Noer ( I ) reported the incidence of Reiter's syndrome in 9 of 602 sailors who had shigellosis. The shigellosis had followed a stay in a port where dysentery was endemic. Five of these patients with Reiter's syndrome were restudied by Calin and Fries 10 years later, and an association with HLA-B27 a
Nifedipine in digital ulceration in scleroderma
✍ Scribed by André Kahan; Bernard Amor; Charles J. Menkes; Simon Weber
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
We (1,2) and others (3) have shown that the slow calcium channel blocking agent nifedipine is effective in the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon. Dr. JafFe's letter (4) prompts us to report our preliminary results of a single-blind
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