Analytical validation of a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay in horses.

Although cardiac troponin T (cTnT) assays have been used to detect myocardial damage in horses, a cTnT assay has not been analytically validated, to our knowledge. The aims of this study were to estimate the precision of a high-sensitivity cTnT assay in horses and determine the effect of hemolysis on the measured cTnT concentration. Serum samples from horses were mixed in 3 different pools.

Prolonged hyperlipasemia attributable to a novel type of macrolipase.

Background: We present the case of an 80-year-old woman who was admitted to hospital with an intermittent volvulus of the right colon. A total colectomy was performed. Initially, serum amylase and lipase increased concordantly, but after a few weeks amylase normalized (85 U/L), whereas lipase increased to 3764 U/L.

Indigenous malaria in a suburb of Ghent, Belgium.

We report here details of a patient with Plasmodium falciparum malaria which was acquired in the vicinity of Ghent (Evergem) in July 1997. Indigenous malaria disappeared from Belgium in 1938. Due to an increase in international travel, the influx of migrant labor and the changing environmental conditions, there has been an upsurge of imported malaria.