scholarly journals Attenuation of age-elevated blood factors by repositioning plasmapheresis: a novel perspective and approach

Author(s):  
Melod Mehdipour ◽  
Jessy Etienne ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
Taha Mehdipour ◽  
Cameron Kato ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (07) ◽  
pp. 309-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Brenner ◽  
H. Terheyden ◽  
K. H. Bohuslavizki ◽  
E. Henze ◽  
W. U. Kampen

SummaryThe accepted golden standard for detection of inflammatory bone disease is conventional three-phase bone scanning. Hyperperfusion, a high blood-pool activity and elevated bone metabolism are typical signs for an acute osteomyelitis. However, in case of subacute, chronic inflammation, neither elevated blood flow nor high blood-pool activity may be seen. This may cause difficulties in differentiating such cases from neoplastic or postoperative changes. This case report verifies the possible advantage of immunoscintigraphy with Tc-99m-labelled antigranulocyte Fab′-fragments (LeukoScan®) in a patient with infected mandibular osteoradionecrosis, who had equivocal clinical symptomes and questionable radiographic results. LeukoScan® is shown to be more sensitive in case of subacute bone inflammation compared with three-phase bone scanning. However, acquisition of delayed images after 24 hours including SPECT is inevitable in case of negative scans during the first hours of investigation.


1960 ◽  
Vol XXXIV (III) ◽  
pp. 411-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin J. Fregly ◽  
Kenneth M. Cook

ABSTRACT The anti-thyroid drugs, thiouracil, propylthiouracil, and methimazole, prevented both development of elevated blood pressure and cardiac hypertrophy usually accompanying kidney encapsulation with latex envelopes. These drugs also reduced elevated blood pressure of rats with hypertension of 13 to 40 weeks' duration prior to drug administration. Addition of desiccated thyroid powder to diet containing an anti-thyroid drug overcame the anti-hypertensive effect of the latter. Withdrawal of thyroid powder only was followed by return of blood pressure to previous low level within 3 weeks. The results suggest that the anti-hypertensive effect of these drugs is related directly to the hypothyroidism produced rather than to extrathyroidal effects of the drugs. Comparison of potencies of the 3 drugs in terms of anti-hypertensive effect, inhibition of growth rate, increase in testicular size, and increase in thyroid size suggests that propylthiouracil and methimazole are equally potent per unit weight of drug. Thiouracil has approximately half the potency of the other two.


Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1439-P
Author(s):  
IDA WIUM-ANDERSEN ◽  
RUNGBY JØRGEN ◽  
MARTIN BALSLEV ◽  
JØ RGENSEN ◽  
MERETE OSLER ◽  
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