Lupus and pregnancy: integrating clues from the bench and bedside.

abstract：:Most physicians and other healthcare professionals are unaware of the pervasiveness of poor quality clinical evidence that contributes considerably to overuse, underuse, avoidable adverse events, missed opportunities for right care and wasted healthcare resources. The Medical Misinformation Mess comprises four key pro...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ioannidis JPA,Stuart ME,Brownlee S,Strite SA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation, which plays an important role in acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is mediated by fibrinogen binding to the platelet membrane glycoprotein (GP)IIb-IIIa (CD41). This study measured the relative number of GPIIb-IIIa complexes on platelets from patients immediately following AMI (n = 14) compared w...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Giles H,Smith RE,Martin JF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In dialysis patients, cardiac troponin T (cTNT) is often elevated despite the absence of acute myocardial ischaemia, and amino-terminal pro-B-natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is markedly higher compared to non-haemodialysis patients. In a longitudinal observation, we evaluated the association of cTNT and NT-p...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Sommerer C,Beimler J,Schwenger V,Heckele N,Katus HA,Giannitsis E,Zeier M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propranolol is used clinically as a prophylactic drug to prevent oesophageal variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension. Vascular hyporesponsiveness is a common characteristic of the portal hypertensive state. The present study aimed to investigate whether chronic administration of propranolol co...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Huang YT,Lin HC,Tsai JF,Hou MC,Hong CY

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high pulse pressure (PP) is associated with adverse cardiovascular (CV) outcomes; however, this relationship may be reversed in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFREF). METHODS:Patients from the WARCEF trial with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤35% were included. PP was divi...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Shah N,Qian M,Di Tullio MR,Graham S,Mann DL,Sacco RL,Lip GYH,Labovitz AJ,Ponikowski P,Lok DJ,Anker SD,Teerlink JR,Thompson JLP,Homma S,Freudenberger RS,WARCEF Investigators.

更新日期：2019-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are close interrelationships between hormones that regulate bone formation and protein biosynthesis. For example, growth hormone and thyroid hormones can influence plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). A patient's status regarding hormones other than IGF-I may thus indirectly modify th...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Svanberg E,Healey J,Mascarenhas D

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:EPB4.1 has been previously mapped to human chromosome 1p33-p34.2. In contradiction to this chromosomal location, we have mapped EPB4.1-1p36 by using fluorescence in situ hybridization and radiation hybrid mapping. In neuroblastomas, deletions of the telomeric end of chromosome 1 (1p36) are the most common ge...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Huang S,Lichtenauer UD,Pack S,Wang C,Kim AC,Lutchman M,Koch CA,Torres-Cruz J,Huang SC,Benz EJ Jr,Christiansen H,Dockhorn-Dworniczak B,Poremba C,Vortmeyer AO,Chishti AH,Zhuang Z

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work was designed to study the effects of a meat meal on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), renal plasma flow (RPF), and plasma concentrations of glucagon, insulin, growth hormone, renin, aldosterone, total amino acids, and NH3 in healthy humans (H) as well as in patients with Child A liver cirrhosis (LC). The meat...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： De Santo NG,Anastasio P,Loguercio C,del Vecchio Blanco C,Capasso G,Coppola S,Bellini L,Spagnuolo G,Federico P,Alfieri R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After feeding intact conscious dogs 1000 g mashed meat, peripheral venous immunoreactive insulin activity (IRI) increases before any enhancement of amino nitrogen concentration. This course of IRI is paralleled by a decrease of free fatty acids. Meal feeding in dogs, whose pancreatic juice is completely diverted from ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Fischer U,Hommel H,Gottschling HD,Nowak W

更新日期：1976-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined 47Calcium kinetic and calcium balance studies with correction for dermal calcium loss were performed in thirteen patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP), in whom serum bone-Gla-protein (S-BGP) was measured, and in ten matched controls. Dietary calcium was normal in PHP but both net (7.9 +/- 1.4 mmol C...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Charles P,Mosekilde L,Jensen FT

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary vasospasm (CVsp) has been reported to be an inflammatory disease, reflected by elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). We investigated the interactions among gender, age, hypertension and hs-CRP in patients with CVsp. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We retrospectively examined 722 Taiwanese pa...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hung MY,Hsu KH,Hung MJ,Cheng CW,Cherng WJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiological evidence proposes the direct involvement of the liver enzymes in atrial fibrillation. These relationships are controversial and mechanistically unclear. As part of the British Regional Heart Study, we investigated whether change in liver enzymes over time associates with atrial fibrillation i...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Schutte R,Whincup PH,Papacosta O,Lennon LT,Macfarlane PW,Wannamethee G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thyroid feedback regulation and equilibria between thyroid hormones differ in the presence or absence of a functioning thyroid remnant. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study examines the relationship between the sensitivity of TSH feedback and thyroid capacity in untreated patients with thyroid autoimmune diseas...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hoermann R,Midgley JEM,Larisch R,Dietrich JW

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infiltration of white adipose tissue (WAT) by inflammatory cells in obesity is considered to be a key event in the development of insulin resistance. Recently, mast cells (MCs) have been identified as new players in the pathogenesis of obesity. We aimed to investigate the relationship between MCs and various...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Einwallner E,Kiefer FW,Di Caro G,Orthofer M,Witzeneder N,Hörmann G,Itariu B,Zeyda M,Penninger JM,Stulnig TM,Esterbauer H,Todoric J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum prolactin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in eighty patients (thirty-four males, forty-six females) with sarcoidosis before treatment. In twelve patients (15%) serum prolactin levels were more than two standard deviations above the mean of normal subjects. Hyperprolactinaemia was found most frequently (...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Nakao K,Noma K,Sato B,Yano S,Yamamura Y,Tachibana T

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulatory dysfunction in portal hypertension is characterized by increased cardiac output, decreased systemic vascular resistance, a fall in mean arterial pressure secondary to splanchnic and systemic vasodilation and hence renal hypoperfusion. Previous studies have disclosed that renal vasculatures of por...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Chuang CL,Huang HC,Chang CC,Lee FY,Wu JC,Lee SD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute renal failure is a grave complication of systemic gram-negative sepsis. The pathophysiological mechanisms of sepsis leading to kidney injury result in part from systemic inflammatory and haemodynamic alterations. These are triggered by the interaction of endotoxin with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) on cells of the...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： El-Achkar TM,Hosein M,Dagher PC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF) mRNA expression has been reported to be up-regulated in adipose tissue from several rodent models of obesity and diabetes and from obese humans. This elevated expression has been assumed to be associated with the development of insulin resistance. However, the biological si...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hube F,Birgel M,Lee YM,Hauner H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum lactic dehydrogenase (S-LDH) was analysed at diagnosis in ninety-three patients with multiple myeloma. The patients were then followed up after a mean observation period of 39 months (SD 29). Serum lactic dehydrogenase was elevated in twenty-seven out of ninety-three patients and found to correlate with the seru...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Simonsson B,Brenning G,Källander C,Ahre A

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma concentrations of vitamins A and E are positively correlated with those of concurrent lipids and, on the other hand, lipid levels are influenced by apolipoprotein E polymorphism. Therefore, the effect of this polymorphism on both vitamins was analysed in an adult population. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Sub...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Gómez-Coronado D,Entrala A,Alvarez JJ,Ortega H,Olmos JM,Castro M,Sastre A,Herrera E,Lasunción MA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of percutaneous electrical stimulation (70 V, 300 microseconds pulses at 30 Hz) on muscle composition and rate of protein synthesis were studied in seven patients with quadriceps atrophy secondary to unilateral osteoarthritis of the knee (stimulated group). Quadriceps were stimulated on the affected side f...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Gibson JN,Morrison WL,Scrimgeour CM,Smith K,Stoward PJ,Rennie MJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare the changes in plasma renin activity induced by a vasodilator in normal dogs and in dogs with an impaired cardiac reserve. In normal conscious dogs, a 60-min nitroprusside infusion increased plasma renin activity from 1.05 +/- 0.26 to 8.35 +/- 1.20 ng, angiotensin I ml-1 h-1 (P less...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Pouleur H,Engler RL,Link J,Printz MP,Covell JW

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the impact of race and positive family history of type 2 diabetes on glucose/insulin dynamics and the two components of glucose disposal in healthy, first-degree relatives of black and white American patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are at a greater risk from the disease and their healthy co...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Osei K,Cottrell DA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SOX6 has been recently proposed as a pleiotropic gene for obesity and osteoporosis. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the rs7117858 genetic variant in SOX6 was associated with bone mass assessed by quantitative ultrasound (QUS) and obesity-related measures in a population of young adults. MET...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Correa-Rodríguez M,Schmidt-RioValle J,Rueda-Medina B

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized the existence of different hormonal response patterns to repeated lower body negative pressure (LBNP) and head-up tilt (HUT) in healthy males. We compared hormonal, cardiovascular and plasma volume changes from rest to stress within- and between-LBNP and HUT applications. Hormones investigate...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Roessler A,Goswami N,Haditsch B,Loeppky JA,Luft FC,Hinghofer-Szalkay H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently available information on adipose tissue metabolism in man is mainly based on studies in vitro. In the present work adipose tissue lipid uptake was studied in vivo in man. 100 g glucose and 120 g milk fat with 10 microCi U-14C oleic acid were given in the overnight fasting state to eight women and 2 h after a...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Mårin P,Rebuffé-Scrive M,Björntorp P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen load can be reduced by substituting dietary protein intake with keto or hydroxy analogues of amino acids. To investigate their intestinal absorption, human jejunal brush border membrane vesicles were used to measure uptake of L-leucine hydroxy analogue (L-LHA) and L-lactate. Uptake assays were performed under...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Friedrich M,Murer H,Sterchi E,Berger EG

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of metabolites of arachidonic acid by the cyclo-oxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways were determined in human lung tissue, obtained from surgery. In this measurement the chopped tissue was incubated with the calcium ionophore A23187. Formation of metabolites from [1-14C] arachidonic acid was also determin...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Zijlstra FJ,Naaktgeboren M,Mons H,Vincent JE

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular patients suffer from reduced blood flow leading to ischaemia and impaired tissue metabolism. Unfortunately, an increasing group of elderly patients cannot be treated with current revascularization methods. Thus, new treatment strategies are urgently needed. Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) upr...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Niemi H,Honkonen K,Korpisalo P,Huusko J,Kansanen E,Merentie M,Rissanen TT,André H,Pereira T,Poellinger L,Alitalo K,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assuming that lithium is exclusively reabsorbed in the proximal tubules pari passu with sodium (Na), the lithium clearance (CLi) has been advanced as an index of filtrate delivery from the proximal tubules. In order to determine whether water loads in a range commonly given during clearance studies affect CLi, we stud...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Boer WH,Koomans HA,Dorhout Mees EJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00