92 Hansraj Riteesh Bookun is currently a Vascular Surgery Registrar at the University Hospital Geelong in Australia . He will be formally starting his training under the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in February 2016 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His other interests include automotive racing and karate. He has spent most of his teenage years actively competing in karate but has now ...

OBJECTIVE Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms have lower concentrations of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), leading us to investigate whether increasing plasma HDLs could influence aneurysm formation. METHODS AND RESULTS Using the angiotensin II-induced hypercholesterolemic and the CaCl(2)-induced normocholesterolemic mouse model of AAA, we investigated the hypothesis that elevation of ...

SETO. Taste sensitivity in various strains of mice. Am. J. Physiol. 202 (6) : I 200-1204. 1g62.-The present study was designed to elucidate the differences in taste sensitivity in various strains of mice, and to study the relationship between taste sensitivity and color of the fur. Taste thresholds for four kinds of taste substance, i.e., sodium chloride, saccharine, acetic acid, and phenylthio...

(From the Physiological Laboratory of Prof. Y. Satake, Tohoku University, Sendai.) (Received for publication, August 9, 1949) In the studies on the effect of eserine upon the augmented epinephrine secretion caused by KCl in non-anesthetized dogs, which were performed by the present writer in collaboration with Matumoto, Sasaki and Nuno kawa,1) we noticed that the epinephrine secretion rate from...

Many investigators (1-11) have shown that changes occur in the concentration of serum electrolytes during suprarenal insufficiency. There is evidence that these changes are due to shifts of such ions within the body fluids, and some workers (2, 3) have suggested that the kidney may be one of the sites of action of the suprarenal cortical hormone regulating serum electrolytes. Animals with diabe...

The epinephrine store of the suprarenal glands remains unaltered in guinea pigs and rabbits which have been sensitized to ox serum, or subjected to varying degrees of anaphylactic shock by the reinjection of the foreign protein.

PURPOSE Bronchogenic cysts are rare benign congenital anomalies, originating from the embryonic foregut ventral segment. Adrenal bronchogenic cyst is a rare form of this anomaly. One extremely rare case of bilateral adrenal multilocular bronchogenic cyst in our hospital was reported and the relevant literatures were reviewed. Significant findings: A 51-year-old man suffered from an intermittent...

BACKGROUND Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is one of the most aggressive endocrine malignancies with a dismal prognosis. Typically, the tumor is large and has regional invasion or distant metastasis at initial presentation. OBJECTIVE To describe an unusual case of functioning ACC presenting with superior vena cava (SVC) and upper airway obstruction. MATERIAL AND METHOD A 23-year-old man with...

We describe an unusual patient presenting with a history of refractory hypertension and hypokalemia. Initial screening tests for adrenal hypertension were consistent with primary aldosteronism and an abdominal computed tomography scan showed an 8-mm left adrenal mass. However, adrenal venous sampling revealed markedly suppressed plasma aldosterone in the left adrenal vein but increased plasma a...