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C Weiner

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PubMed1976

Sonography of the Page kidney.

We used sonography to investigate 3 patients with hypertension owing to a Page kidney phenomenon. In 2 cases a perinephric cystic collection was compressing the kidney, while in 1 case there was a large perinephric organized hematoma. When a Page kidney is suspected in a hypertensive patient sonography is a reasonable next step in the evaluation, after the excretory urogram, and may obviate the need for angiography.

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PubMed1975

[Syncopal attacks and sudden death due to ventricular fibrillation -- a variant of the Jervell or Lange-Nielsen syndrome (author's transl)].

Syncopal attacks due to ventricular fibrillation or -- flutter with elongation of QT in the ECG and deafness are signs of a congenital condition described by Jervell and Lange-Nielsen 18 years ago. Since then we have learned that the range of variation of symptoms is very wide. There are differences genetically and in age-groups. A boy aged 15 years with supposedly cerebral fits is reported on. Since the right diagnosis was missed he had been treated with anticonvulsants for years. But these were syncopal attacks, Effort produced a tendency to bigeminus. -- A knee-bending exercise repeated 13 times lead to his death from ventricular fibrillation. Post-mortem examination showed no pathologic findings except mild left hypertrophy of the ventricle. His sister also had similar attacks without spasms after excitement or mild physical effort. She too had no extension of the QT interval. Their mother and grandmother also had syncopal attacks and died at the ages of 31 and 24 years. A girl-cousin died suddenly at the age of 15. In addition we have seen a neonate with a mild cardiac murmur on whom an ECG was done on the 16th day. The QT interval was significantly prolonged. There were numerous extrasystoles. He died suddenly 2 days later. Post mortem showed no cardiac pathology. One should now be able to explain some cases of unexpected natural death. But ignorance of the pathogenesis does not yet permit definition of the clinical pictures.

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Women's health centers and minority women: addressing barriers to care. The National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health.

New models of care delivery have been developed to better coordinate and integrate healthcare for women. In the United States, one of the challenges is to incorporate the needs of racial and ethnic minority populations into these newer care paradigms. This paper begins with a brief historical review of the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in the American healthcare system to provide a context for discussing barriers and limitations of more traditional models of women's healthcare. Specific approaches used by National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health are presented as examples of strategies that may be implemented by other communities to address these barriers.

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