Changes in actual relationships and self-esteem are of particular importance. The therapist must be more direct, personal and interrogating than is the case with other types of patients, especially with regard to the suicidal fantasies and acts, i.e., plans and methods. The author emphasizes the importance of identifying hateful countertransference reactions in the therapist, and points out jus...

BACKGROUND The principle reason for referral to specialist allergy clinics is to establish diagnoses and provide treatment plans to help patients manage their allergy. If patients do not accept, understand, or remember diagnoses or treatment, clinic visits may have been a waste of time. Few specialist allergy clinics follow up patients after diagnosis. DESIGN AND METHODS This was a postal sur...

Rounded atelectasis is an atelectasis of a peripheral part of the lung due to pleural adhesions and fibrosis causing deformation of the lung and bending of some small bronchi. From 1970 to 1986, some 74 patients with rounded atelectasis have been seen at the Lung Department. Sixty-four of these patients had been exposed to asbestos. The lesion was secondary to a benign asbestos pleurisy in nine...

At Sheffield Regional Cardiothoracic Unit, the AVCO intra-aortic balloon pump has been used on 25 occasions in 21 months. Of the 25 patients, 12 survived and left hospital. The procedure is particularly beneficial in patients who have suffered some failure of myocardial protection during operation and to those who are suffering from acute ischaemia or the sequelae of myocardial infarction. The ...

Twenty patients underwent a pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy for benign or malignant periampullary and pancreatic disease. Eighteen patients had a partial and two patients a total pancreatectomy. There were 19 elective and 1 emergency operations. Post-operative mortality was 4% (1/20 patients) and the median follow up was 31 months (range, 15-75 months), during which period 8 patients w...

OBJECTIVES To report our experience with bronchial arteriography and bronchial artery embolization (BAE). MATERIALS AND METHODS A review of clinical experience to evaluate the demographics, clinical presentation, radiographic studies, bronchoscopy, and complications of bronchial arteriography and BAE at Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, MN, from 1981 to 2000. RESULTS Fifty-four patients under...

T cell disorders have been poorly understood until recently. Lack of knowledge of underlying molecular mechanisms together with incomplete data on long term outcome have made it difficult to assess prognosis and give the most effective treatment. Rapid progress in defining molecular defects, improved supportive care and much improved results from hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) n...

abstract: aims: depression and anxiety are the factors that increase death risk in the patients with heart disease. this study was done with the purpose of studying depression and anxiety rates in the patients with acute coronary artery disease. methods: this cross-sectional study which is descriptive was conducted on 366patients in the ccu of heart and cardiology wards of kerman university aff...

introduction: worldwide, hepatitis a is a common infection during childhood especially in developing countries. it can cause severe complications in immunocompromised patients, including kidney transplants patients and chronic liver disease. due to the increasing number of kidney transplants in the country and epidemiologic shift of hav which was observed in previous studies, we're going to rev...

background: psychiatric patients have an increased risk of some infections like toxoplasmosis. investigations on toxoplasma gondii infection among psychiatric patients have been limited in mashhad, northeast of iran. in this case-control study, prevalence of t. gondii was investigated by serological method. methods: this case-control study was performed among psychiatric patients admitted to av...