Polycythaemia vera is associated with thrombotic phenomenon due to hyperviscosity of blood. Splenic infarction with splenomegaly is a catastrophic complication usually requiring splenectomy. We describe a case of splenic infarction as an initial manifestation of polycythaemia vera which was treated with serial phlebotomies and hydroxyurea alone, without the need for surgery.

It is difficult to know how many fatalities and injuries in an earthquake may have been avoided by a mitigating action because the result without the mitigation can usually not be estimated with a useful reliability. The case of the evacuation before the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake offers a rare opportunity to quantitatively estimate the number of casualties saved. We show that the compute...

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The availability of free Software Development Kits for recent mobile device platforms challenges many developers in realizing applications for the growing Smartphone market. In many cases such applications may interoperate in their working environment using mechanisms similar to the inter-process communication (IPC) and made available by the mobile operating system. Unfortunately, mobile device...