A Tribute to Professor Jerry Koutts, MD (Syd), BS, FRACP, FRCPA (1944–2013)

A tribute to a brilliant mind: Jerry Vloka, MD, PhD.

As the recipient of the Gaston Labat Award, I was given the privilege to publish a piece in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine on a topic of my choosing. Most awardees elect to write about trends in the field, offer a synopsis of their own research, or pay tribute to an important, but long deceased, contributor to the science and practice of regional anesthesia. But writing accolades to thos...

A Tribute to Late Professor Mahlagha Ghorbanli

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

Feneley MD, FRACP

As in the report of Manning et al,2 anticoagulation management was not uniform in the present series,' reflecting physician judgements regarding the requirement for and contraindications to anticoagulation. Our study did not address the optimal duration of anticoagulation after cardioversion, which may depend on the time course of atrial function after cardioversion6 and the likelihood of arrhy...

Membrane Science and Research: A Tribute to Professor Takeshi Matsuura

Geoffrey A . Donnan , MD , FRACP , and Stephen

Lacunes are small deep infarcts which cavitate, producing “lacunes” (French for lake).1 “Lacunar infarcts” have been thought of as strokes caused by intrinsic disease of small vessels called lipohyalinosis, resulting from hypertension2 and diabetes.3 Contrary to this established dogma, the literature demonstrates that emboli are the cause of lacunes. Almost all of the histopathological evaluati...