Trabecular bone architecture in female renal allograft recipients--assessed by computed tomography.

Background: Osteopenia with decreased bone mineral density (BMD) is a frequent finding in renal allograft recipients. Data concerning the bone architecture in these patients do not exist, however.

Methods: We compared the bone architecture of 33 randomly assigned women (age 49 +/- 12 years), who had received renal allografts 5.

Functional stereotactic surgery for hemiballism.

The symptomatic and functional outcomes of a series of 14 patients with disabling and medically refractory hemiballism who were treated with functional stereotactic surgery are reported. Seven (50%) of the 14 patients had concomitant hemichorea. To relieve the hyperkinesia, the 14 patients underwent a total of 15 stereotactic operations (one patient had a second stereotactic procedure).

Ballism not related to vascular disease: A report of 16 patients and review of the literature.

Sixteen patients with ballism not related to vascular disease are reported. Ballism was caused by subthalamic metastases and cerebral tumours in four patients, lesions after functional stereotaxy in three, presumed neurodegenerative disease in two, and by an ipsilateral intraventricular cyst after resection of a meningioma, cerebral toxoplasmosis with AIDS, severe head trauma and sepsis, late recurrence of rheumatic fever, meningoencephalitis, perinatal hypoxia, and conversion syndrome in one, respectively. Two patients had bilateral ballism, 11 had hemiballism, and three had monoballism.