Intravenous analgesic use in dialysis patients We would like to congratulate Dr Pauli-Magnus and his cholesterol, triglyceride, alkaline phosphatase, creatine colleagues for their work that further elucidates the pharm-kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase acokinetics and hazards of the use of morphine in ESRD and alanine aminotransferase. Ascorbate leads to well-known confu...

INTRODUCTION A considerable segment of the elderly population in Iran is illiterate, and it seems the existing neuropsychological screening tests are not very useful for detecting dementia in illiterate participants. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a tool called Persian test of Elderly for Assessment of Cognition and Executive function (PEACE) for detecting dementia in bot...

Lisa Rådman (2016). Self-reported symptoms and neurosensory function after electrical accidents: a survey among Swedish male electricians Professionals working in electrical fields are at risk for accidental exposure to electricity on a daily basis. Electrical accidents can cause long-term sequelae manifesting as neurological symptoms, including in the peripheral nervous system. The overall aim...

Systemic lupus erythematou s (SLE) is uncommon in children and multiple sclerosis (MS) is extre mely rare. Both the di seases have a chronic, relaps ing course and very rarely they have occurred in the same indi-vidual^) wh en a com mon und erlying etiology has been suggested(2). Both SLE and MS are asso ciated with HLA-DR2 allele and have occurred in twins of successive generatio ns(3). We des...

See related article, pages 198–203 In this issue of Stroke, Snaphaan and de Leeuw report on their results obtained from a systematic review on poststroke memory dysfunction.1 Of the 798 articles their search strategy identified, only 5 mentioned memory testing at different poststroke intervals, only 3 studies followed patients for at least 1 year, whereas the largest study contained only 196 pa...

Lundström, Ronnie, 1985. Vibration exposure of the glabrous skin of the human hand. Umeå University, Medical Dissertions, New Series, 136. An occupational exposure to hand-arm vibration can cause a complex of neu­ rological, vascular and musculo-skeletal disturbances, known as the 'vibra­ tion syndrome'. However, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are not at all clear. Early signs of ...

This 12-year-old girl was first referred to the paediatric nephrological outpatient clinic in January 1994, for the investigation of acute renal failure. The patient is the older child (she has a younger healthy brother) of Introduction non-consanguineous parents of Iraqi origin. Her maternal grandmother is on maintenance haemodialysis due to end-stage renal disease of unknown Panniculitis is d...

A 41-year-old non-Hispanic white woman, accompanied by her psychiatrist, presented for immunologic consultation with an armload of medical records. The patient’s primary concerns were environmental mold exposure and a productive cough attributed to recurrent upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Although initially relating the beginning of her infections to mold exposure over the previo...