South African Medical Journal - Volume 52, Issue 21, November 1977

A prospective double-blind study of the effects of sedation in 142 patients undergoing gastro-intestinal endoscopy was performed.

A 45-year-old woman with intestinal malabsorption due to eosinophilic gastro-enteritis was found to have markedly fluctuating total serum IgE levels with a positive intradermal skin test and a positive radio-allergosorbent test to milk antigen.

During fluoroscopic bladder and bronchial examinations the radiation workers concerned are exposed to 90�scattered photons.

The pathological findings in tissues obtained from 6 patients with idiopathic neurotrophic feet are descriptionbed.

The prognosis of patients with cerebral aneurysms has improved greatly with modern management, notably hypotensive and steroid therapy and microneurosurgical techniques.

A case of mumps meningitis is reported where a low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) glucose level, a positive bromine-52 partition test and the fact that the patient's sister had recently had tuberculous meningitis complicated the diagnosis.

The relationship between weight at birth, reading ability and present weight in a group of 220 junior primary schoolchildren from a predominantly professional-class Westville population, was investigated.

The involvement of the Rhodesian Medical Association in providing medical services to both the troops and the African clinics because of the terrorist war is descriptionbed.

The baboon (Papio ursinus) was used as a model to investigate the possibility of oxalate crystallization in the soft tissues due to long-term feeding of ascorbic acid in high doses.