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The Clinical Significance of Macrocytosis

Acta Medica Scandinavica, 1981
ABSTRACT. The cause of macrocytosis (mean corpuscular volume (MCV) ≥105 fl) was investigated over a period of 16 months in the 70 known cases of ± 4000 patients seen by the Department of Internal Medicine. By means of simple laboratory investigations the cause of elevated MCV was found in more than 90% of the cases.
F C, Breedveld, R, Bieger, R K, van Wermeskerken   +2 more
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The Clinical Significance of Hypouricemia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1973
The development of automated techniques in the clinical laboratory which routinely include the measurement of uric acid has raised important questions concerning the clinical significance of abnormal serum urate values. Although numerous studies have focused on the relevance of hyperuricemia, the possible significance of hypouricemia has not been ...
C M, Ramsdell, W N, Kelley
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Measures of Clinical Significance

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2003
Behavioral scientists are interested in answering three basic questions when examining the relationships between variables (Kirk, 2001). First, is an observed result real or should it be attributed to chance (i.e., statistical significance)? Second, if the result is real, how large is it (i.e., effect size)?
Helena Chmura, Kraemer, George A, Morgan, Nancy L, Leech, Jeffrey A, Gliner, Jerry J, Vaske, Robert J, Harmon   +5 more
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The Clinical Significance of Hematuria

The American Journal of Nursing, 1954
Hematuria is not a disease but a symptom; it cna occur in association with systemic disease, with intrinsic disease of the genitourinary tract, or with disease localized in other parts of the body. In the author's experience, the nature of the underlying cause varied strikingly with age.
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Coccidioidouria: Clinical Significance

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1976
Twelve patients had urine cultures positive for Coccidioides immitis. Ten patients showed the usual criteria for dissemination, but 2 were believed, before urine culture, to have only chronic pulmonary involvement. In 8 patients, there was impairment of host defense mechanisms due either to associated disease or immunosuppressive drug therapy.
E A, Petersen, B A, Friedman, E D, Crowder, D, Rifkind   +3 more
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The clinical significance of aminoaciduria

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1959
Summary Hyperaminoaciduria is significant as a manifestation of aberrant cellular function in the kidney and in other organs (bone, liver, and brain in particular). The various patterns of hyperaminoaciduria may be described in terms of the endogenous renal clearances of the individual amino acids.
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CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BACTEROIDES

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1949
CERTAIN anaerobic, nonsporing, gram-negative bacilli are classified in the genus Bacteroides. 1 (Excluded from this designation are the genera Dialister and Fusiformis, the former being characterized by small size and the latter by pointed ends.) These organisms are saprophytic inhabitants of the intestine, the urinary tract, the pharynx and the female
P M, BEIGELMAN, L A, RANTZ
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Clinical Significance of Hypertriglyceridemia

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, 1988
Available data suggest that elevated triglyceride levels in plasma, associated with increased VLDL or chylomicron remnants, are associated with premature coronary artery atherosclerosis. Whether this is a direct effect or as a result of the association of hypertriglyceridemia with decreased HDL as well as decreased LDL particle size remains to be ...
E J, Schaefer, J R, McNamara, J, Genest, J M, Ordovas   +3 more
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THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JAUNDICE

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1927
Excerpt Theories in the matter of jaundice and ideas, coming from the laboratory or the bedside, that contemplate the physiology and the pathology of bile pigment as anything other than an affair o...
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The clinical significance of kinekard

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1967
Abstract A survey of plasma kinekard concentration in 32 normal individuals and 220 patients suffering from a variety of diseases has been made. While abnormal levels may be found in many diseases, patients with various cardiovascular and pituitary-hypothalamic syndromes give readings clearly different from other diseases. A significant correlation
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