Showing papers by "Myron S. Cohen published in 1982"
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TL;DR: Advances in the etiology, epidemiology, and therapy of epidemic hemorrhagic fever are discussed.
Abstract: Epidemic hemorrhagic fever is a disease characterized by phases of sequential fever, hypotension, oliguria, and polyuria. This disease represented a major hazard for American soldiers during the Korean War (1950-1953) and is a persistent problem in Asia, the USSR, and northern Europe. Advances in the etiology, epidemiology, and therapy of epidemic hemorrhagic fever are discussed.
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TL;DR: Based on fieldwork in Yugoslavia and China, medicine in two societies which are attempting to construct their own unique paths to socialism is compared.
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TL;DR: The authors concluded that increases in HPX cells do reflect inflammation but that such increases correlate with the presence of toxic neutrophil and not band neutrophils.
Abstract: Automated differential leukocyte counting devices identify neutrophils on the basis of size and peroxidase staining. Since no analysis of neutrophil subpopulatibns is provided, detection of the “left shift” as reflected by increased numbers of band neutrophils is not possible. It has been suggested that samples with increased numbers of high peroxidase neutrophils (HPX) correspond to conventional.samples with increased band neutrophils. Using blood samples enriched by 700% in their band neutrophil concentration, no significant change in the number of HPX cells or mean peroxidase content was detected. Examination of Wright-stained smears with increased concentrations of HPX cells invariably revealed toxic neutrophils not seen in controls. The authors concluded that increases in HPX cells do reflect inflammation but that such increases correlate with the presence of toxic neutrophils and not band neutrophils.
7 citations
01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: Based on fieldwork in Yugoslavia and China, some of the similarities and differences in medicine under Yugoslav and Chinese socialism are summarized.
Abstract: Based on fieldwork in Yugoslavia and China. we compare medicine in two societies which are attempting to construct their own unique paths to socialism. After a brief description of each country and its sociopolitical system, we sketch the broad outlines of the health care system which has evolved. We then discuss certain constraints on achieving the socialist objectives of equality of access to health care and democratization of the patient-clinician relationship. In a concluding section, we summarize some of the similarities and differences in medicine under Yugoslav and Chinese socialism, respectively.
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TL;DR: The neutrophil clusters in the two patients with Chediak-Higashi syndrome are shifted to an area suggestive of decreased cell volume as compared with cells in the control blood specimen.
Abstract: Legend. The myeloperoxidase oscilloscope channel of an automated cytochemical analyzer (Hemalog Do; Technicon Instruments Corp., Tarrytown, N.Y.) applied to blood specimens that were (bottom) obtained from two patients with Chediak-Higashi syndrome and (top) compared with a blood specimen from a control subject. Monocytes, basophils, and large unstained cells are shown in area A; neutrophils, in area B; eosinophils, in area D; and red cell debris and platelets, in area E. Neutrophils are identified by their pattern of light scatter (which is primarily dependent on cell volume) and light absorption (which is dependent on the intensity of peroxidase staining [1]). The neutrophil clusters in the two patients with Chediak-Higashi syndrome (area B) are shifted to an area suggestive of decreased cell volume as compared with cells in the control blood specimen.