To the Editor: Miskowiak et al1 showed that recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) has the potential to treat cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder patients. Specifically, they found that rhEPO enhanced both sustained attention and speed of complex information processing across learning, attention, and executive function in bipolar disorder patients with moderate to severe cognitive probl...

Enthesitis of the ligamentum teres during ankylosing spondylitis: histopathological report We were interested to read the article by Inoue et al' on ossification of the medial acetabular floor, including the ligamentum teres as a possible mechanism of lateral sub-luxation in coxopathy associated with anky-losing spinal hyperostosis. A few years ago we saw a patient suffering from ankylosing spo...

1. Professor Md. Habibur Rahman, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka Cell: 01711381693, 2. Dr. Tahmina Jesmin, MD Resident (Phase B), Paediatric Nephrology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka. 2. Dr. Afroza Begum, Associate Professor of Paediatric Nephrology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka. 3....

HUMAN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS (HAT), KNOWN AS SLEEPING SICKNESS, HAS REEMERGED IN 36 COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND IS AN IMPORTANT CAUSE OF HUMAN MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY.1 It results from the infectious bite of tsetse flies (genus Glossina), which inoculate protozoan parasites of the Trypanosoma species. The East African form is provoked by Trypanosoma brucei (T. b.) rhodesiense; ...

Treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (PeF) remains a procedural challenge with high recurrence rate after catheter ablation. Posterior wall isolation (PWI) has emerged as potential concomitant treatment strategy for PAF conflicting outcomes. PWI introduces left (LA) roof and low posterior line through series radiofrequency (RF) applications to achieve entrance exit block the LA wall. It ...

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed in 14 patients with intracavitary cardiac tumors diagnosed by echocardiography. Except in the patients whose echocardiograms were diagnostic of atrial myxomas, this modality contributed important additional anatomic information regarding the tumor's relationship to the normal intracardiac structures and/or its extension to the adjacent vascular and ...

Address correspondence to Betsy Dokken, NP, PhD, CDE, University of Arizona Department of Medicine, 1656 East Mabel St., Room 412, Tucson, AZ 85724-5218. The Kidney as a Treatment Target for Type 2 Diabetes Betsy Dokken, NP, PhD, CDE Worldwide, more than 220 million people have diabetes.1 In the United States, diabetes is present in 8.3% of the population.2 Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90–95% o...

Padraic Fallon recently presented an excellent summary of cytokine responses and immunopathology in infected mice and humans1. We wish to take issue with several points, including Fallon’s implication that morbidity and death in immunodeficient mice caused by type 1 cytokine responses is relevant to human schistosomiasis. In this model, hepatocellular toxicity1,2 is apparently caused by Schisto...

Thrombus in a Stroke Patient With Sinus Rhythm To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Ay et al1 concerning the relationship between high plasma homocysteine levels and risk for left atrial thrombus formation in patients with stroke caused by nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Their finding supports the thrombogenic role of high homocysteine in conditions associated with ...

Our perception of the age at which a patient becomes elderly is liable to alter when policemen start to look younger but more objective changes have also been at work. Because of lower birth rates and increased life expectation people over 65 now comprise 15% of the population of England and Wales. Immunisation, antibiotics and improved social conditions have eliminated or emasculated many dise...