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F J Palmer

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PubMed1979

Hypophosphatemia.

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Dietary Carbohydrates↗
PubMed1978

Angiography in the diagnosis of renal allograft dysfunction.

We reviewed retrospectively 75 renal transplant arteriograms done during a 7-year period. Acute rejection and vasomotor nephropathy were not differentiated. Generalized cortical ischemia was diagnosed correctly in 23 of 30 cases but there were 7 falsely negative results. Renal artery stenosis was found in 7 of 17 cases in which the main indication for arteriography was hypertension. We conclude that the major role of transplant arteriography is in the diagnosis of larger vessel disease.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Peripheral pooling of bronchographic contrast material: evidence of its relationship to smoking and emphysema.

Sixty-six subjects, mainly derived from various occupational groups and one-third of whom admitted to dyspnoea on exertion, have been grouped according to the appearance of their peripheral airways at bronchography with oily propyliodone. Eleven subjects showed marked peripheral pooling of radiographic contrast material, 22 showed mild or moderate pooling, and in 33 peripheral pools were absent. Pooling was not seen in non-smoking subjects. In the group of subjects without pooling, pulmonary function in non-smokers and subjects with a history of smoking was similar. Subjects with marked pooling had a significantly lower pulmonary diffusing capacity (transfer factor) and evidence of loss of pulmonary elastic recoil when compared with subjects with absent peripheral pooling. These results indicate that bronchographic peripheral pooling is associated with the physiological changes of panacinar pulmonary emphysema and suggest that a causal relationship may exist between the organic bronchiolar lesion of pooling and the peripheral parenchymal lesion of panacinar emphysema.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Metastatic melanoma simulating subdural hematoma. Case report.

Metastatic melanoma tends to be found in subcortical white matter and this localization may produce clinical or radiological features that are unusual in metastatic disease. A case is described that closely simulated a subdural hematoma both clinically and radiologically.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Arterial vasoconstrictor therapy for bleeding oesophageal varices.

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with hepatic cirrhosis carries considerable mortality. Difficulties are encountered both in determining the source of bleeding and in controlling blood loss. The techniques of selective visceral angiography not only supply diagnostic information, but can be used to administer selective intra-arterial vasoconstrictor therapy to control blood loss. We report our experience with 28 patients in whom angiography was performed with particular reference to six patients treated with selective vasoconstrictor therapy. Although the precise role of the technique is not yet established, early experience is most promising. We believe it will play an important role in a difficult group of patients in the future and may well supplant present methods of controlling bleeding.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

A remission of goitrous hypothyroidism during pregnancy.

A 21-yr-old female with a diffuse goiter, hypothyroidism, elevated thyroid autoantibodies, and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis on needle biopsy, was subsequently nongoitrous and euthyroid with normal antibody titers during pregnancy. Following deliver, the goiter reappeared, autoantibody titers rose and hypothyroidism recurred. Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis may undergo spontaneous remission during pregnancy.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

Serum diiodotyrosine.

Serum diiodotyrosine (DIT) was measured by radioimmunoassay in healthy subjects patients with thyroid disease and a variety of laboratorty animals. Ninety-two healthy adults had a mean level of 101 ng/100 ml. There was no sex difference in DIT levels but DIT fell with aging. There was no change with short term oral SSKI administration. Athyrotic subjects had measurable but reduced levels (mean = 52 ng/100 ml). Hyperthyroid subjects had levels slightly, but not significantly, higher than controls (mean = 149 ng/100 ml). Treatment of hyperthyroidism was followed by a small but significant fall in DIT levels, but there was no change in DIT levels with thyroid hormone therapy of hypothyroidism. A large species variation in serum DIT levels was found among laboratory animals with mean levels ranging from 17 ng/100 ml in mice to 428 ng/100 ml in dogs.

Adenoma↗