Calcification of the medial layer of arteries, often termed Monckeberg’s arteriosclerosis, is common in CKD and present in most patients with ESRD (1). Although it likely has detrimental long-term consequences, it is generally a chronic, asymptomatic condition. However, in a few patients, medial calcification leads to occlusion of small arteries and arterioles, resulting in an acute, life-threa...

Sir, Dr Yuan recently reported the interesting case of a 23year-old dialysis patient with extensive calcifications, including lung calcifications [1]. We similarly encountered a young patient who had developed severe lung calcifications, which proved reversible after intensifying the dialysis regimen and optimization of the calcium–phosphate regulation. This patient is a 29-year-old woman with ...

The double immunofluorescence technique was used to examine the distribution and interrelationship between LENK- and VIP-immunoreactive nerve fibres within the muscle layer and myenteric plexus of the large intestine in a young female patient (aged 17 years) suffering from colitis ulcerosa activa (CUA). As the CUA was found to be totally drug-resistant, a pancolotomy was performed by means of t...

Objective To assess the characteristics and quality of cost utility analyses (CUA) related to otolaryngology within the CEA registry and to summarize their collective results. Methods All cost-utility analyses published between 1976 and 2011 contained in the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry (CEA Registry) were evaluated. Topics that fall within the care of an otolaryngologist were include...

In an empirical case study of software tools, two participants used the ITS style designer’s language to implement a general purpose, executable, rule-based user interface style. This language allows style designers to select, combine and modify rule prototypes in order to construct a rule-based user interface style. The participants implemented the entire IBM CUA-2 user interface style, plus n...

A protein analog of a purple copper center has been constructed from a recombinant blue copper protein (Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin) by replacing the loop containing the three ligands to the blue copper center with the corresponding loop of the CuA center in cytochrome c oxidase (COX) from Paracoccus denitrificans. The electronic absorption in the UV and visible region (UV-vis) and electron p...

Microscopic hematuria is a frequent reason for referral to urology. It is often found incidentally as a result of routine examination in patients without urinary tract symptoms. Although there is generally no debate about the need to fully investigate patients with gross hematuria, there is often controversy regarding the approach to the patient with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria. The main...