Early prediction of outcome with aEEG in preterm infants with large intraventricular hemorrhages.

Background: The electrocortical background contains prognostic information in full-term asphyxiated newborn infants already during the first postnatal hours. In preterm infants with intra-ventricular hemorrhages (IVH) the background activity in EEG and amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG) is depressed during the first days of life, and the extent of the depression correlates with the degree of IVH. However, it has not been previously evaluated whether very early aEEG can predict later outcome also in pre-term infants.

Abandonment of mandatory jail for impaired drivers in Norway and Sweden.

In 1988 and 1990, respectively, Norway and Sweden adopted legal reforms including abandonment of mandatory jail sentences for persons driving with BACs above specific limits. Interrupted time-series analysis finds that in both countries traffic deaths diminished simultaneously with the reforms, consistent with the understanding that Scandinavian success in reducing impaired driving does not depend upon mandatory jail.

[Comparative urine protein analysis using SDS electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing].

Urinary specimens of 156 patients were examined simultaneously by SDS electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing (IEF). Simultaneous separated protein test mixtures may help to a rapid orientation on the isoelectric points and molecular weights of the urinary proteins. The SDS electrophoresis as well as the IEF make possible a safe proteinuria typing, whereby both methods have specific advantages.

[Associated glomerulonephritis in immunocytoma].

It is reported on a 43-year-old patient in whom a mesangio-proliferative glomerulonephritis with nephrotic syndrome was diagnosed 7 months before manifestation of an immunocytoma. Under the treatment of the tumourous disease with chemotherapy and radiation a complete remission of the glomerulonephritis developed. The patient died of a generalized herpes zoster after 2 years 10 months.