A 42-year-old woman was admitted for a complex partial seizure. At age 18 years, she had transient diplopia, which was considered a simple strabismus. Current examination revealed a left VI cranial nerve palsy and right arm hyperreflexia. Neuroimaging showed multiple intraparenchymal cystic lesions in white matter (figure), multiple calcifications in basal ganglia, and extensive bilateral leuko...

Posteroseptal accessory pathways are often associated with coronary sinus diverticula. These diverticula contain myocardial coats which serve as a bypass tract. We report a 54-year-old woman who underwent radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation for Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. The surface electrocardiography (ECG) demonstrated pre-excitation, indicating a posteroseptal accessory pathway....

the incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection in a medical intensive care unit, which would seem to support the claim that clothes are a potential fomite for NI. NI accounted for 1.7 million infections in 2002, which resulted in 99,000 deaths in the United States, and it is estimated to cost $6.7 billion per year [19, 20]. With such a significant impact from NIs, it is understanda...

purpose: to evaluate the vascular occlusion in coats’ disease   methods: in this non-comparative case series, 13 consecutive patients with coats’ disease from january 2011 to september 2011 were included. the hypercoagulability states were evaluated in these patients.   results: the mean age of the patients in this series was 15.4 years. all but one patient had high anti-cytomegalovirus antibod...

PURPOSE We report the detection of peripheral retinal vascular abnormalities in the fellow eye with normal fundus in children with unilateral Coats' disease. METHODS The clinical records of patients diagnosed with Coats' disease were retrospectively reviewed. We recorded the subjects' characteristics and obtained fundus photography and fluorescein angiography (FA) images. The main outcome mea...

Introduction The circumlineatus gene (C/) was discovered by R. Prakken (1972). Circumlineatus is recessive and is expressed in partly colored seed coats (0 with restricted patterns, such as virgarcus. Cl was discovered in a cross between 'White J' {Tz cl Rk) x 'Soldaat K' (/ z Cl rlâ) and is denoted by a ''precipitation line" (Prakken, 1972) demarcating the boundaiy between the white and colore...

185 Koh and others have reported (in this issue of the MJM) the high prevalence of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on doctors’ neckties. As they have pointed out, this is nothing new, and like other studies with similar findings. They also point out that patient’s confidence and satisfaction are not affected by doctor’s not wearing neckties. They also referred to the British ...

IN spite of the fact that the changes in the cornea, which are referred to in the English literature as "white rings" (in German weisse Ringe), are not a common finding and are not of major importance, a relatively large number of papers has been published on this condition by well-known ophthalmologists, the first to describe and name it being Coats in 1912. Before presenting data concerning t...

Coats' disease is characterized by abnormal retinal vascular development (so-called 'retinal telangiectasis') which results in massive intraretinal and subretinal lipid accumulation (exudative retinal detachment). The classical form of Coats' disease is almost invariably isolated, unilateral and seen in males. A female with a unilateral variant of Coats' disease gave birth to a son affected by ...