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

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 01, January 1972

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• New Tool for Genetic Mapping
• Californium-252 Studies
• UT School of Public Health
• Clinical Abstracts
• New Staff

A Comparative Study Of The Emotional Adjustment Of Dysphasia, Shirley J. Watson

All Master's Theses

To study emotional problems of dysphasia and the resultant effect on rate and extent of language recovery, two subjects (one male and one female) were interviewed. Interviews and data were also obtained from therapists and hospital records. The results showed that emotionality and some personality factors adversely affected language recovery. This would suggest the importance of alleviating stress immediately following the lesion, during the therapy period, and throughout the home situation.

Precipitable Hetero-Antibodies In Man To Animal Serum Proteins: Relation To Immunoglobulin Status, Hajime Hayashi, Gerald A. Logrippo, Mary Perry, Judene Mueller

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Immunologic studies show that man develops specific antibodies to a variety of serum proteins of bovine, sheep, goat, chicken, and rabbit origins as well as antibodies against cow's milk protein. The data in this report emphasize that these hetero-antibodies are more frequently found in individuals with immunological problems and/or chromosomal aberrations. The clinical significance of human hetero-antibodies against these animal proteins deserves closer clinical observation for an understanding of these immunological problems.

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Intra-Abdominal Heterotopic Transplantation Of The Canine Heart, Rodman Taber, Nobuatsu Kouno, Jorge Simon

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Heterotopic transplantation of the dog heart to an abdominal location is a satisfactory experimental model for the study of immunosuppression. Rejection signs are readily detected by palpation and electrocardiographic monitoring.

Carcinoma Of The Fallopian Tube, Victor Gantus, Bruce H. Drukker, C. Paul Hodgkinson

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Seven cases of primary carcinoma of the fallopian tube have been reviewed and compared with cases previously reported in the literature. Sterility was present in 51% of patients. There was a variety of symptoms, but the most frequent was vaginal discharge, in 42% of patients. Two patients manifested urinary symptoms and one patient ascites. In six of our seven patients, an adnexal mass was present. Although clinical diagnosis will always be difficult one should be highly suspicious of this disease in patients between 40 and 60 years of age with these symptoms.

The Symmetry-Decision Method Of Eeg Analysis, Richard M. Lee

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

An improved version of a previously presented computer analysis for EEG is described. The basic process used in the analysis is the classification of waves according to duration (frequency) and amplitude. The unique aspect of the improved system is the distinction between "simple" waves and "composite" waves, which are slow waves with superimposed higher frequencies. The computer program makes this "decision" on the basis of wave symmetry.

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Cecal Diverticulitis In The Japanese, Yasuhiko Kurosu, Tokio Suzuki, Toshinaka Koga

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Four cases of diverticular disease of the colon are reported. The disease is rare in Japan and is more commonly seen in the cecum. Differential diagnosis of right lower quadrant pain and a filling defect in the cecum on x-ray examination is evidence of diverticular disease of the cecum. The future trend of the disease of the colon is predicted as increasing because of older populations, changes in diet and more frequent recognition through barium enema examination.

Betaprone Sterilization Of Hepatitis-Infected Materials: Safety Precautions For Laboratory Workers, Gerald A. Logrippo, Hajime Hayashi, Sheikh M. Saeed

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Gastrocolic Fistulas Due To Cancer: Report Of A 16-Year Survival And A Review Of The Literature, Susan Adelman, Joseph L. Ponka

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A case of 16-year survival following resection of a malignant gastrocolic fistula is reviewed. The patient's post-gactrectomy anemia is discussed. The world literature of 92 cases of malignant gastrocolic fistulas reported since 1925 is reviewed.

Prevention Of Recurrent Systemic Embolism With Anticoagulants In Patients With Rheumatic Heart Disease, Sudarsan Misra, Irwin J. Schatz

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Results are reported of long-term anticoagulant treatment in a group of 90 patients with rheumatic heart disease who had systemic embolism. Compared to the reported incidence of recurrent systemic embolism in patients not given anticoagulant drugs, such therapy remarkably lowers the risk of such occurrences. Complications from this treatment in the reported patients were minimal.

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Use Of A Cooling Jacket During Kidney Transplantation, Stanley G. Dienst, Mohammed R. Ansari

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The model of renal autotransplantation, with immediate contralateral nephrectomy in the dog, is used to demonstrate that continuous cooling by means of a cooling jacket during vascular anastomoses is effective in preserving renal function acutely and over a two-month follow-up period.

Small Bowel Perforation In Blunt Abdominal Trauma, C. Grodsinsky, Brock E. Brush

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

This review of pre- and post-operative management of six cases of small bowel perforation secondary to blunt abdominal trauma provides the opportunity to analyze the problems involved in prompt diagnosis and adequate care. Some of the possible mechanisms producing the perforation are discussed. In order to prevent undue delays in diagnosis, changes in clinical picture should warrant early surgical exploration. This avoids increased rates of mortality and prolonged morbidity.

Critical Factors In The Management Of Liver Abscesses, Melvin A. Block, Hubert M. Allen

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Newer diagnostic techniques, including radioisotope liver scans, bacteriologic culture procedures for anaerobes, serologic tests for amebiasis, ultrasonic echograms, and hepatic arteriography, permit more specific identification and localization of hepatic abscesses. Large pyogenic abscesses are of particular Importance to surgeons; are frequently caused by anaerobic organisms; and require early, direct, adequate, and sufficiently prolonged surgical drainage. The clinician should be alert also to recognition and management of the primary lesion responsible for the hepatic abscess, associated abscesses elsewhere, and the possible presence of an underlying liver neoplasm.

Effects Of An Eeg "Seizure Discharge" On Operant Responding, Richard M. Lee, Julia A. Lee, Hendrik Van Den Ende, Lorne D. Proctor

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A post-stimulus "seizure discharge" recorded in the amygdaloid area of monkey brains was investigated primarily by studying its effects upon behavior. Three different operant conditioning schedules were used with animals implanted with multiple depth electrodes. The schedules involved the factors of number discrimination, attention, sequential responding, and self-stimulation. Although the electrical brain stimulation caused a disruption in responding, no behavioral effects could be attributed to the recorded discharge itself. This result, and previous findings, lead to the tentative conclusion that the discharge results from a physico-chemical, brain-electrode interface phenomena and is not neurophysiological in nature.

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.

Letters To The Editor

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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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

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

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Rubella Immunization Of Adult Females Using Hpv-77 Dk-12 Live Attenuated Rubella Virus, Donald A. Romig, E. L. Quinn, Frank Cox, Robert G. Brackett

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

This study demonstrates the serologic response as measured by the HAl test and the side reactions of the HPV-77 DK-12 live rubella vaccine in a small group of adult females. One hundred percent seroconversion was obtained using this vaccine. The mean titers obtained in two separate time periods post-vaccination are higher than those reported for several other rubella virus vaccines. A 66% occurrence of joint symptomatology was recorded post-vaccination with a mean duration of 11.6 days; 24% of women who received placebo reported joint complaints which had a mean duration of 2.0 days. The difference between these two rates is …