Biomedical subjects
P R Tasker
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Diabetes care: whose responsibility?
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Junior doctors' contract.
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Comparative double-blind study of cephalexin and co-trimoxazole in urinary tract infections.
Treatment with cephalexin 1 g twiec daily and cotrimoxazole 2 tablets twice daily was compared in a double-blind, randomised study of 100 women with urinary tract infections. CO-trimoxazole gave a significantly higher cure rate compared with cephalexin two and six weeks after the one-week course of treatment. The higher failure rate with cephalexin was not related to the age of the patient, presentation, pyelographic appearances, or type of organism in the initial infection. Among the failures all but one of the organisms were sensitive to cephalexin. With the dosage regimen and duration of treatment used in this study cotrimoxazole appears to be superior to cephalexin in the management of acute urinary infections.
Non-ketotic diabetic precoma associated with high-dose frusemide therapy.
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Letter: The junior doctors' contract.
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Use of co-trimoxazole in chronic renal failure.
Twenty patients with chronic renal failure and either urinary or respiratory tract infection were treated with co-trimoxazole. Seventeen patients showed no deterioration in renal function while receiving co-trimoxazole. Deterioration in renal function during treatment in the other three patients was due to factors other than administration of the drug. It is concluded that co-trimoxazole can be used in patients with chronic renal failure provided the dose is adjusted according to the degree of renal failure.
Diuretic-induced oedema.
Diuretics are now commonly prescribed for women with so-called idiopathic oedema. Two patients with idiopathic oedema, one of whom was oedematous on diuretics, had the diuretics stopped. In one the oedema became much worse, and in the other oedema developed. However, this oedema disappeared spontaneously in both patients and they have remained free of oedema on no treatment. It is suggested that in some patients treated with diuretics compensatory mechanisms to retain sodium and water may be stronger than the diuretic-effect itself and may lead to perpetuation of unnecessary treatment.
Reticulosarcoma occurring during long-term hemodialysis.
Reticulosarcoma occuring during long-term hemodialysis. A case of chronic renal failure due to polycystic disease of the kidneys with development of a reticulosarcoma with cerebral involvement during maintenance hemodialysis is described. Immunosuppression from uremia could have played an important part in tumor induction in this case and might also be a significant factor in the high incidence of de-novo malignancies in renal transplant recipients.
Prophylactic use of intravenous saline in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing major surgery.
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Rapid dehydration as a measure of the ability of the kidney to concentrate the urine: comparison with the pitressin-dehydration test.
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