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Osteopathic Digest (Winter-Spring 1971), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Winter-Spring 1971 issue of the Osteopathic Digest includes the following articles:

• Alumni Reunion Notice
• Editor's Page
• Curriculum Changes
• Feinstein Medical Ed. Director
• Classroom-Library - Building
• Ground Breaking Ceremonies
• Founders Day, 1971
• Dr. Barth at U.N. Commission
• 1971 Matriculating Class
• Rowland New Board Secretary
• Persons and Places
• Women’s Guild Bazaar
• Students' Christmas Show
• Laporte Heart Screening
• Alumni Reunion Plans Seminars
• Alumni Notes and Happenings
• Guild's Gift at Cathie Memorial
• Dr. H. Walter Evans Dies
• Obituaries
• Student Wives Activities
• Short Subjects, Specials

Sero-Epidemiology Of Q Fever With Special Reference To Complications In A Hospital Population Of Southern California, Ajit Singh Randhawa

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Abstract Not Included]

Hfh In The News

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Dissecting Aneurysm Of The Aorta: Diagnosis, Treatment And Prognosis, Hahn J. Lee, Ellet H. Drake

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The records of 13 patients with proven dissecting aortic aneurysm were studied with particular attention to the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in each case. The three essential steps in reaching an early correct diagnosis included (1) history and physical examination, (2) serial chest x-rays and (3) aortography. Electrocardiogram and SCOT and LDH measurements seem to be of value only when incompatible with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. Significant differences between Type 1 and Type 3 dissections were observed in their clinical manifestations, results of treatment and natural prognosis.

Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 04, August 1971

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Anesthetists Receive Professional Excellence Certificates
• Cancer Congress Proceedings in Press
• Live Virus Found in Lymphoma Cells From Child
• Environmental Science Park – Center For Ecologic Studies
• First Class enters New UT Medical School at Houston
• High School Science Students Receive Biomedical Training
• Progress in Computer Chromosome Analysis
• Clinical Abstracts

The Degree And Time-Course Of Stress In The Patient Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, Hulda Esther Serra, Patricia Jo Yvonne Tygret

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

An important nursing objective is to assist patients through stressful experiences. It has been assumed that cardiac surgery constitutes such a stress situation. For this reason, twenty-two patients undergoing cardiac surgery at Loma Linda University Hospital studied for the purpose of exploring the degree and time-course of were psychological stress.

The methodology consisted of administration of psychological tests before and after surgery; determination of urine catecholamines (UCA) before, during and after surgery; administration of a coping assessment tool before surgery, and a recall interview on the fifth day after surgery. The Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL)-Today form, and the …

Osteopathic Digest (Summer 1971), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 1971 issue of the Osteopathic Digest includes the following articles:

• Fourth Year Curriculum
• President's Greetings
• 80th PCOM Commencement
• Dr. Barth's Message
• Graduate Class Dinner
• Summer Term Research
• Faculty Promotions
• Persons and Places
• Dr. Lin at PCOM
• Lou Cooper, Unofficial Alumnus
• 160 in New PCOM Class
• Commencement Pictorial
• Student Handbook, Shorts
• 1971 PCOM Alumni Reunion
• Alumni Dinner, Awards
• Alumni Workshops, Seminars
• Alumni Notes, Happenings
• Practical Nurses Graduation
• Class of 1971
• Class Awards
• Women’s Guild Auction
• Student Wives' 1971 Tea
• Obituaries
• Cradle Roll

Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 03, July 1971

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Modern Educational Methods Used at UT at Houston Dental Branch
• Clinical Abstracts
• Plans Set for 1972 Symposium
• Blook Bank a Vital Resource for MDAH Patients
• Cancer Congress Final Analysis
• Healy Urges Rehabilitation of Mastectomy Patients
• Copeland Receives Distinguished Service Award

Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 02, June 30, 1971

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Graduate School Plans For The Future
• Anderson-Mayfair Unique Patient Care Hotel
• 1971 Clinical conference Announced
• Year Book of Cancer Surveys Progress
• Clinical Abstracts
• Clark Honored by Houston Association
• Audio-Visual Materials Catalogue Available
• Leukemia-Lymphoma Off Press
• Mrs. Wagner Social Worker of Year

Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 01, June 15, 1971

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Environment and Cancer Topic of spring Symposium
• First Annual Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award Presented
• Serum Copper a Possible Predictor of Neoplasia
• Group Studies Thyroid Tumors
• Clinical Abstracts

Death And The Inexorably Dying: A Seminar, Stuart J. Kingma

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The panel for this seminar on "Death and the Inexorably Dying" includes DR. HANS K. VON BRAUCHITSCH, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of Henry Ford Hospital; DR. ROBERT M. O'BRYAN, associate physician in the Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine of Henry Ford Hospital; FATHER ROBERT F. WOLLARD, Episcopal Chaplain of Henry Ford Hospital; and PROFESSOR RONALD R. KOENIG, assistant professor in social work, and associate director of the Center for the Study of Dying, Death and Lethal Behavior, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University.

Publications Of The Staff Of The Henry Ford Hospital And The Edsel B. Ford Institute For Medical Research

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Observations On Uric Acid Transport In Man, The Dalmatian And The Non-Dalmatian Dog, Howard Duncan, April S. Curtis

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The urinary output of uric acid from the purebred Dalmatian is similar in amount to that in man. Also, this breed of dog has a higher plasma uric acid level than other dogs and, like man, this hyperuricemia is accompanied more frequently with renal and bladder lithiasis. Allopurinol is effective therapy in both man and dog. Study of the fate of uric acid in the Dalmatian shows that the liver does not oxidize the available uric acid completely although it is capable of doing so when liver homogenates are studied. Consequently, the hepatic cellular membrane appears impermeable, or partially so, …

Atrial Sounds In Atrial Flutter, Oswald Bostic, Wolf F. C. Duvernoy, Gerald M. Breneman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Atrial flutter sounds are occasionally audible on bedside examination especially in patients with slow ventricular rates. A patient is described with audible flutter sounds and an illustrative phonocardiogram is presented. The value of careful auscultation in patients with atrial flutter is re-confirmed.

Hfh In The News

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Foster Family Care For The Aged, Donald V. Sekora

Dissertations and Theses

The following was a research practicum instituted as an actual project for the State of Montana Welfare Department between June, 1970, and May, 1971. The project had a two-fold purpose in being conceived: one purpose was to fulfill a graduate school academic requirement; and the second purpose was to fulfill a responsibility to the people of Montana who would eventually gain some benefits from this project. The series of written documents that follow are the description of that project's conception and actualization in six Montana counties. The first part is the project idea and theory; the next two parts consist …

Hyperactivity In Children, Pat Luttmann

Student Scholarship

The provided document, written in 1971, explores the multifaceted nature of hyperactivity in children, primarily within the framework of minimal brain dysfunction or MBD. The author notes that while these children often appear physically normal, they struggle with a disorganized central nervous system that prevents them from processing environmental stimuli effectively. This neurological impairment manifests as a cluster of symptoms, most notably hyperkinesis, distractibility, impulsiveness, and emotional instability. The text emphasizes that the number of children identified with these disorders is increasing, partly due to medical advances that allow more children to survive difficult births. 

Diagnosis and treatment require a …

A Comparison Of Various Teaching Methods For Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases, B. Carol Altizer, Nancy S. Bailey

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this study was to find out whether patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C.O.P.D.) learn more from auditory or from visual teaching. Of the 30 patients in the sample, 10 used a programmed instruction booklet, 10 used a taped recording of the same programmed material and 10 were in a control group which received no specific teaching.

A pre-test was given to each of the patients who met the criteria for the study. One researcher gave the pre-test through an oral interview with the patient. After the pre-test, the patient received the teaching device assigned to him …

A Computerized Study Of Midpalatal Suture Expansion, Clelan G. Ehrler

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

An investigation has been conducted to consider the effects of midpalatal suture expansion on the cranial-facial complex. Nine patients were treated that had constricted maxillae. Data was obtained from frontal and lateral headplate radiographs which were taken at four intervals during treatment. The Rocky Mountain Data Systems diagnosis was utilized to interpret the radiographic data.

The data from the nine cases were averaged to obtain a composit [sic] change at each of the four times.

Examination of the lateral headplate data revealed that no permanent significant alteration occurred to the positions of the mandible or maxilla in a vertical or …

The Effect Of Elevated Glucose On Neutrophilic Phagocytosis In Genetically Diabetic Mice, Larry B. Thompson

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Infiltration to an injury site or area of bacterial contamination by polymorphonuclear leucocytes (or neutrophils) is an early and essential phase of the early inflammatory reaction. Their action on foreign matter is the most critical step taken by body defense mechanisms in the first 24 hours. Anything which interferes with that action, phagocytosis, greatly hampers early inflammation. This study was designed to see the effect of elevated glucose levels on neutrophil phagocytosis in a unique strain of genetically diabetic mice.

Twenty-two diabetic and twenty-four control female mice were used. Blood glucose determinations and total white counts were made on each …

Bacteriuria As A Precursor Of Intracatheter Encrustation, Namcy Moll

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The problem with which this study was concerned was the development of criteria that could be used to determine when urinary catheter changes were necessary. By determining when encrustation occurred, it was felt that some complications could be eliminated by changing catheters before obstruction occurred due to encrustation.

It was the purpose of this study to: 1) explore some indications for catheter change, 2) determine if encrustation of urinary catheters necessitates catheter change, and 3) estimate potential criteria for a routine time for catheter changes.

Forty-five catheters were examined after their removal from patients. Flow rates were determined on 33 …

Persistence Of ''Australia Antigenemia" In Mentally Retarded Children Seven Years After Virus Hepatitis, Hajime Hayashi, Gerald A. Logrippo

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Australia antigen and antibody were assayed in acute and convalescent (1, 4 and 6 months) phase sera from 80 children with infectious hepatitis in an institution for the mentally retarded. A higher incidence of Australia antigenemia was found in 18 of 40 (45%) mongoloid children as compared to 9 of 40 (23%) non-mongoloid children. Australia antigen persisted 7 years after the hepatitis epidemic in 11 mongoloid and 2 non-mongoloid children with hepatitis. None of the hepatitis group, with or without Australia antigenemia, demonstrated precipitable antibody to the Australia antigen. The discussion emphasizes the lack of virologic and immunologic evidence relative …

Hfh In The News

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

A Replacement Prosthesis For The Hip: A Preliminary Report, H. M. Frost, E. R. Guise

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Because of theoretical as well as practical difficulty in the total hip endoprostheses available to orthopaedic surgeons at the present time, an anlysis of the present and potential difficulties reveals that substitution of a roller-bearing for the present slider-bearing prosthesis and the establishment of a larger end-bearing surface on the acetabular side would be of benefit. Thus, the Ring prosthesis was re-designed to satisfy these hopes. A modification of the Ring's approach gives complete acetabular exposure and control of the prosthetic insertion. This is a preliminary report describing the design modifications of a prosthesis, presently under investigation, and illustrated by …

Fever In Neoplastic Disease, Samuel L. Rosenthal, Robert W. Talley

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A comparison is made between incidence of fever in 132 patients with various types of disseminated cancer and 57 patients with diseases other than cancer during a 2- month observation period. Fifty-three febrile episodes were observed in cancer patients. Of these, 15 were of undetermined origin and 6 were noninfectious; none of the episodes occurred immediately following surgery. In the control group of 57 patients, there were 12 febrile episodes; of these, 7 were due to proven bacterial infection, 2 were due lo possible bacterial infection, and 3 were of undetermined etiology. All three febrile episodes in this latter group …

Effect Of Freezing And Thawing On Uptake Of Amino Acids Into Human Erythrocytes, Richard Moore, Rita Parenti, I. Rena Bizios

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - The transport of "C-amino acids into human erythrocytes and into erythrocytes which had been frozen and thawed was studied experimentally. The relative rates of uptake were found to be (in decreasing order): phenylalanine, leucine, alanine, trythophan, and glycine. Freezing (using gycerol as the cryoprotective additive) and thawing had no significant effect on either the magnitude of the rate constants or on the order of the above relative rates of amino acid uptake into erythrocytes suspended in isotonic TRIS-HCl buffer.

Cold For Relief Of Postoperative Limitation Of Activity Due To Incisional Pain, Haroldine Roberts

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study was concerned with testing the effectiveness of cold to aid the cholecystectomy patient in performing certain selected activities usually inhibited by incisional pain.

Available references of the effects of cold on the abdominal area were studied to formulate a method of approach as no previous methodology was found in the literature.

The experimental method of research was used on a sample of 18 cholecystectomy patients meeting the criteria for the study, independent variable for the 10 patients in the experimental the application of cold over the closed incision, plastic bag covered with one thickness of towel was used …

Newsletter, Volume 15, Number 04, December 30, 1970

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Dial Cancer Information
• Knudson New Dean
• Clinical Abstracts
• New Staff
• Dr. Margery Shaw Honored With Award
• Clark Co-Chairman of Cancer Study
• Staff Publications

Newsletter, Volume 15, Number 03, December 15, 1970

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Cancer Goals And Progress Discussed at Staff Symposium
• Trophoblastic Disease Center Offers HCG Assays
• Grants for Research
• Switzer Receives Heath Award At Conference
• Radiologists and Physicists Meet
• Book Reviews
• New Staff
• Surgeon General Will speak at Symposium
• Clinical Abstracts
• Research Merits Population Foundations Grant
• 14th Year Book of Cancer Published

Co-Existent Klinefelter's Syndrome, Acquired Cutaneous Hepatic Porphyria And Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, M. Saeed-Uz-Zafar, W. R. Gronewald, G. B. Bluhm

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A patient is reported with Klinefelter's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and acquired cutaneous hepatic porphyria. Although patients with chromatin positive Klinefelter's syndrome may have elevated auto-antibodies, this patient had definite diagnostic criteria for SLE. Furthermore, evidence of disturbed porphyrin metabolism compatible with acquired cutaneous hepatic porphyria was found. It is speculated that the major disturbance in our patient's porphyrin biosynthesis may be distal to ^-ALA synthetase. Any association between the three diseases is conjectural: however, it is noteworthy that both SLE and porphyria are more common in the female and that our patient had two X chromosomes in addition …