Introduction: Infant botulism is a relatively uncommon but potentially life threatening cause of a septic appearing or lethargic infant. Case Report: A 6­week­old male infant presented to the emergency department with a history of poor feeding and fever for several days. His parents reported that he had been “more sleepy than usual” and had a weak cry. He had not passed any stool for five days....

A model for extremely flexible tethered membranes is studied by Monte Carlo simulations and scaling arguments. In contrast to the standard string-and-bead models, no finite-range hard-core repulsion is used to ensure self-avoidance. Instead, the elementary triangles are taken to be impenetrable. Although this leads to an extremely floppy tethered network, the surface is found to be asymptotical...

Floppy infants exhibit poor control of movement, delayed motor skills, and hypotonic motor movement patterns. Weak infants always have hypotonia, but hypotonia may exist without weakness. Some indications of CNS abnormality are because of poor state of alertness, lack of response to visual and auditory stimuli, inability to manage co-ordinated functions like swallowing and sucking noted that th...

Background. The aim of this study is to present a method of lid laxity evaluation and investigate whether there is an association between floppy eyelid syndrome (FES) and body mass index (BMI) in sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) patients compared to normal subjects. Method. A total of 135 participants (81 patients with SAS and 54 normal subjects) had a full ophthalmologic examination. The presence of...

OBJECTIVE Intraoperative-floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) has been recently described. It has been demonstrated that this new syndrome complicates cataract surgery. In this paper we have reviewed the syndrome, and offer practical information specially related to the origin and management of this syndrome and we offer practical information. MATERIAL AND METHODS A review of the related medical liter...

Congenital myotonic dystrophy (CMD) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder with cardiac rhythm abnormalities that may occur as a child grows. No report has described complete atrioventricular (AV) block detected in a neonate with CMD. We report a floppy infant of 31(+4) weeks gestation with complete AV block at birth, who was diagnosed with CMD by Southern analysis. She recovered from complete ...

During crystallization of glass-forming melts an important amount of stress energy may develop. The reason for this development is the difference in volume of the new system and that in the ambient phase. Therefore, the growth rate decreases with time. Here we develop an algorithm for the process of crystallization using Monte Carlo simulation techniques that takes into account the stress energ...