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Raben N, Sherman J, Miller F, Mena H, Plotz P. A 5' splice junction mutation leading to exon deletion in an Ashkenazic Jewish family with phosphofructokinase deficiency (Tarui disease). J Biol Chem 1993; 268:4963-7. [PMID: 8444874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A deficiency of the muscle isoform of the enzyme, phosphofructokinase (PFK, EC 2.7.1.11), leads to an illness (glycogenosis, Type VII) characterized by myopathy and hemolysis. A patient with this disease and an affected sister were found to have a G to A substitution at the 5' donor site of intron 5 of the PFK-M gene. This mutation led to a splicing defect: a complete deletion of the preceding exon in the patient's mRNA. The patient, an affected sister, and related and unrelated family members, who were of Ashkenazic Jewish background, were screened for the mutation by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and by allele specific hybridization of genomic DNA. The affected sisters are homozygous for the mutation, and their children, who are unaffected, are heterozygous. The only previously characterized genetic defect in this disease, found in a Japanese patient, was a G to T mutation at the beginning of intron 15 with splicing to a cryptic site within exon 15 (1). Both mutations lead to inframe deletions, but of different parts of the protein. The differences between the two aberrant proteins may account for clinical differences between our patients and the Japanese patient.
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Theise ND, Miller F, Worman HJ, Morris P, Schwartz M, Miller C, Thung SN. Biliary cystadenocarcinoma arising in a liver with fibropolycystic disease. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1993; 117:163-5. [PMID: 8427564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma associated with fibropolycystic disease of the liver and biliary cystadenocarcinoma are rare tumors that are considered distinct entities. We present a case of a malignant tumor with features of hepatic cystadenocarcinoma arising in a background of fibropolycystic disease.
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Spastic subluxation of 64 hips in 45 patients with cerebral palsy (CP) was reviewed in a 19-year follow-up. Varus osteotomy prevented dislocation in all patients. All nine hips that later dislocated were in quadriplegic patients who had not received treatment or who had had muscle releases. Dislocated hips had the most degenerative arthritis, pain, and the least movement. Subluxated hips also had more degenerative arthritis but approximately the same level of pain as reduced hips.
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Datta M, Samdani PG, Udani PM, Bermejo A, Costello A, Crofton J, Cundall D, Cutting W, Hone N, Miller F. Tuberculosis in children in India--II. THE NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA 1992; 5:281-5. [PMID: 1490160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Beauchesne R, Miller F, Moseley C. Proximal femoral osteotomy using the AO fixed-angle blade plate. J Pediatr Orthop 1992; 12:735-40. [PMID: 1452742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We describe the technique and results of proximal femoral osteotomy performed with the AO fixed-angle blade plate in 157 hips of 101 pediatric patients. Postoperative immobilization or restriction of activity was not prescribed. Fourteen complications occurred in 11 patients. Use of preoperative antibiotics decreased the rate of infection from 12% to 0%, which was significant. All osteotomies healed by 16 weeks postoperatively with no nonunions, malunions, device failures, or avascular necrosis. Using no postoperative immobilization in these children was successful and resulted in few complications when the appropriate-sized blade plate was used.
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Armson BA, Samuels P, Miller F, Verbalis J, Main EK. Evaluation of maternal fluid dynamics during tocolytic therapy with ritodrine hydrochloride and magnesium sulfate. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992; 167:758-65. [PMID: 1530035 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9378(11)91585-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to observe and compare the effects of ritodrine hydrochloride and magnesium sulfate on maternal fluid dynamics. STUDY DESIGN Fourteen women in preterm labor were prospectively studied during tocolytic therapy with either ritodrine hydrochloride or magnesium sulfate. The cardiovascular and renal effects of a pretreatment crystalloid infusion were compared with those observed during tocolytic therapy. Profile analysis and repeated measures of variance were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Ritodrine hydrochloride was associated with decreased colloid osmotic pressure, hematocrit, and serum proteins and increased maternal and fetal heart rates. Arginine vasopressin levels increased during the first 2 hours of therapy, then returned to baseline. Sodium excretion was reduced and there was marked fluid retention. Intravenous magnesium sulfate also resulted in a reduction of colloid osmotic pressure, but hematocrit, serum protein concentration, arginine vasopressin, maternal and fetal heart rates, and mean arterial pressure were minimally affected. Sodium excretion increased to a maximum at 6 to 8 hours of treatment, then returned to baseline. A positive fluid balance was also noted in magnesium sulfate-treated patients but to a lesser degree than with ritodrine. CONCLUSIONS Sodium retention appears to be the primary cause of plasma volume expansion in ritodrine-treated patients, whereas volume expansion during magnesium sulfate therapy is probably related to intravenous overhydration. In the absence of risk factors for pulmonary capillary membrane injury, available evidence supports volume overload as the principal mechanism for pulmonary edema during tocolytic therapy.
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Sixty-eight patients from a clinical population of 183 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy underwent posterior spinal fusion with instrumentation for progressive spinal deformity. Pulmonary complications were the most common postoperative problem, occurring in 17 per cent of the patients. A 35 per cent normal forced vital capacity was a reliable indicator of pulmonary complication risk. The patients with surgically stabilized spines were more comfortable in the later years of life and easier to care for, but deteriorating pulmonary function was not affected by the spinal fusion. The average age at death for the 29 boys who underwent spinal fusion was 18.3 years, which was similar to that of the 58 boys with scoliosis. Factors that improved the patients' quality of life included segmental instrumentation, fusion from T2 to the pelvis, correcting or balancing scoliosis, creating normal sagittal plane alignment and correcting pelvic obliquity.
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Datta M, Samdani PG, Udani PM, Bermejo A, Costello A, Crofton J, Cundall D, Cutting W, Hone N, Miller F. Tuberculosis in children in India--I. THE NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA 1992; 5:226-34. [PMID: 1302585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Shi H, Miller F, Miller K, Kim MH. The effect of platelet activating factor on different phases of murine in vitro fertilization. J Assist Reprod Genet 1992; 9:373-7. [PMID: 1472817 DOI: 10.1007/bf01203962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Our purpose was to examine the effect of platelet activating factor (PAF) in different phases of mouse in vitro fertilization and optimal parameters that would enhance the fertilization rate. DESIGN AND SETTINGS Various PAF concentrations (10(-7) to 10(-5) M) were selected to investigate its effect on three phases of mouse in vitro fertilization (i.e., sperm capacitation, sperm/oocyte coincubation, and preimplantation embryo growth) in three experimental groups: (I) with PAF treatment in the first phase, (II) with PAF treatment adopted in the first and second phases, and (III) with PAF treatment implemented in all three phases. RESULTS The improvement of the fertilization rate in PAF treatment groups over the control group ranges from 6.5 to 19.0% (P < 0.05-P < 0.001). The highest enhancement of fertilization rate was achieved under the condition of PAF treatment (10(-6) M) through sperm capacitation and sperm/oocyte coincubation phases. CONCLUSION The PAF concentration of 10(-6) M in sperm capacitation and sperm/oocyte coincubation yielded the greatest improvement in fertilization. However, continuing PAF treatment after sperm/oocyte coincubation had no beneficial effect on fertilization and preimplantation development.
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Gruber BL, Miller F, Kaufman LD. Simultaneous onset of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) and lung cancer: a case report and histologic analysis of fibrogenic peptides. Am J Med 1992; 92:705-8. [PMID: 1605158 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(92)90795-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tanenbaum JH, Miller F. Electrocardiographic evidence of myocardial injury in psychiatrically hospitalized cocaine abusers. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 1992; 14:201-3. [PMID: 1601297 DOI: 10.1016/0163-8343(92)90084-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The electrocardiograms (ECG) of 99 cocaine-abusing patients were compared with the ECGs of 50 schizophrenic controls. Eleven of the cocaine abusers and none of the controls had ECG evidence of significant myocardial injury defined as myocardial infarction, ischemia, and bundle branch block.
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Miller F, Heimann TM, Quish A, Pyo DJ, Szporn A, Martinelli G, Fasy TM. ras and c-myc protein expression in colorectal carcinoma. Study of cancer-prone patients. Dis Colon Rectum 1992; 35:430-5. [PMID: 1568393 DOI: 10.1007/bf02049398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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This study was performed to determine the correlation of tumor ras and c-myc oncogene expression with clinical and prognostic variables in patients prone to develop colorectal cancer. One hundred eighteen patients with colorectal cancer were studied; mean age was 40 years. Fifty-three were young patients (age 40 or less), 49 had ulcerative colitis, and 16 had multiple polyposis coli. Immunoperoxidase stains of paraffin-embedded cancer sections were performed for the c-myc and ras proteins. ras staining was found to correlate with Dukes stage and prognosis. Patients with tumors negative for ras protein stain had an actuarial five-year survival of 61 percent versus 44 percent for those tumors with a positive stain (P less than 0.05). This correlation was not seen with the c-myc stain. Positive ras oncogene stain appears to be a useful indicator of advanced stage and poor prognosis in colorectal cancer occurring in cancer-prone patients.
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Zeidan BS, Shabtai M, Waltzer WC, Miller F, Rapaport FT. Nephrogenic adenoma in renal transplant recipients. Transplant Proc 1992; 24:752-4. [PMID: 1566505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Zeidan BS, Waltzer WC, Frischer Z, Miller F, Rapaport FT. Prostatic abscess in a renal transplant recipient--a case report. Transplant Proc 1992; 24:755-6. [PMID: 1566506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Lee M, Alexander MA, Miller F, Steg NL, McHugh BA. Postoperative heterotopic ossification in the child with cerebral palsy: three case reports. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1992; 73:289-92. [PMID: 1543435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Three children with cerebral palsy and mental retardation showed irritability after surgical procedures. They were subsequently diagnosed as having heterotopic ossification. Heterotopic ossification developed around the hip in all cases--two after bilateral adductor releases at the operative site and the third after spinal fusion at a site unrelated to the surgery.
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Barker P, Miller F, Murphy R. Analysis of NGF receptor gene products: generation of artifactual splice variants by PCR. Biotechniques 1992; 12:216, 218. [PMID: 1377477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Miller F. The personal and the political in reasoning and action. NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT 1992:53-63. [PMID: 1518566 DOI: 10.1002/cd.23219925606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Patients with neuromuscular diseases frequently have joint contractures, which preclude standard measurements of standing height. Standing height, arm-span, forearm and ulnar-segment measurements were taken of 116 normal children without contractures. Measurement of the forearm segment had the highest correlation with standing height, but it requires a special ruler. Arm-span measurement had good correlation with standing height, although this cannot be used if elbow or shoulder contractures are present; in such patients ulnar segment measurement can be used, but it has the lowest correlation with standing height.
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Ong BL, Hodson SA, Wigham T, Miller F, Larke JR. Evidence for keratin proteins in normal and abnormal human meibomian fluids. Curr Eye Res 1991; 10:1113-9. [PMID: 1724955 DOI: 10.3109/02713689109024128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hyperkeratinization of meibomian glands has been postulated to cause gland dysfunction. Recent investigations on rabbits show that keratin proteins are indeed present in the meibomian fluids of these animals. In this report we present our findings on the presence of these water-insoluble proteins in human meibomian secretions. 6 anti-cytokeratin antibodies, CK8, 18, 19, CK7, CK8, CK14, CK19 and AE1/AE3 were used against the keratin proteins expressed from the human meibomian fluids. Using the immunoblotting (dot blot) technique, abnormal waxy meibomian fluids obtained from subjects diagnosed to have meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) were compared to normal clear meibomian fluids. The results show that keratins are present in a higher concentration (10%) in the abnormal human meibomian excreta as compared to the normals. Even though the presence of protein markers for keratinization in the abnormal meibomian excreta were not shown, the increased presence of keratin proteins in the abnormal meibomian fluids suggests that, in MGD patients, hyperkeratinization of ductal epithelium may have taken place. More keratin proteins (possibly those of higher molecular weights) were produced in addition to the keratin proteins normally produced by the duct epithelium. The increased amount of keratin proteins in the abnormal meibomian fluids may be explained by the susceptibility of duct epithelium to undergo the process of hyperkeratinization as postulated by other researchers.
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Miller F, Heimann TM, Szporn A, Martinelli G, Kurtz RJ, Fasy TM. DNA ploidy of colorectal cancer and synchronous polyps in polyposis coli. Dis Colon Rectum 1991; 34:1103-8. [PMID: 1659978 DOI: 10.1007/bf02050070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Sixteen patients with polyposis coli and cancer were studied retrospectively to determine the incidence of DNA ploidy abnormalities in the tumors and synchronous polyps. Six patients (37 percent) had nondiploid tumors. Nondiploid tumors were more likely to be advanced and had a significantly worse prognosis (17 percent vs. 76 percent 5-year survival; P less than 0.01). Only 4 of 20 polyps studied were nondiploid. There was no association between tumor and polyp ploidy. All nondiploid polyps were found in patients with synchronous diploid cancers. Patients with nondiploid polyps were more likely to be older and have more advanced tumors than those with diploid polyps. DNA ploidy abnormalities seem to occur with the same frequency in polyposis coli as in the nonpolyposis population, and tumor ploidy correlates with prognosis.
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A case of papillary renal cell carcinoma associated with retroperitoneal fibrosis is described. This type of fibrosis has not been previously reported to be associated with renal cell carcinoma. The case is of additional interest in that it implicates an immune phenomenon in the pathogenesis of the fibrosis, involving both putative tumor antigens and antigens associated with tumor growth but unrelated to tumor cells.
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Miller F, Friedman R, Tanenbaum J, Griffin A. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and acute myoglobinuric renal failure: a consequence of the serotonergic syndrome. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1991; 11:277-9. [PMID: 1918432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Greene WB, Dietz FR, Goldberg MJ, Gross RH, Miller F, Sussman MD. Rapid progression of hip subluxation in cerebral palsy after selective posterior rhizotomy. J Pediatr Orthop 1991; 11:494-7. [PMID: 1860950 DOI: 10.1097/01241398-199107000-00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Rapid progression of hip subluxation was noted in the year after selective dorsal rhizotomy in seven hips (six patients). The hips that subluxed progressed from a lateral extrusion index averaging 25% preoperatively as compared with 50% after rhizotomy. Although preexistent hip dysplasia was a predisposing factor, hips with an intermediate degree of preoperative lateral extrusion (12-25%) had variable results. Ongoing and more frequent evaluation of hip stability is necessary after dorsal rhizotomy.
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Peress NS, Miller F. Brain, eye, kidney, and IgA. Filtration and selective immune deposition. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1991; 115:327-8. [PMID: 2012492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Using a nursing model to help systematise the care of a young patient in a special hospital resulted in tangible improvements in his behaviour, yet Francesca Miller found that it raised questions about the function and value of nursing for this client group. Her study reveals how she had to cope with her own negative feelings about the nature of her patient's offences and how the use of basic counselling skills, and encouraging the patient to take responsibility for his own care, achieved notable developments in his social skills. But despite this, she is left to ponder, 'at what cost?'
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