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R A Fink

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PubMed2000

Child abuse in an infant presenting as unexplained acute systemic hypertension.

Hypertension in the infant is uncommon and is usually associated with renal vascular or parenchymal disease, coarctation or thrombosis of the aorta, or chronic lung disease. A 3-month-old infant who presented with unexplained acute systemic hypertension was subsequently discovered to have an undiagnosed femoral fracture secondary to child abuse. Undiagnosed fractures, which are often associated with child abuse, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an infant presenting with unexplained systemic hypertension.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1984

Neurosurgical treatment of nonmalignant intractable rectal pain: microsurgical commissural myelotomy with the carbon dioxide laser.

Spinal cord neuroablative procedures for intractable midline pain have been limited in application because of frequent side effects and disabilities caused by manipulation of adjacent normal structures during the operation. The carbon dioxide laser, with its ability to execute microneurosurgical procedures without such manipulation, presents an opportunity to minimize adverse effects while still interrupting the desired pain-conducting fibers. Commissural myelotomy with the carbon dioxide laser in a patient suffering from pain due to nonmalignant disease and with a preoperatively intact spinal cord is described.

Aged↗
PubMed1976

The effect of folic acid on gingival health.

On days 0 and 30 of a double blind study, two groups of 15 subjects each were evaluated using a plaque index, a gingival index, a gingival exudate flow and fasting plasma folic acid levels. Group I received 2 mg of folic acid twice daily for 30 days while Group II received a placebo. Results of the study seem to indicate that folic acid supplemented to the diet may increase the resistance of the gingiva to local irritants and thus lead to a reduction in inflammation.

Adult↗