Effects of exercise programs on balance in older women with age-related visual problems: a pilot study.

Aim: This study aimed to compare the effects of two exercise programs on balance and risk of falls in older women with age-related visual dysfunction.

Methods: Participants living in a residential home were randomly allocated to Group I (n=21) receiving a progressive, tailored multimodal exercise program in addition to the standard osteoporosis exercise program or Group II (n=20) receiving the standard osteoporosis exercise program alone. At baseline, and after the 6-month exercise program outcomes were measured.

Hungary as an aging society.

The authors describe the situation of the aged in Hungary, with a particular focus on the medical and ethical problems that health professionals have to face. The so-called post-communist transitional period is characterised by both economic and moral crisis. The country has a serious foreign debt problem as well as high rate of unemployment and crime, a considerable price inflation, and the pauperisation of the people, particularly among the old.

Erythrocyte transketolase activity in patients with chronic renal disease.

B1 vitamin deficiency was studied by the erythrocyte enzyme activation test in patients with chronic uraemia. Transketolase activity was measured in the erythrocyte haemolysates of 14 patients with chronic uraemia and in 16 healthy controls in the presence of TPP and following TPP saturation. The magnitude of activity increases as a result of TPP saturation which is probably indicative of an insignificant thiamine deficiency in patients with chronic uraemia.

[Simultaneous incidence of chronic dissecans aortic aneurysm and bidirectional tachydardia].

In a 68-year-old patient during a therapy with digitalis and saluretics with maintenance doses a severe cardiac insufficiency develops. After intravenous injection of K-strophantoside temporarily a bidirectional tachycardia developed which enforced a discontinuation of the K-strophantoside therapy. A deterioration of the cardiac insufficiency caused the resumption of the strophantine treatment under the protection of novocamide (procainamide) and panangine (magnesium asparagin.