Thiazide Diuretic Agents and the Incidence of Hip Fracture
Thiazide Diuretic Agents and the Incidence of Hip Fracture
Occupational exposure to HIV: frequency and rates of underreporting of percutaneous and mucocutaneous exposures by medic...
PurposeTo study the frequency of work-related exposures to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected blood and reporting of exposures among medical housestaff.SettingsThree teaching hospitals where HIV infection is prevalent among patients.SubjectsInternal medicine interns and residents in training in 1988-1989.MethodsIn a cross-sectional survey,...
Treatable Abdominal Pathologic Conditions and Unsuspected Malignant Neoplasms at Autopsy in Veterans Who Received Mechan...
Study objectiveTo determine, in medical patients who received mechanical ventilation, the frequency and types of major unexpected diagnoses at autopsy that, if known before death, would probably have led to improved survival (class I errors) or substantively changed management but not survival (class IIB errors).DesignRetrospective cohort study.Set...
Thoracoscopic carbon dioxide laser treatment of bullous emphysema
A new technique of thoracoscopic laser ablation of pulmonary bullae suitable for patients with multiple bullae and diffuse emphysema was developed and assessed in 22 patients. 20 of 22 patients survived. Pre-operative and postoperative functional evaluation is available for the 11 patients followed up for more than a month; at 1 to 3 months postope...
Preoperative Transcatheter Closure of Congenital Muscular Ventricular Septal Defects
BackgroundSurgical repair of muscular ventricular septal defects, particularly those associated with complex heart lesions carries a higher risk of reoperation and death than the repair of membranous defects. Closing a muscular defect through an incision in the systemic ventricle may cause late ventricular dysfunction. In a collaborative approach t...
Smoking and Mortality among Older Men and Women in Three Communities
Smoking and Mortality among Older Men and Women in Three Communities
Smoking and Mortality among Older Men and Women in Three Communities
Smoking and Mortality among Older Men and Women in Three Communities
