{"title":"Compliance with mammography screening in Israeli women: the impact of a pre-scheduled appointment and of the letter-style.","authors":"L Ore, L Hagoel, G Shifroni, G Rennert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objectives of this study were to determine the impact of different personal invitations on screening mammography attendance and to clarify the influence of personal characteristics and health-related attitudes and behaviors on compliance. One thousand and five hundred women, aged 50-74 years, were randomly selected in the city of Haifa. Four letters of invitation were used. Actual mammography performance was validated by a national computerized database. All other data was collected via a telephone interview following the mammography. The overall compliance rate amounted to 45%. The major predictors of compliance were having had a clinical breast examination within the previous year (p = 0.0008), having a health professional recommend routine mammography (p = 0.01) and perceiving mammography as efficient in early detection of breast cancer (p = 0.02). Aggressiveness of message details, or a family physician's or higher authority's signature on the letter had no impact on compliance. A letter of invitation for a routine mammogram at a specific time resulted in an overall rate of compliance 3-fold higher than the baseline. Based on the results of this study. Kupat Holim Clalit decided to implement use of personal invitations for screening mammography to israeli women on a regular basis.</p>","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 2","pages":"103-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20196648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B Strasberg, B Zeevi, J Kusniec, M Berant, L C Blieden, S Sclarovsky
{"title":"Radiofrequency catheter ablation of ectopic atrial tachycardia.","authors":"B Strasberg, B Zeevi, J Kusniec, M Berant, L C Blieden, S Sclarovsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ectopic atrial tachycardia (EAT) is an uncommon type of supraventricular tachycardia. It is usually chronic, incessant and resistant to pharmacologic therapy. Radiofrequency catheter ablation, which has become one of the treatments of choice for the more common types of supraventricular tachycardia, has recently also been shown to be effective in EAT. Radiofrequency catheter ablation was attempted in three patients with incessant EAT. Two of the patients, aged 7 and 13 years, had signs of left ventricular dysfunction, and the EAT originated in the left atrium. The remaining patient, aged 72 years, had a right EAT with normal left ventricular function. Radiofrequency ablation was guided by endocardial atrial mapping to locate the site of earliest atrial activation. Ablation was successful in all three patients, with complete cure of the tachycardia for a follow-up period of 12 to 19 months. Radiofrequency catheter ablation of EAT is highly successful and should be considered as one of the treatments of choice for this arrhythmia.</p>","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 2","pages":"112-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20196649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allergy and systemic lupus.","authors":"S Kivity","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 2","pages":"150-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20195908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Livneh, A Renert, O Avishai, P Langevitz, E Gazit
{"title":"Lymphocytotoxic antibodies in Israeli patients with rheumatoid arthritis.","authors":"A Livneh, A Renert, O Avishai, P Langevitz, E Gazit","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The presence, antigenic specificity, and clinical role of lymphocytotoxic antibodies (LCAs) were studied in 72 Israeli patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Using the microlymphocytotoxicity assay on a cell panel of 47 donors, LCAs were found in 55% of the 72 RA sera, each displaying a distinct pattern of anti-lymphocytic reactivity, mostly against B lymphocytes. Human lymphocytic antigens (HLA) analysis of donors' lymphocytes suggested that activity of LCA-positive RA sera is HLA directed in 60% of cytotoxic sera. The anti-HLA antibodies found were not autoreactive and were not restricted to a particular class I or class II antigen. Relating the presence of LCAs to selective clinical features revealed that LCAs are inversely associated with the presence of an erosive disease (P <0.01) and with the patients' HLA-DQw1 (P <0.01). These findings suggest that LCAs in Israeli patients with RA are very common, multispecific and may have a protective role not mediated through interaction with self-HLA antigens.</p>","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"30-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20149045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transient hepatocellular injury during attacks of cholinergic urticaria.","authors":"Y Niv, I Elkan, G M Fraser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cholinergic urticaria presents as wheals and erythroderma that develop in response to a variety of factors which stimulate muscarinic receptors, including exercise, heat, cold, sweat and emotional stress. We describe a 25-year-old man with ulcerative colitis who developed cholinergic urticaria diagnosed by a metacholine test. He had had seven previous attacks over 8 years, and the finding of elevated liver enzymes required admission to four different hospitals. The clinical picture was identical: urticaria, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy and elevation of liver enzymes. The causative agent was never identified and recovery was complete, with or without antibiotic therapy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description of liver involvement in cholinergic urticaria noted in the English-language medical literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"50-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20149048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colon cancer and molecular genetics: a short review.","authors":"C Legum","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"63-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20148987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-operative coronary revascularization: yes or no.","authors":"S Einav, G Landesberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"74-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20148990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D Amikam, D Niv, J Lachter, S Eidelman, Z Ben-Ishai
{"title":"Expanded size span and multiple alleles exhibited by Ethiopian Jews analyzed with APC gene-linked DNA markers.","authors":"D Amikam, D Niv, J Lachter, S Eidelman, Z Ben-Ishai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"78-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20148991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O Stein, B Sheinberg, E Schiff, S Mashiach, D S Seidman
{"title":"Prevalence of antibodies to cytomegalovirus in a parturient population in Israel.","authors":"O Stein, B Sheinberg, E Schiff, S Mashiach, D S Seidman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of our study was to assess the serologic immunity to cytomegalovirus (CMV) in a population of pregnant women in Israel. We measured the titers of both IgG and IgM to CMV in 6,126 pregnant women by enzyme immunoassay. Of these, 84.3% were found to be positive for anti-CMV IgG and 15.7% were seronegative, and thus susceptible to primary infection. The total number of women positive for anti-CMV IgM, and hence suspected of being infected with the virus during or shortly before their pregnancy, was 43 (0.7%). An acute infection was therefore diagnosed in 4.35% of IgG seronegative women. A significantly higher CMV seropositivity rate was found in the parturient population as compared to surveys conducted in Israel in the 1970's. The seropositivity rates found in Israel are similar to those reported in Asia and Africa. The rate of serosusceptibility and the risk of primary CMV infection in pregnancy are lower in Israel than in Europe and North America. According to the observed incidence of primary CMV infection in pregnant women, it can be estimated that approximately 280 cases of fetal infection occur in Israel every year, potentially resulting in 56 symptomatic newborns.</p>","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"53-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20149049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eosinophils, respiratory viruses and allergic asthma.","authors":"Z T Handzel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14590,"journal":{"name":"Israel journal of medical sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"66-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20148988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}