Do ACE-inhibitors suppress tumour necrosis factor-alpha production in advanced chronic renal failure?

abstract：:The hypothesis that asymptomatic visual field defects can be found in patients with carotid transient ischaemic attacks (TIA) or minor strokes was tested. Twenty-two consecutive male patients with TIA and 18 patients with minor strokes from the carotid artery territory were examined by perimetry, cerebral computerised...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Falke P,Abela BM Jr,Krakau CE,Lilja B,Lindgärde F,Maly P,Stavenow L

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between dental infections and cerebral infarction was investigated in a case-control study involving 40 patients with ischaemic cerebral infarction under the age of 50, and 40 randomly selected community controls matched for sex and age. Poor oral health, as assessed by two indices measuring the severi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Syrjänen J,Peltola J,Valtonen V,Iivanainen M,Kaste M,Huttunen JK

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old male patient presented with invalidating osteomalacia of 2.5 years' duration. The osteomalacia was caused by severe malabsorption due to gluten-sensitive enteropathy (GSE). There were no other signs or symptoms of GSE in this patient. Clinical presentation with monosymptomatic osteomalacia is very unusua...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： De Boer WA,Tytgat GN

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac pheochromocytoma is a rare tumour and may be difficult to localize. We present a 32-year-old male with a cardiac pheochromocytoma that was successfully resected. An initial unenhanced CT did not reveal the tumour. MIBG-scintigraphy indicated the location, but to get full information, a dynamic contrast-enhance...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Jönsson A,Hallengren B,Manhem P,Lilja B,Stavenow L,Ståhl E,Törnquist C

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of prednisolone on severe hypercalcaemia in women with metastatic breast cancer, 30 patients with serum ionized calcium above 1.60 mmol l-1 (reference range 1.15-1.35 mmol l-1) entered a randomized trial. Performance status before entry to the trial and survival time after hypercalcaemia were a...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kristensen B,Ejlertsen B,Holmegaard SN,Krarup-Hansen A,Transbøl I,Mouridsen H

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study fasting and postmethionine-loading (increment and decrement) plasma homocysteine levels in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in relation to B-vitamin status and after folic acid treatment without or with betaine. DESIGN:Plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) and methionine levels were measured in c...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： van Guldener C,Janssen MJ,de Meer K,Donker AJ,Stehouwer CD

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the relationship between the pituitary-adrenocortical function, abdominal obesity, and insulin resistance syndrome. DESIGN:A prospective study. SETTING:Helsinki University Hospital, Finland. SUBJECTS:Sixty-six healthy males aged 30-55 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Insulin, C-peptide, cortis...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hautanen A,Adlercreutz H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The socio-economic impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias is enormous, and the potential economic challenges ahead are clear given the projected future numbers of individuals with these conditions. Because of the high prevalence and cost of dementia, it is very important to assess any intervention from...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Wimo A,Ballard C,Brayne C,Gauthier S,Handels R,Jones RW,Jonsson L,Khachaturian AS,Kramberger M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic nonvalvular atrial fibrillation is associated with an overall risk of thromboembolic complications of 4.5% per year. Advancing age, prior stroke or transient cerebral ischaemia, diabetes, hypertension, and impaired function of the left ventricle are known risk factors. Placebo-controlled trials have demonstrat...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Koefoed BG,Petersen P

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoimmune rheumatological diseases rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthritis (SpA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are treated with conventional immunosuppressive agents and with modern biological immunomodulators. The latter group of medications have brought about a major change in our ability to contr...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： van Vollenhoven RF

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 48-year-old woman with recurrent severe hypoglycaemia apparently caused by a paraprotein with insulin-binding capacity. Very high fasting values were found for serum insulin (170 and > 250 mU l-1) as well as for proinsulin 125 pmol l-1 and an insulinoma was suspected. Hypoglycaemia developed after an ora...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Arnqvist HJ,Halban PA,Mathiesen UL,Zahnd G,von Schenck H

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Periodontal disease is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) but it is unknown if periodontal disease severity is associated with asymptomatic carotid plaque. The aim of the current population-based, observational study was to investigate if signs of periodontal disease are associated with the occurre...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Jönsson D,Orho-Melander M,Demmer RT,Engström G,Melander O,Klinge B,Nilsson PM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A normal brain function requires constant levels of cholesterol, and the need for constancy seems to be higher here than in any other organ. Nature has met this need by isolation of brain cholesterol by a highly efficient blood-brain barrier. As a low synthesis of cholesterol is present in the brain, a mechanism for c...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Björkhem I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is clear heritability of human longevity. However, the genetics of ageing is likely to be complex. Evolution theory tells us not to expect genes that have been selected to promote ageing. Ageing is not programmed but results from accumulation of somatic damage, owing to limited investments in maintenance and rep...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kirkwood TB

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare cases of hepatotoxicity have been attributed to the antiarrhythmic agent procainamide. We here describe the case of a patient who had a hypersensitivity reaction to procainamide with fever, chills, arthralgia, abdominal pain and acute elevations of serum aminotransferase activities and bilirubin concentration. Th...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Worman HJ,Ip JH,Winters SL,Tepper DC,Gomes AJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The major aim of this study was to compare various aspects of carbohydrate, insulin, and lipoprotein metabolism, serum uric acid concentration, and blood pressure in normal subjects stratified on the basis of both plasma insulin concentration and degree of obesity. The hypothesis to be tested was that hyperin...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Zavaroni I,Bonini L,Fantuzzi M,Dall'Aglio E,Passeri M,Reaven GM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 1974-1983, Yersinia enterocolitica infection was diagnosed in 458 hospitalized patients by antibody response or isolation of the micro-organism. Eight (1.75%) patients showed signs of acute pancreatitis with elevated serum or urine levels of amylase; two patients had acute insulin-dependent diabetes....

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Saebø A,Lassen J

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure is characterized by chronically increased adenosine levels, which are thought to express a protective anti-heart failure activation of the adenosinergic system. The aim of the study was to assess whether the activation of adenosinergic system in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) can be mi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Laghi-Pasini F,Guideri F,Petersen C,Lazzerini PE,Sicari R,Capecchi PL,Picano E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To clarify the mechanisms by which smoking is associated to toxic and nontoxic goitre and thyroid nodules. DESIGN:Cohort study. SETTING:Sweden. SUBJECTS:A cohort of 874,507 parous women identified through the Medical Birth Registry, with smoking behaviour assessed through self-reported information at the ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Galanti MR,Granath F,Cnattingius S,Ekbom-Schnell A,Ekbom A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine whether interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) is a predictor for clinically incident diabetes in subjects with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and whether its predictive power is independent of C-reactive protein (CRP), an established marker of inflammation. We further examined whether genetic vari...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Luotola K,Pietilä A,Zeller T,Moilanen L,Kähönen M,Nieminen MS,Kesäniemi YA,Blankenberg S,Jula A,Perola M,Salomaa V,Health 2000 and FINRISK97 Studies.

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a rheumatic disease that is characterized by intense activation of systemic inflammation. Systemic inflammation has been associated with an imbalance between endothelial injury and repair, defined by an increased number of circulating endothelial microparticles (EMPs) and a re...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Pirro M,Bocci EB,Di Filippo F,Schillaci G,Mannarino MR,Bagaglia F,Gerli R,Mannarino E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the prognostic value of exercise testing performed soon after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients treated with thrombolytic therapy. DESIGN:A 1-year prospective follow-up of 185 subjects treated with thrombolytic therapy who survived AMI, and who performed exercise testing 3 weeks afte...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Abboud L,Hir J,Eisen I,Markiewicz W

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aims of the study were (i) to examine which antithrombotic therapy patients with known atrial fibrillation use at the point of time when they suffer an ischaemic stroke, (ii) to evaluate the effects of optimal antithrombotic treatment on outcome and severity of the stroke. METHODS:Patients with known at...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Indredavik B,Rohweder G,Lydersen S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a phospholipid inflammatory mediator which is synthesized by a variety of cells, including monocytes and endothelial cells, and PAF can be retained in activated endothelial cell membranes. Furthermore, PAF-like lipids are produced in other phospholipid membranes as in oxidi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Wu R,Lemne C,De Faire U,Frostegârd J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a healthy Nordic diet (ND) on cardiovascular risk factors. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:in a randomized controlled trial (NORDIET) conducted in Sweden, 88 mildly hypercholesterolaemic subjects were randomly assigned to an ad libitum ND or control diet (subjects'...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Adamsson V,Reumark A,Fredriksson IB,Hammarström E,Vessby B,Johansson G,Risérus U

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The original definition of microalbuminuria (20-200 microg min-1 or 15-150 microg min-1 overnight) is based on studies of patients with diabetes, in whom microalbuminuria was associated with increased risk of chronic renal failure. In a recent report an overnight urinary albumin excretion (UAE) above only 5 ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Klausen KP,Scharling H,Jensen JS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with acute renal failure, in five cases due to acute crescentic glomerulonephritis and in one case due to total bilateral renal cortical necrosis, were studied. All had serum erythropoietin (EPO) concentrations in the normal range, despite a relatively severe anaemia. Half-life and plasma clearance of int...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Thaysen JH,Nielsen OJ,Brandi L,Szpirt W

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 4401 subjects admitted to the Medical Division of St Camillo Hospital in Comacchio (Ferrara, Italy) over a period of 7 years were prospectively evaluated in order to determine whether the heterozygous beta-thalassaemic (HBT) could be considered as a protective factor against the occurrence of acute myocardi...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Gallerani M,Scapoli C,Cicognani I,Ricci A,Martinelli L,Cappato R,Manfredini R,Dall'Ara G,Faggioli M,Pareschi PL

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis causing endothelial dysfunction, an early sign of atherogenesis. Symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) does not inhibit NO synthases. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a systemic indication of atherosclerosis. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Böger RH,Endres HG,Schwedhelm E,Darius H,Atzler D,Lüneburg N,von Stritzky B,Maas R,Thiem U,Benndorf RA,Diehm C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated skeletal involvement in five male and two female patients with ochronosis, aged 26-82 years. The main parameters of mineral metabolism, together with biochemical markers of bone resorption (urinary N-telopeptides of type I collagen) and formation (serum bone isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase and serum ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Aliberti G,Pulignano I,Schiappoli A,Minisola S,Romagnoli E,Proietta M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00