Erratum to: Neuro-otology—some recent clinical advances

Recent advances in clinical practice RECENT ADVANCES IN COELIAC DISEASE

Correspondence to: Professor D A van Heel, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, Turner St, London E1 2AD, UK; [email protected] _________________________ T he management of coeliac disease is an increasing part of a gastroenterologist’s workload. Recent prevalence studies suggest ,1% of the general UK population have po...

Pyrophosphate arthropathy--recent clinical advances.

It is now 20 years since McCarty et al. identified calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals in synovial fluid from patients with acute arthritis and radiological chondrocalcinosis.' CPPD crystals were subsequently shown to be inflammatory both in vivo and in vitro2 and their causal role in joint disease, reflected by the term 'CPPD crystal-induced synovitis', was readily accepted. Cadave...

RECENT ADVANCES in CLINICAL MEDICINE

Neonatal drug dosing needs to be based on the physiological characteristics of the newborn and the pharmacokinetic parameters of the drug. Size-related changes can in part be modelled based on allometry and relates to the observation that metabolic rate relates to weight by a kg 0.75 trend. Until adult metabolic activity has been reached, ontogeny, i.e. iso-enzyme specific maturation and matura...

Recent Advances in Clinical Pathology

Recent Advances in Clinical Pathology

The author has written a long monograph on a subject which is accorded no more than a few pages in most text-books. This is not to be wondered at when it is remembered that he has devoted almost 30 years to the study of the stomach and has been responsible for the development and popularization of a technique which makes possible the direct visualization of most of the interior of that organ. T...