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Recognition and management of obesity in a family practice setting.

BACKGROUND: Research on the diagnosis and management of obesity in primary care is limited. Our study goals were to describe the rate of obesity in a primary care setting, to identify factors associated with clinically recognized obesity, and to…

Acute pericarditis with a symptomatic pericardial effusion complicating pregnancy. A case report.

A 30-year-old, white woman, gravida 4, para 2, abortus 1, was hospitalized at 21 weeks' gestation because of a symptomatic pericardial effusion. Extensive evaluation including pericardial biopsy failed to reveal a specific cause. Treatment with…

Tags: *Pregnancy Complications, 1993, Acute Disease, Adult, Cardiovascular/therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, Female, Hagley M T, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pericardial Effusion/*etiology/therapy, Pericarditis/*complications/therapy, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Trimester, Second, Shaub T F, The Journal of reproductive medicine

Sex steroid induction of gallstones in the male Syrian hamster.

Light (LM), transmission (TEM) and scanning (SEM) electron microscopic techniques were used to characterize morphologic changes induced in the gallbladder of Syrian hamsters following a one-month estradiol (E) and estradiol + medroxyprogesterone…

Epithelial surface changes and induction of gallstones in the male Syrian hamster gallbladder as a result of a two-month sex steroid treatment.

Transmission (TEM) and scanning (SEM) electron microscopic observations were correlated to characterize morphologic changes induced in the gallbladder of male Syrian hamsters following a two-month estradiol (E) and estradiol + medroxyprogesterone (E…

Access to medical care among the elderly in rural northeastern Ohio.

BACKGROUND: Conventional wisdom holds that the elderly living in rural areas suffer poor health and have limited access to health care compared with their urban peers. The relation between poor health and limited access, however, has yet to be…

Tags: *Rural Population, 1993, Aged, Buss T F, Female, Gillanders W R, Health Services Accessibility/*statistics & numerical data, Health Services for the Aged/*supply & distribution, Health Status, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Ohio, Reproducibility of Results, The Journal of family practice

Barrett's esophagus: an acquired condition with genetic predisposition.

We describe four families with a strong familial expression of Barrett's/gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) complex spanning one to four generations with two to seven affected members per family. The purpose of this report is to highlight genetic…

Tags: 1993, Adenocarcinoma/genetics, Aged, Barrett Esophagus/*genetics/pathology, Biopsy, Dominant, Esophageal Neoplasms/genetics, Esophagus/pathology, Fahmy N, Female, Gastroesophageal Reflux/*genetics, Genes, Humans, King J F, Male, Middle Aged, Pedigree, The American journal of gastroenterology

Magnetic resonance imaging to avoid laparotomy in pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pregnancy would help define a benign pelvic mass, thereby avoiding laparotomy. METHODS: During a 2-3-year period, five pregnant women with adnexal masses suspected to be leiomyomas…

Developmental alterations in N-methyl-D-aspartate stimulated [3H]norepinephrine release in rat brain cortex and hippocampus.

Developmental alterations in N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-stimulated[3H]norepinephrine release from rat brain cortical and hippocampal slices were studied. NMDA (10-1000 microM) resulted in a concentration-dependent increase in [3H]norepinephrine…

Tags: 1993, 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate/pharmacology, Animals, Brown L M, Cerebral Cortex/drug effects/*growth & development/metabolism, Female, Hippocampus/drug effects/*growth & development/metabolism, In Vitro Techniques, Male, N-Methylaspartate/*pharmacology, Neuroscience letters, Norepinephrine/*metabolism, Rats, Sprague-Dawley

POLG-Related Disorders

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS: POLG-related disorders comprise a continuum of overlapping phenotypes that were clinically defined long before their molecular basis was known. Most affected individuals have some, but not all, of the features of a given…

Tags: 1993, Chinnery Patrick F, Cohen Bruce H, Copeland William C, GeneReviews((R))

Plica: Pathologic or Not?

A fold that occurs within a joint is referred to as a plica synovialis. Three such plicae are seen with regularity within the human knee joint. These folds are normal structures that represent remnants of mesenchymal tissue and/or septa formed during…

Tags: 1993, Ewing, The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Persistent left ventricular dysfunction after cocaine treatment in rabbits.

The present study was undertaken to determine whether the diminished cardiac performance associated with cocaine administration persists after the drug has been eliminated from the body. Cocaine (5 or 10 mg/kg iv) was administered to conscious (n =…

"Your breasts/sliced off": literary images of breast cancer.

This essay explores how breast cancer and mastectomy are portrayed in twentieth-century North American literature. The purpose in doing so is to examine our understandings of how women in contemporary North American culture may experience this…

Tags: *Drama, *Medicine in Literature, *Poetry as Topic, *women's health, 1993, Adult, Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/surgery, Denial (Psychology), Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, Mastectomy/*psychology, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, North America, Psychological/*etiology, Stress, Wear D, Women & health

Progressive hemifacial atrophy.

Tags: 1993, Adult, Facial Hemiatrophy/*pathology, Female, Humans, Otolaryngology–head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Park Y W

An integrative ideology to guide community-based multidisciplinary care of severely mentally ill patients.

Most practitioners working in community support settings understand the need to provide a comprehensive array of well-coordinated services to individuals with severe mental disabilities. However, a lack of consensus about the conceptual basis of…

Tags: 1993, Birnbaum A, Combined Modality Therapy, Community Mental Health Services/*organization & administration, Comprehensive Health Care/*organization & administration, Department of Psychiatry, Health Care/organization & administration, Hospital & community psychiatry, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, Mental Disorders/psychology/*rehabilitation, Munetz M R, NEOMED College of Medicine, Patient Care Team/*organization & administration, Quality Assurance, United States, Wyzik P F

Obesity-associated decrease in growth hormone-releasing hormone gene expression: a mechanism for reduced growth hormone mRNA levels in genetically obese Zucker rats.

The secretion of growth hormone (GH) is impaired in the genetically obese Zucker rat where GH gene expression and plasma GH levels are depressed; however, the underlying mechanism of this abnormality remains unclear. We have evaluated the potential…

Tags: *Gene Expression, 1993, Ahmad I, Animals, Blotting, Downs T R, Finkelstein J A, Frohman L A, Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone/*genetics, Growth Hormone/blood/*genetics/metabolism, Male, Messenger/*metabolism, Neuroendocrinology, Northern, Obesity/*metabolism, Pituitary Gland/metabolism, Rats, RNA, Zucker

Role of HCO3- ions in depolarizing GABAA receptor-mediated responses in pyramidal cells of rat hippocampus.

1. Activation of GABAA receptors can produce both hyperpolarizing and depolarizing responses in CA1 pyramidal cells. The hyperpolarizing response is mediated by a Cl- conductance, but the ionic basis of the depolarizing response is not clear. We…

Cardiac afferents attenuate the muscle metaboreflex in the rat.

The influence of cardiac afferents on the muscle metaboreflex was examined in 16 rats instrumented with a Silastic-tipped catheter in the pericardial space and right atrium, Doppler ultrasonic flow probe and a pneumatic vascular occluder around the…

Effect of peak inspiratory pressure on the filtration coefficient in the isolated perfused rat lung.

Positive inspiratory pressure- (PIP) ventilated, isolated rat lungs become edematous when perfused at rates approximately the normal cardiac output. The study was conducted to test the hypothesis that high peak inspiratory pressures contribute to the…

Role of endothelium in sexual dimorphism in vasopressin-induced contraction of rat aorta.

In rat thoracic aorta, contractile responses to arginine vasopressin (AVP) are twofold higher in females than in males. To determine the role of the endothelium in this phenomenon, the effects of endothelium removal and inhibition of nitric oxide…

Daily spontaneous running did not alter vagal afferent reactivity.

Exercise training alters the cardiopulmonary baroreflex regulation of the circulation; however, the mechanisms responsible are unknown. One possibility is an enhanced afferent response to cardiopulmonary stimulation. We therefore tested the…

Acute exercise enhances nitric oxide modulation of vascular response to phenylephrine.

The influence of the release of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) on the vasoconstrictor response to phenylephrine (PE) was evaluated before and after a single bout of dynamic exercise. Each rat ran on a motor-driven treadmill at

Attenuation of postexertional hypotension by cardiac afferent blockade.

Naloxone eliminates postexertional hypotension (PEH) in human and animal models. The effect of naloxone on sympathetic activity during hemorrhage and generation of arterial baroreflex function curves can be stimulated by blockade of cardiac afferent…

Tags: *Heart Arrest, *Physical Exertion, 1993, Afferent Pathways/physiology, Animals, Blood Pressure/drug effects, Collins H L, DiCarlo S E, Efferent Pathways/physiology, Heart Rate/drug effects, Hypotension/*physiopathology, Inbred SHR, Induced, Pressoreceptors/drug effects, Procainamide/pharmacology, Rats, Reference Values, The American journal of physiology

Physiology laboratory experience for high school students.

Recently, we were charged with providing a learning opportunity for high school students participating in the Upward Bound Regional Math and Science Program, a program designed to stimulate interest in mathematics and science for students from…

Tags: *Laboratories, 1993, Adolescent, Animals, Collins H L, DiCarlo S E, Dissection, Female, Humans, Male, Muscles/physiology, Ohio, Physiology/*education/instrumentation, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Teaching/methods, The American journal of physiology

Integrated cardiovascular physiology: a laboratory exercise.

Examining the hemodynamic responses to exercise provides a unique opportunity to analyze and integrate cardiovascular physiology because more is learned about how a system operates when it is forced to perform than when it is idle. We designed a…

Tags: *Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena, 1993, Adult, DiCarlo S E, Educational Measurement/methods, Heart Transplantation/physiology, Hemodynamics, Humans, Karve S V, Male, Patil R D, Physiology/*education, Quadriplegia/physiopathology, Sports, Teaching/methods, The American journal of physiology

Thermal aspects of the use of polymethylmethacrylate in large metaphyseal defects in bone. A clinical review and laboratory study.

The potential necrotizing effects of the heat produced by the exothermic polymerization process has raised questions regarding the use of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) in orthopedic surgery. An experimental model was used to: (1) analyze the…

Tags: *Hot Temperature, 1993, Bone Neoplasms/pathology/*surgery, Cadaver, Clinical orthopaedics and related research, Humans, Leeson M C, Lippitt S B, Methylmethacrylates/*therapeutic use, Necrosis

Thermography as a diagnostic aid in sciatica.

Thermography has been proposed as a diagnostic aid in patients with sciatica. Supporters of thermography state that: (a) normal patients have normal thermograms of their lower extremities, and (b) abnormal patients (with disk ruptures causing…

Defects of pars interarticularis in athletes: a protocol for nonoperative treatment.

The purpose of this study was to report the results of a specific treatment protocol for athletes with spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis of the lumbar spine. A retrospective study with recent follow-up was performed on 82 patients treated with…

Headaches in a pregnant woman with a history of preeclampsia.

Tags: 1993, Adrenal Gland Neoplasms/*complications/diagnosis, Adult, Department of Internal Medicine, Female, Gonzalez M D, Headache/*etiology, Hospital practice (Office ed.), Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pheochromocytoma/*complications/diagnosis, Pre-Eclampsia/*complications, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications/*etiology, Rutecki G W, Whittier F C

Severe rhabdomyolysis after doxylamine overdose.

Clinicians should be aware of the complications of rhabdomyolysis in patients who ingest doxylamine succinate and other over-the-counter antihistamines. The easy availability of these substances increases the potential not only for intentional…

Therapeutic writing as a form of ego-state therapy.

In this paper I describe a special form of ego-state therapy that integrates writing letters to one's self as an internal therapeutic communication among various ego states previously not fully aware of each other or engaged in destructive power…

Tags: *Awareness, *Ego, *Writing, 1993, Adult, Dissociative Disorders/psychology/*therapy, Female, Humans, Hypnosis/*methods, Internal-External Control, Middle Aged, Post-Traumatic/psychology/*therapy, Stress Disorders, The American journal of clinical hypnosis, Torem M S

Ego-state therapy for self-injurious behavior.

The authors describe the use of ego-state therapy for the treatment of self-injurious behavior (SIB). We propose that for some patients, SIB results from conflict among dissociated ego states. We review the historical and theoretical basis for this…

Tags: *Ego, 1993, Adult, Borderline Personality Disorder/psychology/*therapy, Dissociative Disorders/psychology/therapy, Dissociative Identity Disorder/psychology/*therapy, Female, Gainer M J, Humans, Hypnosis/*methods, Personality Development, Self-Injurious Behavior/psychology/*therapy, The American journal of clinical hypnosis, Torem M S

Use of ultrasound in obstetrics.

Tags: *Ultrasonography, 1993, Comprehensive therapy, Female, Fetal Diseases/diagnostic imaging, First, Forecasting, Humans, Khawli O F, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Trimester, Prenatal/trends, Rothschild B M, Second, Third

Phacoemulsification with poorly dilated pupils.

Tilting the viewing angle of the operating microscope during phacoemulsification provides the surgeon a better view of the cataractous lens. This technique, combined with continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis, divide and conquer nucleofractis, and…

Tags: *Pupil/drug effects, 1993, Cataract Extraction/*methods, Cyclopentolate/administration & dosage, Flurbiprofen/administration & dosage, Humans, Iris/drug effects/surgery, Joseph J, Journal of cataract and refractive surgery, Ophthalmic Solutions, Phenylephrine/administration & dosage, Wang H S

Mohs fixed-tissue excision of dentoalveolar bone in canines: a histologic evaluation.

Mohs surgery is a well-established surgical technique that involves conservative, microscopically guided excision of malignant lesions, thereby sparing the maximum amount of normal surrounding tissue. Current surgical therapy for oral cancer…

Tags: *Mohs Surgery, *Orthognathic Surgical Procedures, *Zinc Compounds, 1993, Alveolar Process/drug effects, Animals, Bailin P L, Chlorides/toxicity, Dental Pulp/drug effects, Dogs, Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery : official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Periodontal Dressings, Pilot Projects, Rossi E P, Stultz T W, Surgical Flaps, Vidimos A T, Zinc/toxicity

Reversible acute renal failure as an atypical presentation of ischemic nephropathy.

Ischemic nephropathy (IN) is defined as a clinically significant reduction in glomerular filtration rate in patients with hemodynamically significant obstruction to renal artery flow in a solitary functioning kidney or with bilateral renal artery…

Tags: 1993, Acute Kidney Injury/complications/*etiology, Aged, American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, Anuria/etiology, Cox J, Department of Internal Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Renal Artery Obstruction/complications/*diagnosis, Roche Z, Rutecki G, Whittier F C

Emergency cardiac stress testing in the evaluation of emergency department patients with atypical chest pain.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility, safety, and reliability of emergency cardiac treadmill exercise stress testing (CTEST) in the evaluation of emergency department patients with atypical chest pain. DESIGN: Thirty-two patients with…

Electrical shock and lightning strike.

Cardiac arrest from electrical shock or lightning strike is associated with significant mortality and requires modification and extension of standard advanced life support measures to achieve successful resuscitation. Patients who experience…

Tags: 1993, Annals of emergency medicine, Electric Injuries/complications/epidemiology/*therapy, Fontanarosa P B, Heart Arrest/etiology/therapy, Heart Injuries/etiology, Humans, Lightning Injuries/complications/epidemiology/*therapy, Prognosis, Resuscitation/*methods, United States

Tags: 1993, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Animals, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dizocilpine Maleate/*pharmacology, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Gordon T L, McBurney D M, Meehan S M, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/physiology, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D

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