Hindistan’ın eşsiz zenginlikleri tarihte birçok hükümdarın dikkatini çekmiştir. Bu sebepten dolayı Hindistan’a tarihsel süreçte komutan sefer düzenlemiştir. Büyük İskender, Gazneli Sultan Mahmud ve Zahirüddin Muhammed Babür bu liderlerden bazılarıdır. muhteşem Türkistan’da büyük bir devlet kuran Timur’un da Timur, Mart 1398’de Hindistan Seferine çıkmış Nisan 1399’da başkenti Semerkant’a geri dö...

Adrian V. Hernandez, MD, PhD, FACC Postgraduate School, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima 27, Peru; and Health Outcomes and Clinical Epidemiology Section, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,OH 44195, USA. Tel: +51-954157044; email: [email protected] Conflicts of interest: I declare I have no conflict...

T wenty-two years have passed since the original description by Tomisaku Kawasaki of the syndrome that now bears his name.' The syndrome is now known to occur throughout the world. The true annual incidence in the United States is unknown, but overall incidence is estimated to be 4.5-9.5 per 100,000 children under 5 years of age in nonepidemic years, whereas during epidemics, the incidence incr...

Isolated hypoaldosteronism is a rare autosomal recessive disease presenting with severe salt wasting and failure to thrive in infancy. A 6-month-old Saudi girl born to consanguineous parents was referred from primary health care for failure to thrive and developmental delay. Laboratory tests revealed hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, and metabolic acidosis with high renin and low aldosterone. Blood s...