The article is an overview of non-additivity of varous outputs of multiple use systems as a problem usually met by planners in evaluating alternative land use options. The study considered seven(two ...single use and five multiple use) production systems in a study of alternative uses for a track of crop land, owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, for conversion to forestry.
To examine the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in cardiopathic patients with hyperthyroidism.
The data concerning the patients had been derived from registers of the Laboratory of ...Radioimmunoassay where cardiopathic patients' blood samples were referred from the Cardiology Unit to evaluate thyroid function, consecutively from January 1992 to December 1997. Of the 443 patients, 303 (68.4%) were classified as being euthyroid, 23 (5.2%) hypothyroid, 117 (26.4%) hyperthyroid. Thyroid function was diagnosed clinically and confirmed by serum TSH and free thyroid hormone (FT3, FT4), levels.
Among hyperthyroid patients, the more frequent arrhythmia was AF (54.7%). After excluding from the study those hyperthyroid patients with rheumatic disease, hypertension, myocardial infarction, 37 hyperthyroid patients were selected; 18 (48.6%), (mean age 63.4 +/- 10.8 yrs), showed sinus rhythm and 19 (51.4%), (mean age 66.0 +/- 12.1 yrs), showed AF. FT3 and FT4 were higher in patients with AF than in those without AF, whereas TSH was not significantly different between the groups. Left ventricular (LV) mass index was significantly increased in hyperthyroid women with AF compared with hyperthyroid women without AF (109.80 +/- 22.33 g/m2 vs 84.50 +/- 6.20 g/m2; p < 0.005). A significant correlation was found between FT3 levels and LV mass index in the hyperthyroid women with and without AF (r = 0.77; p < 0.001).
In this study the prevalence of AF is 51.4% in hyperthyroid patients. FT3 is higher in patients with AF than in those without AF. Finally, the correlation between FT3 and LV mass index suggests that cardiac hypertrophy is associated with thyroid hyperfunction.
Photopenic metastatic lesions on bone scintigraphy have been previously reported. However, this finding is not emphasized for B-cell immunoblastic sarcoma. We report a case of B-cell immunoblastic ...sarcoma, which presented as an aggressive pancoast tumor with extensive rib destruction. Bone scintigraphy findings demonstrated a photopenic lesion with high gallium avidity. Correlative chest radiograph and CT scan are described.
The efficacy and safety of a new synthetic immunostimulant pidotimod ((R)-3-(S)-(5-oxo-2-pyrrolidinyl) carbonyl-thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid, PGT/1A, CAS 121808-62-6) in recurrent infections of the ...primary airways were assessed in a group of 416 children with a history of recurrent respiratory infections (RRI). This was a double-blind randomized trial of pidotimod vs. placebo, consisting of a treatment period of 60 days and a follow-up period of 3 months. A reduction in the duration and frequency of infectious episodes in the group of children treated with pidotimod (one 400 mg oral bottle daily) was observed which was statistically different from the placebo group. The protective effect produced by pidotimod was also confirmed by a series of recordings made over the five-month observation period, which showed a significant reduction in the number of days of fever, the severity of the signs and symptoms of acute episodes, use of antibiotics and antipyretic drugs and absence from school or nursery school. Safety was excellent.
BOOK REVIEWS Rickard, Henry C.; Harris, Sandra L.; Powers, Michael D. ...
Child & Family Behavior Therapy,
19/3/7/, Letnik:
4, Številka:
2-3
Book Review
BOOK REVIEWS Rickard, Henry C.; Harris, Sandra L.; Powers, Michael D. ...
Child & Family Behavior Therapy,
03/1983, Letnik:
4, Številka:
2-3
Book Review
