tently lead to the widely-held, and quite erroneous, opinion that the clinical presentation and neurological damage would be the same and, having the same etiology, could be prevented in the same manner. But this is not so. True cretinism can only be avoided by an adequate iodine intake through gestation. This simply requires substituting all household salt, and that available to domestic anima...

In their paper "Volumetric capnography in patients with acute lung injury: effects of positive end-expiratory pressure", BLANCH et al. [1] use a "new" term: "alveolar ejection volume" (VAE). This is intended as an index of " ... uneven ventilation/ perfusion of heterogeneous alveoli which may be useful to monitor in patients with ARDS [acute respiratory distress syndrome] receiving mechanical v...

Iris melanosis is an unusual condition characterised by the presence of minute, discrete, pigmented elevations arising from the anterior surface of the iris. We encountered two unrelated Mexican families in which all children, but no parent, had varying degrees of the condition bilaterally. Some family members also gave findings suggestive of ocular hypertension. No family member had any other ...