Influence of gender on diaphragm thickness using a method for determining intima media thickness in healthy young adults.

Background: To clarify the differences in diaphragm thickness between male and female participants in healthy young adults with ultrasonography using the mean intima media thickness (IMT) method and to investigate the relationship between diaphragm thickness and respiratory pressure.

Methods: Twenty-nine healthy individuals (16 females and 13 males) participated in the study. Diaphragm thickness was measured at total lung capacity (TLC) and at functional residual capacity (FRC) in each participant.

High-frequency component in flash visual evoked potentials in type 3 Gaucher disease.

Objective: To characterize the visual evoked potentials (VEP) in patients with type 3 Gaucher disease (GD) with or without progressive myoclonus epilepsy.

Methods: Three young adults with progressive myoclonus epilepsy (type 3a GD) and two children without progressive myoclonus epilepsy (type 3b GD) were enrolled. Flash visual and somatosensory evoked potentials (F-VEP and SEP, respectively) were retrospectively reviewed in all patients under enzyme replacement therapy.