In contrast to urogenital chlamydial infection, trachoma is a household disease that has disappeared in Japan as many parts of world because of improved living conditions and hygiene. However, chlamydial inclusion conjunctivitis is still not a rare disease in the outpatient clinics of general Japanese ophthalmologists. The serovars that we identified from Japanese infants and pregnant women wer...

The Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems (WOWCS) was organized to “bring together conference organizers (past, present, and future) and other interested people to discuss the issues they confront.” In addition to the position papers submitted to the workshop, the WOWCS program committee has collected a bibliography of previous publications in this are...

We encountered a case with hyperthyroidism at the age of 14 who had been diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and had received thyroid hormone replacement therapy. At the age of 16 d, the patient was referred to our hospital because of positive results at neonatal screening for CH. Serum level of TSH was 91.0 μU/ml and serum level of T4 was 6.9 μg/dl. The patient was diagnosed as havin...

Purpose of study It is widely recognised that liver disease causes significant morbidity and mortality in HIV positive patients. Many patients are co-infected with hepatitis B and C, have increased alcohol intake or are on hepatotoxic medication e.g. nevirapine, which can cause acute hepatitis or liver cirrhosis. Nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH) is characterised by the presence of diffuse...

INTRODUCTION Takayasu's arteritis is a chronic vasculitis mainly involving the aorta and its main branches. The disease has protean clinical manifestation ranging from asymptomatic to catastrophic illness. CASE PRESENTATION A 19-year-old woman of Asian origin was referred to our neurology out-patient department for the management of refractory seizures. She reported several episodes of a loss...