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M Molnar

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A profile of the musculoskeletal characteristics of elite professional ballet dancers.

Twenty-eight principal dancers and soloists from America's two most famous ballet companies were examined for anthropometric measurements, including flexibility, muscle strength, and joint range of motion. Both male and female dancers were flexible, but not hypermobile, and did not differ significantly from each other. Marked differences were found between the range of motion of the hip and ankle in the dancers and the norms for the general population. The increased external rotation of the hip in women was accompanied by a loss in internal rotation, resulting in an increased range of motion with an externally rotated orientation. The men, however, lost more internal rotation than they gained in external rotation. These data raise the possibility of a torsional component to the turned-out hip position in elite female professional ballet dancers. In addition, significant anatomic differences separate elite dancers of both sexes from the normal population.

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[Suicides and attempted suicides with corrosive substances 1968-2000].

The authors analyzed attempted and committed suicides with corrosive substances registered at the Department of the General Hospital of the Health Center "Dr. Gere Istvan" in Senta in the period 1968-2000. Out of 42 registered, there were 33 attempted and 9 committed suicides with corrosive substances. In regard to the total number of suicides attempted and committed with poisoning, these poisonings take the last place, that is they come after suicides by drug intoxication, organophosphorus compounds and rodenticides. Data analysis included substance, sex, education level, marital status, occupation and underlying disease. It has been established that in regard to attempted suicides there is no difference in sex distribution, but in committed suicides females prevailed. Most subjects were married, had elementary education and by profession most were housewives, workers and agricultural workers. The most common motives for suicide were family and marital conflicts as well as alcohol consumption. Depression and alcoholism were most frequent underlying diseases. According to gathered data, authors conclude that suicide attempts with corrosive substances are decreasing from year to year. Suicides are mostly attempted with concentrated alkalies, but committed with concentrated acids. Depression and alcoholism are the commonest underlying diseases in patients attempting suicide. Esophageal stenosis is the most common complication in attempted suicides, whereas gastric perforation with peritonitis and esophageal perforation with mediastinal abscess are the most frequent complications in committed suicides.

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[Non-culturable Koch bacilli during antitubercular chemotherapy].

The authors have performed 58435 microscopic examinations, of which 3813 were positive, and found 209 (5,48%) cases of non-cultivable Koch bacilli. The major bacteriological, clinico-evolutive and therapeutical aspects are examined. Most of the cases showing a syndrome of positive homogenate with a negative culture were rather recent ones (an evolution of less than 2 years in 73,68% of the total) and the highest frequency was found in those in which the treatment was in its first year. No direct relationship could be demonstrated between the number of germs (the Gaffky scale) and the frequency of the syndrome. The factors influencing the occurrence and the development of the syndrome are: the structure of the lesions, the method of bacteriologic examination, the therapy applied, and a certain immunologic reactivity. According to the authors the significance of this syndrome is positive in most of the cases, indicating a regression that has not been completed. The most reasonable attitude is a differentiated one, depending on each case, integrating the data obtained by the bacteriological examination in the therapeutic and evolutive clinico-radiologic context.

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Mitochondrial cytochrome b gene deletion in Kearns-Sayre syndrome associated with a subclinical type of peripheral neuropathy.

Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) is a progressive neuromuscular disease characterized by ophthalmoplegia, cardiac conduction block, and pigmentary retinopathy associated with abnormal mitochondrial structure and function. Usually mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions have been associated with Kearns-Sayre syndrome and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Size and position of the deletions differ markedly among these patients. The present study confirms this observation for a patient with KSS by a muscle and nerve biopsy in which we detected a 1.2 kb mtDNA deletion. The location of the deletion, however, is unusual in this case: its position comprises nucleotides 14952 to 15739. The defect is heteroplasmic and concerns the cytochrome b and tRNA genes. Complex I and IV of the respiratory chain were intact in this case, indicating that below a threshold of tRNA formation, the impaired biosynthesis and membrane integration of one respiratory complex may cause the phenotypical appearance of the KSS syndrome associated with a subclinical neuropathy.

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