Tear calcium and magnesium levels of normal subjects and patients with hypocalcemia or hypercalcemia.

Tear calcium and magnesium levels were measured in eight patients with hypercalcemia and two patients with hypocalcemia and compared to that of 72 subjects with normal serum calcium and magnesium levels. No correlation was found between tear and serum calcium and magnesium levels. Tear calcium level has no diagnostic importance.

Infectious complications of burns casualties during the Yom-Kippur War.

During the October 1973 military conflict, 41 burned patients hospitalized at the Sheba Medical Center were closely followed up. All the patients who had burns occupying 20% or more of the body surface developed wound infections. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the major pathogen isolated.