The involvement of all five offspring of consanguinous and hypertriglyceridemic parents (first cousins) is reported. Three sons and two daughters of this family have increased triglycerides, normal cholesterol, and normal or slightly increased phospholipids. Mother and elder daughter have abnormal glucose tolerance. Father and mother are hypertensive; father had recent development of myocardial...

Mrs G-.'s infant (male), two and a half days old, seen on 12th Nov. 1890, on account of complete obstruction and constant vomiting, along with my friend Dr Home Ross, to whose kindness I am indebted for permission to publish the case. Family History.?Father and mother healthy; no syphilis. The mother has had four pregnancies. The first child is alive, but is strumous; the second was still-born ...

By Geouge S. A. Racking A.B., M.B. (Cantab). Havingbeen told by my chowkedar that he knew of a woman who had twin children "joined," as he said, " by the belly," I told him to have thein brought for me to see; accordingly this morning the father and mother came bringing the twins. The father is about 45, a fairly representative Hindoo of the Moira caste. The mother is a fine healthy looking wom...

Article Direct cholangioscopy has been possible since the 1970’s (1) but reliable intubation of the common bile duct (CBD) and second order ducts has limited the applicability of the technique. One of the limitations to accessing the ducts is the acute angulation between the duodenum and the CBD (2). Various methods have been employed to access the ducts including mother-and-baby endoscopes and...

objective: to assess the relationship between maternal uti during pregnancy and neonatal uti. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study included eighty neonates referred to ali-e-asghar hospital, tehran, iran, in 2011. the participants were divided into the study (with diagnosis of uti; n = 40) and the control (without this type of infection; n = 40) groups. the mothers were asked about...

OBJECTIVE Cow`s milk protein allergy usually occurs in infants within the first months of life. It can affect several organs, but gastrointestinal symptoms are the most clinical symptoms observed. The most effective treatment is restricting the cow `s milk protein in mother and infant`s diet. Lactobacillus GG supplementation in infant could be effective through modulation of the immune system a...

On January 19, 1996 we published in the Internet a demo of how to use Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) for the organization of large collections of full-text les. Later we added other newsgroups to the demo. It can be found at the address http://websom.hut../websom/. In the present paper we describe the main features of this system, called the WEBSOM, as well as some newer developments of it.

It is important to transmit pictures efficiently in most Web sites, especially for those users with low bandwidth connections. In this demonstration, we propose a system which progressively transmits images using a very low transmission rate (as low as 15% in some cases). The transmitted images maintain a reasonable picture quality for the users to browse images quickly. Interested readers can ...