OBJECTIVE The relationship between homocysteine (HCY) levels and cognitive impairments, particularly executive functions in bipolar disorder (BD), has recently been investigated. However, conflicting results were reported. The aim of the present study is to investigate changes in serum HCY, methionine, vitamine B12 and levels in BD patients are relative to controls and to investigate the relati...

The recent work of Chick and Hume,’ Cohen and Mendel,2 Hess and Unger,z and Givens and Cohen4 gives full support to the earlie,r views of Hoist and Fr61ichK that scurvy is the result of a deficiency of some nutritive factor in the diet. If we understand by the term vitamine the chemically unknown substances of food origin essential for the normal performance of the function of animal life there...

Plusieurs pathologies médicales peuvent interférer avec la grossesse et mimer le tableau biologique de HELLP syndrome. L’évolution naturelle de ce syndrome est d’une particulière gravité pour la mère et le fœtus, il convient d’éliminer rapidement les autres diagnostics afin d’éviter une extraction fœtale prématurée injustifiée. Nous rapportons le cas d’une parturiente qui s’est présentée avec u...