In recent years there have appeared occasional reports of cases of hypothyroidism in which associated findings have been interpreted as evidence of the presence of myxedema heart disease. Fahr5 has pointed out the lack of consideration which has been given to the cardiac features of hypothyroidism in text-books, and until the recent publication of a volume12 devoted to heart disease the space g...

With a prevalence of up to 0.6% in the general population, cerebral calcifications are a common finding in neuroimaging tests, particularly in computed tomography (CT). This proportion increases in autopsy studies, in which microcalcifications are found in the globus pallidus and dentate nucleus in up to 70% of cases, as prevalence increases with age.1 Such calcifications are considered to be p...

In dieser Arbeit wird ein Fahrplanungssystem vorgestellt, dass die zu berücksichtigten Bedingungen mit Hilfe so genannter Constraints formalisiert und durch entsprechende Verfahren effizient verarbeitet. Dies erlaubt es, konfliktfreie Fahrpläne innerhalb kurzer Zeit zu erstellen und Fallund Parameterstudien („Was-wäre-wenn“-Szenarien) mit moderatem Zeitaufwand durchzuführen. So wurde das System...

NO DOCTOR who has had to treat many patients with hypertension can have failed to be exercised by the tragic problem of malignant hypertension. There is now convincing evidence that this syndrome is a simple consequence of the high level of pressure reached in the small arteries and arterioles, and since this hypothesis has a very important therapeutic implication, the evidence on which it is b...

Fahr syndrome (FS) refers to basal ganglia calcification that is associated with many neurological and psychiatric abnormalities and appears as secondary to other diseases. We described a case of FS patient who was admitted in the Department of Neurology of "Prof. Dr. Nicolae Oblu" Clinical Emergency Hospital, Iassy, Romania, with seizure and mood disorders. On CT, the cause of seizure was foun...