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Cancer And The Kidney, Donald E. Oken

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Cancer of the kidney is associated with a bewildering array of extrarenal symptoms, and conversely, tumors far removed from the kidney produce intriguing renal functional abnormalities. A variety of extrarenal complications are seen with hypernephromas, most of which rarely accompany Wilms tumors which grow rapidly and generally occur before the age of 7. Wilms tumors are quite susceptible to radiation therapy and surgery, and are to be strongly suspected when hypertension and an abdominal mass are found in a small child. Unless treated, they rapidly cause death and usually leave little opportunity for the patient to develop the striking extrarenal …

On The Prevention Of Acute Renal Failure (Vasomotor Nephropathy), Donald E. Oken

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Acute renal failure following severe trauma, shock, transfusion reactions, poisoning, and sepsis is characterized by prolonged oliguria, increasing azotemia, isosthenuria, and a sodium concentration of 40-90 mEq/L. Despite the availability of intensive medical and surgical care, potent antibiotics, and dialysis, this syndrome still carries a mortality rate of approximately 50% and once established cannot be reversed by any known medical regimen. It is, however, often preventable, and the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficacy of the various prophylactic measures currently in vogue.

The End-Stage Renal Disease Program, William K. Stacy

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

By the mid 1960's it had been clearly demonstrated that the lives of people with total, permanent kidney failure could be indefinitely prolonged with the artificial kidney and that an acceptable proportion of kidney transplants would be successful. The extraordinary cost of this form of therapy, however, prohibited its application to the majority of patients. A strong lobby of health care providers and consumers sought government assistance and in the spring of 1972 Congress passed Public Law 92-603 (Section 2991) which provided for payment of 80% of costs for management of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) for all persons eligible for …

Diabetic Nephropathy, Barry B. Kirschbaum

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Any discussion of morbid events in diabetes is going to emphasize cardiovascular and peripheral vascular problems. Renal disease accounts for a relatively small percentage of the mortality in diabetes; yet the overall incidence of diabetes mellitus in the population so greatly exceeds that of the various types of glomerulonephritis that it has become one of the most common causes of end-stage renal failure in this country. It is difficult to assign exact numbers because the figures in the medical literature vary considerably; however, it is estimated that in the United States today there are some 10 million people who are …

Solid Tumors In Children, Harold M. Maurer , M.D.

Pediatrics Publications

No abstract provided.

The Acoustic Approach To Speech Correction, Susan Edson

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews a study to determine if an auditory approach to speech correction can be of beneift to hearing impaired children who have become visually oriented.

A Test Of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception For Hearing-Impaired Children, Nancy E. Thornton

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a test for speech perception and scoring to test likelihood of success with mainstreaming.

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1978, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1978 nursing class: Julie Bertelson, Sharon Bishop, Deborah Bratcher, Ginger Brown, Teresa Bowman, Claudette Buchanan, Janna Burks, Sarah Burnette, Lonnie Cole, Lee Cook, Marianne Crissy, Carmen Crowe, Lisa Davis, Sharon Dunlop, Debra Fowler, Cathy Garvin, Donna Griffin, Rebecca Guenther, Joni Hall, Laurie Hina, Donna Hix, Teresa Hunton, Gloria Janes, Martha Jennings, Leisa Johnson, Altricia Key, Karen Kinnaird, Mary Lally, Perri Lawalin, Donna Mitchell, Karen Perry, Alice Phelps, Barbara Ramsey, Connie Reece, Louise Redman, Priscilla Stinson, Tina Weber, Kathy Wells, Sue Wisman and Kristal Worthington.

A Study Of The Utilization Of Parents As Therapeutic Agents, Shirley D. Rojas

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Intimacy Of Therapist Self-Disclosure On The Therapy Process, Kim Nadler

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Sex-Role Orientation In Male And Female Alcoholics, Carole Zeldes-Seffinger

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Accreditation Draft, Gene Yonuschot Ph.D.

Gene Yonuschot, Ph.D. Collection

Draft of the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine's preliminary Accreditation report.

Men's Basketball Media Guide 1978-1979, Indiana State University

Intercollegiate Athletics

No abstract provided.

Most Comfortable Listening Levels Of Hearing Impaired People: Effects Of Everyday Auditory And Visual Environments, Judith A. Rubin

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study to evaluate the changes that may occur in most comfortable listening levels when hearing aid users encounter a realistic auditory and visual environment.

Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 1978, Wku Dental Hygiene

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1978 dental hygiene class: Julie Greenwell, Debbie Allison, Tami Mathis, Lisa Meacham, Janice Lewis, Sally Hammack, Becky Garmon, Ellen Coley, Marsha Kennedy, Mary Ellen Pawley, Ann Gold, Vicki Alford, Mary McClean, Rose Holder, Ramona Wortham, Ramona Pearson and Nancy Davis.

Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 55, No. 5, 1978)

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1978, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1978 nursing class: Marsha Alford, Gwen Austin, Deborah Bechtel, Nancy Bowles, Betty Boyd, Debra Brakke, Diane Cobb, Cathy Darnell, Nova Eadens, Jane Englebright, Cathy Eskridge, Ann Fox, Audrey Frazier, Beverly Frazier, Larry Gammons, Pauline Garrity, Stephanie Hamilton, Traci Harrell, Joy Jones, Muriel Kessinger, Jennifer Kimmel, Lenetta Lacaden, Susan McCormick, Lois Mercer, Kimberly Miller, Virginia Moore, Rebecca Newby, Lisa Page, Karen Perry, Joan Philpot, Marcella Pickett, Debra Rafferty, Pam Shaver, Rhonda Sheffield, Mitchell Shortt, Brenda Stamper, Carolee Strom, Valerie Timko, Donna Watt, Winona White, Vicki Wood and William Wright.

Bulletin No 3573 - Wheat Diseases In Western Australia, A. G. P. Brown, G. C. Mac Nish

Bulletins - 3000 - 3999

Diseases caused by pathogenic organisms can seriously affect the yield of wheat. Some diseases are comparatively rare whereas others occur over a large area of the wheatbelt year after year.

it is important to be able to identify diseases correctly so that the appropriate control measures can be applied, In the following article the diseases of wheat caused by pathogenic organisms are illustrated, with their symptoms described, and where possible, the control measures given.

1978 Apothecary, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Apothecary

The staff of THE APOTHECARY '78 has worked hard to put together what we consider to be a very good publication, but our efforts would not have been possible without the advise and support of many people. Our sincerest thanks go to our financial boosters, advertisers, and of course to Dean Dickison for his gracious support. We would also like to thank Mrs. Thomas and the entire office staff for providing us with the alumni listings. Mr. Jack Shelton and the Public Relations Department were also invaluable in the completion of the book.

Vol.45 News Releases 1978 With Annual Session, American Dental Association

News Releases

This collection includes standard news releases, information kits and other documents distributed for publicity, information, announcements of events, etc. as issued from the ADA. Items included in this collection are archival and any costs, links, contact information, or other figures may be out of date. Please contact the ADA to verify information.

Taste-Masking: Function Of Exaggerated Prandial Drinking In Desalivate Mice, Richard C. Lewis

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Taste thresholds for the bitter compound sucrose octaacetate (SOA) were elevated by desalivation in mice. Thresholds were determined for control and experimental animals both before and after ligation of all salivary ducts. There was a significant increase in SOA thresholds in the desalivate mice, and the pre- to post-operative differences in threshold between the control and experimental groups were significant. The altered response to SOA by desalivate mice is shown to be due to the assumption of a prandial pattern of drinking as a result of desalivation. This conclusion is based on experiments with wet mash which failed to show …

Pacific Information Service On Street-Drugs January 1978, School Of Pharmacy

Pacific Information Service on Street-Drugs

No abstract provided.

Contents

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Table of contents for MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly, 1978, Volume Fourteen, Number One.

Porotic Hyperostosis In The Eastern Mediterranean, J. Lawrence Angel

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Porotic hyperostosis is bone expansion caused by hypertrophy of blood-forming marrow. It usually affects the skull diploë in adults and the long bones, face, skull vault, and sometimes the trunk in children, often with some thinning and porosity in the cortex and even the formation of a double cortex (bone-in-bone) in severe infections. Excess formation of red cells in hematogenous marrow can come from sicklemia or thalassemia (especially in the homozygous form), from other hemolytic anemias including unusual blood defects like spherocytosis, and from iron deficiency anemia. Presumably hookworm, amebiasis and other dysenteries, endemic malaria, and even high-altitude anoxia can …

Paleoepidemiology Of Infectious Disease In The Dickson Mounds Population, John Lallo, George J. Armelagos, Jerome C. Rose

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

The major focus of paleopathology has been the delimiting of disease in time and space. Information about the history of specific diseases is the objective of many of these studies. While the chronological and geographical dimensions of paleopathology contribute significantly to our knowledge of disease, there are limits to this approach, which often fails to consider the interaction of biology and culture in the disease of prehistoric populations.

Yawslike Disease Porcesses In A Louisiana Shell Mound Population, Louise M. Robbins

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Human skeletal remains have been recovered from prehistoric and early historic sites in Louisiana with some degree of regularity for the past 75 years and on an irregular basis for the last 300 years. During his explorations of aboriginal sites throughout the Lower Mississippi River Valley, Moore made a special effort to collect skeletal specimens for shipment to the US National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution. A less well-known fact is that he also collected pathological specimens for shipment to the Army Medical Museum at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. An unfortunate aspect of the Moore recovery technique, however, …

Paleoepidemiology Of Degerative Joint Disease, Robert D. Jurmain

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

In order to contribute significantly to the description and understanding of human disease, paleoepidemiology must first recognize requirements which epidemiologists have long considered essential: 1) that the populations sampled are relevant to a set of specific hypotheses concerning a particular set of diseases: 2) that an adequate sample is employed to accurately represent the whole population: and 3) that wherever possible, sex and age parameters are accurately controlled. Given a specific set of hypotheses worthy of being tested, paleoepidemiology can be used not only to describe the distribution of significant human diseases, but also to help untangle and explain their …

Management Of Carcinoma Of The Kidney And Urinary Bladder, Warren W. Koontz Jr.

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Tumors of the upper urinary tract constitute 1% to 2% of all cancers, and each year 11,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States. Approximately half of these patients have metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis. Hypernephroma, or renal cell carcinoma, was first described in 1863 by Grawitz. These tumors arise from tubular epithelial cells and are correctly termed renal cell carcinoma or renal cell adenocarcinoma. There is evidence that further identifies the cell of origin as being from the proximal convoluted tubular epithelium. There does not appear to be a specific racial or ethnic incidence although it …

Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate: The Rationale And Role For Radiotherapy In Its Management, Tapan A. Hazra

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Until recently the treatment of carcinoma of the prostate was limited either to radical prostatectomy by the perineal or retropubic route, or to hormonal manipulation. Approximately 5% of all patients with this disease are suitable candidates for radical surgery. Hormonal manipulation is palliative in nature and is generally used when there is evidence of metastatic disease (in about 50% of patients). There thus remains a group of patients (40% to 45%) in whom the disease is localized, yet too extensive for surgical treatment, for whom definitive radiotherapy can play a major role.

Management Of Acute Glomerulonephritis, Donald Oken

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Glomerulonephritis is responsible for over one half of all cases of end-stage chronic renal failure and, in its most fulminant form, is a cause of acute, irreversible renal failure. Electron microscopy and immunofluorescent studies together with newly recognized clinical associations have revealed a wide variety of histologic subgroups and myriad etiologies for what was once regarded as a single, simple entity. The addition of electron microscopy has lent an entirely new dimension to the delineation of glomerulonephritis subtypes and offers a more reasonable approach to the search for treatment of these subtypes. It is, after all, not unreasonable to suppose …