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The effect of cigar and pipe smoking on the risk of myocardial infarction was evaluated in an interview study of 572 men with non-fatal first myocardial infarctions and 934 hospital controls. The study was conducted in the north eastern United States from 1980 to 1983. All subjects were 40-54 years
Six hundred and thirty-four male patients under 60 years who survived a first attack of unstable angina or myocardial infarction were followed for a period of four years. Details of initial and follow-up smoking habits were examined. Patients who continued to smoke cigarettes or cigars had an excess
OBJECTIVE
To examine the associations between cigarette smoking, pipe/cigar smoking, and years since quitting smoking, and inflammatory and haemostatic markers.
RESULTS
A study in 2920 men aged 60-79 with no history of myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, or diabetes, and who were not on warfarin,
Flow diversion has become an established treatment option for challenging intracranial aneurysms. The use of small devices of ≤3-mm diameter remains unapproved by major regulatory bodies. A retrospective review of patients treated with Pipeline Embolization Devices of ≤3-mm diameter at 3 Canadian
Neuroimaging plays a central role in the assessment of patients with acute ischemic stroke. Within a few minutes, modern multimodal imaging protocols can provide one with comprehensive information about prognosis, management, and outcome of the disease, and may detect changes in the intracranial
When analyzing risk factors for first acute myocardial infarction in the Copenhagen City Heart Study, a large prospective population study of 20,000 men and women, smoking was found to influence risk significantly in a dose-dependent manner, the risk increasing 2% to 3% for each gram of tobacco
OBJECTIVE
There is little information regarding the pathogenesis underlying diffuse myelin loss in the cerebral white matter and sparing of the U fibers in cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), in which the medial smooth muscle cells of
OBJECTIVE
To investigate electrocardiographic (ECG) and angiographic characteristics of patients with acute solitary posterior myocardial infarction. Patients complicated by inferior wall or right ventricular infarction were excluded.
METHODS
ECG and angiographic changes in 11 patients with acute
Smoking is a strong risk factor for myocardial infarction (MI) and sudden coronary death, but not for angina pectoris that is not complicated by a MI. Even light cigarette and pipe and cigar smokers run an increased risk for MI and sudden coronary death. Smoking potentiates other risk factors such
Critchley speculated that multiple vascular lesions of the basal ganglia must have an etiological connection to the symptoms of so-called vascular parkinsonism (VP), but without neuropathological confirmation. Some had doubts about its existence because of the lack of the pathologically confirmed
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a key role in the investigation of cerebrovascular diseases. Compared with computed tomography (CT) and digital subtraction angiography (DSA), its advantages in diagnosing cerebrovascular pathology include its superior tissue contrast, its ability to visualize
Two cases are reported representing opposite ends of the spectrum of death as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning from car exhaust fumes. In one case, a women was reported to be found dead in bed early in the morning by her husband. The cause of her death, established by autopsy, was carbon
We report a 69-year-old woman who presented with dystonic movement in the left upper limb. She also had left hemiparesis and sensory disturbance in the right face and the left half of the body, pseudoathetosis in the left hand, and hotness, swelling, and lead-pipe rigidity in the left upper limb.
A prospective study has been carried out to determine the causes of death and risk factors for survival in 4994 patients referred with a diagnosis of hypertension to hospital specialist clinics and 457 patients treated by their general practitioners for this condition. At the time of entering the
A 38-year-old man hit his forehead against a steel pipe, which made his neck hyperextended. He noticed unsteady gait and dysphagia approximately 6 hours after the accident. On the next day he was admitted. He had a Horner's syndrome, and pharyngeal and palatal weakness on the right side. There were