It is recognised that, although in some patients monarthritis is rheumatoid in nature and progresses to a typical polyarthritis, the prognosis in many is not at all clear. In this study we have examined the clinical, serological and radiological features of patients with monarthritis. have assessed the value of open biopsy, and have attempted to make a firm diagnosis when possible. MATERIAL AND...

Bach JR, DeCicco A: Forty-eight years with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2011;90:868Y870.

In 1967, the first reported filovirus hemorrhagic fever outbreak took place in Germany and the former Yugoslavia. The causative agent that was identified during this outbreak, Marburg virus, is one of the most deadly human pathogens. This article provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge about Marburg virus disease ranging from ecology to pathogenesis and molecular biology.

With the recent technological advances, neurostimulation has provided new hope for millions of patients with debilitating chronic pain conditions that respond poorly to other therapies. Outcome research demonstrated that patients with failed back surgery syndrome and complex regional pain syndromes benefit significantly from neurostimulation in pain reduction, functional capacity, and quality o...

This is a selection of open problems dealing with “large” (non locally compact) topological groups and concerning extreme amenability (fixed point on compacta property), oscillation stability, universal minimal flows and other aspects of universality, and unitary representations. A topological group G is extremely amenable, or has the fixed point on compacta property, if every continuous action...

BACKGROUND Over a period of 40 years, SNOMED has developed from a pathology-specific nomenclature (SNOP) into a logic-based health care terminology. In spite of its long existence and continuous evolvement, it is yet unknown to what extent SNOMED is used in clinical practice, and what benefits were achieved. The aim of this paper is to investigate this by providing an overview of published stud...

The Central Dogma. This states that once 'information' has passed into protein it cannot get out again. In more detail, the transfer of information from nucleic acid to protein may be possible, but transfer from protein to protein, or from protein to nucleic acid is impossible. Information means here the precise determination of sequence, either of bases in the nucleic acid or of amino-acid res...