background: inflammation and infectious agents such as chlamydia pneumoniae have been associated with cardiovascular disease. objective: to evaluate the serum high sensitivity c - reactive protein (hs-crp) and antibodies against chlamydia pneumoniae and chlamydial heat shock protein-60 (cp-hsp60) in patients with ischemic heart disease (ihd). methods: 62 patients with ihd having either acute my...

Down syndrome is the most frequent genetic cause of mental retardation. Although usually presenting dysmorphic features and organ malformations, it is rarely associated with congenital hydrocephalus. The case of male neonate whose hydrocephalus was detected since the pregnancy and was discovered to have the syndrome at birth is reported. Chromosomal analysis confirmed the genetic disorder, and ...

Last year, when d~cussing the 1979 Nobel prizewinners, we introduced a new term-of Nobel class. 1 One major indicator that a scientist is of Nobel class is the publication of several papers of high impact. More often than not, when consistently cited for a long period, such papers can be identified with major breakthroughs. Let’s see whether this is true of the 1980 Nobel prizewinners, and if n...