Impact of a body-mind treatment component on alcoholic inpatients.

1. A group of alcoholic patients who were treated with a physical fitness program as an adjunct to the usual program showed significantly less craving for alcohol than members in the standard treatment group. 2.

Diaphragmatic thickness-lung volume relationship in vivo.

To characterize the relationship of changes in diaphragmatic thickness during contraction to changes in lung volume, we developed a technique to measure diaphragm thickness based on M-mode ultrasonography. First, diaphragmatic thickness was measured in situ at necropsy with ultrasound and verified by measuring the same resected segment of diaphragm by ruler (correlation coefficient = 0.93, slope = 0.

Early post-myocardial infarction treadmill stress testing. An accurate predictor of multivessel coronary disease and subsequent cardiac events.

Limited (heart rate to less than or equal to 120 beats/min) standardized treadmill stress testing was done before hospital discharge in 40 survivors of uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction. Each patient had subsequent coronary arteriography. Twenty-one had inferior, 10, anterior, and nine, nontransmural infarctions; in 30 patients this was their first infarction.

Exercise-induced coronary arterial spasm: angiographic demonstration, documentation of ischemia by myocardial scintigraphy and results of pharmacologic intervention.

Exercise-induced coronary arterial spasm is an infrequently recognized phemonemon whose mechanism and management are not well established. In two patients with reproducible exercise-induced S-T segment elevation and angina pectoris thallium-201 scintigraphy showed areas of reversible anteroapical hypoperfusion, and gated radionuclide ventriculography revealed anteroapical hypokinesia with a decrease in left ventricular ejection fraction at peak exercise. During coronary arteriography supine exercise provoked occlusive spasm of the left anterior descending coronary artery, which at rest had only minimal plaques.