A 76-year-old woman was admitted for cardiac decompensation, hypertension, and renal failure. To explore her chronic hypertension, urinary fractionated metanephrines were quantified. Fig. 1A shows the chromatogram of the patient’s urine, and Fig. 1B shows the chromatogram of a calibration standard. A very large methoxytyramine peak was observed (Fig. 1A, black arrow). The peak signal was satura...

We will call such adjuncts instances of the X or no X construction It was suggested in the middle 1980s by Alexis Manaster-Ramer that well-formed instances of X or no X involve a string X of unbounded length preceding or no, with an exact copy following (for a brief allusion to it in print, see Manaster-Ramer 1986). This claim has received hardly any discussion at all in the subsequent literatu...

his, Mrs. Lorimer, who was ill. Dr. Stuart agreed and called on the following day. He was then told to consult with Dr. Brougham regarding the patient, and accordingly made an appointment with Dr. Brougham for tho following day, which that gentleman was unable to keep. Dr. Stuart paid his second visit, however, and on the third day, the 11th July, both he and Dr. Brougham held a consultation, s...

there is surprisingly little consistency in people’s friendliness, honesty, or any other personality trait from one situation to other, different situations. . . . [W]e often fail to realize this, and tend to assume that behavior is far more consistent and predictable than it really is. As a result, when we observe people’s behavior, we jump to conclusions about their underlying personality far...

Phenomenological psychopathologists conceptualize schizophrenia as a self-disorder involving profound distortions of selfhood. For James Gibson, "to perceive the world is to coperceive oneself." If the sense of self is disturbed in individuals with schizophrenia, this could also lead to disturbances in these individuals' ability to perceive affordances, environmental properties taken with refer...

value cannot rule out the possibility that some area in the brain may be hypoxic or ischemic. We agree that this is a major limitation of the method. However, the same triticism could be brought against the measurement of cerebral oxygenation by methods that monitor a very limited cerebrd area, such as near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) or direct cerebral oxygen measurement with intracerebra1 pr...

(1994) Prophylactic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices: Long-term results of a prospective study. Endoscopy; 26: 729-733. Controlled trials of endoscopic sclerotherapy for the prevention of the first variceal hemorrhage have given controversial results. We continued a previously reported study and randomly assigned 141 patients with esophageal varics and no prior gastrointestinal bleeding to ...