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Summary1. Studies of plasma renin concentration in human hypertension have demonstrated an inverse relationship between renin and plasma sodium concentration. For reasons which have been discussed this work has not excluded the possibility that renin is present in the blood of hypertensive patients in amounts which are sufficient to affect blood pressure.2. Plasma renin determination may be of value in the differential diagnosis of patients with primary hyperaldosteronism and the hyponatraemic hypertensive syndrome. It may also be valuable in assessing the prognosis of renal artery surgery. In both situations it remains to be shown whether or not renin estimation is potentially more informative than repeated and accurate measurement of plasma sodium.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1966.11716607

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1966

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SummaryFrom 1954 to 1963, 113 patients suffering from pancytopenia were studied at the Medical Institute of the University of Liège.The etiological inquiry was fruitless in 40 % of the cases; there were considered as idiopathic forms of pancytopenia. Among the etiological factors discovered in the other patients (60 % of the cases)( there were, in descending order of frequency, antimitotics, malignant hematological disorders, infections and endocrine disorders.In most of the cases, the three blood series were affected. The platelets appeared particularly sensitive. On the other hand, the granulocytes were somewhat more resistant.The distribution according to age and sex was identical for both idiopathic and symptomatic forms. The prognosis seems independant of the cellularity of the bone marrow smear. In any case, it is unfavorable (85 out of 113 patients deceased). The symptomatic forms are more evolutive.Accidental bleeding with cerebro-meningeal localization is the most frequent cause of death.None of the therapeutics practised gave formal proof of its efficacity, aside from etiological treatments applied to two cases associated with thyroid disorders. These results may be compared with those found in recent literature.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1966.11716608

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1966

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Summary1) Results of immunosuppressive treatment in cases of autoimmune and immunological diseases are reported.2) The patients have been treated by 6-mercaptopurine (Purinethol) and chiefly by azathioprine (Imuran) during 2 to 26 months.3) There are 8 cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (S.L.E.), 3 cases of idiopathic autoimmune haemolytic anemia, 2 cases of periarteritis nodosa, 1 case of Schoenlein-Henoch disease, 1 case of erythrodermia.4) In S.L.E. cases, the treatment has improved subjective state of the patients, cutaneous, visceral and haematologic disorders. A decrease of the relapses frequency has been noted. However, there was only slight or no modification of inflammatory signs or serological state.5) Two out of 3 patients with haemolytic anemia were markedly improved.6) Cutaneous lesions observed in patients with periarteritis nodosa, Schoenlein-Henoch disease and erythrodermia quickly disappeared under immunosuppressive treatment.7) At the dosage used in this study immunosuppressive drugs seem to be effective on non-specific inflammatory reactions and chiefly on delayed allergic reactions rather than on humoral allergic manifestations.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1966.11716609

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1966

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SummaryIt was shown in this study that patients with one second values greater than 50 % have definitely less positive electrocardiographic criteria (as defined for the purpose of the study) than these with one second values greater than 50°%. A QRS axis greater than 90°in the frontal plane and a clockwise rotation in the horizontal plane were most frequently found. These two criteria, however, were never found in patients with one second value greater than 50 %. The latter was also true for a P greater than 1.5 mm in the right precordial leads. Microvoltage and a P greater than 2 mm in the standard leads were, however, rather frequently present in cases with a one second value higher than 50 %. Finally, it should he emphasized that in some patients with a very low one second value the electrocardiogram was essentially normal.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1966.11716610

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1966

数据来源: Taylor

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SummaryNo specific symptomatology can be ascribed to the lymphadenopathic form of the acquired toxoplasmosis, which may run a subclinical course or evoke severe diseases, such as infectious mononucleosis or Hodgkin's disease.The physician and even the pathologist, when confronted with a case of adenopathies of obscure aetiology, may miss the true diagnosis if they do not look for a toxoplasmic infection. Pathological examination of lymph nodes is not always conclusive. Serologic tests and inoculation of lymph node material into mice afford a definitive diagnosis.The two clinical cases reported above suggest that toxoplasmosis should be more frequently thought of as a cause of adenopathy in the adult.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1966.11716611

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1966

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SummaryA systematic research of Yersinias in coprocultures on desoxycholate-citrate-lactose medium led to the isolation of a new strain of Yersinia enterocolitica from a 1 1/2 year old child (18th human case) with enteritis, which is more frequent with this germ than with the related Pasteurella pseudo-tuberculosis (B. of Malassez-Vignal). The seroagglutination test was also positive with the patient’s sister serum, for whom it allowed a retrospective diagnosis. The familial character of the infection should be noted. Although the cnteritic syndromes are predominant, Yersinia enteracolitica may also cause the same clinical forms as does the Malassez-Vignal bacillus : mesenteric adenitis, septicaemia, erythema nodosum, peripheric adenitis, etc. This clinical diversity, and the difficulty of the biological diagnosis are believed to explain the apparent rarity of this infection.

ISSN:1784-3286    

DOI:10.1080/17843286.1966.11716612

出版商:Taylor&Francis    

年代:1966

数据来源: Taylor