Light chain deposition disease (LCDD) is a rare condition that characterized by the of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chains in glomerular and tubular basement membranes. We report case 72-year-old male with long-standing stable chronic kidney (CKD) presumably due to hypertension.

At first sight, echolocating bats face a difficult trade-off. As flying animals, they would benefit from a streamlined geometric shape to reduce aerodynamic drag and increase flight efficiency. However, as echolocating animals, their pinnae generate the acoustic cues necessary for navigation and foraging. Moreover, species emitting sound through their nostrils often feature elaborate noseleaves...

Any time you have philosophers working on a problem, you know you’ve got troubles. If a question has attracted the attention of the philosophers that means that either it is intractably difficult with convolutions and labyrinthine difficulties that would make other researchers blanch, or that it is just flat out impossible to solve. Impossible problems masquerade as intractable problems until s...

OBJECTIVE Microcalcification is strongly correlated with papillary thyroid cancer. It is not clear whether macrocalcification is associated with malignancy. In this study, we aimed to assess the result of fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB) of thyroid nodules with macrocalcifications. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 269 patients (907 nodules). Macrocalcifications were cla...

Self-organized networks, also known as ad hoc networks or MANETs, are expected to soon become important components in the Internet architecture. Numerous efforts currently focus on the accomplishment of scalable and efficient mobile ad hoc routing, an essential piece in order to fully integrate ad hoc networks in the Internet. However, an orthogonal and yet as important issue lies with ad hoc I...

Morris and Hirst [10] present a method of linking significant words that are about the same topic. The resulting lexical chains are a means of identifying cohesive regions in a text, with applications in many natural language processing tasks, including text summarization. The first lexical chains were constructed manually using Roget’s International Thesaurus. Morris and Hirst wrote that autom...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/res In this issue of Respiration, Yasuma [1] reports on 5 cases of congestive heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) treated with low levels of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for at least 1 year. The CPAP ameliorated the CSR and improved left ventricular ejection fractions. This confirms previous observations and establishes that quite...