TL;DR: Five patients with severe obstructive sleep apnoea were treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) applied via a comfortable nose mask through the nares, which provides a pneumatic splint for the nasopharyngeal airway and is a safe, simple treatment for the obstructiveSleep apNoea syndrome.

TL;DR: Seven children with chronic or intermittent ITP and six with acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura were treated with large intravenous doses of polyvalent, intact immunoglobulin (Ig), and the platelet count rose sharply within 5 days, but the initial response and the subsequent course varied from patient to patient.

TL;DR: The effect of metoprolol on mortality was compared with that of placebo in a double blind randomised trial in patients with definite or suspected acute myocardial infarction and there was a reduction of 36% (p less than 0.03).

TL;DR: It is concluded that in healthy middle-aged men at high risk of CHD advice to change eating habits and to stop smoking significantly reduced the incidence of the first event of myocardial infarction and sudden death.

TL;DR: The hypothesis offered is that the greater incidence of heart diseases in men and postmenopausal women compared with the incidence in premenopausalWomen is due to higher levels of stored iron in these two groups, and the heart diseases of affluence are rare among impoverished peoples who are often iron deficient.

TL;DR: Reports from developed countries world wide describing the outcome for infants of very low birthweight born since 1946 show that, in general, mortality rates and the prevalence of major handicap in survivors were high until 1960, whereas the handicap-rate has remained stable and relatively low at 6--8% of VLBW live births.

TL;DR: Clinical measurement of serum CRP is valuable as a screening test for organic disease and as a sensitive object index of disease activity and response to therapy in some inflammatory, infective, and ischaemic conditions.

TL;DR: The clinical findings in eight young homosexual men in New York with Kaposi's sarcoma showed some unusual features, which suggest that such exposure to sexually transmissible diseases may play a role in its pathogenesis.

TL;DR: It is suggested that staphylococcal enterotoxin, particularly SEF, may be a cause of the signs and symptoms of TSS.

TL;DR: It is indicated that even temporary hormone replacement therapy after the menopause will have a lasting beneficial effect on bone mass.

TL;DR: Although the data are insufficient to implicate the new mycoplasmas in human disease, the fact that they are unique, extremely fastidious, and have adherence properties, has stimulated efforts to assess their pathogenicity and possible role in human urogenital disease.

TL;DR: Ten patients with multiple sclerosis were scanned by means of cranial X-ray computed tomography with and without intravenous contrast enhancement, and by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) using an inversion-recovery sequence, and 112 further lesions were demonstrated on the NMR scans.

TL;DR: The results suggest that acute immune rejection does not occur after the transplantation of human amniotic epithelial cells.

TL;DR: From 3-4 months after graft until the present (13 months after the graft) iduronidase activity has been present in the serum and the urine and there has been evidence of considerable degradation of glycosaminoglycans excreted in the urine.

TL;DR: A multivariate analysis showed this U-shaped relationship between reported alcohol consumption and subsequent mortality to be largely independent of differences in smoking, blood pressure, plasma cholesterol, and grade of employment.

TL;DR: Five Cypriots homozygous for beta +-thalassaemia have inherited deletion or non-deletion forms of alpha-thalASSaemia that seem to have modified the usually severe clinical picture to that of mild thalassaemic intermedia.

TL;DR: Results support the hypothesis that dietary beta-carotene decreased the risk of lung cancer, and there is no evidence that dietary carotenoids affect these other risks in any way.

TL;DR: The results accord with the possibility that the parvovirus-like agent is the principal cause of aplastic crisis in SCA.

TL;DR: Data from the study supported the view that the Pill is involved in the etiology of myocardial infarction especially in women who smoke but do not suggest that the pill is a cause for subarachnoid hemorrage.

TL;DR: The patient's course demonstrated the potential of lectin-separated marrow grafts to restore durable haematopoiesis, without graft versus host disease, in a lethally irradiated allogeneic host.

TL;DR: Hip infections were less common in the four centres with hypersterile operating theatres, and the benefits of prophylactic antibiotics were restricted to patients having hip replacement operations in conventional theatres.

TL;DR: The calculated protein and calorie requirements and nutritional status of intrauterine-growth-retarded infants of poor mothers in underdeveloped countries were compared with the estimated amounts of protein and calories supplied in the mother's milk and their nutritional status both before and during lactation.

TL;DR: Results indicate that an IgG autoantibody, binding to nerve terminal determinants, may be responsible for the disorder of neuromuscular transmission in the myasthenic syndrome, and that immunosuppressive drugs may be useful in treating the nonneoplastic form of the disease.

TL;DR: The hybridisation technique appears to be a very sensitive test which could reflect viral multiplication better than HBeAg radioimmunoassay and should be useful in understanding chronic hepatitis, the selection of patients for antiviral therapy, and the estimation of its efficiency.

TL;DR: Results show that intravenous heparin therapy was of benefit in preventing myocardial infarction in patients with the intermediate coronary syndrome.