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Risk factors in a group of 50 women affected by CT-documented stroke have been analysed. Arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and hyperglycaemia proved the most frequent.
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Cerebrovascular Disorders/epidemiology , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Alcohol Drinking , Brain/diagnostic imaging , Cerebrovascular Disorders/diagnostic imaging , Cerebrovascular Disorders/etiology , Diabetes Complications , Female , Humans , Hypercholesterolemia/complications , Hyperglycemia/complications , Hypertension/complications , Male , Middle Aged , Risk Factors , Sex Factors , Smoking/adverse effects , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedSubject(s)
Erythrocyte Deformability , Fibrinogen/analysis , Hypercholesterolemia/blood , Platelet Aggregation , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Female , Hematocrit , Humans , Male , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Calcium Channel Blockers/pharmacology , Erythrocyte Deformability/drug effects , Adult , Aged , Clinical Trials as Topic , Double-Blind Method , Female , Humans , Hypertension/blood , Hypertension/drug therapy , Male , Middle Aged , Nifedipine/pharmacology , Nifedipine/therapeutic use , Propylamines/pharmacology , Propylamines/therapeutic use , Random Allocation , Tiapamil HydrochlorideABSTRACT
In patients under antiblastic treatment electrocardiographic abnormalities without subjective symptomatology were observed. The genesis of these abnormalities is discussed in the light of wath is known from the literature. Periodical electrocardiographic control of patients treated with antiblastic drugs is highly recommended.
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Antineoplastic Agents/adverse effects , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/chemically induced , Aged , Breast Neoplasms/drug therapy , Cardiac Complexes, Premature/chemically induced , Cyclophosphamide/therapeutic use , Electrocardiography , Esophageal Neoplasms/drug therapy , Female , Fluorouracil/therapeutic use , Humans , Laryngeal Neoplasms/drug therapy , Male , Methotrexate/therapeutic use , Middle Aged , Stomach Neoplasms/drug therapy , Tamoxifen/therapeutic use , Vincristine/therapeutic useABSTRACT
Two cases of patients with neoplasias who were given radiotherapy on the mediastinum are reported. Serious and fully documented ECG alterations were observed in these patients, but the cause is not easy to ascertain, since the results were neither identical nor clinically attributable to a common pathogenetic factor.
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Heart/radiation effects , Mediastinum/radiation effects , Radiotherapy/adverse effects , Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous/complications , Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous/radiotherapy , Adult , Breast Neoplasms/complications , Breast Neoplasms/physiopathology , Breast Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Carcinoid Tumor/complications , Carcinoid Tumor/physiopathology , Carcinoid Tumor/radiotherapy , Electrocardiography , Female , Humans , Male , Mediastinal Neoplasms/complications , Mediastinal Neoplasms/physiopathology , Mediastinal Neoplasms/radiotherapyABSTRACT
Red blood cell filtration rate was studied in patients with essential hypertension selected according to the homogeneity of parameters which could interfere with such a test. An increase of filtration time in control subjects was put in evidence both in patients without vascular complications and in patients with cerebrovascular diseases; no significant difference was seen between the two groups. The red cell filterability behavior can be correlated to hypertension and is an expression of red cell deformability alterations. The variation of this hemorheological parameter could be better defined by an improvement of the red cell filterability test and by further studies on the membrane function in essential hypertension.
