South African Medical Journal - Volume 49, Issue 1, November 1975

A sporadic case of Crouzon's disease which did not exhibit mental retardation, is presented.

Fifteen patients with angina pectoris and moderately raised blood pressures were given placebo and active prindolol 15 - 25 mg daily in random order.

A recently developed rebreathing technique to study the ventilatory response to carbon dioxide was applied to 19 normal medical students.

A case of thrombosis of the left superior cerebellar artery is reported.

A number of inflammatory disorders have recently been attributed to Yersinia enterocolitica.

The workings of a psychiatric follow-up service are evaluated for the year of its inception (1973).

The autopsy findings in a White man aged 59 years are presented; he underwent heterotopic cardiac transplantation with left ventricular bypass for irreversible left ventricular failure caused by severe ischaemic heart disease.

From 1968 to 1972, a trial of a new agent, drostanolone propionate (Masteril), was conducted.

A case of an osteosclerotic myeloma of the mandible is descriptionbed.