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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Key words Islet allotransplantation ; Immunosuppressive induction therapy ; Cytokine expression
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The macrophage derived cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), and the T-cell derived cytokine interferon gamma (IFNγ) have been implicated to play an important role in early attack on islet cells during human islet transplantation (ITx). Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the current immunosuppressive induction therapy in clinical islet transplantation on mRNA expression of these cytokines in blood cells, compared to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced cytokine release in vitro and to plasma levels. The cytokine release correlated to lymphocyte counts and significantly decreased after ATG, and partially recovered 2 weeks after ITx. Unexpectedly, there was no correlation between mRNA expression for IL-1β in total blood and the number of lymphocytes and monocytes remaining after anti thymocyte globulin (ATG)-therapy. Even when the blood was nearly totally depleted from mononuclear cells, high amounts of IL-1β mRNA could be detected. However, IL-1β secretion could not be stimulated in vitro. Our results show that application of ATG during ITx might contribute to graft survival during the early posttransplant period by suppression of the synthesis of monocyte derived cytokines IL-1β and TNFα.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Key words Collagenase ; Ficoll ; Endotoxin ; Human mononuclear cells ; Interleukin-1β release
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Endotoxin-induced early inflammatory reactions may inhibit the function and survival of isolated cells or cell aggregates after transplantation. By the chromogenic Limulus amebocyte lysate assay we found rather high but variable endotoxin concentrations in the chemicals used for islet isolation, i.e. collagenase and Ficoll. Liberase, a special collagenase preparation from Boehringer, was nearly endotoxin-free. Correlating to the endotoxin content, collagenase and Ficoll had the capacity to induce interleukin-1β release from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Because collagenase and density gradient media are needed in most cell isolation procedures from solid organs, each lot of these chemicals should be tested for endotoxin contamination. In pancreatic islet transplantation, the use of endotoxin-free chemicals may diminish early local inflammatory reactions at the graft site and thereby reduce the number of islets needed for successful islet transplantation.
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    Intensive care medicine 22 (1996), S. 1406-1409 
    ISSN: 1432-1238
    Keywords: Keywords Respiratory failure ; Mitochondrial myopathy ; Acid maltase deficiency ; Intermittent positive pressure ventilation ; Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract   Objective: To describe how patients cope with the propos-al of treatment with intermittent artificial ventilation after acute respiratory failure due to progressive respiratory muscle weakness. Design: Case series, follow-up study. Setting: Neurological intensive care unit (ICU). Patients: 7 consecutive patients with metabolic myopathy treated for acute respiratory failure between 1983 and 1992. interventions: Intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) via tracheostomy. Measurements and results: Symptoms of chronic hypoventilation preceded acute respiratory failure for months. With one exception, patients were mainly disabled from respiratory muscle weakness and sleep-related breathing disorders. IPPV was recommended to prevent recurrent respiratory failure. Two of 28.8nthree patients who accepted home IPPV returned to full-time jobs. One patient, who decided against IPPV, died from CO2 narcosis several months after discharge. All patients adhered to the respiratory regimen once instituted. Conclusions: Acute respiratory failure in chronic myopathy is heralded by daytime drowsiness. IPPV, or at least regular monitoring of waking and sleeping partial pressure of carbon dioxide, is highly recommended even if weaning is successful. IPPV improved quality of life. The treatment strategy at discharge from the ICU should be optimal, as patients are reluctant to modify regimens.
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    Intensive care medicine 22 (1996), S. 1406-1409 
    ISSN: 1432-1238
    Keywords: Respiratory failure ; Mitochondrial myopathy ; Acid maltase deficiency ; Intermittent positive pressure ventilation ; Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Objective To describe how patients cope with the proposal of treatment with intermittent artificial ventilation after acute respiratory failure due to progressive respiratory muscle weakness. Design Case series, follow-up study. Setting Neurological intensive care unit (ICU). Patients 7 consecutive patients with metabolic myopathy treated for acute respiratory failure between 1983 and 1992. Interventions Intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) via tracheostomy. Measurements and results Symptoms of chronic hypoventilation preceded acute respiratory failure for months. With one exception, patients were mainly disabled from respiratory muscle weakness and sleep-related breathing disorders. IPPV was recommended to prevent recurrent respiratory failure. Two of three patients who accepted home IPPV returned to full-time jobs. One patient, who decided against IPPV, died from CO2 narcosis several months after discharge. All patients adhered to the respiratory regimen once instituted. Conclusions Acute respiratory failure in chronic myopathy is heralded by daytime drowsiness. IPPV, or at least regular monitoring of waking and sleeping partial pressure of carbon dioxide, is highly recommended even if weaning is successful. IPPV improved quality of life. The treatment strategy at discharge from the ICU should be optimal, as patients are reluctant to modify regimens.
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  • 5
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    Materials science forum Vol. 287-288 (Aug. 1998), p. 235-238 
    ISSN: 1662-9752
    Source: Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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  • 6
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    Der Nervenarzt 69 (1998), S. 516-518 
    ISSN: 1433-0407
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter Paraneoplastische Erkrankungen ; Anti-Ri-Syndrom ; Kleinhirndegeneration ; Blickparese ; Brustkrebs ; Key words Diplopia ; Subacute paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration ; Breast cancer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary
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    Der Nervenarzt 70 (1999), S. 136-148 
    ISSN: 1433-0407
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter Guillain-Barré-Syndrom ; Autonomes Nervensystem ; Barorezeptorreflex ; Katecholamine ; Key words Guillain- Barré syndrome ; Autonomous nervous system ; Baroreceptor reflex ; catecholamines
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary About 20% of all GBS patients have symptoms of dysautonomia: labile hypertension, orthostatic hypotension, sinustachycardia or sinus arrest. This rate rises to 75% in patients with tetraplegia. Proprioceptive loss predicts dysautonomia independently from the severity of weakness. It is frequently responsible for dysautonomia. The afferent limb of cardiovascular regulation contains more myelinated fibers than the sympathetic and parasympathetic efferences, which determine the common classification of dysautonomia. The frequence of mixed sympathetic and parasympathetic hyperactivity is hard to ex- plain by efferent lesions. Afferent conduction block releases the sympathetic efference of the baroreceptor reflex. The resulting cate- cholamine excess explains hypertension, tachycardia, ECG-changes and hyperglycemia. Norepinephrine sensitizes left ventricular stretch receptors. They induce cardiovascular depression and neurocardiogenic syncope which has a temporal behaviour similar to the blood pressure variations of GBS. Conduction block of sinoatrial stretch receptors causes inappropriate secretion of ADH and renin. Disbalance between myelinated and unmyelinated afferents which decrease and increase heart rate may cause parasympathetic hyperactivity, as exemplified by pulmonary stretch receptors that are stimulated by artificial ventilation. Wrong afferent feedback is responsible for many cardiovascular instabilities in GBS. Blockade of misguided efferent reactions is an attractive therapeutical approach.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Bei GBS-Patienten mit Tetraplegie oder propriozeptiven Ausfällen sind vegetative Störungen häufig und nicht selten bedrohlich. Je nach verwendetem Grenzwert und abhängig von der Patientenauswahl haben 20–75% der Patienten supraventrikuläre Tachykardien. Ventrikuläre Tachykardien sind seltener vital bedrohlich als Bradykardien, die spontan und nach verschiedenen thorakalen und orofazialen Reizen auftreten können. Etwa jeder fünfte Patient ist dauerhafter hyperton. Typisch sind bizarr schwankende Blutdruckwerte. Seltener stehen Blutdruckabfälle im Vordergrund. Afferente Konduktionsblöcke entzügeln diverse Efferenzen. So kommt es bei Ausfall sinoatrialer Dehnungsafferenzen zur unangemessenen ADH- und Reninausschüttung. Afferente Störungen des Barorezeptorreflexes verursachen Katecholaminexzesse, die zu Hypertonus, Tachykardie, EKG-Veränderungen und Hyperglykämie führen. Außerdem steigern sie die Empfindlichkeit unmyeliniserter linksventrikulärer Dehnungsrezeptoren, die kardio- und vasodepressorisch wirken und zur Blutdrucklabilität beitragen. Intakt gebliebene unmyelinisierte Afferenzen vermitteln nicht selten bradykarde Reaktionen, v.a. wenn das Gegengewicht tachykard wirkender myelinisierter Afferenzen verloren gegangen ist. Ein Beispiel sind hochschwellige unmyelinisierte pulmonale Dehnungsafferenzen, die bei der Seufzerbeatmung stimuliert werden. Die Kenntnis der klinischen Risikofaktoren Tetraplegie und gestörte Propriozeption, des wichtigsten Dysautonomieindikators Blutdrucklabilität und die Anwendung vegetativer Funktionstests helfen, bedrohte Patienten zu erkennen, die kardial überwacht werden müssen. Angesichts der häufigen afferenten Fehlmeldungen ist eine sympathische und parasympathische Blockade unter Schrittmacherbereitschaft zu erwägen.
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  • 8
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    Journal of neurology 246 (1999), S. 1015-1022 
    ISSN: 1432-1459
    Keywords: Key words Polyneuritis ; Autonomic dysfunction ; Intensive ; care ; Cardiac arrest ; Blood pressure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract This study sought to establish quantitative criteria for dysautonomia in artificially ventilated patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Such criteria would help to identify patients at risk for cardiovascular complications. This retrospective controlled clinical study compared hourly cardiovascular monitoring data from 36 successive, artificially ventilated GBS patients with that from 11 artificially ventilated control patients with myasthenia. Tolerance limits for daily means, extremes, and variations in heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) were estimated from the most abnormal subgroups of the treatment days of our control patients. These exceeded previously suggested arbitrary cutoff values for dysautonomia. The range in systolic BP was increased in 27 GBS patients, despite an upper limit of normal (85 mmHg) that was double the value suggested in previous work. All 16 patients with mean systolic BP above 165 mm Hg also had persistent tachycardia (mean HR 〉 125 bpm), or were treated with β-blockers. This pattern of sympathetic hyperactivity was combined with probable vagal hyperactivity (bradycardia 〈 48 bpm) in 6 patients. Hypotension (minimal systolic BP 〈 85 mm Hg) and unprovoked bradycardia indicated sympathetic hypoactivity in 3 patients. Except in one patient who suffered from asystole on his first day on the ICU, all episodes of bradycardia were preceded by increased daily systolic BP variation (〉 85 mm Hg), which thus proved to be a sensitive and prognostically valuable indicator of dysautonomia in GBS.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1433-0407
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter Hypokalzämie ; Enzephalopathie ; Pseudohypoparathyreoidismus ; Hirnödem ; Epilepsie ; Key words Hypocalcemia ; Encephalopathy ; Pseudohypoparathyroidism ; Brain edema ; Epilepsy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary A 16 year old patient with the typical clinical signs of Albright's hereditary dystrophia developed series of epileptic seizures with loss of consciousness, tonic muscle contractions and bite of the tongue. After termination of the seizures there was coma without focal neurological signs. CT scan revealed diffuse brain edema. Electroencephalographic studies showed generalized slowing. In laboratory tests the only abnormalities were marked hypocalcemia (1.15 mmol/l) and hyperphosphatemia. Blood parathyroid hormone (PTH) was elevated. PTH-Test confirmed the diagnosis of pseudohypoparathyroidism. The patient was treated with calcium and 1,25-dihydroxy-cholecalciferol. After few days the severe encephalopathy, CT and electroencephalographic changes were completely reversible. Hereditary disturbances of the parathyroid hormone metabolism are rare diseases. Hypocalcemia must be included into the differential diagnosis of seizures and brain edema to avoid invasive diagnostic and irrational treatment.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Ein 16 jähriger Patient mit vorbestehend retardierter intellektueller Entwicklung erkrankte ohne Prodromalsymptome akut mit einer Serie von epileptischen Anfällen mit Bewußtseinsverlust, tonischen Muskelkontraktionen und Zungenbiß. Nach Termination der Anfälle war der Patient komatös. Klinische Herdzeichen bestanden nicht. Inspektorisch zeigten sich Kleinwuchs und Brachydaktylie. Im CCT fand sich eine generalisierte Hirnschwellung, im EEG eine schwere Allgemeinveränderung. Einziger labordiagnostisch wegweisender Befund war eine ausgeprägte Hypokalzämie von 1,15 mmol/l und mäßige Hyperphosphatämie. Der Parathormonspiegel war deutlich erhöht. Der Parathormontest bestätigte die Diagnose des Pneudohypoparathyreoidismus. Durch Anheben des Serumkalziumspiegels und Gabe von 1,25-Dihydroxy-Cholecalciferol waren die akut aufgetretene Enzephalopathie sowie die CCT- und EEG-Veränderungen innerhalb weniger Tage vollständig reversibel. Elektrolytstörungen wie die Hypokalzämie beim Pseudohypoparathyreoidismus sind eine wichtige, wenn auch seltene Differentialdiagnose einer akuten Enzephalopathie mit Anfällen und Hirnödem beim jungen Patienten und bedürfen einer spezifischen Behandlung
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  • 10
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    Mathematische Zeitschrift 228 (1998), S. 435-450 
    ISSN: 0025-5874
    Keywords: Mathematics Subject Classification (1991):20M20, 20B40, 20M10
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mathematics
    Notes: Abstract. Let $S$ be a transformation semigroup of degree $n$ . To each element $s\in S$ we associate a permutation group $G_R(s)$ acting on the image of $s$ , and we find a natural generating set for this group. It turns out that the $\mathcal{R}$ -class of $s$ is a disjoint union of certain sets, each having size equal to the size of $G_R(s)$ . As a consequence, we show that two $\mathcal{R}$ -classes containing elements with equal images have the same size, even if they do not belong to the same $\mathcal{D}$ -class. By a certain duality process we associate to $s$ another permutation group $G_L(s)$ on the image of $s$ , and prove analogous results for the $\mathcal{L}$ -class of $S$ . Finally we prove that the Schützenberger group of the $\mathcal{H}$ -class of $s$ is isomorphic to the intersection of $G_R(s)$ and $G_L(s)$ . The results of this paper can also be applied in new algorithms for investigating transformation semigroups, which will be described in a forthcoming paper.
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