Anaphylactoid reactions to paracetamol.

abstract：:Autoamputation is an uncommon phenomenon that has been reported for the fingers, toes, appendix, ovary, spleen, etc. Autoamputation of the tongue has never been reported. An elderly man with carcinoma of lateral pharyngeal wall and tonsil presented with an autoamputated tongue that was attached to the oral cavity with...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Patel AK,Chaturvedi P,Panday RK,Sanyal B

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a woman with a large benign villous papilloma of the rectum, presenting with sodium and water depletion and later complicated by persistent hypokalaemia, is described. The patient also suffered from primary hypogonadism and diabetes. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bamford JK,Galbraith HJ,Pender BW

更新日期：1965-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the neurohormonal responses to oral administration of two drugs with different antihypertensive mechanisms, and their implications for long-term efficacy, we studied the changes in plasma renin activity, aldosterone, catecholamines and blood pressure after two cross-over periods of treatment with ca...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Rabinad E,Gaya J,Rivera F,Ingelmo M,Balcells A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated left ventricular non-compaction is a rare, morphologically distinct primary genetic cardiomyopathy, which was first described in children, but is becoming increasingly recognised in adults. The most common clinical manifestations include heart failure, arrhythmias and embolic events, and in children it may be...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Nair SB,Khattar RS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis and early management of genitourinary disorders in children is challenging for the child, parents and carers. There have been enormous developments in paediatric care medically and surgically and as a result many patients with complex anomalies reach adult life and have a normal desire for a good quality...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Creighton SM,Wood D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, prevalent in about 1% of the population. Almost half of the patients with epilepsy are women. Epilepsy and antiepileptic drugs can affect each aspect of the female human life cycle which includes menstrual cycle, contraception, fertility, conception, pregnancy and menopause....

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gooneratne IK,Wimalaratna S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a paradigm in cancer treatment that early detection and treatment improves survival. However, although screening measures lead to a higher rate of detection, for small bulk localised prostate cancer it remains unclear whether early detection and early treatment will lead to an overall decrease in mortality. The ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Mazhar D,Waxman J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cholestyramine in the peritoneal cavity of the rat are described. Cholestyramine causes mild peritonitis with adhesion formation between the liver and the omentum. In the management of biliary peritonitis, a lavage solution containing a suspension of cholestyramine would appear to be contra-indicated by...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Walker EM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several modalities are available to investigate oesophageal motility disorders, manometry is the gold standard. The procedure is increasingly available in district general hospitals but the clinical utility of this investigation in this setting remains unclear. The aim in this study was to evaluate the use an...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Ragunath K,Williams JG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sarcoidosis is a chronic, multisystem disease characterised by non-necrotising granulomatous inflammation of unknown aetiology. Most commonly, the lungs, lymph nodes, skin and eyes are affected in sarcoidosis; however, nervous system involvement occurs in approximately 5%-15% of cases. Any part of the nervou...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Radwan W,Lucke-Wold B,Robadi IA,Gyure K,Roberts T,Bhatia S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major lethal and non-lethal congenital malformations occurring in babies born in Dudley Road Hospital in 1979, 1980 and 1981 were related to the ethnic group of the mother. There was an increased incidence of gastrointestinal malformations in the Indian group and an increased incidence of abnormalities that could be a...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Terry PB,Mathew PM,Condie RG,Bissenden JG

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four studies have been carried out on propofol in this department, one being part of a multicentre trial. The minimum induction dose in unpremedicated patients was found to be 2.5 mg/kg. Propofol has been shown to be an acceptable induction agent, although with an incidence of pain on injection which is much higher wh...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Grounds RM,Morgan M,Lumley J

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Tuberculous infection of the oesophagus is rare. This is confirmed by our present review of cases managed in our teaching hospitals over a period of 18 years which uncovered only 11 patients. The main presentation is that of dysphagia whose algorithm of investigation should seek to differentiate tuberculosis from carc...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Mokoena T,Shama DM,Ngakane H,Bryer JV

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Obesity is an increasing problem in the UK and bariatric surgery is likely to increase in volume in the future. While substantial weight loss is the primary outcome following bariatric surgery, the effect on obesity-related morbidity, mortality and quality of life (QOL) is equally important. This study repor...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Titi M,Jenkins JT,Modak P,Galloway DJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:There has been a dramatic change in the way that resuscitation decisions are made for older hospital inpatients in the UK. In less than 20 years many geriatric medicine wards have moved from an "opt-in" policy (where the default position is not to provide resuscitation) to a position where resuscitation is widely avai...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Bowker L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Workforce studies show a declining proportion of UK junior doctors proceeding directly to specialist training, with many taking career breaks. Doctors may be choosing to delay this important career decision. AIM:To assess doctors' views on the timing of choosing a clinical specialty. METHODS:Surveys of two...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Lachish S,Goldacre MJ,Lambert TW

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal vein thrombosis in a pregnant woman is reported. This entity should be differentiated from vaginal arteriovenous fistula which may cause severe antepartum, intrapartum and post-partum haemorrhage. The humoral and mechanical factors which favour the occurrence of varicosities and thrombosis are briefly describe...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Gitstein S,Ballas S,Peyser MR

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the remarkable advances in cardiovascular therapeutics over the past four decades, little impact has been made on either the incidence or mortality rate of congestive heart failure and it remains a major clinical and public health problem. Recent practice audits have suggested that proven efficacious therapies...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： McAlister FA,Teo KK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leuco-erythroblastosis has many known associations (Burkett, Cox and Fields, 1965; Weick, Hagedorn and Linman, 1974; Retief, 1964), but the only ones related to drug therapy are the well established response to haematinics (Burkett et al., 1965) and one possible case following anti-epileptic therapy (Retief, 1964). Th...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Trenchard PM,Wells CE,Jarriwalla AG

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of beta-blockers in improving exercise tolerance in angina pectoris can be accounted for by the reduction in heart rate and arterial pressure than they produce. The failure of a few patients to respond despite reduction in heart rate and the failure of those who do respond to obtain the full expected benefi...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Robinson BF

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome and nephrotic range proteinuria is presented. Radiological investigation of the urinary tract revealed clubbed calyces but no evidence of obstruction or vesicoureteric reflux. Renal biopsy revealed occasional sclerotic glomeruli, extensive foot-process fusion and segmental g...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Cheng IK,Chan KW,Chan MK,Kung A,Ma J,Wang C

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:Forty-five healthy men aged 21-34 years took part in a double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study of the effects of 28 days' treatment with lornoxicam 4 mg twice daily or indomethacin 50 mg twice daily on faecal blood loss and the endoscopic appearances of gastric and duodenal mucosa. After an initial endo...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Warrington SJ,Debbas NM,Farthing M,Horton M,Johnston A,Thillainayagam A,Turner P,Ferber H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary hyperkalaemic paralysis is a rare condition often mimicking the Guillain-Barré syndrome. There have been a few case reports of hyperkalaemia caused by renal failure, trauma, and drugs where the presentation has been with muscle weakness. A case of hyperkalaemic paralysis caused by an angiotensin converting e...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dutta D,Fischler M,McClung A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

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：:A severe case of the cast syndrome is described following Harrington rod distraction and application of a body cast. The case was unusual as it presented late with no warning symptoms and progressed rapidly to death. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Kennedy RH,Cooper MJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of strangulated femoral hernia, all with a delay in establishing the diagnosis, are reported here. These cases illustrate the continuing difficulties experienced, both in primary care and hospital practice, in making this diagnosis despite the clinical awareness of this condition. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Heys SD,Brittenden J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long intergenic non-coding RNA 01296 (LINC01296) has been reported to play an important role in many human malignancies, but a consistent perspective has not been established now. To explore the prognostic value of LINC01296 in different types of human solid malignant tumours, we performed this meta-analysis.An electr...

journal_title：Postgraduate medical journal

authors： Dai C,Dai C,Ni H,Xu Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00