Resident-initiated integrative medicine curriculum in an allopathic family medicine residency.

Objectives: Although integrative medicine modalities are widespread and increasingly popular among patients and physicians, exposure to integrative medicine teaching remains limited during allopathic residency training. There is a need for innovative ways to incorporate integrative medicine teaching into family medicine residency training.

Interventions And Results: In an allopathic family medicine program, residents developed an integrative medicine curriculum consisting of 37 weekly seminars tailored to the interests of the group.

Transthoracic Doppler validation in mammary artery grafts after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation.

Objective: This study was performed to validate noninvasive transthoracic Doppler ultrasound (TTD) with simultaneous invasive Doppler guidewire measurements in patients after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation.

Methods: A total of 14 patients were examined 3 to 8 days after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation. TTD was performed to measure systolic and diastolic peak velocities of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) at rest and during adenosine-induced hyperemia.

Long-term evaluation of metabolic profile and bone mineral density after ileocystoplasty in children.

Purpose: We evaluated the long-term effects of ileocystoplasty on linear growth, serum electrolytes, acid-base profile and bone mineral density (BMD) in a group of neurologically intact children with a mean followup of 8.9 years.

Materials And Methods: Between 1988 and 1997, 9 girls and 16 boys with a mean age of 6 years (range 1 month to 14 years) underwent ileocystoplasty for etiologies other than myelomeningocele and neuropathic bladder.