who had a mean PCV of 49.4% with a control group who had a mean PCV of 42.1 %. The mean TEI in the first group was 31.25 £2, which was significantly greater than that in the second group—27.5 n (P < 0.05) [5]. These observations may help to explain the "surprisingly increased response in TEI" noted by the authors. The influence of PCV clearly assumes greater importance with larger variations in...

Correspondence address: Dr. K. H. Mak Yau Ma Tei Female Social Hygiene Clinic 3/F Yau Ma Tei Jockey Club Polyclinic 145 Battery Street, Yau Ma Tei Hong Kong ABSTRACT Chlamydia trachomatis infection is a common sexually transmitted disease worldwide. The genital infection can result in serious complications and sequelae such as infertility and ectopic pregnancy. However, early identification of ...

of classical echocardiographic indexes for the estimation of systolic and diastolic left ventricular (LV) function. The ejection fraction (EF, an index of systolic function) and LV volumes are subject to large errors when the ellipsoid shape of the heart becomes spherical. Age, rhythm and conduction disturbances, and changes in loading all affect the Doppler signal of transmitral flow, which is...

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines propose an encoding scheme that is applicable to a large variety of dictionaries. This paper takes a widely-used and simple French dictionary (Petit Larousse Illustré) as an example to describe some of the problems that arise when using the TEI Document Type Definition (DTD), particularly from an editorial standpoint, where it is necessary to retain...

Yau Ma Tei Dermatology Clinic, 12/F, Yau Ma Tei Specialist Clinic, 143 Battery Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong A 26-year-old female presented with self-healing and recurrent scaly erythematous patches over the arms and trunk for 4 years. Histopathology showed CD30+ lymphoid cells. Clinical and pathological examinations confirmed the diagnosis of lymphomatoid papulosis. Regular follow-up is needed to...

Yau Ma Tei Dermatology Clinic, 12/F, Yau Ma Tei Specialist Clinic, 143 Battery Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong A five-month-old boy presented with fever and multiple cutaneous papular eruptions. Skin biopsy revealed disseminated cutaneous tuberculosis (tuberculosis cutis disseminata). Tissue culture revealed Mycobacteria bovis (BCG). He was later diagnosed to have severe combined immunodeficiency. T...

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of handling scribal abbreviations in TEI-conformant transcriptions of medieval texts, following a conservative editorial strategy. A key distinction is drawn between alphabetic abbreviations, which represent sequences of letters, and logographic abbreviations which represent whole words. The TEI elements and can be used systematical...

This paper presents an update on the current state of development of the Text Encoding Initiative’s Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Since the last major edition in 2002, which saw the conversion of the Guidelines into XML, there has been substantial activity on adding new content in areas of particular interest to historical corpus builders. The TEI has also reinvented ...

BACKGROUND Although mitral regurgitation (MR) results in left ventricular (LV) volume overload, right ventricular (RV) function may also be impaired. We investigated the influence of short-term beta-blockade on RV function in patients with moderate-severe MR. METHODS Twenty-six patients were randomised in a cross-over design to receive two weeks of beta-blockade or placebo. Echocardiography w...