our own 3 is presented. Boys are affected more frequently than girls (1-8 :1) and the onset is during the first 12 months of life in 92% of cases. The main clinical features are emaciation, overactivity, pleasant disposition, and above-average height. The natural course of the disease is variable. Treatment is by radiotherapy. Operative intervention, except to relieve intracranial hypertension,...

In-patient management with initial focus on weight restoration for an emaciated young girl with anorexia nervosa is reported. Integrative approach to management of this case yielded gratifying results which are maintained beyond one year after-discharge period.

Dr. Robert Barnes's masterly work, Lectures on Obstetric Operations, first published in 1870, has been to me a most useful guide and counsellor in obstetric difficulties of this kind. On page 378 of the fourth edition, 1886, Dr. Barnes gives a list of " certain cases of urgent disease of the mother, depending upon and complicating pregnancy?e.g., obstinate vomiting, with progressive emaciation,...

Abstract An 11‐year‐old, female, spayed border collie displayed vomiting and diarrhoea for a period of 3 months presented with severe emaciation. A laparotomy confirmed the presence gastric lesion, histopathologic evaluation revealed diagnosis carcinoma. The dog was treated hypofractionated intensity‐modulated radiation therapy achieved clinical improvement approximately after treatment. Given ...

Paratuberculosis (Johne‟s disease) is widely distributed throughout the world and is caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) (Baumgartner and Johnannes, 2008). The disease mainly affects domestic and wild ruminants (Chiodini et al., 1984) but MAP can also be found in numerous monogastric animals (Klee, 2002). Johne‟s disease (JD) characterized by emaciation, progressive ...

relapse it was so great that the men looked like mere skeletons. The appearance of the face, which by some writers is considered to be almost pathognomonic, I consider to be not uulike that seen in India as the result of other wasting diseases, the sunken look of the eyes being due to the absorption of the orbital fat and being part of the general process of absorption which takes place during ...

a rigor and during some bouts there was a daily rigor. Examination showed a well-developed man. There was marked emaciation. Temperature 99; pulse 105; respiration 26; blood pressure 90/60. Examination of the abdomen revealed a lump situated in the left hypochondriac and left lumbar regions, extending from about 1^ inches below the left costal margin to the level of the umbilicus. It moved slig...

We studied the effects of protein-energy malnutrition on the liver morphology of rats as compared to animal emaciation and to reduction in size of the organs not irrigated by splanchnic blood such as kidneys and spleen. The animals were divided into two groups, one of them fed ad libitum rate (N = 10) and the other (N = 14) receiving water but no food for 7 days, and the changes in animal weigh...

There is growing concern about the health status of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena in the North Sea and adjacent areas. The interaction between toxicological results (Zn, Cd, Cu, Fe, Se, Hg), stable isotope data (δ13C and δ15N) and the most common pathological findings, namely emaciation and lesions of the respiratory system, were investigated in 132 porpoises collected along the coasts...