Body dysmorphic disorder: diagnosis and treatment.

Our society constantly sees images of athletes and models in movies and magazines and on television. These people often are presented as representing the ideals of the human body. These images can have a significant effect on people who already are predisposed to being preoccupied with their appearance, those who suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).

Patient response to variations in denture technique. Part VII: Twenty-year patient status.

Sixty-four patients were originally treated with complete dentures. Two different techniques, complex and standard, were used with 32 patients assigned to each group. Patients were recalled for their 20th year recall and 34 of the original 64 patients returned.

Diaphragm paralysis and ventilatory failure in chronic proximal spinal muscular atrophy.

Ventilatory failure occurred in a patient suffering from proximal neurogenic muscular atrophy resembling the adult form of Kugelberg-Welander syndrome. Diaphragmatic paralysis was diagnosed when patient was found to be unable to generate a transdiaphragmatic pressure difference on deep inspiration. Post-mortem examination revealed nearly complete replacement of the diaphragm by fat and fibrous tissue.

Osmotic flow through the placental barrier of chronically prepared sheep.

An electromagnetic flow sensor was placed on the distal aorta of sheep fetuses in utero, and catheters were placed in a femoral artery and the common umbilical vein. Catheters were also placed in a carotid artery and a uterine vein of the pregnant ewe. Three days postoperatively maternal plasma was hyperosmotic with respect to fetal plasma by all methods: +5.