OBJECTIVES To estimate the effects of smoking, gender and occupational exposure on the risk of developing severe pulmonary fibrosis (PF), including dose-response and interaction effects. METHODS National case-control study of 171 patients (cases) who had started a long-term oxygen therapy for PF in Sweden between February 1997 and April 2000, and 719 random control participants from the gener...

Tasmania's marine finfish aquaculture industry has developed from humble be~~lnrl1nl:!S state. Marine aquaculture is diving intensive, and divers have made a C'1n-,n1r1r"l ..-.tindustry were hampered by significant levels of diver morbidity due to improvements in which have been achieved by broad-based changes to ofdivers treated annually for decompression illness has fallen from 5.5 per 2100 d...

There are no adequate data that evaluate the safety and effectiveness of lowering triglyceride levels in infants. The authors report a neonate affected by familial hyperchylomicronemia, While being investigated for sepsis the serum sample obtained for blood counts was discovered to be lipaemic and the case was subsequently investigated for dyslipidemia. Based on this very abnormal lipid profile...

Background Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) defines a heterogenenous group of interrelated lesions that arise from the trophoblastic epithelium of the placenta. There are several histologically distinct types of GTD: hydatiform mole (complete or partial), persistant/invasive gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN), choriocarcinoma and placenta site trophoblastic tumors. The aim of this...

we treated ten men and ten women suffering from hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with lhrh. our method of treatment differed 'from others in that a mini pump was not available at the onset of the study. nine women were given injections via a heparinized indwelling catheter every 120 minutes for 14 days, i,e. the proliferative phase. after ovulation, 3000 iu human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg) ...