antibody levels against cytomegalovirus was given before and for 11 weeks after transplantation in a randomized trial. Among 36 patients who received no prophylactic granulocyte transfusions, g...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Meyers JD,Leszczynski J,Zaia JA,Flournoy N,Newton B,Snydman DR,Wright GG,Levin MJ,Thomas ED

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with renal failure developed N-acetylprocainamide toxicity while receiving procainamide. Treatment consisted of continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration in one and hemodialysis followed by continuous arteriovenous hemodiafiltration in the other. The efficacy of these treatments was compared with the effica...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Domoto DT,Brown WW,Bruggensmith P

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All practicing physicians should be prepared to respond to requests from patients for advice about participating in clinical trials research. Even physicians who choose not to conduct clinical trials but rather devote their practice to clinical care may have patients who consider volunteering for research. In advising...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chen DT,Miller FG,Rosenstein DL

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent guidelines for adult prevention do not recommend a comprehensive annual physical examination, but current public expectations in light of this change are unknown. OBJECTIVE:To determine public belief in the need for and content of an annual physical examination and to examine the effect of financial ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Oboler SK,Prochazka AV,Gonzales R,Xu S,Anderson RJ

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateral epicondylitis is a common condition for which botulinum toxin has been reported to have a therapeutic role in uncontrolled studies. OBJECTIVE:To determine if an injection of botulinum toxin is more effective than placebo for reducing pain in adults with lateral epicondylitis. DESIGN:Randomized, dou...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Wong SM,Hui AC,Tong PY,Poon DW,Yu E,Wong LK

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:Update of the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on counseling and interventions to prevent tobacco use and tobacco-related disease in adults, including pregnant women. METHODS:The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on interventions for tobacco smoking cessation that are relevant to...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Siu AL,U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-infected patients with sustained immunologic improvement from antiretroviral therapy may be able to discontinue chemoprophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). OBJECTIVE:To compare PCP incidence in HIV-infected patients who had sustained CD4+ lymphocyte counts greater than 200 cells/mm3 a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Yangco BG,Von Bargen JC,Moorman AC,Holmberg SD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure changes in spinal and femoral neck bone mineral densities in patients treated for Graves thyrotoxicosis. DESIGN:Cohort study. SETTING:Tertiary care center. PATIENTS:Fifteen women with active Graves thyrotoxicosis. Six patients were premenopausal and nine were postmenopausal. All patients had evi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Diamond T,Vine J,Smart R,Butler P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the possibility that fibrinogen represents a cardiovascular risk factor. DATA IDENTIFICATION:A computerized literature search (1980 to 1992) identified all published epidemiologic studies on fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Clinical and basic research data were found by separate searches. Ref...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ernst E,Resch KL

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five consecutive patients with progressive systemic sclerosis were prospectively evaluated for evidence of Sjögren's syndrome. Six of the 35 (17%) were judged to have the disorder. This is a higher prevalence than in most reports, but much lower than that recently reportedly by Alarcón-Segovia and associates (7...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cipoletti JF,Buckingham RB,Barnes EL,Peel RL,Mahmood K,Cignetti FE,Pierce JM,Rabin BS,Rodnan GP

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred ninety-eight patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia received marrow transplants after intensive chemotherapy and total body irradiation. Multivariate analysis showed disease status at time of transplantation to be the most powerful predictor of survival. The probability of long-term survival for alloge...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Thomas ED,Clift RA,Fefer A,Appelbaum FR,Beatty P,Bensinger WI,Buckner CD,Cheever MA,Deeg HJ,Doney K

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00