South African Medical Journal - Volume 51, Issue 25, June 1977

Thirty-five Black patients with cirrhosis of the liver were admitted to the professorial unit over a 1-year period and were included in a carefully planned prospective study.

The ultrastructure of the human parietal cell at rest, after stimulation of gastric acid secretion by pentagastrin and after inhibition with propantheline or cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist, was studied.

The different varieties and combinations of unequal breasts, as well as frequently associated defects such as pectus excavatum and absent or maldeveloped pectoral muscles, are discussed.

The recurrent symptoms in 60 patients who had undergone surgical management of hiatal hernia with reflux were analysed with the help of manometry.

The successful management of a postpartum ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is descriptionbed.