Venous compliance and the venodilatory effect of nitroglycerin in insulin-dependent diabetic patients with and without (incipient) nephropathy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) helps control tumour growth via causing new capillaries growth in tumours. Four cardiac hormones [i.e. vessel dilator, long-acting natriuretic peptide (LANP), kaliuretic peptide (KP) and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)] that eliminate up to up to 86% of human small-...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Nguyen JP,Frost CD,Lane ML,Skelton WP IV,Skelton M,Vesely DL

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of lumbar spondylolisthesis (SPL) in patients suffering from low back pain (LBP) with or without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to identify potential factors associated with SPL in patients with RA. METHODS:We performed a case-control study. Cases and contro...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hagege B,Tubach F,Alfaiate T,Forien M,Dieudé P,Ottaviani S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of treating the anaemia of end-stage renal failure with erythropoietin were studied in nine dialysis patients. The increase in haemoglobin concentration (by 59% from 7.0 +/- 1.2 to 11.1 +/- 1.1 g dl-1) was associated with increases in exercise duration (by 41%) and maximum oxygen consumption (by 34%). Trea...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Lewis NP,Macdougall IC,Willis N,Coles GA,Williams JD,Henderson AH

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscess formation is a common bacterial infection and requires an immediate antimicrobial approach for apposite treatment. Delay in patient treatment is usually a common feature, as the bacterial identification of clinical samples is based on the culture, which is a time-consuming exercise. The current study...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Garg M,Misra MK,Chawla S,Prasad KN,Roy R,Gupta RK

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to bile salts, which undergo a highly efficient enterohepatic circulation with multiple regulatory and physiologic functions, glucuronic acid conjugates of bilirubin are biliary excretory molecules that in health do not have a continuing biologic life. Intestinal absorptive cells are devoid of recapture tr...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Vítek L,Carey MC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate pregnancy care of women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) rests on three pillars: a coordinated medical-obstetrical care, an agreed and well-defined management protocol and a good neonatal unit. Pregnancy should be planned following a preconceptional visit for counselling. Women with severe active disea...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ruiz-Irastorza G,Khamashta MA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have minimized methodological errors in the isotope dilution technique by using stable isotope, [6,6-2H2]glucose, thus avoiding the problem of contamination of tritiated glucose tracers and, by maintaining a constant plasma tracer enrichment have reduced error due to mixing transients. Using these modifications we ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Powrie JK,Smith GD,Hennessy TR,Shojaee-Moradie F,Kelly JM,Sönksen PH,Jones RH

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arterial stiffness is an important determinant of cardiovascular risk. It is associated with several cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension, diabetes and cigarette smoking. However, there are conflicting data about the relationship between arterial stiffness and hypercholesterolemia. Furthermore...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Riggio S,Mandraffino G,Sardo MA,Iudicello R,Camarda N,Imbalzano E,Alibrandi A,Saitta C,Carerj S,Arrigo T,Saitta A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous study, we demonstrated the presence of receptors for somatostatin, a neuropeptide with immunoregulatory properties, in the inflammatory lesions of patients suffering from sarcoidosis and other granulomatous diseases by in vivo somatostatin receptor scintigraphy and in vitro autoradiography. How...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： ten Bokum AM,Hofland LJ,de Jong G,Bouma J,Melief MJ,Kwekkeboom DJ,Schonbrunn A,Mooy CM,Laman JD,Lamberts SW,van Hagen PM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predictors of gingival enlargement in patients treated with anti-epileptics have not been previously assessed. This study was conducted to determine, with the aid of two indices that score vertical and horizontal overgrowth, the prevalence and risk factors for gingival enlargement in patients treated with ph...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Brunet L,Miranda J,Roset P,Berini L,Farré M,Mendieta C

更新日期：2001-09-01 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:Many haemodialysis patients treated with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) receive intravenous iron supplementation on a regular basis. It has been shown previously that this may result in a transient "oversaturation" of transferrin. METHODS:Ten stable haemodialysis patients on r-HuEPO treatment re...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Kooistra MP,Kersting S,Gosriwatana I,Lu S,Nijhoff-Schutte J,Hider RC,Marx JJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After the Q fever outbreak in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2010, more than 300 patients with chronic Q fever have been identified. Some patients were also diagnosed with systemic sclerosis, a rare immune-mediated disease. We aimed to increase awareness of concomitant chronic Q fever infection and systemi...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Jansen AFM,Raijmakers RPH,van Deuren M,Vonk MC,Bleeker-Rovers CP

更新日期：2019-07-01 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:Postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) is a common complication following cardiac surgery; however, the exact pathogenesis remains uncertain. Identifying risk factors of PPS might help to better understand the syndrome. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of existing literature around determinants of...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： van Osch D,Nathoe HM,Jacob KA,Doevendans PA,van Dijk D,Suyker WJ,Dieleman JM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the degree of immune system activation associated with addiction or hepatotropic viruses infection, we examined 60 HIV-negative heroin addicts for the presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection markers, hepatitis C virus antibodies (anti-HCV), various auto-antibodies, and serum levels of soluble interleuk...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Dalekos GN,Manoussakis MN,Zervou E,Tsianos EV,Moutsopoulos HM

更新日期：1993-04-01 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

abstract：:There is considerable information to indicate that when there is vessel injury, platelets can play a major role in the development of atherosclerosis and its thromboembolic complications in the non-diabetic population. Diabetes is a disease associated with an increased risk of vascular complications, but the nature of...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Winocour PD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) levels are associated with increased risk of death in ischaemic heart disease as well as in haemodialysis patients. Previous research indicates that the prognostic value of PAPP-A may be stronger in patients with concomitant diabetes mellitus or signs o...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Nilsson E,Rudholm T,Stenvinkel P,Ärnlöv J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells play an important role in innate host defence. MAIT cells appear to undergo exhaustion and are functionally weakened in chronic viral infections. However, their role in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We investigate...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Barathan M,Mohamed R,Vadivelu J,Chang LY,Saeidi A,Yong YK,Ravishankar Ram M,Gopal K,Velu V,Larsson M,Shankar EM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retardation of gastric emptying induced by infusion of triglyceride into the small intestine is associated with suppression of antral pressure waves and stimulation of basal pyloric tone in combination with phasic pressure waves localized to the pylorus. The role of nitric oxide (NO) mechanisms in the control of p...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Sun WM,Doran S,Lingenfelser T,Hebbard GS,Morley JE,Dent J,Horowitz M

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is followed by post AMI cardiac remodelling, often leading to congestive heart failure. Homing of c-kit+ endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) has been thought to be the optimal source for regenerating infarcted myocardium. METHODS:Immune function of viable peripheral blood mo...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ankersmit HJ,Hoetzenecker K,Dietl W,Soleiman A,Horvat R,Wolfsberger M,Gerner C,Hacker S,Mildner M,Moser B,Lichtenauer M,Podesser BK

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biocompatibility of two commercially available charcoal columns, one containing coated and the other uncoated but immobilized charcoal, was compared during four haemoperfusions with each in eight healthy greyhounds. Reductions in arterial levels of platelets (49% and 42% respectively) and leucocytes (both 21%) wer...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Weston MJ,Hanid A,Rubin MH,Langley PG,Mellon PJ,Williams R

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor that inhibits angiogenesis and carcinogenesis, has been used for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. However, sporadic cases have been reported with the development of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) after sorafenib treatment, mostly in those with cirrhosis. Liver ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hsu SJ,Hsin IF,Lin YL,Chen YC,Huang HC,Lee FY,Lin HC,Chang CC,Lee SD

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that space travel cause post-flight orthostatic hypotension and it was assumed that autonomic cardiovascular control deteriorates in space. Lower body negative pressure (LBNP) was used to assess autonomic function of the cardiovascular system. METHODS:LBNP tests were performed on six crew-m...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Baisch F,Beck L,Blomqvist G,Wolfram G,Drescher J,Rome JL,Drummer C

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sequential combined hormone replacement therapy on the susceptibility of low-density lipoprotein to oxidative modification was investigated in a double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled study. Hypercholesterolaemic, postmenopausal women were supplemented with 17 beta-oestradiol and norethisterone acet...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Nenseter MS,Volden V,Berg T,Drevon CA,Ose L,Tonstad S

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Different time-concentration profiles of plasma insulin following insulin modification of a frequently sampled intravenous glucose-tolerance-test (FSIVGTT) were observed in a study investigating maternal metabolism and fetal macrosomia. We aimed to investigate whether these differences were related to the vo...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Jolly MC,Hovorka R,Godsland I,Amin R,Lawrence N,Anyaoku V,Johnston D,Robinson S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic lung diseases contribute significantly to the morbidity and mortality of the population. There are few effective treatments for many chronic lung diseases, and even fewer therapies that can arrest or reverse the progress of the disease. DESIGN:In this review, we present the current state of regenera...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Anversa P,Perrella MA,Kourembanas S,Choi AM,Loscalzo J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inheritance is a major determinant of increased sodium-lithium countertransport (SLC) activity in hypertension. However, hyperlipidaemia can also cause increased SLC activity in some individuals and it is difficult to distinguish this effect from the effect of hypertension. Erythrocyte SLC activity and its kinetic det...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Rutherford PA,Thomas TH,Laker MF,Wilkinson R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of delta-aminolaevulinate synthase was determined in the livers of fed female rats and was found to vary with the phase of their sexual cycle. The highest enzymic activity was obtained during preoestrus (38.0 +/- 3.2 nmol delta-aminolaevulinateg.g liver.-1 hour-1), the lowest during dioestrus (17.4 +/- 3....

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Held H,Przerwa M

更新日期：1976-09-10 00:00:00