P183 Cor medusae

The Osmotic Properties of Medusae

Caput medusae in alcoholic liver disease.

Caput medusae and palmar erythema are cardinal signs in cirrhosis of liver with portal hypertension. Palmar erythema is described more often as a marker for alcoholic etiology of chronic liver disease. The peripheral stigmata of chronic liver disease are not routinely seen now a days due to early diagnosis and better therapy. We recently encountered an interesting patient of alcoholic liver dis...

Cor Pulmonale

ar+ Unsual obstruction is found in the pulmonary adH^' Electrocardiography in spite of many ari!^ ?ns ^ea<^s does no^ appear to have "ed much to our knowledge. Two new procedures, essentially clinical, have ^1 yet been made use of in unravelling the ystery of the genesis of Cor, Pulmonale. They of*(1) The removal of a lung. The reduction ? the vascular bed is not likely to be less than e one ca...

Mesodermal anatomies in cnidarian polyps and medusae.

The cellular and developmental analysis of evolutionary-conserved genes directing bilaterian mesodermal and myogenic cell fate previously identified the hydromedusan entocodon and its differentiation product, the striated muscle, as mesodermal derivatives. In view of these findings we presented a hypothesis disputing the diploblast classification of cnidarians without providing further explanat...

Cor pulmonale revisited.

I remember first being introduced to the term cor pulmonale in medical school, which was used to describe right heart failure due to chronic lung disease, and I still have a mental picture of the typical patient as a former heavy smoker, dyspneic at rest, and cyanotic with neck vein distention and lower extremity edema. However, even early catheterization studies of the normal and diseased huma...