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Encephalocele/complications , Meningocele/diagnostic imaging , Petrous Bone/diagnostic imaging , Subarachnoid Space/diagnostic imaging , Trigeminal Neuralgia/etiology , Aged , Diagnosis, Differential , Encephalocele/diagnostic imaging , Female , Humans , Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Tomography, Spiral Computed , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Trigeminal Neuralgia/diagnostic imagingSubject(s)
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Encephalocele/complications , Encephalocele/diagnosis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Petrous Bone/pathology , Trigeminal Neuralgia/diagnosis , Trigeminal Neuralgia/etiology , Contrast Media , Decompression, Surgical , Encephalocele/surgery , Gadolinium , Humans , Image Enhancement , Microsurgery , Trigeminal Nerve/pathology , Trigeminal Nerve/surgery , Trigeminal Neuralgia/surgeryABSTRACT
CASE REPORT: A 73 year-old woman with depression treated with escitalopram developed acute secondary angle closure glaucoma related to uveal effusion after duplicating the drug dose 3 days before. She evolved favorably once the antidepressant treatment was suspended and a new treatment with topical hypotensive therapy and oral prednisone was used. DISCUSSION: The uveal effusion syndrome associated to medicines is rare; it may be associated with acute myopic shift and acute angle closure glaucoma. The correct diagnosis and discontinuation of the drug lead to the resolution of this nosology.
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Citalopram/adverse effects , Glaucoma, Angle-Closure/chemically induced , Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/adverse effects , Subretinal Fluid , Uveal Diseases/chemically induced , Acute Disease , Aged , Atropine/therapeutic use , Brimonidine Tartrate/therapeutic use , Choroid Diseases/chemically induced , Choroid Diseases/drug therapy , Ciliary Body/pathology , Drug Overdose , Emergencies , Female , Glaucoma, Angle-Closure/drug therapy , Humans , Myopia/chemically induced , Prednisone/therapeutic use , Receptors, Serotonin/drug effects , Receptors, Serotonin/physiology , Subretinal Fluid/diagnostic imaging , Timolol/therapeutic use , Uveal Diseases/drug therapy , Uveal Diseases/physiopathologyABSTRACT
SERCA2a gene transfer ameliorates heart failure pathologic processes in left ventricular myocardium. We sought to assess the simultaneous molecular changes that occur in the right ventricle. Sprague-Dawley rats underwent aortic banding and were followed by echocardiography for development of heart failure. After a decrease in fractional shortening of 25 % from baseline, intracoronary injection of adenoviral-SERCA2a or adenoviral-beta-galactosidase was performed. Successful gene transfer was confirmed by immunoblotting. Rats were randomly euthanized on post-operative day 7 or 21. Protein analysis including right ventricular levels of SERCA2a, betaARK1, inflammatory mediators (IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-alpha), apoptotic markers (Bax, Bak and Bcl-2) and MAPK (Jnk, p38 and Erk) was performed. Adenoviral-SERCA2a-treated animals showed increased right ventricular expression of SERCA2a compared with controls. Decreased levels of inflammatory markers were also demonstrated in this group. Expression of pro-apoptotic markers was similarly improved. Levels of MAPK were increased compared with the control group. These differences were most significant 7 days after gene transfer, but the majority of these changes persisted at 21 days. These results suggest that attenuation of pathologic mechanisms of calcium cycling, inflammation and apoptosis also occur in the right ventricular myocardium after SERCA2a gene transfer during heart failure. These findings support a therapeutic role for genetic manipulation of this pathway in patients with right ventricular or biventricular failure.
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Gene Transfer Techniques , Heart Failure/therapy , Heart Ventricles/physiopathology , Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases/genetics , Adenoviridae/genetics , Adenoviridae/metabolism , Animals , Biomarkers/metabolism , Heart Failure/pathology , Heart Failure/physiopathology , Heart Ventricles/pathology , Humans , Male , Random Allocation , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium-Transporting ATPases/metabolism , Transgenes , Virus ReplicationABSTRACT
This study was conducted to evaluate if supplementing bypass fat to cows under silvopastoral systems, increases the concentration of unsaturated fatty acids in milk, thus improving the saturated/ unsaturated ratio without a negative effect on total milk yield in fat or protein. Two concentrations of two different sources of bypass fat were evaluated for 40 days, each in a group of 24 multiparous Lucerna (Colombian breed) cows. A cross-over design of 8 Latin squares 3 x 3 was used. The variables submitted to analysis were body condition, daily milk production and milk composition. Body condition, milk yield and milk quality were not different but there was a significant decrease in the amount of saturated fatty acid in both experiments while the unsaturated fat increased significantly in experiment 1 and remained stable in experiment 2. Results, such as these have as far as we know, not been reported previously and they provide an approach for the improvement of milk as a "functional food".
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Cattle/physiology , Dietary Fats/administration & dosage , Fatty Acids, Unsaturated/analysis , Fatty Acids/analysis , Lactation/metabolism , Milk Proteins/analysis , Milk/chemistry , Animal Feed , Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Animals , Cattle/metabolism , Cross-Over Studies , Dietary Supplements , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Female , Random AllocationABSTRACT
Changes in flow in the subclavian artery and vein resulting from the use of a hyperabduction maneuver during Doppler sonography in 20 volunteers were compared with retrospective findings in 16 patients clinically suspected of having thoracic outlet syndrome. Significant compression of the subclavian artery showed in the Doppler waveform as at least a doubling of peak systolic velocity or complete cessation of flow with hyperabduction; significant compression of the subclavian vein was diagnosed by complete cessation of blood flow or loss of atrial and respiratory dynamics in the waveform of the subclavian vein with hyperabduction. In volunteers, asymptomatic compression of the subclavian vein with arm abduction was seen in two (10%) and asymptomatic compression of the subclavian artery was seen in four (20%). Of the 16 patients, thrombosis of the subclavian vein was found in seven, compression of the subclavian vein with hyperabduction was found in six, and diagnoses other than thoracic outlet syndrome were established as the cause of pain in three. When duplex sonography was compared with venography, which was performed in 10 patients, one false-negative case was found because a subclavian vein thrombus had not been detected. The subclavian artery was examined in five of the six patients with positional compression of the subclavian vein; compression of the subclavian artery was found in three. The clinical significance of compression of the subclavian artery cannot be determined from our data because of the small number of patients involved. When the sonographic criteria of subclavian vein clot or compression resulting in a complete loss of normal venous phasicity with arm abduction and the clinical criterion of subsequent improvement in symptoms after curative surgery are used, color Doppler sonography is 92% sensitive and 95% specific for the diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome. This preliminary study shows that Doppler sonography has potential in the evaluation of thoracic outlet syndrome.
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Subclavian Artery/diagnostic imaging , Subclavian Vein/diagnostic imaging , Thoracic Outlet Syndrome/diagnostic imaging , Adult , Blood Flow Velocity , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Subclavian Artery/physiopathology , Subclavian Vein/physiopathology , Thoracic Outlet Syndrome/physiopathology , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
A prosthetic right ventricular conduit that may be applicable in repair of the single ventricle anomaly is reported. The final conduit evolved from a series of animal experiments, which are described.