Publications by authors named "Allan Binder"
Introduction: Non-specific neck pain has a postural or mechanical basis and affects about two thirds of people at some stage, especially in middle age. Acute neck pain resolves within days or weeks, but may become chronic in about 10% of people. Whiplash injuries follow sudden acceleration-deceleration of the neck, such as in road traffic or sporting accidents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLead aVR, 1 of 12 electrocardiographic leads, is frequently ignored in clinical medicine. In fact, many clinicians refer to the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) as the 11-lead ECG, noting the commonly held belief that lead aVR rarely offers clinically useful information. In this report, we discuss the findings in lead aVR, which are potentially of value, including ST-segment elevation in the patient with acute coronary syndrome suggestive of left main coronary artery occlusion, PR-segment elevation in the patient with acute pericarditis, prominent R wave in the patient with significant tricyclic antidepressant poisoning, and ST-segment elevation in narrow complex tachycardia suggestive of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Both rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are potentially disabling arthritic disorders for which as yet no highly sensitive and reliable diagnostic laboratory markers are available.
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the levels of antibodies against Proteus and Klebsiella antigenic peptides in an endeavor to develop diagnostic indices for the identification of patients with RA and AS, respectively.
Methods: Sera from 50 patients with RA, 34 patients with AS, and 38 healthy subjects were screened for antibodies against "ESRRAL" and "IRRET" synthetic amino acid peptides obtained from Proteus hemolysin and urease (HU) as well as against "QTDRED" and "DRDE" peptides from Klebsiella nitrogenase and pullulanase (NP) proteins, respectively.