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B F Byrd

Publications and source records attributed to B F Byrd.

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PubMed1977

The impact of long term estrogen support after hysterectomy. A report of 1016 cases.

1016 Women were placed on estrogen support following hysterectomy and have been followed for a total of 14,318 patient/years. Support was principally conjugated estrogen with the customary dose 1.5 mg/day. The follow-up studies in this group of women shows a marked drop in deaths from all causes over those which might have been expected. This improvement in mortality is principally the result of diminished number of deaths from heart attack and from cancer. Those causes of death which would not be expected to be related to hormonal therapy show the anticipated number of mortalities. There is also a marked improvement in the clinical evidence of osteoporosis. In this group there is an increase in the number of breast cancers over those which might have been expected, but there is a lower mortality from breast cancer than the anticipated mortality. The general impact of long-term estrogen therapy following hysterectomy is favorable over those figures for the expected incidence of cancer and heart disease.

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PubMed1975

Breast cancer report.

The recent increased public awareness of the necessity for early diagnosis of breast cancer has been accentuated by an intense exposure by the news media centering about the disease. This publicity includes the unfortunate but timely clinical sources of the wives of the President and the Vice President of the United States, Mrs. G.F. Ford and Mrs. N.A. Rockefeller. This paper attempts to quantitate in a subjective manner the impact of the events on the American public by comparing the incidence of operative procedures in similar populations in the Nashville community during October through December, 1973, and October through December, 1974, the latter period following the operative procedures upon Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Rockefeller. A statistically significant increase was noted in patients seen, biopsies performed, and cancers detected.

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PubMed1975

One hundred consecutive operations for diverticulitis of the colon.

This report describes 100 consecutive patients treated surgically for diverticulitis of the colon. The main indications for operation were recurrent attacks (33), rapid progressive symptoms (17), bleeding (16), palpable mass (14), or combinations of the above. Eighty-four patients had primary resection (two deaths), ten had staged procedure (two deaths), and six had Hartmann procedures (one death). The mortality was highest in staged procedures as this group of patients included those with complications resulting in the greatest operative risks. No deaths occurred in the elective cases. In 25 cases, various complications developed. The most common was wound infection and sepsis. The five deaths in the series are reported in detail with an evaluation of possible alternative methods of treatment. Follow-up of the series showed only one recurrence in the two years after operation.

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