Moderate anaemia of a hypochromic, normocytic type is a common feature of rheumatoid arthritis and disturbance of iron metabolism is a prominent feature of this anaemia. Several previous reports in this series have described abnormalities in the metabolism of iron in this disease (Roy, Alexander, and Duthie, 1955; Richmond, Gardner, Roy, and Duthie, 1956; Richmond, Roy, Gardner, Alexander, and ...

1 Starzl TE, Groth CG, Brettschneider L, Penn I, Fulginiti VA, Moon JB, et al. Orthotopic homotransplantation of the human liver. Ann Surg 1%8;168: 392-415. 2 National Institutes of Health Consensus Development. Conference statement: liver transplantation-June 20-23. Hepatology 1984;4(suppl): 107-10. 3 Starzl TE, Koep LJ, Schroter GPJ, Halgrimson CG, Porter KA, Weil R. Liver replacement for ped...

shwaehman syndrome, next to cystic fibrosis, is the second cause of congenita! exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in children. it appears as steatorrhea, recurrent infections and hematologic abnormalities such as neutropenia, skeletal dysplasia and short stature. in this study, we reviewed 3 patients' histories. all of them showed cellular chemotaxic defect. one of them had been affected by neph...

The Voxel Imaging PET (VIP) Pathfinder project intends to show the advantages of using pixelated semiconductor technology for nuclear medicine applications to achieve an improved image reconstruction without efficiency loss. It proposes designs for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) and Compton gamma camera detectors with a large number of signal channels (o...