Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death.

The death of a companion animal can cause severe grief, yet previous research investigating factors predicting grief has been hampered by limitations. We explored how attachment styles, continuing bonds, and time since loss interacted to predict grief severity in a large sample of individuals grieving the loss of a variety of companion animals. Participants ( = 496) aged between18 and 79 years ( = 41.

Value of routine diagnostic criteria of bullous pemphigoid.

Background And Design: The clinical, histologic, and direct (DIF) and indirect (IIF) immunofluorescence findings are used in a critical, although arbitrary, manner in the routine diagnostic process of bullous pemphigoid (BP). Our purpose was to estimate their relative value. In the present retrospective study, a follow-up of at least 18 months was used as a prerequisite for the final diagnosis of BP (63 patients) and controls (n=159).

[Serum's immunoglobulins in dental caries with or not dental alloy].

In 51 individuals with dental caries (mean age +/- SE, 30, 12 +/- 1, 43) were determined the serum's immunoglobulins IgA, IgG, IgM and the ration IgG/IgA. The levels of them were compared with the levels of immunoglobulins of 53 individuals (mean age +/- SE 36, 78 +/- 1, 86) with no significant difference (p greater than 0.1).

[Immunoglobulin estimation of saliva and serum according to dental caries degree].

In seven individuals without dental caries, thirteen with low degree caries (LDC) experience and twelve with high degree (HDC) were determined the mean levels of the serum's IgA, IgG and IgG/IgA and also the IgA of the saliva. In the group without dental caries the levels of IgG, IgA and IgG/IgA were higher than in the two other groups. The differences were not significant (p greater than 0.

The electrical impedance of the human thorax as a guide in evaluation of intrathoracic fluid volume.

The modelling of the human thorax and the impedance characteristics of the thorax are presented. A two-dimensional model of the thorax was constructed by using more than four hundred reference points. The input impedance was calculated by solving the Helmholtz equation for zero charge density and low frequencies.