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Volume 31, Index, Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Journal of Surgery

The mission of CJS is to contribute to the effective continuing medical education of Canadian surgical specialists, using innovative techniques when feasible, and to provide surgeons with an effective vehicle for the dissemination of observations in the areas of clinical and basic science research.

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Investigation Of The Optimal Load-Bearing Characteristics Of Patellar Tendon Bearing (Ptb) Prostheses, Rahamim Seliktar, Theerasakdi Vachranukunkiet, Marcus P. Besser, Denise Kuenzig, A. Esquenazi

Department of Physical Therapy Faculty Papers

The long term goal of the research team is to automate the construction of the lower limb prostheses using Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) techniques.

Information Interface - Volume 13, Issue 1 - January/February 1989, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Correspondence: Unecom: Kirmes To Novotny 1988-12-28, William Kirmes D.O.

William Kirmes, D.O. Collection

A letter from Dr. Kirmes to Dr. James Novotny, Chairman Promotions Committee, UNECOM, expressing his concern, as Chairman of the Admissions committee, over students who are admitted outside of the traditional application and interview process.

Correspondence: Unecom: Kirmes To Walsh 1988-12-28, William Kirmes D.O.

William Kirmes, D.O. Collection

A letter from Dr. Kirmes to Dr. Joseph Walsh, Dean of the UNECOM, regarding the acceptance of "Dean's admit" applicants who have not gone through the normal application process.

What's Happening: December 21, 1988, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Ua66/14/3 Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Pinning ceremony program listing graduates of the WKU Nursing program.

What's Happening: December 14, 1988, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Dr. William Randolph Sims Papers - Accession 406, William Randolph Sims

Manuscript Collection

The William Randolph Sims Papers consists of records primarily relating to the York County Hospital. Dr. William Randolph Sims, Sr. (1886-1972) was a longtime Chairman of the York County Hospital as well as the former Vice-President and Manager of J.P. Phillips Drugs Inc. The York County Hospital (also known as York General Hospital) opened on May 15, 1940 in the corporate limits of the Town of Ebenezer (now part of Rock Hill, SC) and included a nursing school and a home for nursing students. It was approved by the American College of Surgeons on February 2, 1944. It was later …

What's Happening: December 7, 1988, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Nurses' Attitudes Concerning Therapeutic Ward Atmosphere With Those Of Other Members Of The Multi-Disciplinary Treatment Team, Barbara Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The atmosphere of a psychiatric hospital ward has been found to have an influence on patient behavior and on treatment outcome. The ward atmosphere is affected by the patients, the multi—disciplinary team and the nurse who is the team member who spends the greatest amount of time on the ward. A multi-disciplinary team which shares similar attitudes concerning ward atmosphere is more likely to create a therapeutic ward atmosphere.
The multi-disciplinary teams of three adult psychiatric units at a midwestem psychiatric hospital were subject of a research study regarding their attitudes concerning therapeutic ward atmosphere. The scores, of team members …

Passive Cation Transport In Reversibly Sickling Deer Red Blood Cells, Norma C. Adragna, Peter K. Lauf

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Two Plyometric Exercises On Vertical And Horizontal Jump Performance, Joseph Daniel King

Student Dissertations & Theses

This study investigated performance outcomes of vertical and horizontal jump tests after specific horizontal and vertical plyometric training. There were forty-six subjects with an average age of 113 months. Sixteen females and thirty males were randomly assigned to one of four plyometric treatment groups. Group I performed continuous horizontal bounds. Group II performed a combination of continuous horizontal and vertical bounds. Group III executed continuous vertical bounds, and Group IV was the control group and they did not receive any training. The duration of the training sessions was six-weeks. Each subject was pretested and post-tested on vertical and horizontal jumping …

Relationship Of Spiritual Well-Being To Psychological Well-Being In Bereaved Parents, Marcia E. Hodges

MSN Research Projects

This descriptive correlational study assessed the perceived spiritual and psychological well-being of bereaved parents. Spiritual well-being was measured by the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB) and psychological well-being was measured by the Psychological General Well-Being (PGWB) Index. The sample consisted of 30 participants from three bereaved parent support groups located in North Alabama. The research hypothesis stated there would be a positive correlation between spiritual well-being and psychological well-being in bereaved parents. Findings revealed a positive correlation between spiritual well-being and psychological well-being in bereaved parents = .77, p_ = .000). Additional findings revealed men tended to report higher subjective spiritual …

Vital Signs, December 1988, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A sixteen page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, alumni profiles, class notes, and more.

The Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor From Prostate Cells Is Dephosphorylated By A Prostate-Specific Phosphotyrosyl Phosphatase., Ming-Fong Lin, Gail M. Clinton

Journal Articles: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Human prostatic acid phosphatase (PAcP) has been found to have phosphotyrosyl-protein phosphatase activity (H. C. Li, J. Chernoff, L. B. Chen, and A. Kirschonbaun, Eur. J. Biochem. 138:45-51, 1984; M.-F. Lin and G. M. Clinton, Biochem. J. 235:351-357, 1986) and has been suggested to negatively regulate phosphotyrosine levels, at least in part, by inhibition of tyrosine protein kinase activity (M.-F. Lin and G. M. Clinton, Adv. Protein Phosphatases 4:199-228, 1987; M.-F. Lin, C. L. Lee, and G. M. Clinton, Mol. Cell. Biol. 6:4753-4757, 1986). We investigated the molecular interaction of PAcP with a specific tyrosine kinase, the epidermal growth factor …

Introducing The Living With Illness Group: A Specialized Treatment For Patients With Chronic Schizophrenic Conditions, Thomas G. Plante, Stephanie L. Pinder, David Howe

Psychology

This paper introduces a specialized psychotherapy/psychoeducational group treatment for patients with chronic psychotic symptoms who receive only partial benefit from psychotropic medications, psychotherapy, and milieu/activities therapy. The goal of the group is to assist patients to accurately identify the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that are dysfunctional symptoms of their disability and then use the functional aspects of their brain as well as learned coping strategies to compensate for their disability. The group format, philosophy, procedures, and typical topics of discussion are detailed.

Paraplegia Due To Decompression Sickness (19 Cases), Horng-Jeng Shyn

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Nineteen cases of paraplegia due to decompression sickness were experienced from May 1983 to August 1985. All were the male fishermen. Their ages ranged from twenty-three yeras to fifty yeras.There were five with complete thoracic cord injury, seven with imcomplete thoracic cord injury and one with complete lumber cord injury, six with imcomplete lumber cord injury. All the patients had received hyperbaric treatment and rehabilitation. There were six persons with severe spasticity during discharge. Others had the symptom of mild incontinence. The study shows that early treatment may reduce complication. The most frequent seasons were spring & summer. The majority …

Psychomotor Development In Children With Congental Heart Disease, Tsui-Fen Yang, Betau Hwang, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The purpose of this study is to assess the psychomotor development in children with congenital heart disease, analyzes the degree of developmental delay and investigate the possible factors that result in psychomotor developmental delay in these cases. Form August 1986 to July 1987, 169 cases with congenital heart disease and 92 normal children as control group were studied. The Kansas Development Screening Chart, which was designed by Dr. Holmes, was used to assess the psychomotor development in these 261 children. The degree in psychomotor factors such as sex, nutritional status, cyanosis, age, number of hospitalization and history of congestive heart …

F-Response Study In C-Spine Degenerative Joint Disease Patient, Chen-Ming Chiu, Rai-Chi Chan, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The purpose of this study was to compare the significant difference of F Response between normal and C-spine DJD groups and compare one another among different age groups. We chose 10 patients with C-spine DJD in each age groups of 50-60, 60-70, 70-80 age groups. Everyone recived Ulnar and Median N nerve conduction study with subsequent 20 times F responses.The results revealed 1) in Spine DJD with radiclopathy groups, these are prolonged F lateny & decreased F persistence compared to normal groups. 2) no significant difference in F amplitude, F spike, M amplitude, M surface and NCV between normal and …

Isolated Cataplexy: A Familial Study, Kristyna M. Hartse, Frank J. Zorick, Jeanne M. Sicklesteel, Thomas Roth

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Four members of a family, a mother, her two sons, and the mother's second cousin, presented with a history of isolated cataplexy without excessive daytime sleepiness or other symptoms typical of narcolepsy. They were polygraphically monitored during one night followed by a day of multiple nap tests. No subject manifested objective daytime sleepiness as measured by short latencies to sleep onset during daytime naps, and no subject exhibited periods of sleep onset rapid eye movement sleep in either the night or nap recordings. The incidence of isolated cataplexy in this family was traced by history through six generations. We conclude …

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Expanding Spectrum Of Pediatric Practice, Jeffrey M. Devries

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Duplication And Deletion 11q23-Q24 Recombinants In Two Offspring Of An Intrachromosomal Insertion ("Shift") Carrier, Miriam G. Forsythe, Hugh Walker, Lester Weiss, Jacquelyn R. Roberson, Maria J. Worsham, V. Ramesh Babu, Daniel L. Van Dyke

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Few examples of intrachromosomal insertions have been described. These usually result from deletion of a segment of chromosome material, with insertion of the deleted material elsewhere on the same chromosome. Previous insertional translocations have been identified through a proband who has either a deletion or a duplication of the inserted segment. We describe a family which has two probands, one with a duplication and one with a deletion of the inserted segment. The unbalanced chromosomes probably resulted from an uneven number of crossovers between the breakpoints in the chromosome 11 of the father, who carries a balanced intrachromosomal insertion of …

Perinatal Idiopathic Hemochromatosis, Usha B. Raju, Sudhakar Ezhuthachan, Chan K. Ma

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We report the clinicopathologic features of an infant who died of a rare form of perinatal cirrhosis associated with idiopathic hepatic and extrahepatic parenchymal siderosis. The infant appeared normal at birth but soon became severely ill, following a progressively downhill course associated with hypoglycemia, metabolic acidosis, bleeding diathesis, jaundice, and shock. The infant died at 7 days of age. The manifestations were those of hepatic failure but mimicked sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Cirrhosis, giant cell transformation, and parenchymal iron deposition characteristic of perinatal idiopathic hemochromatosis, a recently emerging clinicopathologic entity of unknown etiology, were present in this infant. These …

Bladder Catheter Knotting: A Case Report, Mark G. Goetting

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Pediatrics In The United States, Jay H. Mayefsky

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Serum Creatinine Concentrations In Healthy Newborns: Reference Ranges During The First Five Days Of Life, Jennie Andreson, Jaime Alfredo Zegarra, Carlos Alberto Estrada, Francis Dumler

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Serum creatinine concentrations were studied in 52 healthy, full-term infants (29 males and 23 females) during the first five days of life. At birth, mean serum creatinine concentration was 0.76 ± 0.13 mg/dL. At 6 hours of life, values increased to 0.97 ± 0.11 mg/dL (P < 0.001) and remained elevated for 24 hours. Values then returned to baseline so that serum creatinine concentrations were 0.81 ± 0.15 mg/dL at 48 hours and 0.6l ± 0.15 mg/dL at 3 to 5 days of age. At birth, serum creatinine concentrations were higher in males than in females (0.80 ± 0.13 versus 0.71 ± 0.11 mg/dL, respectively; P < 0.009). However, the increases in serum creatinine concentration observed after birth were similar in both sexes. This is the first report of a prospective longitudinal study of serum creatinine concentrations between birth and 3 to 5 days of age in a Hispanic population. In addition, data were analyzed by sex. The results are a useful reference for normal serum creatinine concentrations in early life.

Ovarian Failure In A Chromosomally Competent Adolescent Female: A Case Report, T. Jann Caison-Sorey

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Primary ovarian failure in adolescence is uncommon. This report depicts such a case in a 17 1/2-year old girl whose investigation revealed elevations in the follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone levels in association with a low estrogen level. The blood leukocyte chromosome analysis with Giemsa banding revealed a 46,XX chromosomal complement. Pelvic ultrasound disclosed a rudimentary uterus and a small left ovary. Hormonal replacement has resulted in advancement of secondary sexual characteristics and monthly withdrawal bleeding.

Validation Of Electronic Rectal Thermometry, Mark G. Goetting, Karen Stratton

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Electronic rectal thermometry is performed routinely in most medical centers. While electronic thermometry has been validated at the oral site, rectal measurement has not. We performed a controlled study on 84 children comparing mercury-in-glass and electronic thermometry at the rectal site. No significant difference occurred in temperatures between the two methods. We conclude that the electronic thermometer is a valid instrument to measure rectal temperature.