Barlow disease: Simple and complex

Timing of surgery in Barlow disease.

Dear Sir, Timing of surgery in chronic mitral valve regurgitation has been a long term matter of debate. Data from European Society of Cardiology suggest that a number close to 36 % of surgical treatment in mitral valve regurgitation is performed too early or too late according to guidelines suggestions (Iung et al., 2003). Bileaflet mitral valve prolapse (Barlow’s disease) as correctly reporte...

Joel Barlow and Seasickness

In honoring her alumni who have achieved success in the belles lettres, in diplomacy, in the writing of political philosophy, Yale University has always been most active, extraordinarily eager to recognize their attainment; but, strangely enough, she has forgotten a member of the class of 1778 who was considered a great poet, statesman and philosopher by many of his contemporaries. Of this emin...

Thomas Barlow, 1845-1945.

We are met here to-day in thankful remembrance of the life and work of Thomas Barlow. A memorial service has already been held for him elsewhere which was largely attended by his many friends both lay and medical, but it is fitting that we should have our own simple service here in the Hospital to which he was so much devoted and where much of his best work was done. We may look upon it, I thin...

Horace Barlow

Horace Barlow is retired Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He graduated in Medicine at Cambridge in 1947 and stayed there doing research in vision until 1964. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, staying there until 1973 when he returned to Cambridge. His main interest has always been in vision, ...

Editorial: “Disease-Only” alleles and genotypes in complex disorders?