background: there are two kinds of ascites, cirrhotic and malignant. the conventional diagnostic method to differentiate them is paracentesis. this is an invasive and time consuming method. however, ultrasonography is an easy and available method to provide valuable results in a short period of time. the aim of this study was to evaluate gallbladder wall thickness in differentiating cirrhotic a...

paraneoplastic syndromes result from secretion of hormones, peptides or cytokines by tumor or immune cross-reactivity between malignant and normal tissues. these conditions are rare in children, but when the clinical presentation of patients with a tumor is unusual, these syndromes should be emphasized . extrarenal tumors with renin-secretion are rare in children. they may be related to paraneo...

INTRODUCTION Transgenic rats with inducible expression of the mouse Ren2 renin gene [strain name: TGR(Cyp1a1Ren2)] allow induction of various degrees of ANG II-dependent hypertension. Dietary administration of the aryl hydrocarbon indole-3-carbinol (I3C) at a dose of 0.15% induces a slowly developing form of ANG II-dependent hypertension, whereas dietary administration of a higher dose (0.3%) o...

RATIONALE To investigate malignant hypertension ocular lesions with swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A). PATIENT CONCERNS Visual loss due to malignant hypertension. DIAGNOSES Hypertensive chorioretinopathy. INTERVENTIONS Patients were thoroughly examined on presentation and 30 days after their first visit, with swept-sour...

IT HAS been shown that arterial necrosis and inflammation seen in malignant hypertension can be prevented in a given territory lay partial ligation of the nourishing artery. In the "endocrine kidney" procedure, in which the aorta between the origin of both renal arteries is partially ligated, the vessels situated below the ligature remain normal whereas severe periarteritis develops above it as...

The variability of cardiovascular abnormalities is one of the characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Among the cardiovascular manifestations, hypertension is reported in 14% to 58.1% of patients in diverse ethnic populations, and remains a clinically important issue due to its close relationship with early mortality in patients with SLE. The development of hypertension in patien...

This paper describes a case of functional, malignant branchiomeric paraganglioma, the third such to be reported. The patient presented with malignant hypertension and symptoms suggestive of excessive catecholamine secretion.

P WORK from our laboratory has shown a significant mean increase in urinary aldosterone in groups of patients with essential, renal, and malignant hypertension and its excessive daily fluctuations in benign and severe hypertensive patients." These results have been confirmed by several groups of workers*" and by R. Romanelli (personal communication). More recently, Laragh et al. have found incr...

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have demonstrated that the urinary excretion of angiotensinogen is significantly increased in ANG II-infused hypertensive rats, which is associated with an augmentation of intrarenal ANG II levels. These findings suggest that urinary angiotensinogen excretion rates provide an index of intrarenal ANG II levels in ANG II-dependent hypertensive states. However, little...