Renal tubular magnesium loss in association with a defect in tubular chloride reabsorption has been reported in Bartter’s and Gitelman’s syndromes. Clinically, both syndromes are characterized by hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis, renal salt wasting, hyperreninaemic hyperaldosteronism and altered renal prostaglandin metabolism [1]. In Bartter’s syndrome, hypomagnesaemia occurs in 20% of patients...

I knew that it was going to be a long day. It was the morning round, the intensive care unit (ICU) was full, staff were racing around shouting orders at each other, telling me to cancel the cardiothoracic list ‘because we had no beds’ and the night resident began the hand over by stating that the first patient who had just been admitted, intubated, ventilated and paralysed, was an 81 year old m...

BACKGROUND The relative length of the second and fourth fingers (2D:4D) may be a sex-linked correlate of prenatal androgen exposure. However, the nature of the sex-linkage is controversial, with evidence for both X- and Y-linkage of the 2D:4D phenotype. AIMS To examine transgenerational effects relating to sex-linkage. In addition, assortative mating on 2D:4D was considered, as well as associ...

As creative writers we produce dialogue between others, first-person narratives representing and in various ways the voices of characters not ourselves. Problems can arise when feign other-culture, other-gender, other-era or other-aged voices. In this context, case Frederick Kohner his character Gidget, based on daughter Kathy, provides insights. This article suggests that older-generation spin...

a patient with middle cerebral aneurysm whose twin brother might have died from a cerebrovascular accident eight years previously. Jokl and Wolffe (1954) described sudden death from such diseases in identical twins. Chambers et al. (1954) were the first to detect this malady in father and son. Ross (1959) noted the occurrence of cerebral aneurysms in mother and daughter. Ulirich and Sugar (1960...

conclusions the patients with diffuse pjs may be asymptomatic and without gastrointestinal or extragastrointestinal malignancies. introduction peutz-jeghers syndrome (pjs) is a rare disorder characterized by mucocutaneous perioral pigmentation, gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis, and an increased risk of malignancy. families with pjs may show a variable spectrum of manifestations in spite...

To identify the possibility of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vertical transmission from father to fetus, eight male HBV carriers whose wives were negative for any HBV marker and their eight aborted fetuses who had been infected with HBV in utero, were studied. S gene 451 approximately 660 nucleotide sequence of HBV in 6 cases of father/fetus pairs and C gene 2022 approximately 2321 nucleotide sequenc...

This article is based on the “Religion and Human Rights 2,0” research, a survey carried out in Croatia (N = 1286) conducted high school, Gymnasium, students 17-19 years old. It examines influence of parents’ religiosity religious practice adolescents among Catholics 1097). There are three dominant questions to be addressed article: a) how much does their parents young people? b) affect specific...