Three hundred and forty-three patients who had aortocoronary bypass graft operations for disabling angina were followed up for from 6 months to 5 years (average 2 years). 80 per cent had multiple grafts and 20 per cent had additional endarterectomy. The overall mortality within one month of operation was 5 per cent, and in those who had vein graft procedures only was 4 per cent. 11 per cent had...

The wide-spread distribution of trypsin inhibitors throughout the vegetable and animal kingdoms (1) makes elucidation of their physiological function of great interest. From this point of view, resistance to peptic digestion becomes an important property, since only an inhibitor resistant to pepsin is likely to produce any physiological effect when ingested by a normal animal. The soy bean inhi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of tympanostomy tube placement in controlling symptoms of intractable Ménière's disease. METHODS Fifteen patients with intractable Ménière's disease underwent tympanostomy tube placement in the affected ear. Post-operative changes in vertigo attacks and hearing level were recorded, and were evaluated according to American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head ...

In the course of 4 years we have examined a total of 1,100 women with chronic gynaecological complaints. The direct fluorescent antibody test was used successfully for the detection of gonorrhoea. In Group 1 (200 patients) we found 39-1 per cent. with gonorrhoea. In group 2 (220 patients) the percentage fell to 27-7 per cent, in Group 3 (220 patients) to 23-2 per cent., in Group 4 (220 patients...

1 Department of Radiology, Institute of Rheumatology, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Second Faculty, Warsaw Medical University, Poland 3 Early Arthritis Clinic, Institute of Rheumatology, Warsaw, Poland 4 Department of Diagnostic Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland 5 Department of Pathophysiology, Immunology, and Pathological Anatomy,...

1. Poliomyelitis virus has been recovered in monkeys from 50 per cent of spinal cords, 10 per cent of olfactory bulbs, 50 per cent of tonsil-adenoid tissue, and from 26 per cent of the colon contents of autopsies; from the stools of 20 per cent of patients, and of 5 per cent of the contacts examined in this series. 2. Other materials as indicated in Table I were tested without success. 3. In au...

Clinico-epidemiological features of pediatric patients with malaria due Plasmodium vivax that developed anemia and thrombocytopenia requiring hospitalization are herein reported. Over a 3-year period, 78 children with P. vivax infection were admitted to our Hospital in Sucre, Venezuela. Clinical manifestations at admission were 93.59 per cent fever, 41.03 per cent chills and 14.10 per cent head...

To assess prevailing guidelines for the oximetric detection of intracardiac left-to-right shunts, we examined the variability of right heart oxygen saturation step-ups in 1121 catheterisations in children with aortic and pulmonary stenosis, who were studied as part of the joint study of the natural history of congenital heart defects. It is estimated that in the absence of intracardiac shunting...