three cases of hepatic coma due to acute hepatitis were treated by exchange transfusion with citrated blood. this was preformed in the first 2 cases (patients no 1 and no 2) after failing to respond to other forms of treatment, and in the last patient, who was admitted to hospital in coma, a few hours after admission. (patient no 3) two of the 3 patients, patients 1 and 3 recovered, 1 died, (pa...

A patient with posthypoxic "alpha coma" is described whose EEGs were recorded before coma, within two hours following the onset of coma and after recovery. The differences observed between the alpha activity during coma and that seen before and after suggest that the alpha activity during coma and the physiologic alpha rhythm are different phenomena. This case, as well as others reported, also ...

A 36-years-old man on phenytoin, levetiracetam, and sodium valproate presented with acute confusion. Routine investigations including serum valproate and phenytoin concentration were normal. His serum ammonia concentration was raised. His valproate was held and 2 days later he recovered with concordant normalisation of serum ammonia concentration. Urea acid cycle disorder was ruled out, and a d...

Scalable shared memory multiprocessors traditionally use either a cache coherent non uniform memory access CC NUMA or simple cache only memory architecture S COMA memory architecture Recently hybrid architectures that combine aspects of both CC NUMA and S COMA have emerged In this paper we present two improvements over other hybrid architectures The rst improvement is a page allocation algorith...

A 41-year-old woman was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 31. After a thyroidectomy at 33 years old, she was found to have subclinical hypothyroidism: the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) was 6.196 uIU/ml (reference range: 0.34-5.60) and free thyroxine (FT4) was 0.46 ng/dl (reference range: 0.54-1.40). No intervention was given due to her refusal. She started to participate in the day-care un...