The many excellent reports from East Africa on the obscure cardiopathies, endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and heart muscle disease, might suggest that these are the most important cardiac disorders encountered there; relatively little has been written on the other cardiac disorders of childhood. This communication presents results of a one-year clinical survey of acquired heart disease in Ugandan...

acquired color deficiency in the tritan axis in parkinson’s disease has already been reported, manifesting itself as impaired performance in various visual tasks. however, its clinical significance has always been controversial. in this study we evaluated the performance of parkinson s disease patients in lanthony 15-desaturated clinical test and for the first time, compared it with the standar...

Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) is the most common acquired muscle disease in elderly individuals, particularly men. Its prevalence varies among ethnic groups but is estimated at 35 per one million people over 50. Genetic as well as environmental factors and autoimmune processes might both have a role in its pathogenesis. Unlike other inflammatory myopathies, sIBM causes very slowly pro...

in this report we are going to discuss the following subjects: 1. indications of muscle biopsy in which situation it can not be helpful. 2. how to take a muscle biopsy? 3. how a muscle biopsy should be operated? 4. which techniques do we need to read and interpret a muscle biopsy histologically (h & e staining, histochemical study, electron microscopy). 5. muscle disease histopathologic changes...

In the treatment of acquired heart disease there has always been conflict between the anatomical or mechanical damage to the valves and the more functional element of the disease of the heart muscle itself. In the present age it is difficult to realize how the actual mechanical factor was ignored for so long, and indeed in my young days we were taught that the dominant factor was the rheumatic ...

background: resistive inspiratory muscle training (rimt) is a well-known technique for rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd). incentive spirometry is another technique with potential viability for this application, but there is limited evidence in support of its efficacy in the rehabilitation of copd patients. aim: the objective of this study was to compar...