USES OF COLLODION.

Ultrafiltration through Collodion Membranes

It is obvious that the factors considered in this paper render data obtained by ultrafiltration open to criticism unless they are checked by other methods and precautions are taken for the elimination of the vitiating effects which have been described. As regards the mechanism of ultrafiltration, the view of a sieve-like action as most experimental evidence indicates, is adequate, if all the fa...

Collodion skin of the newborn.

Case 1.-Patrick G. was born on December 27, 1952, as a breech delivery and weighed 7 lb. It was the fourth pregnancy, the other children being alive and well except for the elder twin of the second pregnancy who died at 3 weeks of age from congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus. There was no history of ichthyosis in the family. At birth the infant cried readily but had a varnished appe...

Ectropion in A Case of Collodion Baby

Uses of intravenous immunoglobulin

Adjuvant high dose IVIgs are being used increasingly in a range of immune-mediated and auto-immune diseases. Although numerous immunomodulatory mechanisms have been suggested, the exact mechanisms of action are poorly understood. The efficacy of IVIg in certain diseases has been proven in clinical trials, in so far as IVIg is approved as the therapy of choice for Kawasaki syndrome and idiopathi...

Collodion babies with Gaucher's disease.

Two neonates with acute infantile cerebral Gaucher's disease had prominent collodion skin. Ichthyosis has been described in some cases of metabolic lipid disorders, however, this is the first report of the association of lamellar desquamation of the newborn (collodion baby) with Gaucher's disease.