Giovanni Raimondo, Serafino Recchia, Carla Lavarini, Osvaldo Crivelli, Mario Rizzetto – 1 July 1982 – A commercial radioimmunoassay was adapted to detect serum Dane particle‐associated HBeAg in patients whose sera contained the homologous antibody. HBeAg was released from Dane particles with guanidine HC1.
Irwin M. Arias – 1 July 1982
Raymond S. Koff, Claudio S. Pannuti, Marcelo L. G. Pereira, Bengt G. Hansson, Jules L. Dienstag, V. Amato NETO, Doris C. Wong, Robert H. Purcell – 1 July 1982 – During a 33‐month period, 295 patients with acute viral hepatitis were admitted to a state hospital for civil servants and their dependents in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Seventy‐nine per cent (232) were HBsAg negative. To define the contribution of non‐A, non‐B viral hepatitis to hepatitis morbidity in this population, further serological studies were performed in 147 confirmed HBsAg‐negative patients.
John T. Galambos – 1 July 1982
Norman Gitlin, John L. Stauffer, Ronald C. Silvestri – 1 July 1982 – Fifty‐six patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and ascites were studied. The ascitic fluid was analyzed for pH, PO PCO2, glucose, protein, specific gravity, amylase, lactic dehydrogenase, white blood cell count, polymorphonuclear count, and cytology. It was also cultured aerobically and anaerobi‐cally. Simultaneously, arterial blood was analyzed for pH, PO2, and PCO2. Venous blood was analyzed for complete blood count, protein, aspartate transaminase, and it was also cultured under aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
Giulio Marchesini, Marco Zoli, Cristina Dondi, Giampaolo Bianchi, Maurizio Cirulli, Emilio Pisi – 1 July 1982 – An amino acid mixture rich in branched‐chain amino acids and poor in aromatic amino acids was infused in six cirrhotics with altered plasma amino acid profile and normal mental state. The effect on muscle protein catabolism, as measured by urinary excretion of 3‐methylhistidine, was assessed during two consecutive 3‐day periods in which patients received the amino acid mixture alone or in a hypertonic dextrose solution.
David B. Flannery, Y. Edward Hsia, Barry Wolf – 1 July 1982
Marcel Patterson, Juan C. Gonzalez‐Vitale, Charles J. Fagan – 1 July 1982 – Cyst fluid from a patient with polycystic liver disease was obtained by needle aspiration using ultrasound guidance. The constituents of the fluid resembled the “bile salt‐independent” fraction of human bile and supports the hypothesis that such cysts are lined by a functioning, secretory bile duct epithelium.