Efficacy of the combination of water aerobics and metacognitive training on psychological and physical health variables and their relationship with SP1 and SP4 biomarkers in people with psychosis: a study protocol.

Background: Metacognitive Training (MCT) is widely used and effective in reducing positive symptoms in psychosis. Physical exercise, such as Water Aerobics (WA), improves general health, quality of life and symptoms as a low impact activity that allows social interactions. Preliminary results suggest a relationship between dopamine and psychotic symptoms, through SP transcription factors, SP1 and SP4 biomarkers. The aims of the project are to evaluate the efficacy of a combined intervention (WA and MCT) for psychosis to improve psychotic symptoms, physical health, and transcription levels of SP biomarkers. Materials and methods: This is a unicentric randomized controlled trial of three parallel intervention groups: MCT, WA and combined intervention. The estimated sample will be 48 patients with a psychotic spectrum disorder diagnosis. The assessment will be performed at baseline and at 2-months' follow-up. Instruments used in the assessment will include clinical, cognitive, metacognitive, social cognitive and psychosocial variables. Discussion: This will be the first study investigating the impact of the combination of MCT and WA in psychosis. Moreover, it will be the first study analyzing changes in the transcriptional biomarkers SP1 and SP4 after interventions. The results of this study may have clinical implications contributing to the improvement of treatment selection. Clinical trial registration: https://clinicaltrials.gov/, identifier: NCT05455593.

Lanreotide autogel-induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with acromegaly / Pancreatitis aguda inducida por lanreótida autogel en un paciente con acromegalia

Somatostatin and somatostatin analogues are considered very useful for the treatment of hormone producing tumors and acute variceal bleeding. They have also been proposed for the treatment of acute pancreatitis and for the prevention of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis although clinical trials have failed to show any efficacy. The authors report the case of a 45-year-old man, recently diagnosed of acromegaly, which developed an acute pancreatitis shortly after his first injection of lanreotide autogel. The patient developed a severe dilatation of his hypocontractile gallbladder with distension of the intra and extrahepatic biliary ducts, the choledochus and the main pancreatic duct, without lithiasis or other abnormalities at the papilla, which resolved spontaneously in a month. We consider that lanreotide most likely induced a functional spasm of the Sphincter of Oddi, with impairment of the biliary-pancreatic outflow, leading to an acute pancreatitis, and review the literature concerning this drug related pancreatitis (AU)

La somatostatina y los análogos de la somatostatina se consideran muy útiles para el tratamiento de tumores productores de hormonas y de hemorragias agudas por varices. También se han propuesto para el tratamiento de la pancreatitis aguda y para la prevención de pancreatitis tras una colangiopancreatografía retrógrada endoscópica, aunque los estudios clínicos no han podido demostrar eficacia alguna. Los autores reportan el caso de un hombre de 45 años de edad, con un diagnóstico reciente de acromegalia, que desarrolló una pancreatitis aguda poco después de su primera inyección de lanreótida autogel. El paciente desarrolló una severa dilatación de la vesícula biliar hipocontráctil con distensión de las vías biliares intra y extrahepáticas, el colédoco y el conducto pancreático principal, sin litiasis ni otras anormalidades en la papila, y que se resolvió espontáneamente al mes. Consideramos la posibilidad de que la lanreótida causara un espasmo funcional del esfínter de Oddi, que afectase el flujo biliar-pancrático y condujese a la pancreatitis aguda, y revisamos la literatura sobre pancreatitis relacionada con este fármaco (AU)

Lanreotide autogel-induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with acromegaly.

Somatostatin and somatostatin analogues are considered very useful for the treatment of hormone producing tumors and acute variceal bleeding. They have also been proposed for the treatment of acute pancreatitis and for the prevention of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis although clinical trials have failed to show any efficacy. The authors report the case of a 45-year-old man, recently diagnosed of acromegaly, which developed an acute pancreatitis shortly after his first injection of lanreotide autogel. The patient developed a severe dilatation of his hypocontractile gallbladder with distension of the intra and extrahepatic biliary ducts, the choledochus and the main pancreatic duct, without lithiasis or other abnormalities at the papilla, which resolved spontaneously in a month. We consider that lanreotide most likely induced a functional spasm of the Sphincter of Oddi, with impairment of the biliary-pancreatic outflow, leading to an acute pancreatitis, and review the literature concerning this drug related pancreatitis.

Hipertensión arterial experimental por medio del uso de un bloqueador competitivo de angiotensina II / Experimental arterial hypertension by using an angiotensin II competitive blocker

Se utilizó la saralasina, un bloqueador competitivo de la angiotensina II, con el propósito de incrementar el flujo sanguíneo renal y la tasa de filtración glomerular, para estudiar sus posibles consecuencias tubulares y sobre la presión arterial. Fueron divididas 40 ratas de la línea Wistar, inicialmente normotensas, en 4 grupos: saralasina, supresión, grupos controles corrieron paralelos. Se les realizaron a todos mediciones de variables hemodinámicas sistémicas y renales, así como morfométricas del riñón. Los resultados apoyaron la hipótesis de la participación de la hiperfunción tubular en la génesis de la hipertensión arterial primaria y propusieron un nuevo modelo de hipertensión arterial experimental en ratas(AU)

Hipertensión arterial experimental por medio del uso de un bloqueador competitivo de angiotensina II / Experimental arterial hypertension by using an angiotensin II competitive blocker

Se utilizó la saralasina, un bloqueador competitivo de la angiotensina II, con el propósito de incrementar el flujo sanguíneo renal y la tasa de filtración glomerular, para estudiar sus posibles consecuencias tubulares y sobre la presión arterial. Fueron divididas 40 ratas de la línea Wistar, inicialmente normotensas, en 4 grupos: saralasina, supresión, grupos controles corrieron paralelos. Se les realizaron a todos mediciones de variables hemodinámicas sistémicas y renales, así como morfométricas del riñón. Los resultados apoyaron la hipótesis de la participación de la hiperfunción tubular en la génesis de la hipertensión arterial primaria y propusieron un nuevo modelo de hipertensión arterial experimental en ratas