Effects of coronary artery diseases on haemorheological parameters and trace elements.

The effects of coronary artery diseases on haemorheological parameters (blood viscosity, erythrocyte deformability and haemoglobin level) and serum trace element (Cu,Zn) levels were investigated. Subjects were 16 male patients having coronary artery disease. Three blood samples were drawn pre-operation and at the 10th and 30th day after operation. To determine the effects of by-pass surgery on haemorheological parameters and serum trace elements, we used a centrifugal method for erythrocyte deformability, Harkness relative viscometer for blood viscosity, spectrophotometry for haemoglobin level, and atomic absorption spectrophotometry for trace elements. Parameters of coronary artery patients were compared with normal values.

Training social initiations to a high-functioning autistic child: assessment of collateral behavior change and generalization in a case study.

The present case study used a multiple treatment design to assess the effects of two interventions--peer social initiations and target child initiations--on the social and disruptive behavior of a high-functioning autistic child. Intervention included initiation training and videotaped feedback highlighting successful and unsuccessful initiations. During Interventions 1 and 2, nonhandicapped peers were trained to initiate social interaction with the autistic child, resulting in an increase in social interaction which dramatically decreased in a reversal phase. Social interaction quickly increased again in Intervention 3 when the autistic child was trained to initiate interaction using the same procedures. During Interventions 1 and 2 no decrease in the autistic child's disruptive behaviors was observed; however during Intervention 3 these behaviors decreased to a low rate. Social validation, generalization, and maintenance of these behavior changes are discussed.

[Behçet disease in Turkey]. / Morbus Behçet in der Türkei.

In the last 12 years, we treated 427 Turkish patients suffering from Behçet's disease. We report on the frequency of symptoms as well as the modes of therapy in Turkey.

[Ulcus-molle epidemic in Turkey]. / Ulcus-molle-Epidemie in der Türkei.

240 patients with soft chancre who have been observed within a year dating from March 1976 at the University Dermatological Clinic of Istanbul are presented. The clinical findings encountered in our cases are presented and the therapeutic results are discussed.