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Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Health Care Delivery System: Current Trends And Prospects For The Future, Vinod K. Sahney, Douglas S. Peters, Stanley R. Nelson

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Issues Facing Group Practice In The 1990s, Bruce W. Steinhauer

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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The Ambulatory Care "Gold Rush?", Michael A. Slubowski

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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The Employer-Purchaser Impact On Health Care Delivery And Financing, Robert Asmussen

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Marketing Physician Practices: Developing An Action Plan For Success, Barbara Steiner, Douglas Klegon, William Conway, Patricia Mccarthy

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Use Of A "Permission Giving" Patient Checklist In Identification Of Social And Sexual Problems, William B. Anderson

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A checklist derived from the ACOG bulletin entitled "Communication of Sexual Problems in Office Gynecology" was given to 614 women. The findings demonstrate that social and sexual concerns are encountered frequently in the practice of clinical gynecology and that a checklist is effective in identifying these concerns.

No Miracle Remedies In Sight For Financing Health Care For The Poor, John M. Kuder

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Money And Manpower In Graduate Medical Education, David C. Leach

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Alternative Delivery Systems: The Changing Role Of The Physician, David Siegel, Douglas Klegon

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Clinical And Laboratory Study Of Sickle Cell/Β-Thalassemia, Koichi Maeda, Ellis J. Van Slyck, Robert C. Hawley

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We have studied 39 patients doubly heterozygous for sickle cell/β-thalassemia, 12 with sickle cell/β^o- thalassemia and 27 with sickle cell/β⁺-thalassemia. Generally, sickle cell/β^o-thalassemia is considered more severe than sickle cell/β⁺-thalassemia. In our study, however clinical complications in the group with sickle cell/β⁺-thalassemia were seen almost as frequently as in the group with sickle cell/β^o-thalassemia. A wide variety of clinical manifestations were seen in both groups of patients.

Radiographic Features Of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Mark I. Burnstein, Burton I. Ellis, Robert A. Teitge, Martin L. Gross, Christopher K. Shier

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Anterior cruciate ligament disruption is a common injury that occurs in contact sports such as football. The treating orthopedic surgeon may elect any of a variety of therapeutic options. Surgical management may consist of primary repair of the torn ligament or replacement of the torn ligament with graft material, known as anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACER). Many physicians, including radiologists, are unfamiliar with the surgical procedure or the expected postoperative radiographic appearance of ACER. Assessment of radiographs following ACER, as with many surgical procedures, requires understanding of the surgical procedure. We present our experience in assessing the postoperative radiographs of …

Characteristics, Mortality, And Outcome Of Infants Weighing Over 2500 Grams Who Require Intensive Care, Anthony Udo-Inyang, Chang Y. Lee

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Documentations of morbidity and mortality of infants weighing over 2500 g who require intensive care, along with research to improve their outcome, have not received adequate emphasis in the literature. From 1981 to 1984 these infants accounted for 495 (40.1%) admissions and 16 (9.8%) deaths in Henry Ford Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. The most common diagnoses were hematologic diseases (24.6%), meconium aspiration (20.4%), respiratory distress/asphyxia (17.2%), congenital anomalies (13.8%), and infants of diabetic mothers (10.7%). Infant mortality was 56.2% from congenital anomalies. 25% from meconium aspiration, 6.2% from infection, 6.2% from maternal accident, and 6.2% from accidental neonatal asphyxia. …

The First-Bite Syndrome, William S. Haubrich

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Patients presenting with esophageal disorders often describe what can be called a "first-bite syndrome." The condition can be discerned by its characteristic clinical features. It may be a variant of diffuse esophageal spasm. While in a majority of patients it is a benign functional disturbance, it can be a harbinger of carcinoma. When of functional origin, it is amenable, in most cases, to relatively simple medical management.

Small Cell Carcinoma Of The Lung In The Intensive Care Unit, Paul Harkaway, Cynthia Glines, Michael Eichenhorn, Paul Kvale, Robert Chapman, John Popovich Jr.

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The outcome of 29 patients with a diagnosis of small cell carcinoma of the lung admitted to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) from 1980 through 1984 was reviewed retrospectively. Respiratory failure was the most common admitting diagnosis (23 patients [80%]). followed by cardiopulmonary arrest (three patients [10%]), and hypotension (three patients [10%] ). Only five patients survived to leave the MICU, and only two of these patients lived longer than two months after MICU discharge. Of the features examined, the absence of sepsis was the only statistically significant predictor of MICU survival. Treatment of the malignancy did not appear …

Letters To The Editor

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Robert K. Nixon, Md, Robert J. Priest

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Echocardiographic Features Of Metastatic Pericardial And Myocardial Malignancy, Carey Green, Mohsin Alam, Howard S. Rosman, Jeffrey B. Lakier

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Clinical and echocardiographic features of a patient with extensive metastasis to the pericardium and myocardium are presented. Echocardiography revealed pericardial effusion, markedly thickened pericardium, and myocardium with increased echogenicity. These findings were subsequently confirmed during surgery and autopsy, which revealed marked tumor encasement of the heart and pericardial myocardial infiltration.

Back Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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A Reclassification Of The Genera Of Scolytidae (Coleoptera), Stephen L. Wood

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

A taxonomic revision of the genera of Scolytidae (Coleoptera) in the world fauna is presented. Included are 215 valid genera and 273 invalid generic and subgeneric names. The type-species for each genus-group name was examined, including the type-specimen of the type-species in those taxa where a holotype, lectotype, or neotype has been designated—with the exception of four contemporary genera, the type-series of which are lost, and six fossil genera for which no effort was made to locate the types. Taxonomic keys to the families of the Curculionoidea, and to the subfamilies, tribes, and genera of Scolytidae are presented. Descriptions and …

Full Issue, Vol. 10

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

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Fetal Whole-Body Fluid, Cardiovascular And Endocrine Dynamics : Computer Analysis Of Regulatory Mechanisms, Peter Stuart Gold

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The dynamics of transcapillary fluid and protein distribution and endocrine regulation of cardiovascular function were studied in chronically instrumented fetal sheep during the third trimester. Average experimental changes in vascular pressures, blood volume, plasma hormone concentrations, hematocrit and plasma protein concentration were analyzed using mathematical modeling and parameter optimization techniques in order to determine values for the major parameters which regulate fluid, protein and endocrine dynamics and to determine endocrine dose-response relationships to changes in cardiovascular function. The hormones which were considered are arginine vasopressin (AVP), angiotensin II (AII), epinephrine (EPI) and norepinephrine (NE). Vascular disturbances which were considered include …

Barbara Sanford Oral History, Barbara Sanford

Oral History Collection

Susan Mehrtens' Note:

Barbara Sanford's interview echoes most of what I have heard from many of the staff regarding the Lab's mission and goals. The Lab's ideal size, geographical location--with its pluses and minuses--and the environment in which to do science in the current period--all find echoes on other tapes. There is little of candor, consequence or calculation here. Sanford clearly recognizes the stressful nature of scientific life in these times of federal cutbacks, and, as well, the frustrations of directing a laboratory whose size, complexity and needs preclude personal scientific work by the Director. In the face of such …

Donald Bailey Oral History, Donald Bailey

Oral History Collection

Susan Metrhens' Note:

Regarded by many of his peers at Jax as one of the most intuitive, prescient and creative scientists at the Lab, Bailey was a very reflective narrator. While he provides one anecdote of c.c. Little1s sartorial habits, this tape is largely devoid of anecdotal material, and is more a reminiscence by a scientist who was at Jax in the early '50's, who left and returned in 1967. I tried, through a variety of questions, to probe the synergy between Bailey and the Lab, the degree to which his prescience and creativity might be due to the freedom …

Priscilla "Skippy" Lane Oral History, Skippy Lane

Oral History Collection

Susan Mehrtens' Note:

We have in this tape the recollections of one of the most prolific authors in the field of mouse mutants, an indefatigable co-worker of Margaret Dickey, Margaret Green and currently, Muriel Davison. Full of scientific terms, this tape reveals clearly Lane's thorough absorption in the field to which she has devoted nearly the last forty years of her life. Toward the end of this tape, Lane alludes to Earl Green's sexist attitude, which other women have also mentioned to me on and off tape. Lane also waxes eloquently here about her efforts to establish a hiera'rchy within …

Prevalence Of Sensitivity To Sulfiting Agents In Asthmatic Patients, Robert K. Bush, Steve L. Taylor, Karen Holden, Julie A. Nordlee, William S. Busse

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Ingestion of sulfiting agents can induce wheezing in some asthmatic patients. However, neither the prevalence of sulfite sensitivity nor the clinical characteristics of the affected asthmatic population are known. In a prospective single-blind screening study, 120 non-steroid-dependent and 83 steroid-dependent asthmatic patients underwent challenge with oral capsules of potassium metabisulfite. Five non-steroid-dependent and 16 steroid-dependent asthmatic patients experienced a greater than 20 percent reduction in their one-second forced expiratory volume within 30 minutes following the oral challenge. Twelve of these sulfite reactors were rechallenged with metabisulfite capsules in a double-blind protocol. Under these conditions, only three of seven steroid-dependent patients …

The Case For The Use Of Animals In Biomedical Research, Carl Cohen

Morality and Ethics of Animal Experimentation Collection

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Genetic Characterization Of Human C-Rel Sequences, Elise Brownell, Stephen J. O'Brien, William Nash, Nancy Rice

Biology Faculty Articles

We isolated and sequenced a human genomic-DNA segment that is homologous to a portion of v-rel, the transforming gene of reticuloendotheliosis virus (strain T). We also localized the human rel sequences to human chromosome 2 by screening a panel of rodent x human somatic-cell hybrids with the newly described human rel segment.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 29 Number 1, Fall 1986, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - IS SANTA CLARA STILL JESUIT? Declining vocations prompt this recurring question. Some of the faculty discuss what makes Santa Clara Jesuit to them. By Peg Major

16 - DON'T CALL ME MR. MOM Taking over the day care of his two tiny daughters while his wife worked provided this alumnus new insight on fatherhood. By Jim Craven

21 - PERSPECTIVES OF A PATRIARCH The spotlight is on Tom Bannan, class of '23, who started the procession of Bannans to Santa Clara. BY Paul Hennessy

26 - HOW NOT TO MAKE MONEY ON THE STOCK MARKET A guide to …

The Synthesis And Evaluation Of The Cardiovascular Activity Of Novel Imidazole Ring Systems, Joseph E. De Los Angeles

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

An investigation was undertaken to synthesize and evaluate the cardiovascular activity of two imidazole ring systems. Imidazoles with hypotensive activity would provide novel potential antihypertensive drugs. These novel structures may also find use as chemical probes in the study of the cardiovascular system and as prototypes for other potential cardiovascular agents.

The histamine derivative, 7,7-dipyridyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroimidazo-[4,5-c]pyridine (ligand l), was demonstrated to possess significant hypotensive activity in laboratory rats. A 15 mg/Kg dose of ligand 1 produces a statistically significant decrease in blood pressure when injected IP. This hypotensive effect is also associated with marked increase in heart rate. Although compound 1 …