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A Suggested New Approach To Supraventricular Tachydysrhythmia After Coronary Bypass Surgery, Walter Kao, Mihai Gheorghiade Jun 1989

A Suggested New Approach To Supraventricular Tachydysrhythmia After Coronary Bypass Surgery, Walter Kao, Mihai Gheorghiade

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Toxic Shock-Like Syndrome Associated With Necrotizing Streptococcus Pyogenes Infection, Thomas J. Connolly, Donald J. Pavelka, Eugene F. Lanspa, Thomas L. Connolly Jun 1989

Toxic Shock-Like Syndrome Associated With Necrotizing Streptococcus Pyogenes Infection, Thomas J. Connolly, Donald J. Pavelka, Eugene F. Lanspa, Thomas L. Connolly

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Two patients with toxic shock-like syndrome are presented. Both patients had necrotizing cellulitis due to Streptococcus pyogenes, and both patients required extensive surgical debridement. The association of Streptococcus pyogenes infection and toxic shock-like syndrome is discussed.

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Ulceroglandular Tularemia: A Typical Case Of Relapse, Stanley D. Miller, Michael B. Snyder, Michael Kleerekoper, Colby H. Grossman Jun 1989

Ulceroglandular Tularemia: A Typical Case Of Relapse, Stanley D. Miller, Michael B. Snyder, Michael Kleerekoper, Colby H. Grossman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Tularemia is an infectious disease that continues to occur sporadically and in epidemics in the United States. It is characterized as an acute febrile illness with constitutional symptoms associated with skin, glandular, respiratory, or gastrointestinal involvement. Tularemia usually can be treated effectively with streptomycin. Relapse most often occurs when patients are treated with bacteriostatic agents such as chloramphenicol or tetracycline. We present a case of ulceroglandular tularemia distinguished by its relapse after initial streptomycin/doxycycline therapy and subsequent slow response to additional streptomycin.

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Orf: A Case Report, Brent W. Mohr, David Katz Jun 1989

Orf: A Case Report, Brent W. Mohr, David Katz

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Ecthyma contagiosum (orf), a viral disease endemic to sheep and goats, can be zoonotically transmitted to humans through contact with infected animals. While the disease is common among sheep and goat herders worldwide, it comes to medical attention infrequently since it is generally a mild self-limited illness. We recently treated a healthy 36-year-old female who presented with bullous lesions on her fingers and a diffuse macular rash which had developed after antibiotic therapy for her bullae. She had been caring for her neighbor's goats which had recently been ill with "sore mouth." We discuss this case of orf and review …

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Early Detection Of Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Cancer With Polymorphic Dna Probes, Steven A. Narod, Hagay Sobol, Isabelle Schuffenecker, R. Alan B. Ezekowitz, Gilbert M. Lenoir Jun 1989

Early Detection Of Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Cancer With Polymorphic Dna Probes, Steven A. Narod, Hagay Sobol, Isabelle Schuffenecker, R. Alan B. Ezekowitz, Gilbert M. Lenoir

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We have performed linkage analysis on 32 families with hereditary medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) wilh seven polymorphic DNA probes situated near the centromere of chromosome 10. Nineteen of these families were affected with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A), and the remainder had MTC without pheochromocytoma. There were no instances of recombination between the MEN 2 A susceptibility gene and the IRBP.H4 marker. Two other probes, TBM.34 and MCK2, are also tightly linked(θ = 0.00 and θ = 0.02. respectively). Because TBM.34 and IRBP.H4/MCK2 are situated on opposite sides of the MEN 2A gene, screening with flanking DNA markers …

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Genetic Mechanisms Of Neoplasia In Men 2, Charles E. Jackson, Robert A. Norum Jun 1989

Genetic Mechanisms Of Neoplasia In Men 2, Charles E. Jackson, Robert A. Norum

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Several possible mechanisms for the initiation and progression of tumors in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) merit consideration. Localization of MEN2A to the pericentromeric area of chromosome 10 indicates the site of the initial mutagenic event but does not explain the tissue specificity observed. The consistency of tissue involvement within families, despite the variability between families, suggests that the tumors result from separate but contiguous tissue-specific genes arranged in a particular linear order. Linkage studies in MEN 2A and 2B families are compatible with this contiguous gene theory. Data suggest that Knudson's two-mutational-event theory is applicable in MEN2, …

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Three Cheers For Elective Hysterectomy, Mary Guinan May 1989

Three Cheers For Elective Hysterectomy, Mary Guinan

School of Public Health Faculty Research

Hysterectomy is the second (after cesarean section) most commonly performed major surgical procedure in the United States today.1 About [650,000 American women will have hysterectomies in 1989. Thirty-seven percent of all US women will have had a hysterectomy by the time they reach age 60. The number of hysterectomies increased dramatically Born 1965 to 1975, but then leveled off and decreased to the present level of about 7 per 1000 women. The ~ghest rates occur in women aged 35 to 44 years, the age group the so called baby boomers are now entering in large numbers. Therefore, if the age-specific …

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Front Matter Mar 1989

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Improvement In Left Ventricular Systolic Function After Pericardiocentesis: Case Report, Gary S. Salem, Robert A. Genovese, Mohsin Alam, Mihai Gheorghiade Mar 1989

Improvement In Left Ventricular Systolic Function After Pericardiocentesis: Case Report, Gary S. Salem, Robert A. Genovese, Mohsin Alam, Mihai Gheorghiade

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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Screening For Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate, Brian J. Miles Mar 1989

Screening For Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate, Brian J. Miles

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Primary Fibrinolysis In Acute Monocytic Leukemia, Ellis J. Van Slyck, Sundara B. K. Raman, Nalini Janakiraman Mar 1989

Primary Fibrinolysis In Acute Monocytic Leukemia, Ellis J. Van Slyck, Sundara B. K. Raman, Nalini Janakiraman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We present the case of a young man with acute monocytic leukemia (French-American-British classification:M5) and systemic hyperfibrinolysis with severe bleeding. Although fibrinolysis is usually mild and secorulary to disseminated intravascular coagulation, its role as a primary and dominant factor in rare cases of leukemia warrants that its presence be sought as a cause of abnormal bleeding. Decreased serum plasminogen and increased serum plasmin determined by synthetic substrate assay and a negative protamine paracoagulation test are crucial findings. Use of high-dose epsilon-aminocaproic acid was effective in treating this complication. A transient increase in fibrinolytic activity coincident with the early effect of …

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Pleural Effusion In Michigan Caused By Coccidioides Immitis After Travel To An Endemic Area, Christopher M. Hughes, Paul A. Kvale Mar 1989

Pleural Effusion In Michigan Caused By Coccidioides Immitis After Travel To An Endemic Area, Christopher M. Hughes, Paul A. Kvale

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Primary coccidioidal disease is rarely diagnosed in the midwest in the nonimmunocompromised host. Since coast-to-coast travel is common today, many patients may become exposed to Coccidioides immitis while traveling in endemic areas. We present a case of acute coccidioidal pleural effusion in a Michigan woman who had recently visited northeastern Arizona. Her travel history was the single most important factor in the eventual diagnosis of coccidioidal pleural effusion.

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Histopathologic Diagnosis And Classification Of Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Biologic Significance, Jill M. Peters, John D. Crissman Mar 1989

Histopathologic Diagnosis And Classification Of Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Biologic Significance, Jill M. Peters, John D. Crissman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Early diagnosis and accurate, biologically meaningful classification of prostate neoplasia remain important goals. The relation of evolving clinicopathologic concepts of histologic appearances to potential tumor progression is a major advance in classification of prostatic neoplasia. The criteria for recognizing incidental or "occult" stage A-l adenocarcinomas remain problematic in diagnosis, and focal neoplasms with little or no propensity to progression must be differentiated from cancers with a high likelihood of aggressive behavior. Current histologic grading systems in classifying prostate adenocarcinoma accurately identify two cancer subsets: 1) focal well differentiated tumors which rarely progress, and 2) diffuse poorly differentiated tumors which invariably …

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Staging Carcinoma Of The Prostate, Joseph C. Cerny Mar 1989

Staging Carcinoma Of The Prostate, Joseph C. Cerny

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Hormonal Management Of Advanced Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate, Brian J. Miles Mar 1989

Hormonal Management Of Advanced Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate, Brian J. Miles

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Advances In The Diagnosis Of Urothelial Neoplasia, John D. Crissman, Richard J. Zarbo, Terri Johnson, V. Ramesh Babu, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Brian J. Miles, Joseph C. Cerny Mar 1989

Advances In The Diagnosis Of Urothelial Neoplasia, John D. Crissman, Richard J. Zarbo, Terri Johnson, V. Ramesh Babu, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Brian J. Miles, Joseph C. Cerny

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Urothelial neoplasia is a unique cancer in that it consists of a spectrum of tumors with different biologic behaviors. The most common urothelial neoplasm is the low grade superficial papillary carcinoma or papilloma which may recur numerous times but does not result in significant morbidity or mortality. A variant of the superficial papillary carcinoma, which represents approximately 10% of the tumors, is the noninvasive papillary neoplasm which progresses to a less differentiated invasive transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Considerable effort has been directed at identifying which of the superficial well differentiated papillary tumors will persist, recur and progress to invasive cancer …

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Effect Of Cyclosporine On The Rate Of Renal Function Recovery After Renal Transplantation, Francis Dumler Mar 1989

Effect Of Cyclosporine On The Rate Of Renal Function Recovery After Renal Transplantation, Francis Dumler

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

To assess the effect of cyclosporine therapy on the rate of renal function recovery after renal transplantation, patients with no clinical evidence of rejection and who were treated with either cyclosporine or azathioprine in addition to steroid therapy were studied (n = 74). Of the patients with immediate renal function (n = 57), those receiving organs from living, related donors had a faster recovery rate of glomerular filtration than patients with cadaveric grafts (azathioprine, 15 ± 2 versus 7 ± 1 mL/min/day, P = 0.0001; cyclosporine, 14 ± 3 versus 6 ± 1 mL/min/day, P = 0.001). Recipients of cadaveric …

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Quinidine-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia, Mansoor N. Saleh, Nadhav Dhodaphar, Karen Allen, Albert F. Lobuglio Mar 1989

Quinidine-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia, Mansoor N. Saleh, Nadhav Dhodaphar, Karen Allen, Albert F. Lobuglio

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We have identified six cases of quinidine-induced immune thrombocytopenia based on clinical evidence and in association with elevated amounts of platelet surface IgG. The degree of thrombocytopenia did not correlate with severity of clinical symptoms, nor did it predict the amount of IgG on the platelet surface. Three of the patients recovered promptly after drug discontinuation alone whereas the other patients received additional corticosteroid therapy. The clinical presentation, mode of diagnosis, and therapeutic considerations in the treatment of drug-induced thrombocytopenia are discussed.

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Surgical Management Of Spinal Epidural Disease: An Update, Jack P. Rock, Dale V. Hoekstra, Henry H. Schmidek Mar 1989

Surgical Management Of Spinal Epidural Disease: An Update, Jack P. Rock, Dale V. Hoekstra, Henry H. Schmidek

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Management of spinal cord compression from metastatic malignant disease remains unsatisfactory. Results of surgical decompression are at best less than those of radiation therapy alone. However, new surgical approaches now focus on removing the anterior-situated tumor tissue which produces neural compression in about 85% of the cases. The results of these procedures that allow removal of the ventrally compressing tumor show significant improvement in the management of patients with spinal epidural disease. We review the surgical strategy of these new approaches and the attendant results.

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Echo-Doppler Features Of Pulmonary Valve Endocarditis, Jihad Bitar, Mohsin Alam Mar 1989

Echo-Doppler Features Of Pulmonary Valve Endocarditis, Jihad Bitar, Mohsin Alam

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Three patients with fever and pneumonitis were found to have pulmonary valve vegetations by echocardiography. Pulsed and color flow Doppler studies demonstrated mild to moderate pulmonary valve insufficiency in these patients. All patients responded to the appropriate antibiotics without requiring valve surgery. Echocardiography is of value in diagnosing pulmonary valve endocarditis and should be considered in every patient with recurrent pneumonitis.

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Digitalis Intoxication Or Intrinsic Conduction System Disease, Hooman Mahdyoon, Howard S. Rosman, Demetrios N. Mermiges, Mihai Gheorghiade Mar 1989

Digitalis Intoxication Or Intrinsic Conduction System Disease, Hooman Mahdyoon, Howard S. Rosman, Demetrios N. Mermiges, Mihai Gheorghiade

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Cerebral Infarction Associated With Cocaine Use, Iliana Meza, Carlos A. Estrada, Justo A. Montalvo, Walter N. Hidalgo, Jennie Andresen Mar 1989

Cerebral Infarction Associated With Cocaine Use, Iliana Meza, Carlos A. Estrada, Justo A. Montalvo, Walter N. Hidalgo, Jennie Andresen

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We report the case of a young man with an acute infarction of the left putamen and caudate nucleus, whose symptoms appeared six hours after intranasal use of approximately 0.5 g of cocaine hydrochloride. It seems probable that in this patient cocaine consumption played a role in the development of stroke.

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Back Matter Mar 1989

Back Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate: An Overview, Brian J. Miles, Robert Chapman, Joseph C. Cerny Mar 1989

Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate: An Overview, Brian J. Miles, Robert Chapman, Joseph C. Cerny

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Bladder Catheter Knotting: A Case Report, Mark G. Goetting Dec 1988

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

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Prevalence Of Respiratory Symptoms And Allergic Sensitivity In Multiply Handicapped Children, Dennis R. Ownby, Mary Logan, Ruth Ann Belfi Dec 1988

Prevalence Of Respiratory Symptoms And Allergic Sensitivity In Multiply Handicapped Children, Dennis R. Ownby, Mary Logan, Ruth Ann Belfi

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Among the many challenges of providing care for children with multiple physical and developmental handicaps is the proper management of their respiratory difficulties. This study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of respiratory symptoms in children attending a multidisciplinary clinic for handicapped children. We also used several methods to estimate the prevalence of allergic sensitivity in children with respiratory complaints. Questionnaires concerning respiratory symptoms were completed by the parents of 104 patients. The most frequent complaint reported was snoring in 41% of the children. Of the 39% who had multiple respiratory symptoms, 85% had detectable allergen- specific IgE to cat, …

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Front Matter Dec 1988

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Attention Deficit Disorder: An Overview, Wiley C. Rasbury Dec 1988

Attention Deficit Disorder: An Overview, Wiley C. Rasbury

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Child Life: Meeting The Psychosocial Needs Of Children And Families In The Hospital, Christine O. Newman, Carol G. Klingbeil, Roberta B. Abrams Dec 1988

Child Life: Meeting The Psychosocial Needs Of Children And Families In The Hospital, Christine O. Newman, Carol G. Klingbeil, Roberta B. Abrams

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Expanding Spectrum Of Pediatric Practice, Jeffrey M. Devries Dec 1988

The Expanding Spectrum Of Pediatric Practice, Jeffrey M. Devries

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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