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A practical approach to hirsutism.

Women often express concern about what they consider to be excess body or facial hair. This surplus of hair may be normal or it may signal hypertrichosis or hirsutism. Hirsutism may be idiopathic, secondary to increased responsiveness of hair…

Tags: *Hirsutism/etiology/physiopathology/therapy, 1995, Algorithms, American family physician, Female, Gilchrist V J, Hecht B R, Humans

A practical guide for protecting personnel, pregnant personnel, and patients during diagnostic radiography and fluoroscopy.

The following article presents a comprehensive overview of the practical aspects of radiation protection for diagnostic radiology. The topics discussed include background radiation levels, typical exposure levels for radiologic technologists, risk…

A Prospero-related homeodomain protein is a novel co-regulator of hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha that regulates the cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene.

Prox1, an early specific marker for developing liver and pancreas in foregut endoderm has recently been shown to interact with alpha-fetoprotein transcription factor and repress cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) gene transcription. Using a…

Tags: *Gene Expression Regulation, 2006, Aged, Amino Acid Motifs, Bile Acids and Salts/metabolism, Cell Line, Cell Nucleus/metabolism, Cells, Chiang John Y L, Cholesterol 7-alpha-Hydroxylase/*chemistry/*genetics, Cultured/metabolism, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Enzymologic, Female, Genes, Genetic, Gluconeogenesis, Glutathione Transferase/metabolism, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4/metabolism/*physiology, Hepatocytes/metabolism, Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism/*physiology, Humans, Immunoprecipitation, Li Tiangang, Liver/metabolism, Luciferases/metabolism, Male, Messenger/metabolism, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP)/metabolism, Plasmids/metabolism, Protein Structure, Reporter, Response Elements, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism, Song Kwang-Hoon, Tertiary, The Journal of biological chemistry, Time Factors, Transcription, Transcriptional Activation, Transfection, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Two-Hybrid System Techniques

A Rare Case of Tubulointerstitial Nephritis and Uveitis Syndrome Treated with a Multi-Specialty Approach.

BACKGROUND It is important for an ophthalmologist and nephrologist to look for hidden causes of uveitis and nephritis, respectively. Delay in diagnosis leads to increased morbidity and failure to systemically manage the patient results in future…

A reappraisal of appendicitis in the elderly.

Historically, appendicitis in the elderly is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. Ninety-six patients over 60 years of age with appendicitis treated over a 10-year period were reviewed. Only 20% presented classically with anorexia, fever,…

Tags: 1990, 80 and over, Aged, American journal of surgery, Appendicitis/complications/*diagnosis/mortality/surgery, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Guyton D P, Horattas M C, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Postoperative Complications, Retrospective Studies, Time Factors, Wu D

A Review of Treatment for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Paradigms for Clinical Practice.

OBJECTIVES: Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) represents a major complication of breast cancer treatment, impacting the quality of life for breast cancer survivors that develop it. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the literature…

A sexual history-taking curriculum for second year medical students.

The purpose of this study is to describe the evaluation of a sexual history-taking curriculum and correlates of student performance during a Clinical Skills Assessment. Reading assignments, small group discussions, a Saturday Sex workshop and…

A slice preparation preserving the callosal projection to contralateral visual cortex.

Due to the curved path they follow, the visual callosal projections to areas OC1 and OC2 of the rat visual cortex have been inaccessible to studies using brain slices. In this paper we describe a new slice preparation in which a curved cutting blade…

Tags: *Synaptic Transmission, 1990, Animals, Berry R L, Corpus Callosum/*physiology, Electrophysiology, Female, In Vitro Techniques, Inbred Strains, Journal of neuroscience methods, Male, Neurology/instrumentation, Nowicky A, Rats, Teyler T J, Visual Cortex/*physiology

A Structured Approach for Safely Reintroducing Bariatric Surgery in a COVID-19 Environment.

Due to the profound effect of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on healthcare systems, surgical programs across the country have paused surgical operations and have been utilizing virtual visits to help maintain public safety. For those…

A subtherapeutic international normalized ratio despite increasing doses of warfarin: could this be malabsorption?

OBJECTIVE: To describe a case of warfarin resistance apparently caused by malabsorption and to review the literature regarding warfarin resistance. CASE SUMMARY: A 28-year-old renal transplant patient with systemic lupus erythematosus was admitted…

A TRP to cardiac fibroblast differentiation.

The differentiation of cardiac fibroblasts to myofibroblasts is one of the key events during cardiac remodeling, however, the molecular mechanism underlying this process is not well known. Calcium signaling plays an important role in the regulation…

A unique case of ovarian psammocarcinoma with mediastinal, pulmonary, subcutaneous, and omental metastases.

Psammocarcinoma is a rare form of serous ovarian and peritoneal carcinoma, characterized by abundant psammoma bodies, invasiveness, and low-grade cytological features. Many of the cases which have been reported had extraovarian spread and peritoneal…

Academic medicine gets a poor report card–what are we going to do?

Tags: *Career Mobility, *Physicians, *Women's Rights, 2002, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Faculty, Female, Humans, Leadership, Medical/*organization & administration, Nora Lois Margaret, Women

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

Achalasia seen on I-123 thyroid scintigraphy.

Tags: *Iodine Radioisotopes, 1998, Aged, Clinical nuclear medicine, Esophageal Achalasia/*diagnostic imaging, Female, Goyal M, Hanelin L G, Humans, Konez O, Radionuclide Imaging, Thyroid Gland/*diagnostic imaging

Acid-base interpretation: part 1: applying five rules in everyday cases.

The interpretation of acid-base data can be greatly facilitated by applying five rules: (1) use the blood gas to identify acidemia or alkalemia, (2) determine whether the underlying cause of acidemia or alkalemia is respiratory or metabolic, (3)…

Acid-base interpretation. Part 2: applying five rules to simplify complex cases.

Thorough investigation of complex cases of acid-base disturbances indudes verification of pH, determination of respiratory and metabolic components, calculation of the anion gap, assessment of the degree of compensation; and analysis of the…

Tags: 1998, Acid-Base Imbalance – Diagnosis, Acidosis – Diagnosis, Aged, Alkalosis – Diagnosis, Consultant (00107069), Department of Internal Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Male, Middle Age, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rules and Regulations, Rutecki G W, Whittier F C

Activation and circuitry of uterine-cervix-related neurons in the lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord at parturition.

Stimulation of the uterine cervix at parturition activates neural circuits involving primary sensory nerves and supraspinally projecting neurons of the lumbosacral spinal cord, resulting in output of hypothalamic neurohormones. Dorsal root ganglia…

Acute diverticulitis: diagnosis and management.

A high index of suspicion is required for early detection of complications, most commonly diverticular abscess and colovesical fistula. Appropriate antibiotic therapy should cover a wide range of potential pathogens.

Tags: 1991, Abscess/diagnosis/etiology/therapy, Acute Disease, Adult, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Colonic/*diagnosis/drug therapy/etiology/surgery, Diagnosis, Differential, Diverticulitis, Female, Fistula/complications, Hospital practice (Office ed.), Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Peller C, Postoperative Complications, Van Ness M

Acute effects of estrogen upon methamphetamine induced neurotoxicity of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system.

Estrogen acts as a neuroprotectant of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system when given chronically to female mice prior to Methamphetamine (MA) insult. In this report, we tested the acute effects of Estradiol Benzoate (EB-10 microg in Oil) in…

Acute exercise and gender alter cardiac autonomic tonus differently in hypertensive and normotensive rats.

Arterial pressure (AP), heart rate (HR), cardiac sympathetic tonus (ST), and parasympathetic tonus (PT) were determined in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR, 8 male and 8 female) and Wistar-Kyoto normotensive rats (WKY, 8 male and 12 female)…

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

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

Acute urinary retention.

Acute urinary retention is a common emergency genitourinary symptom. The etiology of acute retention includes obstructive, neurogenic, pharmacologic, and psychogenic causes. The emergency management of acute urinary retention is bladder…

Tags: 1988, Emergencies, Emergency medicine clinics of North America, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Humans, Male, Physical Examination, Roush W R, Urinary Bladder, Urinary Catheterization, Urination, Urination Disorders/diagnosis/*etiology/physiopathology/therapy

Adapting cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis for case managers: increasing access to services in a community mental health agency.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to describe the adaptation of an evidence-based practice and, (b) using a dissemination framework, to describe the process of implementing the practice at a community mental health agency.…

Tags: *Community Mental Health Services, *Diffusion of Innovation, *Health Services Accessibility, 2014, Adult, Case Management, Case Managers, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/education/*methods, Cognitive Therapy – Methods, collaboration, Community Mental Health Services – United States, Cooperative Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Evidence-Based, Evidence-Based Practice/education/methods, Female, Human, Humans, Inservice Training, Interinstitutional Relations, Male, Montesano Vicki L, Munetz Mark R, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pelton Jeremy R, Pilot Studies, Professional Practice, Program Implementation – Methods, Psychiatric rehabilitation journal, Psychotic Disorders/*therapy, Questionnaires, Scales, Schizophrenia – Rehabilitation, Schizophrenia/*therapy, Sivec Harry J, Staff Development, Thematic Analysis, Treatment Outcome, Turkington Douglas, United Kingdom, United States

Adherence to Endotracheal Tube Depth Guidelines and Incidence of Malposition in Infants and Children.

BACKGROUND: Adherence to guidelines for endotracheal tube (ETT) insertion depth may not be sufficient to prevent malposition or harm to the patient. To obtain an estimate of ETT malpositioning, we evaluated initial postintubation chest radiographs…

Tags: 2018, Bigham Michael T, Chi Square Test, Chi-Square Distribution, Child, Confidence Intervals, Data Analysis Software, Descriptive Statistics, Female, Guideline Adherence, Guideline Adherence/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitals, Human, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Inpatients, Intensive Care Units, Intratracheal – Standards – United States, Intratracheal/adverse effects/standards/*statistics & numerical data, Intubation, Male, McNinch Neil L, Medical Errors/*statistics & numerical data, NRP, Odds Ratio, Ohio, P-Value, PALS, Pediatric – Ohio, Pediatrics, Practice Guidelines, Preschool, Prough Donald S, Radiography, Radiography/*statistics & numerical data, Random Allocation, Respiratory care, Retrospective Design, ROC Curve, Thoracic, Trachea/diagnostic imaging, tracheal tube malposition, United States, Volsko Teresa A

Administration of a synthetic antiprotease reduces smoke-induced lung injury.

Our previous studies suggest that a neutrophil-mediated inflammatory injury causes a major fraction of the pulmonary edema that occurs after smoke inhalation. Because activated neutrophils extrude cytotoxic proteases, the current study was conducted…

Admission to the Intensive Care Unit is Associated With Changes in the Oral Mycobiome.

A prospective exploratory study was conducted to characterize the oral mycobiome at baseline and determine whether changes occur after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). We found that ICU admission is associated with alterations in the oral…

Adolescent premarital sexual activity, cohabitation, and attitudes toward marriage.

Societal trends indicate ambivalent attitudes about marriage. Specifically, there is greater acceptance of divorce and nontraditional living arrangements such as cohabitation, as well as acceptance and prevalence of premarital sex, than in the past.…

Tags: *Attitude, 2001, Adolescence, Adolescent, Family/psychology, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Martin D, Martin M, Martin P D, Prevalence, Sexual Behavior/*psychology/statistics & numerical data

Adrenal epinephrine increases alveolar liquid clearance in a canine model of neurogenic pulmonary edema.

Case reports of neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) often indicate that the edema resolves quickly. Because plasma epinephrine concentration may be elevated in NPE, and epinephrine has been shown to increase the rate of alveolar liquid clearance (ALC),…

Tags: 1998, Adrenal Glands/*metabolism, Adrenalectomy, Adrenergic beta-Agonists/blood/*pharmacology/therapeutic use, Adrenergic beta-Antagonists/therapeutic use, American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, Amiloride/therapeutic use, Animal, Animals, Awender N E, Blood, Blood Pressure, Brain Diseases/chemically induced/*complications, Central Nervous System Agents/adverse effects, Cisterna Magna, Disease Models, Diuretics/therapeutic use, Dogs, Epinephrine/blood/*physiology/therapeutic use, Extravascular Lung Water/chemistry/*metabolism, Female, Hypertension, Injections, Lane S M, Maender K C, Male, Maron M B, Propanolamines/therapeutic use, Proteins/analysis, Pulmonary Alveoli/*metabolism, Pulmonary Artery, Pulmonary Edema/etiology/*metabolism/prevention & control, Pulmonary/prevention & control, Sodium Channel Blockers, Veratrine/adverse effects

Adult epiglottitis.

Adult epiglottitis (or "supraglottitis") is an uncommon but increasingly recognized entity. Though prior studies emphasized the fulminant nature of the disease, recent evidence suggests that epiglottitis in adults may follow a relatively less severe…

Tags: *Epiglottitis/diagnosis/therapy, *Laryngitis/diagnosis/therapy, 1989, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Department of Emergency Medicine, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Goldman G E, Haemophilus Infections/diagnosis/therapy, Haemophilus influenzae, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Polsky S S, The Journal of emergency medicine

Adverse reactions to aspartame: double-blind challenge in patients from a vulnerable population.

This study was designed to ascertain whether individuals with mood disorders are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of aspartame. Although the protocol required the recruitment of 40 patients with unipolar depression and a similar number of…

Tags: 1993, Adult, Aspartame/*adverse effects/*therapeutic use, Biological psychiatry, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depressive Disorder/diagnosis/*drug therapy/psychology, Double-Blind Method, Eye Diseases/etiology/physiopathology, Female, Green-Waite R J, Headache/etiology, Hudak R, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Placebos, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Vision Disorders/etiology/physiopathology, Walton R G

Aging matters: strategies for optimal care of the elderly. Alzheimer disease: a commonsense approach to evaluation and management.

Tags: 2004, 80 and over, Aged, Alzheimer's Disease – Diagnosis, Alzheimer's Disease – Drug Therapy, Alzheimer's Disease – Therapy, Cleveland M, Consultant (00107069), Female, Murphy DP

Aging matters: strategies for optimal care of the elderly. Myalgia in the elderly: arthritis...or something else?

Tags: 2005, 80 and over, Aged, Cleveland M, Consultant (00107069), Female, Polymyalgia Rheumatica – Diagnosis – In Old Age

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