Masterly inactivity: A forgotten precept.

Advances In Acute Stroke Management

Stroke is the third most common cause of mortality and morbidity after all cardiac and cancer disorders. The prognosis after acute ischemic stroke (AIS) varies greatly, depending upon the pre-morbid condition, stroke severity, age, and post-stroke complications. The overall mortality rate at 30 days after stroke is 28%. Stroke is the clinical expression of a vascular lesion be it atherothrombot...

Two Unnatural Cases of Labour

left side. When separated, the placenta had a gritty feel, as if calcareous deposits were in it at the places where it was adherent. The woman did well. That these two cases should form the subject of one paper, may at first sight appear strange, but they have in reality one feature in common which unites them very closely. It is evidently not the method of procedure which possesses this, for t...

The natural history of left ventricular thrombus in myocardial infarction: a rationale in support of masterly inactivity.

One hundred five unselected and consecutive patients were prospectively studies after acute transmural myocardial infarction to assess the incidence of mural thrombus formation and to relate the presence of thrombus to patient outcome in terms of systemic embolic events, functional class and survival. In 87 patients, optimal quality two-dimensional echocardiographic studies were obtained and we...

Theoretical Aspects of Justice in the Precept of Prophet of Islam عدالت نظری در سیره پیامبر اسلام(ص)

Evaluation of the Precept microdilution MIC system for single-drug testing in individual trays.

This study presents an evaluation of a commercial system for the MIC testing of single drugs dehydrated in disposable plastic trays (Precept, Austin Biological Laboratories, Inc., Austin, Tex.). The commercial system was compared with a reference agar dilution method, and 203 clinical bacterial isolates were tested by each method. For a total of 767 determinations, there was 94.2% agreement bet...