Can We Afford Crude Estimates of Central Pulse Pressure? To the Editor: The article by de Simone et al1 in the April 2005 issue of Hypertension reports associations of high brachial pulse pressure (PP) with both arterial stiffness and left ventricular mass in 472 normotensive and 778 untreated hypertensive patients. Arterial stiffness was noninvasively estimated by the central PP-to-stroke volu...

THE CASE The patient is a 27-year-old previously healthy male with a diagnosis of viral encephalitis with a lymphocytic pleocytosis on cerebrospinal fluid examination. For 3 months, he has been in status epilepticus (SE) on high doses of barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and ketamine and a ketogenic feeding-tube formula. He remains in burst suppression on continuous electroencephalography (EEG). H...

his issue and that of the BMJ (22nd June 2002), are dedicated to neuro-degenerative disorders. We have come a long way in this field over the past two decades or so. Twenty years ago we knew only that Alzheimer's disease (AD) affected many elderly people, segregated in some early onset families, and was predominantly a disorder of cholin-ergic function. Now we have five years of postlicencing e...

Sustainability of ecosystems and ecosystem management are increasingly accepted societal goals. However projects of non-governmental conservation organizations (NGOs) and governments also are prone to becoming impractical impositions on local people. Can conservation programs be improved by incorporating local people’s understanding of ecosystems? The Kizilirmak Delta is one of Turkey’s most im...

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2005;58(5):601-4 601 REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CARDIOLOGÍA recently published the full text of the latest recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).1,2 One of the aspects of editorial ethics covered by these recommendations is redundant or duplicate publication. This journal is committed to a strict policy on this type of publication. Redundant...