Virtual endoscopy of the upper, central and peripheral airways with multirow detector CT. Successful airway management with combined use of Glidescope videolaryngoscope and fiberoptic bron-choscope in a patient with Cowden syndrome.ficacy of the Airtraq w laryngoscope with a fiberoptic bronchoscope compared with that of Airtraq w alone for tracheal intubation: a manikin study. Editor—We would l...

myalgia. He had a history of a picnic at a waterfall Leptospirosis is an infection with worldwide distribuabout 2 weeks prior to admission. The day after tion. Rodents especially rats, are the commonest reseradmission to hospital he suffered several bouts of voir with infected animals excreting spirochaetes in the haemoptysis. His haemoglobin decreased from 10.2 to urine. Water is therefore the...

Since Blalock published his first report on the surgical treat ment of pulmonary stenosis, we became greatly interested in this subject. While performing an necropsy on a ten year old child who had tetralogy we found an abnormal vessel which connected the left subclavian and left pulmonary arteries (Fig. 1); this vessel had a very small lumen and evidently was unable to supply enough oxygenated...

Several problems are involved in the studies on the biosynthesis of thyroid hormones : 1) How are iodine atoms incorporated into a thyroglobulin (TG) molecule ? 2) How is the matured TG molecule built up? 3) how are carbohydrates incorporated in a TG molecule? 4) How are amino acids assembled to make up TG polypeptides? 5) How is TG hydrolyzed to produce T3 and T4 ? Recent progresses concerning...

Overcommitment (OC) to work is a prevalent personality trait characterized by the inability to withdraw from obligations combined with a high need for control and approval. Over committed individuals are extremely ambitious and tend to repeatedly exaggerate their efforts while at the same time over taxing their resources (Siegrist et al., 2004). Epidemiological studies in apparently healthy emp...

The use of ultrasound has expanded enormously over the last two decades in critical care research and practice. Despite the fact that the method has several inherent limitations and is largely operator dependent, it enables clinicians for rapid, by-the-bed, and relatively inexpensive diagnostic evaluation of unstable patients. Point-of-care ultrasound applications such as lung ultrasound are gr...

A, et al. Association between sustained virological response and all-cause mortality among patient with chronic hepatitis C and advanced hepatic fibrosis. COMMENTS In the current commented article, van der Meer, et al. demonstrated that sustained virological response in patients with advanced fibrosis was associated with lower overall mortality, lower liver-related mortality including liver fai...

Dilated cardiomyopathy and coronary flow reserve We read with interest the article by Rigo et al. 1 about the prognostic impact of coronary flow reserve (CFR) by Doppler echocar-diography in dilated cardiomyopathy. The authors conclude that in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, the prognostic role of impaired microvascular CFR has been shown to be unfavourable. In our opinion, som...

About 10%–15% of pheochromocy­ tomas eventually develop metastases (1). Few patients with metastatic pheo­ chromocytoma are suitable candidates for surgical resection of the tumor. This correspondence introduces radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as an alternate treatment modality in pheo­ chromocytoma. RFA is a safe, predict­ able, and effective method for lo­ cal tumor destruction in primary and m...

Systemic lupus erythematou s (SLE) is uncommon in children and multiple sclerosis (MS) is extre mely rare. Both the di seases have a chronic, relaps ing course and very rarely they have occurred in the same indi-vidual^) wh en a com mon und erlying etiology has been suggested(2). Both SLE and MS are asso ciated with HLA-DR2 allele and have occurred in twins of successive generatio ns(3). We des...