ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132792.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132793.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132794.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132795.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132796.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A surveillance system, capable of linking experience in specific jobs with certain health outcomes, has been established within the Australian petroleum industry. A defined population of 11 596 employees has been assembled, after personal interviews. Events recorded are death and its cause, and diagnosis of cancer. Members of the study population are followed up after leaving the industry. By the end of 1983, 33 deaths had occurred, fewer than would be expected from the prevailing rates in the general Australian population. With progressive accumulation of follow‐up data, questions of greater complexity will be addressed.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132797.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

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摘要:

Much investigation and treatment in cardiac practice is based on the assumption that unexpected death is common in cardiac patients. The validity of this assumption was examined in 636 of 669 (95.1%) consecutive ambulant patients. During the period from 1978 to 1981, inclusive, 16 (3.9%) of the 407 men (median age, 52 years) and six (2.6%) of the 229 women (median age, 54 years) died. Nineteen of these 22 patients died of cardiac causes; most of these were elderly (average age, 68.5 years), had advanced cardiac disease for many years before their death, and complained of breathlessness at the initial interview. None of these deaths was unexpected. It is concluded that unexpected death is relatively uncommon, even in cardiology practice. The intensive diagnostic and therapeutic regimens directed at younger patients with cardiomyopathy and coronary disease who do not complain of breathlessness are unlikely to have an appreciable impact on mortality.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132798.x

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年代:1984

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摘要:

Adenoviruses were isolated from the urethral swabs of 129 male patients in an STD clinic. After exclusion of patients withChlamydia trachomatisorNeisseria gonorrhoeainfections, 85 of the remaining 120 patients had urethritis, compared with 28 men with urethritis detected in a control group which was closely matched for age, sex, and date of specimen collection. This statistically significant difference suggests that genital adenovirus infection may be a cause of urethritis in some male patients.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132799.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

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摘要:

The Royal Free Hospital in London has experienced the spread of a phage 85 methicillin‐resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA). An analysis of a sample has demonstrated that the plasmids carried by these strains, and the type and location of their drug‐resistance determinants, are similar to those of MRSA strains which have been causing problems in some Australian hospitals.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132800.x

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年代:1984

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Although fracture of the femoral component is a well‐known complication of total hip replacement, especially with the earlier types of prosthesis, it is seldom recognized in its initial stages. A series of 22 fractures of the femoral component of the prosthesis in 19 patients is presented for the benefit of the general practitioner and the radiologist, who, it is stressed, should both be aware of this complication and able to recognize the signs of a possible fracture, so that early treatment may be given to avoid excessive bone loss in the upper femur. The clinical features are described and discussed.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132801.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1984

数据来源: WILEY