Procaine amide (Pronestyl) was administered to patients with auricular fibrillation and flutter in an attempt to restore sinus rhythm. Thirteen of 20 patients with auricular fibrillation had sinus rhythm re-established. Several of the patients who were not converted with procaine amide were later restored to sinus rhythm with quinidine. OR MANY YEARS the restoration of sinus rhythm in patients ...

During thèKongreû fu È r Nephrologie 2000' (2±5 September 2000, Vienna, Austria) a pre-congressional symposium was held. The ®rst speaker was Ariela Benigni from Bergamo, Italy. As she said, exogenous endothelin 1 (Et-1) infusion reduces the renal plasma ¯ow (RPF) by approximately 25% at doses which do not yet alter systemic blood pressure (MAP). The effect of Et-1 on RPF is mediated by constri...

Bilateral pneumothoraces and pleural effusions in rheuma-toid lung disease SIR,-I read with interest the report by Dr 0 Ayzenberg and his colleagues entitled "Bilateral pneumothoraces and pleural effusions complicating rheumatoid lung disease" (February 1983, p 159). We encountered this situation in a 60 year old woman with long standing seropositive nodular rheumatoid arthritis admitted to hos...

A 78-year-old woman, a retired primary school principal, was referred for a second opinion regarding a recommendation that she undergo stenting of a severe carotid stenosis. A bruit in the right carotid had led to a carotid ultrasound study and a diagnosis of 80% stenosis of the right internal carotid artery. This was confirmed by computed tomogra-phy angiography, which also showed moderate ste...

1 Boselli E, Bouvet L, Bégou G, et al. Prediction of immediate post-operative pain using the analgesia/nociception index: a prospective observational study. Prospective observational study of the non-invasive assessment of immediate postoperative pain using the analgesia/nociception index (ANI). Pupillary reflex dilatation and analgesia nociception index monitoring to assess the effectiveness o...

Tamer Tetiker, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty, Çukurova University, TR-Adana (Turkey) Dear Sir, Although amyloidosis secondary to collagen vascular diseases, in particular to Beh-çet’s disease [1], is frequently reported, rheumatic heart disease with amyloidosis is rare. Herein, we report a patient with mitral valve stenosis due to rheumatic heart disease and renal amyloidosis...

coimplantation with a MtT or by daily administration of the tranquilizing drug, perphenazine (4-[3-(2-chborophenothiazin 10-yI)propyl]-1 -piperazineethanol) (6). MTW9-MtT is grown by coimplantation of MTW9 with MtTW10, a MtT which secretes prolactin, growth hormone, and probably ACTH (5). MTW9-MtT stops growing after ovaniec tomy but does not regress; regression occurs after surgical removal of...

Reduction of the blood pressure in normal and hypertensive subjects by intravenous pyrogen caused the electrocardiograms to assume a more abnormal configuration as judged by present criteria of electrocardiographic normality. A temporary reduction of the blood pressure by the intravenous administration of tetraethylammonium chloride caused only minor and variable modifications of the electrocar...

Occupational asthma caused by allergy to pigs' urine We report a case of asthma due to occupational exposure to pigs. The cause of the symptoms was exposure to the urine of the animals. This was proved by provoking acute asthma with an inhalation challenge of an extract of pigs' urine at a concentration of 1 g/l. On a second occasion this asthmatic response was blocked by prior treatment with 4...

Iapplaud the study by Schober et al in this issue of AJKD, which focuses on patients treated with dialysis to assess their attitudes and overall potential to engage in advocacy related to chronic kidney disease (CKD). As the study states, even though more than 25 million Americans live with CKD and more than 400,000 require maintenance dialysis therapy for kidney failure, funding for CKD resear...