a 53 year-old woman presented with corneal edema 25 years after uneventful penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus. she was initially misdiagnosed with acute endothelial rejection; however by observation of descemet’s membrane detachment, a diagnosis of late onset corneal hydrops following corneal transplantation was made. this is a rare complication which may occur many years after penetratin...

AIMS To compare the use of biotinylated and digoxigenin labelled probes for diagnosis of human fetal parvovirus B19 infection in formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissues; and to assess the cellular distribution of the virus in positive cases. METHODS Sections of lung tissue from 23 cases of anatomically normal non-immune fetal hydrops presenting between 1984 and 1989, and from 13 control...

Griffiths et al. (1997b) reported a 75-year-old man with a right hemisphere infarction which was supposedly causing misperception of sound-source movement and amusia. This contravenes Morgan’s Canon, that no behaviour should be explained in terms of higher psychological processes until simpler physiological or sensory mechanisms have been excluded. Griffiths et al. (1997a) described another pat...

These 2 cases provide additional examples of HUS occurring in sibs after a long interval. The family resided in New York City, which is not considered as an endemic area for HUS, and the clinical course of the disease in both infants was almost identical, culminating in early death. The aetiology of HUS may indeed be multiple, and the genetic basis for a significant proportion of cases does not...