abstract：:Treatment of asymptomatic diverticulosis is geared to the prevention of constipation, with vigilance for possible signs of complications. A bulky stool decreases colonic intraluminal pressures, probably lessening pain and the chance of development of new diverticula. Increased stool weight may be achieved by the addit...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Herrera AF

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of rheumatic disease, the patient's history and a careful physical examination should yield most of the information needed to identify the specific disorder present. A convenient classification is based on four differentiating features: number of joints affected, acuteness or chronicity of disease, absence o...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Weiss TE,Gum OB,Biundo JJ Jr

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease affects children, mostly boys, in the age range of 3 to 12 years. Severity and duration are quite variable. Catterall's classification of disease according to degree of femoral head involvement is of real prognostic value. Other factors of prognostic importance are loss of motion, metaphysea...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Kamhi E

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mere presence of uterine fibroids is not, since qua non, an indication for their surgical removal. Knowing when not to operate is probably more important for the physician than knowing when to operate. It is easy to fall into diagnostic and therapeutic traps when uterine fibroids are known to be present, especiall...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Russell KP

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Present evidence suggests that the most important nutritional factor bearing on the risk of development of diabetes mellitus is an excessive caloric intake. Other evidence suggests that both dietary prevention of diabetes and mitigation of hyperglycemia by dietary means can prevent morbidity and mortality from the mic...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： West KM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal infections usually have characteristics that make them easily identifiable. In most cases, clinical diagnosis can be readily confirmed by examining the lesions under Wood's light or by placing infected material in potassium hydroxide solution and examining the preparation microscopically. Dermatophytes can be r...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Millikan LE

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep neck infection has ominous implications if not detected and treated in an early stage. The anatomic relationships of head and neck spaces encourage spread of infection. Immediate hospitalization and constant monitoring of the patient after diagnosis are mandatory. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Johnson JT,Tucker HM

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unresolved grief refers either to the absence or to the prolongation of normal grief. It is identified by (1) painful response to recall of the deceased, (2) realization of not having accepted the loss or of not being able to grieve, and (3) unaccountable depression, emergence of medical symptoms on the anniversary of...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： DeVaul RA,Zisook S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early recognition and treatment of immunologically mediated diseases of the lung are vital to prevent irreparable damage. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis are often confused but should not be difficult to distinguish. The former is nonatopic and is marked by chills, fever, ches...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Slavin RG

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is treated by avoiding the precipitants of symptoms, by a trial of hyposensitization (immunotherapy) if the precipitant cannot be avoided, and principally by pharmacologic therapy. Acute attacks have been most widely treated with epinephrine, but adrenergic aerosol bronchodilators and aminophylline are being us...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Ellis EF

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical history and physical examination remain the most important factors in determining the presence, anatomic location, and physiologic extent of arterial occlusive disease and the need for operation. The physician should refrain from ordering arteriography to confirm the diagnosis of arterial disease unless o...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Barnes RW

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulomatous inflammation of the peritoneal surfaces resulting from exposure to cornstarch granules from surgical gloves produces a syndrome of abdominal pair, adynamic ileus, fever, peritonitis, variable white blood cell count, and inflammatory ascites. Symptoms develop three to four weeks after a routine abdominal ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Berkow AE

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolongation of survival of children with acute leukemia by systemic therapy has brought a marded increase in incidence of CNS leukemia. In mice inoculated with leukemia cells, CNS i nfiltrates are rare unless life is prolonged by chemotherapy. Available evidence seems to indicate that leukemic cells in the CNS in mos...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Pochedly C

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty of 24 hypertensive patients, six of whom had severe disease, had a reduction in standing blood pressure to less than 140/90 mm Hg after six weeks of treatment with prazosin alone or prazosin plus other antihypertensive drugs. The absence of significant side effects was impressive. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Turner AS,Watson OF,Peel JO

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a patient presents with a hard, painless lump in the neck, one should assume that it is a cancer and that it is metastatic from a primary lesion located above the clavicle. A careful physical examination with the appropriate instruments most often will determine the site of the primary lesion. Laryngograms or lat...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Devine KD

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonic cancer remains a major cause of death because diagnosis is usually delayed. Improved methods for earlier detection will maximize the patient's chances for survival. At present, surgery offers the greatest possibility of cure, but even in those instances where less than definitive resection is possible, there i...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Wallack MK,Rosato FE,Brown AS,Rosato EF

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last few years, the number, variety, and complexity of nuclear medical examinations that can be performed in children have increased impressively, due partly to recent accomplishments in radiopharmaceutical development and the availability of gamma scintillation cameras and computer systems for acquisition,...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Treves S

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroesophageal reflux is not synonymous with sliding hiatus hernia. It should be approached as a condition dependent on the intrinsic strength of the lower esophageal sphincter rather than on the presence of a hiatus hernia. The patient's account of symptoms is probably the most important means of diagnosis, but in ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors： Cohen S

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Readers are invited to submit questions relating to problem cases. Inquiries will be answered by qualified consultants and replies forwarded by mail promptly. Selected problems and solutions are published every month in this section. ...

journal_title：Postgraduate medicine

authors：

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00