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In order to position the hand during functional tasks, control of the shoulder is required. Heteronymous reflexes from the upper limb to shoulder muscles are used to assist in this control. To investigate this further, the radial and ulnar nerves were stimulated at elbow level whilst surface electromyographic activity of posterior deltoid, infraspinatus and latissimus dorsi muscles were recorded. In addition, the cutaneous branch of the radial nerve and the skin of the fifth digit were stimulated in order to investigate any cutaneous contribution to reflex activity. Reflexes were evoked in all three of these shoulder muscles from hand and/or forearm afferents. However, the reflexes differed; whereas both excitatory and inhibitory reflexes were evoked in posterior deltoid and infraspinatus, the reflexes in latissimus dorsi were mainly excitatory. Cutaneomuscular reflexes were seldom evoked here, but when they were present they were generally evoked at longer latencies than the reflexes evoked by mixed nerve stimulation. The results suggest a role for reflexes originating from the forearm and/or hand in the control of the shoulder.
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Brazo/fisiología , Contracción Muscular/fisiología , Músculo Esquelético/inervación , Músculo Esquelético/fisiología , Reflejo/fisiología , Hombro/fisiología , Electromiografía , Retroalimentación Fisiológica/fisiología , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Valores de Referencia , Adulto JovenAsunto(s)
Hepatopatías/veterinaria , Hígado/anomalías , Anomalía Torsional/veterinaria , Animales , Femenino , Hepatopatías/mortalidad , Hepatopatías/patología , Hepatopatías/cirugía , Masculino , Conejos , Factores de Tiempo , Anomalía Torsional/mortalidad , Anomalía Torsional/cirugía , Resultado del TratamientoRESUMEN
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this project was to understand better the academic radiologist's clinical workload in order to determine faculty staffing requirements more accurately. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Surveys performed by the Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD) collected data for radiologists in 20 departments in 1996 and 1998; the data included work relative value units (RVUs) per full-time equivalent (FTE). Radiologists in each subspecialty were compared with their counterparts in other departments. The data were collected for each radiologist. Summary statistics showing averages, medians, and quartiles were used to describe workload (in RVUs per FTE) for each department and each subspecialty. RESULTS: Overall, the average clinical workload was 4,458 RVU/FTE, with 0.62 RVU per procedure. In those sections for which the faculty performed similar types of procedures across departments, the results were useful. The workload data, however, proved inadequate to compare across subspecialty sections. Between 1996 and 1998, the workload increased from 3,790 to 4,458 RVU/FTE. CONCLUSION: The SCARD survey provided very useful clinical workload data, measured in work RVUs per FTE for specific subspecialty sections. At practically all surveyed institutions, increasing clinical workload is competing with academic activities.
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Centros Médicos Académicos/organización & administración , Eficiencia Organizacional/estadística & datos numéricos , Medicina/organización & administración , Especialización , Carga de Trabajo/estadística & datos numéricos , Recolección de Datos , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To improve understanding of academic radiologists' clinical workloads, the Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD) performed surveys to collect workload data for radiologists in 20 departments; workload was measured in relative value units (RVUs) per full-time equivalent (FTE). Although they were useful for comparisons within some subspecialties, the workload data proved inadequate for comparisons across sections, and adjustment factors were needed for each Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) code. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All CPT codes for examinations were divided into groups with similar radiologist work effort. Focusing on radiologists who worked almost exclusively in each group, the authors created adjustment factors by using data from the individual radiologists at each institution. RESULTS: The adjustment factors are 0.50 for angiography, 0.58 for computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, and 1.0 for nuclear medicine, plain radiography, and special procedures (no adjustment needed for these groups). These factors are multiplied by the work RVUs for each examination to create the adjusted workload RVUs. CONCLUSION: The SCARD survey provided very useful clinical workload data, with workload measured in work RVUs per FTE for specific subspecialty sections. The new adjusted workload RVUs allow comparison of radiologists' workload across subspecialties.
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Centros Médicos Académicos/organización & administración , Eficiencia Organizacional/estadística & datos numéricos , Radiología , Escalas de Valor Relativo , Carga de Trabajo , Medicina , Servicio de Radiología en Hospital/organización & administración , Especialización , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Infant cats were inoculated intracranially with rabies or feline leukemia viruses in an experimental study of wasting syndrome. The daily pre- and postinoculation body weights were recorded until kittens were moribund. Affected animals in both groups manifested growth failure or wasting syndrome. Immunodepression, manifested by a conspicuous depletion of thymic cortex, the thymus dependent areas of the spleen, and growth hormone producing-alpha adenopituicytes was significantly (p less than 0.01) related to the wasting status of the animals. The ability of pituitary glands from these animals to produce growth hormone was studied by in situ immunoperoxidase staining and showed a significant (p less than 0.01) difference between healthy and wasted animals. Rabies and feline leukemia viruses were each found responsible for the low immunoreactivity of growth hormone producing alpha adenopituicytes. Because the hypothalamus and the hypophysis were both found infected, it was concluded that regardless of the triggering agent in primary wasting, the hypothalamic-hypophyseal-thymic axis was always involved through a decrease in growth hormone production.
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Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Emaciación/fisiopatología , Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida del Felino/fisiopatología , Virus de la Leucemia Felina/fisiología , Virus de la Rabia/fisiología , Rabia/fisiopatología , Análisis de Varianza , Animales , Gatos , Emaciación/etiología , Hormona del Crecimiento/metabolismo , Sistema Hipotálamo-Hipofisario/fisiopatología , Tolerancia Inmunológica , Análisis de Regresión , Síndrome , Timo/fisiopatologíaRESUMEN
The prevalence, etiology, and management of pain in pediatric cancer patients seen at the Mayo Clinic and member institutions of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group were assessed. Participating centers, including both primary care and referral institutions, surveyed all patients seen during a 1-week period (Monday through Friday); procedure-related pain was excluded. Of the 160 children surveyed, 28 reported pain of which 57.8% was related to a side effect of anticancer treatment, 21.1% was unrelated to the malignancy, and 21.1% arose directly from the cancer. Pain intensity assessment was performed by both health-care professional and patient using a variety of measurement tools. Correlation between assessors was close except in young children. The predominance of treatment-related rather than cancer-related pain differs from results in series in adult cancer patients.
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Neoplasias/fisiopatología , Dolor Intratable/epidemiología , Adolescente , Adulto , Antineoplásicos/efectos adversos , Niño , Preescolar , Femenino , Humanos , Lactante , Masculino , Neoplasias/tratamiento farmacológico , Dimensión del Dolor , Dolor Intratable/etiología , Dolor Intratable/psicologíaRESUMEN
We analyzed the clinical and laboratory features of eight children (median age, 20 months; range, 13 months to 11 years) with acute megakaryocytic leukemia (M7) and compared the findings with those reported in the literature. The diagnosis was supported by ultrastructural examination for platelet peroxidase or immunophenotyping for glycoprotein IIb/IIIa or the von Willebrand factor protein. Two patients had Down's syndrome. Initial findings included anemia (in all patients), thrombocytopenia (in six), myelofibrosis (in three), lytic bone lesions (in two), and pronounced leukocytosis (in one). Stem cell culture studies of peripheral blood specimens revealed an aberrant phenotype of the megakaryocytes in one patient and reversal to a normal pattern after successful therapy. Remission was achieved in seven of the eight patients after aggressive chemotherapy, and four patients remained in remission 27 to 57 months after diagnosis. Three of these four patients underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. M7 leukemia is not infrequent in children younger than 3 years of age, especially in those with Down's syndrome. The availability of monoclonal antibodies specific to restricted antigens of the megakaryocytic lineage has made the diagnosis of M7 leukemia both possible and practical.
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Trombocitemia Esencial , Anemia/complicaciones , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/administración & dosificación , Examen de la Médula Ósea/métodos , Trasplante de Médula Ósea , Niño , Preescolar , Terapia Combinada , Síndrome de Down/complicaciones , Femenino , Humanos , Lactante , Cariotipificación , Masculino , Fenotipo , Inducción de Remisión , Trombocitemia Esencial/complicaciones , Trombocitemia Esencial/mortalidad , Trombocitemia Esencial/fisiopatología , Trombocitemia Esencial/terapia , Trombocitopenia/complicacionesRESUMEN
Two neonates, one with extrahepatic biliary atresia and one with cystic fibrosis, and a 9-year-old child with atresia of the common bile duct had conjugated hyperbilirubinemia and elevated rubella HAI titers when kaolin pretreatment of serum was used. A beta-lipoprotein fraction of the serum that is frequently found in association with biliary obstruction was shown to be the probable source of the rubella HAI inhibitor. This beta-lipoprotein was not removed by standard kaolin treatment of serum, but was removed almost completely by dextran sulfate--calcium chloride treatment. In the presence of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, routine kaolin pretreatment of serum is an inadequate measure for the removal of interfering substances, as false-positive rubella HAI results are obtained consistently.
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Hiperbilirrubinemia/inmunología , Rubéola (Sarampión Alemán)/inmunología , Anticuerpos Antivirales/análisis , Electroforesis de las Proteínas Sanguíneas , Niño , Reacciones Falso Positivas , Femenino , Pruebas de Inhibición de Hemaglutinación , Humanos , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Caolín , Lipoproteínas/sangreRESUMEN
An exponential population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells was fractionated by centrifugal elutriation, using water as the elutriating liquid. Evidence that the population had been fractionated according to age in the cell cycle was obtained by examining the fractions for their size distribution, their microscopic appearance after Giemsa staining, and their ability to initiate synchronous growth.
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Separación Celular/métodos , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/citología , División Celular , Centrifugación , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/crecimiento & desarrolloRESUMEN
Mice exposed to selenium-supplemented or -deficient rations were inoculated with an oncogenic virus, Rauscher leukemia virus (RLV), Splenic lesions were not altered by dietary selenium supplementation or depletion. It is concluded that selenium does not affect neoplasia induced by RLV in mice.
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Neoplasias Experimentales/etiología , Virus Rauscher , Selenio/farmacología , Infecciones Tumorales por Virus/etiología , Animales , Peso Corporal/efectos de los fármacos , Dieta , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C , Neoplasias Experimentales/patología , Tamaño de los Órganos/efectos de los fármacos , Selenio/deficiencia , Factores de Tiempo , Infecciones Tumorales por Virus/patologíaAsunto(s)
Anticuerpos Antineoplásicos/análisis , Formación de Anticuerpos , Virus de la Leucemia Murina de Friend , Leucemia Experimental/inmunología , Activación de Linfocitos , Animales , Linfocitos B/inmunología , Transformación Celular Neoplásica , Femenino , Hepatomegalia/etiología , Leucemia Experimental/microbiología , Recuento de Leucocitos , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C , Tamaño de los Órganos , Esplenomegalia/etiologíaAsunto(s)
Proteínas Hemolisinas/aislamiento & purificación , Inmunoglobulina M/aislamiento & purificación , Focalización Isoeléctrica , Aminocaproatos , Animales , Antígenos , Cromatografía en Gel , Dextranos , Ácido Edético , Eritrocitos/inmunología , Pruebas de Hemaglutinación , Inmunoelectroforesis , Conejos , Ovinos/inmunologíaRESUMEN
BALB/c mice with Friend virus leukemia showed (i) a decreased carbon uptake by spleen and liver, observed histologically and measured by the corrected phagocytic index alpha, in spite of an increased total carbon clearance measured by the phagocytic index K, and (ii) a decreased serum hemolysin titer. Treatment with 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) increased the carbon uptake by spleen and liver and the serum hemolysin titer. This corresponds to the previously described effect of DMBA on Friend virus leukemia as expressed in the blood picture and the delay in the neoplastic transformation of the spleen causing a prolonged latent period and survival time and a decreased spleen weight. DMBA alone had no effect on carbon clearance and serum hemolysin titer in normal mice.