OBJECTIVE To observe the improvement of functional dyspepsia (FD) after helicobacter pylori (HP) eradication in FD patients. METHODS 644 FD patients were recruited of whom 585 completed follow up. They were divided into postprandial distress syndrome (PDS) group and epigastric pain syndrome (EPS) group. Patients with HP infection were randomly allocated into eradication group and non-eradicat...

BACKGROUND Workers chronically exposed to manganese in welding fumes may develop an extra-pyramidal syndrome with postural and action tremors. OBJECTIVES To determine the utility of tremor analysis in distinguishing tremors among workers exposed to welding fumes, patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (IPD) and Essential Tremor (ET). METHODS Retrospective study of recorded tremor in s...

Male schizophrenia patients are known to have a heavier smoking pattern compared with the general population. However, the mechanism for this association is not known, though hypothesis that smoking could alleviate symptomatology of schizophrenia and reduce side effects of antipsychotics has been suggested. The aims of this study were to validate the heavier smoking pattern among male schizophr...

Computer simulation of Electrophysiology Study (EPS) is realized by employing pacing protocols in EPS with the Wei-Harumi model. Intracardiac electrograms induced by typical pacing protocols–including the basic interval measurement, atrial extrastimulus pacing, ventricular extrastimulus pacing, incremental atrial pacing, and incremental ventricular pacing are successfully reproduced with a mode...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The association between clinical symptoms, gastric emptying, quality of life and sleep disorders in distinct functional dyspepsia (FD) patients has not been studied yet in detail. METHODS We enrolled 79 FD patients (postprandial distress syndrome [PDS], n = 65; epigastric pain syndrome [EPS], n = 47; EPS-PDS overlap, n = 33) and 44 healthy volunteers. Gastric motility was eval...

BACKGROUND Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare side-effect of neuroleptic medication. Most NMS reports have been on adults, and the incidence in children and adolescents is unknown. OBJECTIVE This report reviews cases of NMS to highlight possible risk factors for the development of NMS in adolescents. METHOD Four cases of probable NMS in adolescents diagnosed in the Western Cape ...

Lehrstuhl fur Genetik, Fakultat fur Biologie, Universitdt Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany The soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti (Rhizobium meliloti) has the ability to produce the alternative exopolysaccharide galactoglucan (EPS II) in addition to succinoglycan (EPS I). In the wild-type strain EPS II production is induced by phosphate-limiting conditions or by extra c...

One of the leading causes of death in young adults in some countries, Brugada syndrome has been the focus of many clinical and research investigations since 1992.1 Large prospective cohort studies have advanced our knowledge of this syndrome. We now know that Brugada syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by mutations in the cardiac sodium channel (e.g., SCN5A) that result in o...