Czegldi-Jank6, G., and Avar, P. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 283-286. Occupational exposure to lindane: clinical and laboratory findings. Workers exposed to lindane for up to two years have been observed clinically, with EEGs and by chemical analysis of whole blood for lindane. In workers with mild but definite symptoms, the concentrations of lindane in whole blood were likely to be grea...

BACKGROUND Early diagnosis and surgery are important factors by which the morbidity and mortality of acute appendicitis in elderly patients can be lowered. This study was conducted to determine clinical and laboratory results that are commonly associated with acute appendicitis in elderly patients. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted of patients aged 60 years or older who under...

BACKGROUND Neurobrucellosis is an uncommon complication of brucellosis. The clinical features of neurobrucellosis vary greatly and, in general, tend to be chronic. Many of the laboratory procedures usually employed in the diagnosis of brucellosis frequently give negative results. For these reasons, and because brucellosis is a disease, which is both treatable and curable, the degree of suspicio...

OBJECTIVE To retrospectively analyze the clinical symptoms, laboratory findings, and outcomes in patients with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) who were enrolled in various clinical trials conducted by the French Vasculitis Study Group. METHODS A cohort of 85 patients meeting the Chapel Hill criteria for MPA participated in the study. Seventy-one of them were included in prospective therapeutic...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to define demographic characteristics and clinical and laboratory findings of the patients with tularemia and to assess the treatment outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 58 consecutive patients (26 males, 32 females; mean age 37±22 years; range 6 to 80 years) with tularemia were retrospectively analyzed in this study. Demographic characteristics, laboratory fi...

Clinical and laboratory data on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), particularly on the temporal progression of abnormal laboratory findings, are limited. We conducted a prospective study on the clinical, radiologic, and hematologic findings of SARS patients with pneumonia, who were admitted to National Taiwan University Hospital from March 8 to June 15, 2003. Fever was the most frequent ...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, mutations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are being considered when investigating the aetiology of neurological diseases in childhood. However, they are often difficult to predict clinically. METHOD Mitochondrial DNA analysis was carried out on 190 children from 1992 to 1996. Most patients were screened for large scale rearrangements and point mutations at nucleotide pos...

Haematological, biochemical, and endocrine disorders are common in old age, and are often eminently remediable, but assessment of their significance is frequently hampered by problems of interpretation of the laboratory data on which the diagnosis and management of such disorders usually rest. There are several reasons for these difficulties in interpretation. Simpie lack of knowledge of well-e...

The etiology of abomasal ulcers/tympany was investigated in 48 animals from 36 ranches in Wyoming and Nebraska. Results indicate that subclinical trace mineral deficiencies of copper and/or selenium exist in the range cattle in west central Nebraska and Wyoming. Etiological agents most frequently incriminated by bacteriologic cultures and/or histopathic examination were Clostridium perfringens ...