A 1-yr-old male leopard (Panthera pardus) presented for intermittent anorexia, emaciation, and generalized muscle wasting. Plain radiographs, ultrasonography, and esophageal endoscopy led to a diagnosis of diaphragmatic eventration with probable concurrent hiatal hernia. An exploratory laparotomy confirmed both diagnoses, and surgical repair and stabilization were performed. After surgery, the ...

An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern. A common recommendation for carnivore conservation and for reducing predation on livestock is to increase wild prey populations based on the assumption that...

Changes in gastric pH of leopard sharks Triakis semifasciata were quantified as an indicator of feeding frequency and ration size. Continuous in situ measurements of gastric pH were made in captive adult leopard sharks using an autonomous pH/temperature probe for periods ranging from 5-16 days. Instrumented sharks were fed meals of squid at different ration sizes. Gastric fluid samples were als...

The leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) is an important predator in coastal marine ecosystems of California, targeted by recreational and commercial Wshermen and of speciWc interest in Wsheries management. From October 2003 to August 2006, 169 leopard sharks were collected from the coast of California (between 40.750°N and 32.678°N) and analyzed for mitochondrial and nuclear genetic structure....

A 26-year-old apparently healthy man with numerous pigmented skin lesions collapsed during an evening party and was resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and subaortic tunnel were disclosed by angiocardiography. A diagnosis of cardiomyopathic lentiginosis/lentigines (multiple), electrocardiographic abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism, pulmonary stenosis, abnorm...

Lentigines are small brown macules in the skin characterised histopathologically by an increased number of melanocytes at the dermo-epidermal junction. Profuse lentigines, first described in the literature as 'lentiginosis profusa' was thought to be a dermatologic oddity. Later reports appeared of an association with cardiac abnormalities and sexual infantilism. I Based on further observations,...

LEOPARD syndrome (LS) is an acronym consisting of lentigines, electrocardiographic abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism, pulmonary valve stenosis, abnormal genitalia, retardation of growth and deafness. However, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death in young people, is the most common cardiovascular manifestation in LS patients and the major determinant of ...

The secretive nature of snow leopards (Uncia uncia) makes them difficult to monitor, yet conservation efforts require accurate and precise methods to estimate abundance. We assessed accuracy of Snow Leopard Information Management System (SLIMS) sign surveys by comparing them with 4 methods for estimating snow leopard abundance: predator:prey biomass ratios, capture–recapture density estimation,...

Noonan syndrome (NS) and LEOPARD syndrome (LS) cause congenital afflictions such as short stature, hypertelorism and heart defects. More than 50% of NS and almost all of LS cases are caused by activating and inactivating mutations of the phosphatase Shp2, respectively. How these biochemically opposing mutations lead to similar clinical outcomes is not clear. Using zebrafish models of NS and LS ...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.171642].