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Legionnaires' Disease: Description Of A Sporadic Case, Louis D. Saravolatz, Gene Tilchen

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

This first case of Legionnaires' disease seen at Henry Ford Hospital is described. A previously healthy 72-year-old man developed progressive pneumonia in September, 1977; it was unresponsive to treatment with cephalothin. However, he rapidly recovered when the treatment was changed to oral erythromycin. Diagnosis was established by serologic studies done at the Center for Disease Control. This pneumonia occurred in a sporadic form with no evidence of secondary cases.

A Philosophical Concept Of Patient Education In The Small Hospital, Michael Rush

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In recent years, many dramatic changes have occurred in the nation's health care delivery system, particularly in health education. The National Consumer Health Information and Promotion Act was enacted in 1976. In response to this legislation, the nation's health education efforts were greatly expanded through the creation of a Bureau of Health Education within the Center for Disease Control and establishment of the Office of Health Information and Promotion in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. A National Center for Health Education was also established. Health education was prominently included among the …

Cryptoccal Granuloma Of The Choroid Plexus In The Temporal Horn, Yohsuke Fukami

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A man developed sudden symptoms of increased intracranial pressure following a prolonged course of cryptoccal meningitis which appeared to be responding to treatment. A choroid plexus granuloma was found in the dilated and blocked lateral ventricle. The poor prognosis of this type of complication of the cryptococcal meningitis is discussed.

The Water-Soluble Contrast Medium Lumbar Myelogram And Its Surgical Correlations, Henri C. Labasse

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The water-soluble contrast medium lumbar myelogram is a very helpful tool in the diagnosis of herniated nucleus pulposus (EfNP) in patients who suffer unilateral root pain of mechanical course. One can often make the differential diagnosis between a ruptured disc and a protruding disc. Unless the disc fragment lies way out in the intervertebral foramen, the myelogram will show some kind of anomaly. Therefore, fewer exploratory operations will be performed on patients having normal myelograms. Metrisamide, a newcomer among the water-soluble contrast media, is nontoxic for the spinal cord. Therefore, if the usual myelogram is normal and one fears a …

Traumatic Third Ventricular Hematoma, E. Malcolm Field

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The author postulates a rare syndrome which should be considered when craniocerebral trauma is followed by a lucid interval and then rapid deterioration of midbrain function. The diagnosis was made on the basis of an irregular mass in the floor of the third ventricle and bloody ventricular fluid. Today's availability of CAT scanning would provide a quicker and more certain diagnosis than was possible for the two cases reported, the author states.

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Subarachnoid And Intracerebral Hemorrhage Due To The Rupture Of An Arteriovenous Malformation And Aneurysm In The Same Patient. Report Of Two Cases, F. Gomez-Mendez

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Two cases are reported of coexistent intracranial aneurysm and arteriovenous malformation. Both lesions ruptured within one week in one patient and within three months in the other. The rarity of such occurrences is discussed and the surgical operative procedures used are described. One patient is doing well except for some weakness of the right leg and mild dysphasia. The second patient died three months postoperatively, probably because of rupture of the aneurysm. No autopsy was obtained.

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Commencement Program 1977, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | 1977 Events of Commencement

3 | Conferring of Degrees

7 | Candidates for Degrees

25 | Awards

27 | Academic Costume

Population Reports. Series A: Oral Contraceptives (Supplement). U.S. Morbidity And Mortality Trends Relative To Oral Contraceptive Use, 1955-1975, And Danish Morbidity Trends, 1953-1972, Department Of Medical And Public Affairs, The George Washington University Medical Center

Population Reports

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Relationship Between Some Demographic Characteristics And Adverse Reactions Experienced By Women Undergoing A Therapeutic Abortion While Awake, Karen K. House

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

With the liberalization of abortion laws by the Supreme Court in 1973, American women have been able to obtain therapeutic abortions in hospitals and out-patient clinics in ever increasing numbers. With the increased number of women seeking abortions the medical field has responded with abortion procedures that are safe and relatively quick. With the speed doctors use to perform the procedure, many women may wish to take advantage of the medically safer method of abortion under local anesthesia. However, some women are unable to withstand the psychological and physical stress associated with a therapeutic abortion while awake. It would be …

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Factors Influencing The Use Of Health Services: By Four Wards In The Taipei Taiwan Stake Relief Society Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Candace Sheila Gutzman Hsiao

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine what sociocultural, sociodemographic, and sociopsychological factors the Sisters in four Wards in the Taipei Taiwan Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints perceived as keeping them from using the health services during the period from June 1975 to May 1976.

Forty-five Sisters, age twenty-one and older, were surveyed by a written questionnaire during Relief Society meetings during the last week in June and the first week in July 1966.

A majority of the Sisters were found to have experienced times when they did not avail themselves of the existing …

Rationale And Results Of Anatomic Repair Of Esophageal Hiatus Hernia, Conrad R. Lam

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A logical method of repair of esophageal hiatus hernia based on anatomic principles was proposed nearly 25 years ago by the late Phillip Allison. There was general agreement that his operation had advantages, but because of a disappointing number of recurrences and problems with reflux, more complicated operations were devised. Some of these involved plication of the stomach around the lower esophagus (Nissen, Belsey). In a series of 562 operations for hiatus hernia at the Henry Ford Hospital, there has been no significant deviation from the Allison technic. Complicating lower esophageal rings (Schatzki) have been excised. There has been no …

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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In Memoriam: Robert C. Horn, Jr., M.D., Gerald Fine, John W. Rebuck

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Does Urban Noise Represent A Hazard To Health?, Frances J. Storlie

Dissertations and Theses

The problem of noise as a potential health hazard to urban man has been raised. The literature was used to establish two premises: that cities are noisy environments, and that noise-free societies have less coronary artery disease (CAD) than do industrialized sections of the world. These differences also hold for rural and urban areas of the United States.

Geographical questions concerning rate differentials for CAD have been addressed by numerous disciplines. Subsequently, social, psychological, and physical explanations have been put forth. Throughout this paper the emphasis has been placed on the physical aspects of noise exposure. The conceptual frame utilizes …

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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A Study In Self-Defeat: The Public Health Venereal Disease Clinic, Joseph F. Sheley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper relates the results of three months of participant observation and interviews in a public venereal disease clinic. The research was directed toward assessment of the relationship of clinic efficiency (a smoothly operating bureaucratic clinic) and clinic effectiveness (a major reduction of illness within a community). The venereal disease clinic is described as an efficient and well planned health unit with three major objectives: a) checking the increase of V.D. through preventive medicine; b) detection and treatment of V.D. within the community; and c) provision of health services to lower S.E.S. segments of the population. Research results indicate that …

Population Reports. Series J, Number 10: Family Planning Programs. Adolescent Fertility: Risks And Consequences, Department Of Medical And Public Affairs, The George Washington University Medical Center

Population Reports

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Productivity Of The Roll-Streak Method To Perform Anaerobic Bacteriology In The Routine Clinical Laboratory, Thomas R. Neblett

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Data presented are derived from one year of performing routine clinical anaerobic bacteriology by the roll-streak tube method. 826 specimens from 1508 (54.8%) contained anaerobes. 162 specimens were polymicrobic (19.6%) and contained 528 strains of a total of 1051 isolated (50.2 %). 479 blood specimens contained 525 strains of anaerobes. Propionibacterium, considered a contaminant, occurred 209/210 times in blood as the sole isolate. Bacteroides occurred alone or polymicrobically 308 times and comprised 54.7% of the blood isolates and 32.5% of the total anaerobic genera isolated. Clostridium, Peptococcus and Fusobacterium were the next most frequently occurring anaerobes. The roll-streak method is …

Commencement Program 1976, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | 1976 Events of Commencement

3 | Conferring of Degrees

7 | Candidates for Degrees

25 | Awards

27 | Academic Costume

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.

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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Multiple Myeloma In A 23-Year-Old Man: A Case Report, C. K. Ma, K. Maeda, R. Waldmann, J. W. Rebuck

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A case is reported of multiple myeloma in a 23-year-old man, including extensive clinical studies and postmortem examination. Multiple myeloma for this age group is considered to be extremely rare.

The Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program, Nathan Maccoby

Consumer Behavior in the Health Marketplace: Symposium Proceedings

This afternoon I want to tell you about the results of a major study we have been doing as a part of the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program. The Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program is an interdisciplinary project directed by Dr. John W. Farquhar, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and I am co-director. This paper was really co-authored by fifteen people as part of an interdisciplinary team. With a group of different people like this, we had to spend a significant amount of time trying to teach each other our respective professional languages. Initially, communication within our group was …

Private Water Supplies, Maine Department Of Human Services

Maine Collection

Private Water Supplies

Department of Human Services, Augusta, Me. (Reprinted 1976).

Contents: Introduction / General Requirements / Types of Private Water Supplies / Procurement of Safe Water / Distribution / Appendix A & B

Patterns Of Fatty Acid Release From Endogenous Substrates By Human Platelet Homogenates And Membranes, A Derksen, P Cohen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

We describe a method for measuring the release of fatty acids from endogenous substrates of human platelet homogenates and membranes. The method depends on the availability of lipids whose fatty acids are odd-chained and therefore suitable as internal reference compounds that, at the time of lipid extraction, can be added to an incubation to permit subsequent quantification of the content of free fatty acids or fatty acids esterified to specific lipids. We found four types of lipolytic activities in human platelets. In homogenates at pH 4.0 a triglyceride lipase operated as shown by the synchrony of triglyceride degradation and release …

Lymphangiography In Staging Carcinoma Of The Prostate. A Comparison With Operative Findings, Joseph C. Cerny, Malcolm Weckstein, Riad Farah

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Pedal lymphangiography was performed In 30 patients who subsequently underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy, and radical pelvic lymphadenectomy. In 24 of 30 patients, lymphangiograms correctly predicted the presence or absence of nodal Involvement. In spite of certain limitations of the technique. It is considered an essential diagnostic study in patients considered for possible radical prostatic surgery, or in patients who may be candidates for external megavoltage radiotherapy to the prostate gland and its lymphatic drainage.