PROTRACTED GESTATION.

Lethal familial protracted diarrhoea.

24 children with severe protracted diarrhoea from 10 families, in which at least one sibling was affected, are reported. In two families the siblings were from 1st-cousin marriages, in one family both parents had unaffected children from previous marriages, and in another family the mother had a normal daughter from an earlier marriage. The onset of the diarrhoea was on the first day of life in...

Protracted diarrhoea in infancy.

Protracted diarrhoea in infancy

1 of 2 categories according to whether a specific diagnosis was established or not. A diagnosis (category 1) was established in 59 (72 %), the commonest diagnoses being coeliac disease (33 2 %), secondary disaccharide intolerance (12 2%), and cows' milk protein intolerance (11 3 %). Other diagnoses included primary sucrase-isomaltase deficiency, Shwachman's syndrome, ulcerative colitis, ganglio...

Gestation

In the introductory chapter of this book it is explained that in the lower vertebrates there are lymphatic vessels but no lymph nodes; the lymphoid tissue in fish and amphibia is associated with myeloid tissue in such organs as the intestines, kidney, and liver. Lymph nodes first appear in certain birds, but it is only in mammals that they are invariably present. However, even in mammals, where...

Gestation

term "large granules." It is of some interest that these granules behave in many ways like the granules of the adrenal medulla which contain the pressor amines. By differential centrifugation it has been shown that the granules with the greatest density contain the largest amount of histamine, and also, that the intravenous injection of a preparation of these granules has less vasodepressor act...