With interest we read the article by Demily et al. about a 30 year old male with neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP) syndrome due to the mutation m.8993TNC, clinically manifesting as cerebellar ataxia, pyramidal syndrome, and psychosis [1]. Upon antipsychotic medication the patient developed dystonia, akathisia, and extrapyramidal symptoms with falls [1]. Switching to clozapine ...

INTRODUCTION Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is a pathological entity mainly associated with peritoneal dialysis (PD). The clinical syndrome is characterized by various degrees of intestinal obstruction due to thickening, sclerosis and calcification of peritoneum resulting in the encapsulation and cocooning of the bowel. It is a rare but potentially devastating complication associated with a...

Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS), is a rare but devastating complication of long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) with a high mortality rate. The incidence is between 0.5 and 3.3%, decreasing with time. EPS is defi ned as a clinical syndrome with major signs of gastrointestinal obstruction, infl ammatory parameters, radiological and macroscopic changes. Duration of treatment and cessation ...

BACKGROUND Self-report instruments for the assessment of depressive symptoms in patients with psychotic disorders are scarce. The Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms (QIDS-SR16) may be a useful self-report instrument, but has received little attention in this field. This paper aimed to test the psychometric properties of the QIDS-SR16 questionnaire in patients with a psychotic disorder. ME...

OBJECTIVE To describe our experience performing ED procedural sedation in a country where emergency medicine (EM) is a relatively new specialty. METHODS This is a prospective observational study of adult patients undergoing procedural sedation by emergency physicians (EPs) or EM residents in eight hospitals in the Netherlands. Data were collected on a standardised form, including patient char...

The body surface potential map (BSPM) may reflect regional myocardial electrical activity. This technique can thus provide information regarding the excitation of ventricles. This study is an attempt to evaluate the usefulness of BSPM in determining the sites of the atrioventricular (AV) accessory pathway (AP) in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (W-P-W) syndrome. The BSPMs were obtained from...

Since the beginning of 1999, over 1500 patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis were examined at Dr. Fran Mihaljević University Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb. In almost all of these patients urethral swabs and quantitative segmented bacteriologic cultures and microscopy of expressed prostatic secretion (EPS) or voided bladder urine3 (VB3) were performed as described by Meares ...

Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is an intestinal obstruction syndrome in which peritoneal deterioration and intraperitoneal inflammation result in intestinal adhesions, which are covered with a fibrin capsule and which cause bowel obstruction. Here, we report the case of a patient with EPS suspected to result from the use of icodextrin peritoneal solution. In this patient, peritoneal p...

Myotonic dystrophy (MD) types 1 and 2 frequently are associated with progressive conduction disease. Furthermore, patients at risk ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), although prediction of this remains difficult. The 2021 HRS Guidelines give a IIb recommendation to the use electrophysiology study (EPS) stimulation (v-stim) stratify for VAs. utility EPS in predicting development VAs, however, has no...

Bacterial exopolysacchrides (EPSs) are produced by many bacteria. Nowadays there is an increasing interest in the isolation and exploitation of these polymers for industrial purposes. In general, biosynthesis of EPS varies from one strain to other strain and it depends on genes and enzymes involved in EPS production and secretion. In this study, EPS producing strains were isolated from municipa...