Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Privacy standards.

The Privacy Rule: Limits the use and disclosure of PHI to purposes of treatment, payment, or routine health care operations. Requires covered entities to provide advance notice to the public of its policy governing disclosure of PHI. Requires entities covered by the Standard to secure general client consent to use and to disclose PHI for treatment, payment, or routine health care operations and to obtain specific client authorization to use or to disclose PHI for all other purposes unless the disclosure is specifically permitted without consent or authorization (e.

Arrhythmias and intracardiac conduction after the arterial switch operation.

Unlabelled: Intraatrial baffling procedures such as the Mustard or Senning repair of transposition of the great arteries have been associated with a high incidence of cardiac arrhythmias. These abnormalities are thought to arise from trauma to the sinus node and atrial muscle during the procedure. In the arterial switch operation, there is little intraatrial manipulation other than the repair of the atrial septal defect.

Amyloidosis of the maxillary antrum.

A rare case of primary amyloidosis which presented as a destructive lesion of the maxillary antrum is discussed. Current methods of diagnosis and treatment of amyloidosis are outlined.