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  • Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus  (2)
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  • Acute myeloblastic leukemia  (1)
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  • 1
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    Springer
    Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie 57 (1998), S. 227-230 
    ISSN: 0340-1855
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter Wegener-Ganulomatose ; Gangrän ; Wegener-Polyarteriitis-Overlap-Syndrom ; Key words Wegener‘s granulomatosis ; gangrene ; Wegener-polyarteriitis overlap syndrome
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary Gangrene of digits is a very rare manifestation of Wegener‘s granulomatosis (WG). We report a case of a 29-year-old woman with nonspecific symptoms like fever, weight loss, arthralgia, arthritis and high systemic inflammatory signs. On the grounds of a presumed infection the patient was treated with antibiotics which showed no effect. Within short she complained of pain and paresthesia of the right foot with a rapid lividity. Angiography demonstrated multiples stenoses and multisegmental occlusions of the lower leg arteries. Together with renal and pulmonal symptoms a WG was suspected, the diagnosis being confirmed by kidney biopsy and positive cANCAs. A few months after starting a combined therapy with cyclophosphamide and corticosteroids the patient showed a partial remission with a residual toe gangrene. Comparing the five worldwide reported cases with digital gangrene and our presentation there is a concordance of all in the occurence of an extremely high disease activity together with a glomerulonephritis. The findings of p-ANCAs in our patient and positive Hbs antigen in another case of WG with digital gangrene suggests a relation to panarteriitis nodosa, where gangren is more common.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Die periphere Gangrän stellt im Rahmen der Wegener-Granulomatose (WG) eine äußerst seltene Manifestation dar. Wir präsentieren den Fall einer 29jährigen Patientin, die hochakut mit zunächst unspezifischen Beschwerden und Befunden wie Fieber, Gewichtsverlust, Arthralgien bzw. Arthritis und hohen serologischen Entzündungszeichen erkrankte und unter Annahme einer Infektion antibiotisch (ohne Besserung) behandelt wurde. Bald darauf kam es schlagartig zu Schmerzen, Pelzigkeit und livider akraler Verfärbung im re. Vorfuß mit rascher Progredienz. Angiographisch zeigten sich multiple Stenosen und multisegmentale Verschlüsse der Unterschenkelarterien. Gleichzeitiger pulmonaler und renaler Befall führten zur Verdachtsdiagnose einer WG, die nierenbioptisch und bei deutlich positiven c-ANCA bestätigt werden konnte. Die kombinierte Therapie mit Kortikoiden und Cyclophosphamid führte zur Teilremission innerhalb weniger Monate mit Restschädigung einer Zehe. Unserem sowie den weiteren fünf weltweit publizierten Fällen mit dieser Manifestation ist gemeinsam, daß stets eine äußerst hohe Gesamtaktivität der Erkrankung und Nierenbeteiligung vorlag. Der gleichzeitige Nachweis von p-ANCA bei unserer Patientin und des HBs-Antigens in einem weiteren Fall läßt in diesen Fällen an eine Verwandtschaft zur Polyarteriitis nodosa (PAN) denken, wo die Gangrän weniger selten vorkommt. Ob es sich hierbei um das Vorliegen zweier koinzidenter Krankheitsbilder oder um Overlap-Fälle handelt, muß offenbleiben, ein Overlap-Syndrom zwischen WG und PAN ist bisher nicht bekannt.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0584
    Keywords: Key words Chloroma ; Acute myeloblastic leukemia ; Chemotherapy ; Autologous stem cell transplantation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Isolated chloromas (granulocytic sarcomas) are rare tumors, most of them progressing to acute myeloblastic leukemia within months. There are still no conclusive treatment strategies for this entity; however, early antileukemic chemotherapy seems to lower the probability of developing systemic disease and prolong survival. We report on a patient with isolated meningeal chloroma, primarily misdiagnosed as a high-grade Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Two cycles of antileukemic induction chemotherapy were administered, followed by local irradiation and intensified consolidation therapy with autologous stem cell transplantation. After 20 months, he is still in complete remission.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus ; recent-onset ; proinsulin ; C-peptide ; cyclosporin ; remission
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary An increased proinsulin to C-peptide molar ratio at the onset of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus has been suggested. We studied fasting proinsulin levels and proinsulin/C-peptide ratios in the newly diagnosed diabetic subjects participating in the Canadian/European placebo controlled cyclosporin study at entry, during the one year treatment period and six months of follow-up. Available entry data from 176 out of the 188 allocated patients were compared to 60 age and weight matched control subjects. Fasting proinsulin was significantly elevated in male patients compared to male control subjects (p〈0.01), whereas the levels only tended to be elevated in female patients. The proinsulin/C-peptide ratio was three to fourfold elevated in the diabetic groups of both sexes, (p〈0.001). Further, proinsulin and C-peptide were studied in 83 cyclosporin and 86 placebo-treated subjects during the trial and follow-up. An additional increase of proinsulin/C-peptide ratio was observed during the first three months of placebo treatment. It remained constantly high for nine months and then declined to entry level. This pattern was not seen in the cyclosporintreated group, where the ratio was unchanged during the 12 months trial and follow-up. The effect of cyclosporin on the induction of non-insulin requiring remission was unrelated to fasting and glucagon stimulated C-peptide levels at entry, whereas 64% of the cyclosporin-treated against 28% of the placebo-treated subjects (p〈0.01) went into remission if the proinsulin/C-peptide ratio at entry was above 0.024. If the ratio was below 0.024 at entry, 42% and 33% went into non-insulin requiring remission, respectively (NS). We conclude that fasting proinsulin to C-peptide molar ratio is elevated at the onset of Type 1 diabetes mellitus. A further plateaushape elevation lasting nine months was seen during the remission period. Cyclosporin seems to inhibit or delay this development. The proinsulin/C-peptide ratio at diagnosis may show to be of value in the prediction of remission during cyclosporin treatment.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus ; nocturnal hypoglycaemia ; electroencephalogramregistrations ; glucagon response
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Eight Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients with no diabetic complications were studied overnight for two consecutive and one subsequent night with continuous monitoring of electroencephalogram and serial hormone measurements. The aims were: 1) to evaluate the influence of spontaneous and insulin-induced hypoglycaemia on nocturnal electroencephalogram sleep-patterns and, 2) to evaluate counter-regulatory hormone responses. Spontaneous hypoglycaemia occurred on six nights (38%) with blood glucose concentrations 〈3.0 mmol/l and on four nights 〈2.0 mmol/l. All the patients experienced insulin-induced hypoglycaemia with a blood glucose nadir of 1.6 (range 1.4–1.9) mmol/l. The electroencephalogram was analysed by a new method developed for this purpose in contrast to the traditional definition of delta-, theta-, alpha- and beta-activity. The blood glucose concentration could be correlated to the rank of individual electroencephalogram-patterns during the whole night, and specific hypoglycaemic amplitude-frequency patterns could be assigned. Three of the eight patients showed electroencephalogram changes at blood glucose levels below 2.0 (1.6–2.0) mmol/l. The electroencephalogram classes representing hypoglycaemic activity had peak frequencies at 4 and 6 Hz, respectively, clearly different from the patients' delta- and theta-activity. The changes were not identical in each patient, however, they were reproducible in each patient. The changes were found equally in all regions of the brain. The three patients with electroencephalogram changes during nocturnal hypoglycaemia could only be separated from the other five patients by their impaired glucagon responses. Against this background the possibility of protection by glucagon, against neurophysiologic changes in the brain during hypoglycaemia may be considered.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus ; glucose ; C-peptide ; insulin ; insulin treatment ; insulin secretion
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Seventeen insulin dependent diabetics were studied after two to four weeks of insulin treatment in a situation approximating to their normal daily life. Some endogenous insulin secretion, assessed by plasma C-peptide determinations, was present in all. Plasma C-peptide concentration was positively correlated with the blood glucose concentration and increased after breakfast, lunch and dinner (p〈0.01); both peak values and relative increases were lower than those observed in normal subjects (p〈0.01). The highest insulin secretory capacity was found in subjects with the least unstable blood glucose concentration (r=0.57, p 〈0.03), and these patients required the smallest insulin doses (r=0.54, P〈0.04). These findings demonstrate the metabolic importance of a preserved B-cell function.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Bone mineral content ; diabetes mellitus ; diabetic control ; insulin secretion ; insulin dosage ; fasting blood glucose
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The significance of different risk factors for the development of bone loss in diabetes mellitus was evaluated in a cross sectional study of 215 insulin treated diabetic outpatients. Bone mineral content in the forearms was measured by photon absorptiometry and the metabolic status was evaluated by three indices: residual B-cell function, insulin dosage and fasting blood glucose. The mean bone mineral content was reduced to 90.2% of sex- and agematched normal mean values (P〈0.001). Stratification of the patients showed that bone mineral content was 99.3% of that found in sex- and age matched normal subjects in the group with residual B-cell function, low insulin dosage and low fasting blood glucose; it was only 79.3% of normal in the group with no detectable insulin secretion, high insulin dosage and more severe hyperglycaemia. Thus, residual insulin secretion and the quality of metabolic control are major factors in determining bone mineral content in insulin treated diabetic patients.
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