Congenital tufting enteropathy and chronic arthritis: a clinical and radiological perspective.

Congenital tufting enteropathy is a rare condition which presents in early infancy. It is a condition which should be suspected in infants who present with diarrhoea soon after birth. A rare association with arthritis has been observed with a handful of cases documented in the literature.

Relationship between anthropometric indices of body fat distribution and basal energy metabolism in healthy Maltese women.

A sample taken from a population (Maltese) with a high incidence of the metabolic complications of central obesity was studied to determine: (1) whether the standard Schofield equations adequately predict the basal metabolic rate (BMR) in this population; (2) whether the Maltese have a greater tendency for central obesity compared with other populations; (3) whether the distribution of body fat influences energy expenditure and fuel selection. Healthy women responding to a public advertisement were sampled randomly from the Maltese population. Correlation analysis and analysis of variance were used to study relationships between BMR and body composition.

Total energy expenditure in intravenously fed patients measured by the doubly labeled water technique.

The potential clinical use of the doubly labeled water (DLW) technique to measure total energy expenditure (TEE) in intravenously fed patients was assessed by applying the technique to 13 stable patients receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN). TEE was compared with resting energy expenditure (REE), which was measured using a ventilated hood (n = 13), and with 24-hour energy expenditure (24h EE) measured in a whole-body calorimeter (n = 6). Daily measurements of urinary enrichment in 2H and 18O showed predominantly small and covariant fluctuations in elimination rates of these two tracers.

The potential use of dual frequency bioimpedance in predicting the distribution of total body water in health and disease.

The distribution of water between extracellular fluid (ECF; measured by the inulin dilution technique) and intracellular fluid (ICF; calculated as the difference between total body water, which was measured by the deuterium dilution technique, and ECF) was measured in 12 healthy subjects. The results were compared with predictions made by anthropometry and whole body impedance obtained at 1kHz (Z(1)) and 50 kHz (Z(50)). Z(1) and Z(50) were also measured in 82 health subjects and 27 patients without clinically detectable oedema, and in 10 patients with oedema.