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- The changing face of the AIDS epidemic
HIV infection in women; bone marrow aspiration and biopsy in HIV infection; septic arthritis and HIV infection; current demographics of AIDS in the United States; common CNS infections in AIDS.
- A Mimic of Vasculitis
Of the many disorders that imitate vasculitis, one is particularly challenging to the diagnostician and produces significant patient morbidity and mortality.
- Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis
This condition should be suspected in patients with new azotemia who do not exhibit prerenal factors, features typical of acute tubular necrosis or a glomerular process, or evidence of obstructive uropathy.
- Demographics of long-term ventilator-dependent patients outside the intensive care unit
The ICU is the traditional setting for long-term ventilator care, but the demand for more cost-effective use of ICU beds has hospitals looking at other settings.
- Atrial natriuretic factor and catecholamine levels during exercise in patients with and without coronary artery disease
In coronary artery disease, exercise-induced myocardial ischemia does not produce further release of ANF, suggesting that the cause of ANF release is not ischemia itself, but left ventricular dysfunction leading to increases in intracardiac pressures.