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Methods PatientsSix cases of PAD were enrolled, all male patients: 5 cases of TAO, and 1 of ASO. All the patients had a history of intermittent claudication, rest pain, non-healing ischemic ulcers, or all three, and were not candidates for surgical revascularisation. None of the patients had responded to conventional medical therapy for at least 8 weeks. Exclusion criteria were: diabetes mellitus with proliferative retinopathy; malignant disease; recent onset (within 3 month) of myocardial infarction or brain infarction; uncontrolled myocardial ischemia; persistent severe heart failure (ejection fraction <30%); hematological disease; current serious infectious disease; aged older than 80 years; and diseases with life expectancy of less than 1 year. We

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Representatives of paramyxoviruses isolated from waterfowl in the U.S.A., goose/Delaware/1053/76, and Japan, pintail/Wakuya/20/78, were shown to be serologically closely related but distinct from other avian paramyxoviruses. Another isolate, from domestic ducks in the U.S.A., was shown to be representative of a further distinct serotype of avian paramyxoviruses. We propose that, in the current system of nomenclature these serotypes be designated PMV-8, for which the prototype strain would be PMV-8/goose/Delaware/1053/76 and PMV-9, for which the prototype strain would be PMV-9/domestic duck/New York/22/78.