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Thomas L Perry
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Coordinated response to SARS, Vancouver, Canada.
Two Canadian urban areas received travelers with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) before the World Health Organization issued its alert. By July 2003, Vancouver had identified 5 cases (4 imported); Toronto reported 247 cases (3 imported) and 43 deaths. Baseline preparedness for pandemic threats may account for the absence of sustained transmission and fewer cases of SARS in Vancouver.
Excessive hypertension and pulmonary edema after electroconvulsive therapy.
A 53-year-old right-handed man was scheduled to receive 6 treatments of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for intractable depression. He was being treated for long-standing hypertension with nadolol and had no history of cardiopulmonary disease. Six months previously, he received 6 nondominant, unilateral ECT treatments. During each of these treatments, his blood pressure increased transiently to as high as 250/150, but he experienced no adverse consequence. He commenced the current course of ECT with well-controlled blood pressure (145/90). During his first bilateral treatment, his blood pressure rose to 280/160, and pulmonary edema ensued. Clinically evident pulmonary edema after ECT is an uncommon event that rarely has been described in the literature.
An unusual structure near the porta hepatis: what's your diagnosis?
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Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor update.
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Canada's top public health priority: preventing nuclear war.
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