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- Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
Many of the N gonorrhoeae strains seen today are impervious to the relatively inexpensive drugs advocated for primary treatment in earlier years.
- Stereotactic biopsy of nonneoplastic lesions in adults
Stereotactic biopsy is useful in identifying non-neoplastic intracranial lesions when the diagnosis was unclear by conventional means. An accompanying commentary puts the results in perspective.
- Consent to treatment with zidovudine among HIV-infected patients
A high percentage of HIV-infected patients, both asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic, are consenting to zidovudine therapy, despite the risk for serious adverse effects associated with this agent.
- Spirometry: a key diagnostic test in pulmonary medicine
Spirometry permits diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and can be used to reinforce medical advice to modify harmful behavior, such as cigarette smoking.
- Signal-averaged electrocardiography for detection of ventricular tachycardia using fast Fourier transform filtering on a standard ECG cart
This new means of generating signal-averaged ECG data compares favorably with bidirectional Butterworth filter or finite impulse response filtering techniques in predicting the inducibility of ventricular tachycardia in the electrophysiology lab.