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Bronchial Diseases/drug therapy , Mezlocillin/therapeutic use , Acute Disease , Adult , Aged , Chronic Disease , Clinical Trials as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma , Adolescent , Adult , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Child , Child, Preschool , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/complications , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/diagnosis , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/drug therapy , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Mycoplasma/pathology , PrognosisSubject(s)
Aspirin/analogs & derivatives , Bronchitis/drug therapy , Bronchopneumonia/drug therapy , Acute Disease , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aspirin/therapeutic use , Blood/drug effects , Clinical Trials as Topic , Cough/drug therapy , Dyspnea/drug therapy , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Respiration/drug effectsSubject(s)
Carbon Dioxide/analysis , Oxygen/analysis , Pleural Effusion/analysis , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Male , Middle Aged , Partial Pressure , Pleurisy/diagnosis , Pleurisy/etiologyABSTRACT
The effects of ritodrine infusion on the cardiovascular system of six women in threatened or premature labour are reported. In contrast to other betamimetics, ritodrine caused a moderate rise in systolic blood pressure, the corresponding fall in diastolic pressure leading to a widened pulse pressure but no risk of hypotension. Ritodrine caused a rise in cardiac output, and was well tolerated by the patients. Special care should be taken in treating patients with known heart disease.
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Blood Circulation/drug effects , Heart/drug effects , Hemodynamics/drug effects , Labor, Obstetric , Obstetric Labor, Premature/physiopathology , Propanolamines/pharmacology , Ritodrine/pharmacology , Adolescent , Adult , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Electrocardiography , Female , Heart Rate/drug effects , Humans , Phonocardiography , Plethysmography , PregnancyABSTRACT
Chromosome analysis of effusions has been recently regarded as useful means in the diagnosis of cancer. Cytological and cytogenetic findings of 19 pleural effusions from patients with benign and malignant diseases are compared. Conventional cytology does not always give correct positive results because of the high percentage of false negatives, whereas cytogenetic analysis reveals a considerable spread of the chromosome number in neoplastic fluid, with structural chromosome changes, marker chromosomes and minute fragments. Absence of mitosis does not exclude the malignant etiology of the effusion when the patient had been previously treated with antineoplastic drugs. Benign diseases were never falsely classified as malignant by cytogenetic analysis.