No abstract available.
Hormone Replacement Therapy*

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Thyroid Diseases* ; Thyroid Gland*

No abstract available.
Hormone Replacement Therapy* ; Women's Health*

No abstract available.
Hormone Replacement Therapy* ; Women's Health*

No abstract available.
Qualitative Research

BACKGROUND: Eosinophilia is associated with distinctive disease processes that include helminthic parasitic infections, allergic diseases and a diversity of diseases of ill defined etiology. But the rate of persistent eosinophilia is not known in incidental eosinophilia without definite diseases such as parasite or allergic diseases. METHODS: This study included 242 middle aged man who found eosinophilia incidentally in health check up at a general hospital and followed up after 2 years. The man who didn't know eosinophilia and never treated nor worked up for eosinophilia included. We study the persistent rate of eosinophilia after a follow up of 2 years. RESULTS: In 78% of incidental eosinophilia, the number of eosinophils was less than 1000/mm3. The rate of persistent eosinophilia which incidentally founded after a follow up of 2 years is 29.8%. Higher numbers of eosinophilia, higher rate of persistent eosinophilia. Eosinophil number less than 1000/mm3 showed 23.8% persistent eosinophilia, 1000 1499/mm3 46.3%, 1500 1999/mm3 57.1%, more than 2000/mm3 80% persistent eosinophilia respectively. (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Incidental eosinophilia less than 1000/mm3 usually normalized without intervention, so simple observation is recommended.
Eosinophilia* ; Eosinophils ; Epidemiology ; Follow-Up Studies* ; Helminths ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Middle Aged* ; Parasites

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Prevalence* ; Thyroid Function Tests* ; Thyroid Gland*

Intracompartmental pressure of leg was measured by the slit catheter technique in one hundred fifty compartments of one hundred cases; fifty were from healthy young male adults, the others were from tibial fractured patients during three years from March 1983 to Fobruary 1986. The results were as follows; 1. Slit-catheter technique was found as a accurate method for continuous pressure monitoring. 2. The range of normal pressure was from zero to six millimeters of mercury(1.45mmHg±0.85). 3. Tissue pressure was 0–15mmHg(4.03mmHg±1.83) in unaffected side of fractured patients, 4–35mmHg(14.65mmHg±2.05) in affected side of fractured patients.
Adult ; Catheters ; Clinical Study ; Humans ; Leg ; Male ; Methods

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Snake Bites* ; Snakes*

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Vaccination*