682 Dn. SILVERMAN: I shall present the history of an infant who was admitted to our premature nursery on May 9, 1956. This Puerto Rican male infant was born during the thirtysixth week of an uneventful pregnancy. An antenatal serologic test for syphilis was negative. Delivery was spontaneous. Birth weight was 1070 gm. Physical examination on admission to the nursery revealed the liver to be 1 c...

Aims and Objective: Comparative study of hepatic changes in patients of metabolic syndrome and chronic alcoholism. Material and Method: The material of the study included 30 metabolic syndrome patients and 30 chronic alcoholics selected from the medicine outdoor clinic (including diabetic clinic) and medicine indoor wards as well as from GI clinic of Postgraduate Department of Medicine, S.N. Me...

FiedieV has divided the progress of Well's disease into three stages. According to him, the first 2 or 3 days constitute the initial period. The second stage commences variously from the 3rd to the 6th day following the onset of the disease, and is characterized by icterus, edema of the liver, tumor of the spleen, albuminuria, hemorrhagic diathesis, etc. He classes a defervescent period from th...

The presence of potentially dangerous amounts of selenium in various plants taken from the areas where geeldikkop and enzootic icterus are prevalent was noted in a preliminary report by Brown & de Wet in 1962. The element was found to occur in high concentrations in the livers and kidneys of animals suffering from enzootic icterus and in lesser, but still significant amounts, in the same tissue...

Until recently, studies of divergence and gene flow among closely-related taxa were generally limited to pairs of sister taxa. However, organisms frequently exchange genes with other non-sister taxa. The "northern oriole" group within genus Icterus exemplifies this problem. This group involves the extensively studied hybrid zone between Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) and Bullock's oriole (I...

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic infection causing clinical and subclinical disease in dogs, humans, and other mammalian species. Although more than 200 different Leptospira interrogans serovars have been identified (11), the serovars most commonly isolated from dogs with clinical leptospirosis in Southern Germany are L. grippothyphosa and L. saxkoebing (3). However, vaccines currently available in ...

The cystic dilatation of the common bile duct is a rare pathology. It is the second surgical case of cholestasis icterus in infants after biliary duct atresia. It still poses problems of differential diagnosis and treatment. A girl aged 2 years has been admitted in our department for exploration of an abdominal distension. The physical examination has shown the presence of a large mass at the l...