Inge Israel

n ° 2001 - 14 Inge

The paper assesses the marginal welfare and equity impacts of three transport instruments in the presence of three transport externalities: congestion, air pollution and accidents. It considers a second-best economy in which the government has to use distortionary taxes for revenue-raising and distributional purposes. The assessment uses an applied general equilibrium model for Belgium. The tra...

INGE ALFERINK and MARIANNE GULLBERG

Inge Edler and the origins of clinical echocardiography.

Many cardiologists know that Inge Edler and Hellmuth Hertz started clinical echocardiography in 1953, but few know how their collaboration came about. Edler was working as Director of the Cardiovascular Laboratory at the University Hospital in Lund in the south of Sweden, and one of his duties was to refer patients with rheumatic mitral disease for closed valvotomy. He aimed to select only thos...

The origin of echocardiography: a tribute to Inge Edler.

The original description of M-mode echocardiography in 1953, by Inge Edler (1911-2001) and his physicist friend Hellmuth Hertz, marked the beginning of a new diagnostic noninvasive technique. Edler used this technique primarily for the preoperative study of mitral stenosis and diagnosis of mitral regurgitation. His work was carried forward by cardiologists all over the world, who developed Dopp...

Down syndrome in Israel.

The incidence of Down syndrome was studied in Jerusalem for the years 1964-1970 showing an overall incidence rate of 2.43 per 1,000 live births. A National Down Syndrome Register was established in 1978 and data on annual incidence and mortality rates from 1979-1997 is presented. The incidence in 1997 was 1.0 per 1,000 live births, but 2.32 per 1,000, when live births and terminated pregnancies...