Background Cardiac examination is an essential aspect of the physical examination.
Previous studies have shown poor diagnostic accuracy, but most used audio recordings, …

METHODS The subjects, healthy adults, unaccustomed to the in-temperate use of strong drink,
were volunteers. They ate their breakfast, including approximately 800 ml. of liquids, prior …

METHODS During the periods of study both patients were offered diets calculated to contain
100 grams each of protein and fat, 300 grams of carbohydrate, approximately 100 mEq. of …

During the 1940s and 1950s, cigarette smoking rivaled baseball as America's national pastime.
On motion picture screens, cigarettes were depicted as wholly desirable, smoked by the …

During a routine physical examination, a 34-year-old man, in apparent good health, had an
electrocardiogram which revealed left axis deviation. Cardiac evaluation disclosed mild …

A case of coexistent congenital midline thoracoabdominal and cardiac defects is presented.
The cardiac lesions consisted of a large ventricular septal defect and a muscular …

Electrocardiographic (ECG) rhythm analysis is inadequately taught in training programs,
resulting in undertrained physicians reading a large percentage of the 40 million ECGs …

CARDIAC injury, secondary to nonpenetrating trauma, is becoming an increasingly important
entity in this age of high speed transportation, industrial mechanization and community …

Since its original description in the English literature 15 years ago, high altitude pulmonary
edema (HAPE) has been the subject of many reports. The clinical and hemodynamic features …

… The clearances and U/P ratios of creatinine in the present study indicate that the
variations in urine flowobserved cannot be related to changes in glomerular filtration rate …