Fractures of the head and neck of the femur in children are rare compared with such
fractures in adults, especially when compared with those in elderly patients who have …

Background In acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the use of
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to treat the artery responsible for the infarct …

OBJECTIVE--To compare the presentation and natural course of first myocardial infarctions
in immigrant Asians and the indigenous white population in Britain and the subsequent risk …

Cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were
measured in 150 male survivors of first myocardial infarction and in 115 age and ethnic …

The efficacy of nicorandil was compared with atenolol in 37 patients with chronic stable
angina using a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel study design. After a single-blind …

Bacteremia is an almost daily occurrence in childhood. Fortunately, infections in children are
usually easily controlled and seldom produce serious sequelae. The prompt diagnosis and …

Summary Ranolazine (RS-43285) has been shown to possess significant anti-ischaemic
properties in a canine model of reversible myocardial ischaemia. The clinical efficacy of this …

Over 1.5 million people have settled in Britain from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan,
and Bangladesh) and east Africa. 1 Epidemiological studies have shown that, irrespective of …

Atypical mycobacterial infections ere uncommon, particularly in the spine. The authors
present the case of a patient with vertebral osteomyelitis secondary to Mycobacterium …

* In case 2 treatment could, because of the family history, be started before fulminant
disease developed Patients I and 2 are brothers. The parents are first-cousins, and in 1980 …