Lipid lowering in severe familial hypercholesterolaemia: efficacy and safety of a new regenerating system for selective apheresis of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Plasma fibrinogen predicts cardiovascular events in patients with stable peripheral arterial occlusive disease, but its predictive value in patients with chronic critical limb ischaemia, a condition associated with a high risk of death, is unknown. DESIGN:A prospective cohort study. SETTING:Determination of...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Pedrinelli R,Dell' Omo G,Barchielli A,Berchiolli R,Melillo E,Mariani M,Balbarini A,Ferrari M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated dementia complex is characterized by difficulties in concentration and memory followed by apathy, social withdrawal and motor dysfunction. Decreased serum vitamin B12 levels occur in up to 20% of patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and may adversel...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Herzlich BC,Schiano TD

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms explaining morphological electrocardiogram (ECG) changes and increased troponin T (TnT) in acute stroke are unclear. The aims of the present study were to assess the prevalence of ECG and TnT changes in acute ischaemic stroke, to investigate whether ischaemic-like ECG changes correlate to a ri...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Fure B,Bruun Wyller T,Thommessen B

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Biomarkers have emerged as interesting predictors of risk in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes (non-ST ACS). The aim of this study was to define the utility of the combined measurement of troponin T (TnT), C-reactive protein (CRP), NT pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT pro-BNP) and D-dimer as biomar...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Tello-Montoliu A,Marín F,Roldán V,Mainar L,López MT,Sogorb F,Vicente V,Lip GY

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 10-year period 39 patients with acromegaly, aged 23-73 years, underwent selective adenomectomy via a trans-sphenoidal or transfrontal (one case) approach. Six to 12 months after the operation, the serum level of growth hormone (GH) was reduced to less than 5 micrograms l-1 in 28 patients (74%) in at least two...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Valdemarsson S,Bramnert M,Cronquist S,Elner A,Eneroth CM,Hedner P,Lindvall-Axelsson M,Nordström CH,Strömblad LG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1280 80-year-old men were invited to a medical examination to study common risk indicators for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the elderly. From the pool of 811 responders (63.3%), all 122 individuals who fulfilled our inclusion criteria were assigned to one of four groups: (1) no CVD, non-smokers; (2) no C...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Stavenow L,Elmståhl S,Jerntorp P,Nilsson-Ehle P,Pessah-Rasmussen H,Galvard H,Hansen F,Samuelsson SM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic transplantation was performed in three patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in whom recurrent and severe episodes of hypoglycaemia had been found to be due to defective glucose counterregulation. Thus in these patients the spontaneous blood glucose recovery after insulin-induced hypoglycaemia (...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bolinder J,Wahrenberg H,Persson A,Linde B,Tydén G,Groth CG,Ostman J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study is an on-going multicentre study of atherosclerosis precursors in Finnish children and young adults. We have collected risk factor data in the 21-year follow-up performed in 2001. The aims of this analysis were to examine the levels, secular trends and east-west d...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Juonala M,Viikari JS,Hutri-Kähönen N,Pietikäinen M,Jokinen E,Taittonen L,Marniemi J,Rönnemaa T,Raitakari OT

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Evaluation of pro-oxidant/antioxidant dietary factors in relation to individual susceptibility to cancer and cardiovascular disease is justified based on a review of the literature. This working hypothesis is amendable to further scientific validation from biomarkers with end-point sensitivity to oxygen radicals. So f...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Pero RW,Berglund G,Christie NT,Cosma GN,Frenkel K,Garte SJ,Janzon L,Olsson A,Seidegård J,Smulson ME

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-year follow-up, by means of a personal interview, was performed on patients below the age of 40 years with acute chest pain without obvious organic cause (n = 64). They had been consecutively admitted to the emergency unit over a period of 8 weeks, and had all been subjected to a thorough medical and psychosoci...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Roll M,Kollind M,Theorell T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by accumulation of oxidized lipoproteins, increased cell death and hypertrophic degeneration of the arterial intima. The disease process is associated with local formation of modified self antigens that are targeted by both innate and adaptive immune resp...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nilsson J,Hansson GK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery is generally performed through a right minithoracotomy, in contrast to the traditional full median sternotomy approach. Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery is performed with increasing frequency, and by reducing surgical trauma, several observational studies suggest potentia...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kastengren M,Svenarud P,Ahlsson A,Dalén M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolomics is a versatile unbiased method to search for biomarkers of human disease. In particular, one approach in cancer therapy is to promote apoptosis in tumour cells; this could be improved with specific biomarkers of apoptosis for monitoring treatment. We recently observed specific metabolic patterns...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Halama A,Riesen N,Möller G,Hrabě de Angelis M,Adamski J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gallium-67 (67Ga) scintigraphy may be useful in evaluating patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF), but a systematic assessment of its value is lacking. OBJECTIVE:Prospective evaluation of the value of 67Ga scintigraphy in assessing active RPF disease and in predicting treatment response. METHODS:Thir...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： van Bommel EF,Siemes C,van der Veer SJ,Han SH,Huiskes AW,Hendriksz TR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the arterial wall that leads to myocardial infarction and stroke. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) and IL-10 exert significant anti-atherogenic effects in experimental models of atherosclerosis by modulating vascular inflammation. We have previously shown that Mycobact...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ovchinnikova OA,Berge N,Kang C,Urien C,Ketelhuth DF,Pottier J,Drouet L,Hansson GK,Marchal G,Bäck M,Schwartz-Cornil I,Lagranderie M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ground-breaking discovery of genotype-phenotype relationships in hereditary medullary thyroid cancer has greatly facilitated early prophylactic thyroidectomy. Its timing depends not solely on a positive gene test but, more importantly, on the type of the REarranged during Transfection (RET) mutation and its underl...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Machens A,Lorenz K,Dralle H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We created the GIFTs, fusions of granulocyte-colony macrophage-stimulating-factor with IL-2, or IL-15 or IL-21, in order to stimulate distinct, but complimentary elements of the immune response. We found that the physical coupling of two functionally distinct cytokines as a bifunctional hybrid allowed for synergistic ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Williams P,Galipeau J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with psoriasis have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The gastrointestinal system plays a major role in normal glucose metabolism, and in healthy individuals, postprandial insulin secretion is largely mediated by the gut incretin hormones. This potentiation is termed the incretin effect and is r...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Gyldenløve M,Vilsbøll T,Zachariae C,Holst JJ,Knop FK,Skov L

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old white male subject with typical clinical and laboratory findings of Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia is described. Two paraprotein peaks of IgM lambda class, with different physical and chemical properties and different amino acid compositions, in both heavy and light chains, were found in the patient's ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ruiz-Palomo F,Revilla Y,Gonzales Porque P,Serrano Rios M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to investigate the association between the proximal level of the clot and the severity of pulmonary embolism (PE). METHODS:The cohort consisted of 99 consecutive patients with PE diagnosed by multi-detector computed tomography. A new score was constructed by calculating the mean val...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ghanima W,Abdelnoor M,Holmen LO,Nielssen BE,Sandset PM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, the notion of distributive justice is explored in relation to the introduction and the application of new medical technologies within the clinical setting. The point of departure is that, in the decision making process on what is necessary and fair in patient care, participants will mobilize different ethical mo...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： van der Kloot Meijburg HH

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the determinants of maximal intima-media thickness of common carotid arteries in a population-based sample of 1224 Eastern Finnish men aged 42, 48, 54 or 60 years. A high-resolution B-mode ultrasonographic examination was performed as part of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD)....

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Salonen R,Salonen JT

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum creatine kinase (CK) is an important adjunct in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction or in monitoring for the side-effects of drugs. We report elevation of CK in patients with untreated heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) with no evidence of myocardial infarction. Of a group of 30 patients, 60% ha...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bhatnagar D,Durrington PN,Neary R,Miller JP

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the demographic, clinical, biochemical and genotypic features of patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) in a Swedish cohort. DESIGN:Cross-sectional questionnaire, biochemical and genetic study. SETTING:Sweden. SUBJECTS:Fifty-one Swedish individuals known in 2008 to have EPP confir...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Wahlin S,Floderus Y,Stål P,Harper P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a method to evaluate routine management practices concerning lipid-lowering treatment in patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in a large geographic area. DESIGN:A register-based study linking information on IHD with cholesterol levels and prescriptions on lipid-lowering medications by perso...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kanstrup H,Lassen JF,Heickendorff L,Lauritzen T,Larsen ML

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inverse relationship between the concentration of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and the risk of developing cardiovascular is well established. There are several documented functions of HDLs that may contribute to a protective role of these lipoproteins. These include the ability of HDLs to promote the ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Barter PJ,Rye KA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current tuberculosis (TB) vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) fails to protect against adult pulmonary TB. Yet, its capacity to control miliary TB in newborn infants forms the basis for development of novel vaccine candidates. These either exploit genetic modification of BCG to create a viable replacement vacci...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kaufmann SH

更新日期：2010-04-01 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