PURPOSE To determine the frequency, causes, risk factors and outcome following early posttraumatic seizure. METHODS A retrospective analysis of age, sex, mechanism of injury, type and onset of unprovoked seizure occurring within one week of injury, admission coma score, and Glasgow outcome score in patients with nonpenetrating head injury. RESULTS Eighty six (10.2%) of 845 head injuredpatie...

Diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) is described as one possible mechanism of acupuncture analgesia. This study investigated the analgesic effect of acupuncture without stimulation compared to nonpenetrating sham acupuncture (NPSA) and cold-pressor-induced DNIC. Forty-five subjects received each of the three interventions in a randomized order. The analgesic effect was measured using pres...

Cellular location of ganglioside-sialidase activity was determined in confluent hamster embryo fibroblasts transformed with herpes simplex virus type 2. Approximately equal specific activities of ganglioside-sialidase activity were found to be associated with the crude lysosomal and crude plasma membrane fractions isolated from whole cell homogenates. Whole transformed cells hydrolyzed exogenou...

Background and Aims. Crohn's disease (CD) is an evolving disease in KSA. Little is known about its characteristics in the Saudi population. The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of Saudi children with CD and to determine whether the characteristics of CD in KSA are different from those seen in Western countries. Methods. In this study, children younger than eighteen years ...

A method is described for measuring the rate of phenotypic variability in normal and neoplastic breast epithelial cells. Three groups of normal human mammary epithelial cells were studied, two derived from reduction mammoplasties and one derived from the normal breast tissue of a patient with fibroadenoma. The breast carcinoma cells were all cell lines, four (MCF-7, SKBR-3, MDA-MB-157, and T47D...

Haplopappus gracilis and Acer saccharum tissue culture cells are extremely sensitive to freezing injury, and exhibit a decrease in survival from 98% at -1 C to 4% at -3 C (Haplopappus) and 92% at -3 C to 13% at -5 C (Acer) when suspended in distilled H(2)O, seeded at -1 C, and then cooled by 0.1 C/minute. Similar results are obtained when cells are suspended in growth medium. The extent of shri...

Tension pneumoperitoneum (TPP), the accumulation of free intraabdominal air under pressure, is a rare event. TPP usually occurs from bowel surgery or bowel perforations. Less commonly, TPP occurs in the presence of pneumothoraces or during positive pressure ventilation. Trauma has rarely been a reported cause of TPP. The cases of 2 patients with TPP after blunt trauma are reported. The pathophy...

Traumatic dislocation of the testis is a rare event after blunt trauma of the scrotum or abdominopelvic injury. The diagnosis may be overlooked because of associated major injuries. In this study, we report on an adult who presented with a left traumatic dislocation of the testis after a falling astride injury. A brief literature review is also cited.

Mother Nature’s blunt and brutal punishment on neglecting or taking for granted her incomparable and exhaustive recourses by either destroying or excessively damaging it. When we make mistakes there should be a person who corrects us in the context of what spoken it is the wrath of Mother Nature to be dealt with. Natural disasters are not of the past but more of the future with regularly occurr...