abstract：:The effect of implantable drug delivery systems on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was investigated in a phantom and in two patients. The implantable systems of identical construction consisted either of medical grade titanium alloy or stainless steel. Images of a phantom showed artefacts...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Krog M,Magnusson A,Nyman R,Ericsson A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin and hematin were found to catalyze xanthine-oxidase-induced peroxidation of phospholipid liposomes, while oxy- and metmyoglobin were inactive in this respect. The peroxidation was inhibited by desferrioxamine and by EDTA. Peroxidation catalyzed by 0.4 microM oxyhemoglobin was decreased by ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Carlin G,Djursäter R,Arfors KE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one cases of hepatic abscesses treated during a period of four years (from 1981 to 1985) at the University of Patras, Greece, are presented. This material includes 10 cases with abscesses caused by suppurated echinococcal cysts, corresponding to 21% of the total number of 47 cases of echinococcal cysts of the l...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Karavias D,Panagopoulos C,Vagianos C,Vagenas C,Rathosis S,Androulakis J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a 20 min continuous infusion of noradrenaline (2 nanomoles/min) on the blood flow and vascular resistance of 2-, 6- and 11-day-old corpora lutea from adult pseudopregnant rats was studied. Pseudopregnancy was induced by mating with vasectomized male rats. The blood flow of the corpus luteum and the remai...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Gåfvels M,Norjavaara E,Selstam G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a peroral dose of olsalazine sodium on the migrating motor complexes (MMC) in the upper small bowel was studied by manometry in nine healthy volunteers during fasting. Recordings were obtained from the duodenum and/or the upper jejunum for 4.0 - 7.5 h. During total baseline observation periods of 30 h, f...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Ryde M,Gustavsson S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:22 patients with untreated, essential hypertension (diastolic blood-pressure greater than or equal to 140 mmHg) and in most cases also showing neurological symptoms were given a single oral dose of 400 mg labetalol. All patients displayed a gradual decrease of the blood-pressure down to a diastolic pressure about 110 ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Frithz G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early discharge, defined as hospital leave 24-48 hours after birth, was introduced at Falun Hospital in 1984. 164 women interested in participating in an evaluative study of the program were randomly allocated in late pregnancy to an Experimental group (EG) offered early discharge, and a Control group (CG) offered the...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Waldenström U,Sundelin C,Lindmark G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data on drug-treated diabetes mellitus was obtained by analyzing prescriptions of insulin and oral antidiabetics in the county of Jämtland Sweden. During a 12-year period, from 1971 to 1982, the prevalence of diabetes increased from 1.5% to 2.2%, while there was no significant change in the annual inci...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Wålinder O,Bergström I,Boethius G,Ugander L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototype instruments are developed for determining haemoglobin and glucose content of blood based on optothermal spectroscopy. The optothermal instrument is described. The results of clinical haemoglobin and glucose tests show good agreement with standard methods. For haemoglobin a method reproducibility of better th...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Fondberg L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses briefly: analytical quality and its determinants; design of quality assurance procedures on the basis of quality; specifications and quality-cost models; test quality and medical costs; external quality assessment and harmonization of clinical chemical test results; the potential role of computers...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Groth T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the determination of sialic acid residues in glycoproteins displaying microheterogeneity in the sugar residue. The new method is based on combining an oxidative-reductive step with binding of the glycoprotein to an immunoadsorbent. After a mild oxidation with sodium metaperiodate the sugar is...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Cervén E,Ronquist G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebral end-plates and the epiphyses from the lumbar region of the spine in juvenile pigs were studied. Cell density of the hyaline cartilage of the vertebral bodies was measured as well as cartilage thickness. The relative bone content in the region of the nucleus pulposus was calculated. A certain negative int...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Törner M,Holm S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radical surgery for renal cancer with invasion of the inferior vena cava can improve the patient's quality of life and, in some cases, offer longer survival or even cure. With a carefully planned surgical approach it is possible to remove renal tumours with thrombotic extension to the most proximal part of the inferio...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Andréen T,Aberg T,Fritjofsson A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with relapsing polychondritis developed a progressive destruction of tracheal cartilage despite treatment with immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agents. Cyclosporin A therapy was instituted and has been continued for more than two years, concomitant with a steady improvement and remission of the disease. Durin...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Svenson KL,Wibell LB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasospastic reactions to cold have been suggested to be related to altered blood rheology, as has been reported in both primary (PVD) and traumatic (TVD) vasospastic disease. Measurements of whole blood viscosity, plasma viscosity, erythrocyte deformability and finger systolic pressure (FSP) were performed in 18 patie...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Sandhagen B,Wegener T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For staging of Hodgkin's disease 45 patients underwent lymphography and abdominal computed tomography (CT); in 31 of them ultrasound examination was also performed. In cases of retroperitoneal lymph node enlargement lymphography and CT are diagnostically equivalent, whereas the poorer resolution of ultrasound reduces ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Magnusson A,Erikson B,Hemmingsson A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven women with secondary amenorrhoea have been treated with pulsatile subcutaneous luteinising hormone releasing hormone (LHRH). Serial ultrasonic observations of increasing follicular diameters and changes in the size of the uterus have been recorded. The rate of the increase of the diameter of dominant foll...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Adams J,Mason WP,Tucker M,Morris DV,Jacobs HS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was done to evaluate the absorption of a single oral dose of 12 mg oestriol (Triovex, Leo AB, Sweden) and to confirm the hypothesis that the enterohepatic recirculation can prolong the plasma oestriol elevation obtained. Twelve menopausal women, six of whom had been cholecystectomized earlier, were given 12...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Heimer GM,Englund DE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid phosphatase in serum was measured in 116 patients with prostatic disease, benign in 59 and malignant in 57 cases. Comparisons were made between radioimmunoassay (RIA) and an enzymatic method. The correlation coefficient between the respective values was 0.96 in patients with untreated prostatic cancer, indicating...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Dedorson S,Fritjofsson A,Norlen BJ,Ronquist G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile salt sulphation in primary biliary cirrhosis was studied by measurements of the liver bile salt sulphotransferase levels in 16 patients. Although the enzyme activity varied among the patients it did not correlate with the severity of cholestasis. Furthermore, the mean bile salt sulphotransferase magnitude in pati...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Lööf L,Nyberg A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isokinetic torque of the knee and elbow during maximal extension and flexion and isometric strength of the handgrip, as well as balance and some circulatory variables, were tested in 37 patients one year after an acute stroke. Correlations with locomotion, household work and other activities of daily living (ADL) were...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Hamrin E,Eklund G,Hillgren AK,Borges O,Hall J,Hellström O

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that the composition of urine varies a lot during the day, this has essentially been neglected as a factor of importance in determinations of urine bicarbonate. The investigations reviewed in combination with an own study shows that qualitative and quantitative factors in urine composition impacts the...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Sohtell M,Karlmark B

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation on 20 patients after total hip replacement surgery has confirmed that the posttraumatic increase of the fibrinolysis inhibition activity (FIA) in serum and plasminogen-depleted serum is due to the primary fibrinolysis inhibitor (PFI, alpha 2-antiplasmin). This protein exists in at least two f...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Bagge L,Carlin G,Hjelmstedt A,Högstorp H,Jacobsson H,Modig J,Saldeen T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A material comprising all children in Sweden with acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosed in the years 1973-80 was analysed statistically. The total number of children was 505. Studies were made of 38 different variables, using frequency tables, cross tables, life table studies (1) and linear regression analysis accord...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Andersson BW,Gustafsson G

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that may influence the water transport through the skin in infants on their first day of life were studied with a method based on determination of the vapour pressure gradient in the air layer close to the skin surface. The evaporation rate from the skin was found to vary with the site of measurement, ambient ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Sedin G,Hammarlund K,Nilsson GE,Oberg PA,Strömberg B

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid metabolism of isolated mouse pancreatic islets, which had been cultured for one week at 3.3 or 16.7 mM glucose, was examined in short-term experiments performed at the end of the culture period. It was found that: a) high-glucose cultured islets oxidized palmitate at a higher rate: and b) both groups of cult...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Berne C,Andersson A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different methodological aspects on the assay of human erythrocyte catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) activity were studied. No temporal variations were found either over a 24 hour period or over one month. Erythrocytes from whole blood collected with any of the anticoagulants heparin, EDTA or citrate could be used a...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Floderus Y,Sääf J,Ross SB,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one healthy men, 18 - 19 years of age, with "organic" T wave aberrations (group T) were compared to 112 controls of the same age with normal electrocardiograms (Group A + B). Group T had increased heart rate and higher systolic and diastolic blood pressures. Their lower physical work capacity could be "explained...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Atterhög JH,Ekelund LG,Ericsson G,Ahlborg B

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were starved for 7 days or fed a protein-free or a 25% casein diet for 7 or 14 days. Free and total ribosomes were prepared from the liver. A determination of the ratio of mg RNA of ribosomes to mg DNA of the total homogenate was made. In starved rats, RNA of free and membrane-bound ribosomes decreased to the sam...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Christensson PI,Stenram U

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local heat trauma was induced in rats with alloxan diabetes of 3 days duration. Zinc and copper concentrations in serum, liver, heart and pancreas were estimated. After traumatization there was a decrease of the serum zinc concentration in all animals. The lowest concentration was found in the diabetic animals. Serum ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Hallmans G,Lithner F

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinations were made of the 2-hour 22Na space and the 1 and 2 hour 51Cr EDTA spaces in a number of tissues. In regions where the two 51Cr-EDTA spaces were similar and smaller than or similar to the 22Na space the former spaces were regarded as measures of the extra-cellular volume. Using previously published data ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Bill A

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urine sediment of 12 geriatric patients with indwelling catheters was quantified by the glutaraldehyde-cytocentrifuge method prior to, during and after a clinical trial of methenamine hippurate (MH), 2 g x 3 daily given for 34 days as the sole therapeutic agent for the urinary tract infection. The median leukocyte...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Norberg A,Norberg B,Parkhede U,Gippert H,Ekman R

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-heparin plasma hepatic triglyceride lipase (H-TGL) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activities were 8-34 and 3.5-21 (range) mu mol/ml/hr respectively in males with normal serum lipid concentrations. In females the corresponding values were 4-25 and 4-16 mu mol/ml/hr. No significant differences were observed between a...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Boberg J,Boberg M,Gross R,Turner JD,Augustin J,Brown WV

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fifty women with a diagnosis of toxaemia of pregnancy treated in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Uppsala between 1964 and 1968 were investigated. One hundred women were still living in the area in 1975 and thus could be restudied. The participation rate was 100% in th...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Aberg H,Karlsson L,Melander S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was made of 150 women who were diagnosed at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Uppsala in 1964-68 as having toxaemia of pregnancy. Eleven had eclampsia and the remainder pre-eclampsia. Toxaemia occurred in 0.88% (average) of all parturients during the study period. Some...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Aberg H,Karlsson L,Melander S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new stimulatory luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LRH) analogue D-Ser(TBU)(6)-EA(10)-LRH was administered subcutaneously in a dose of 10 microg into 10 women with amenorrhoea. The injection resulted in a 20-fold increase of the LH level in blood and a 5-fold increase of the FSH level with maxima at 4 and 6 h af...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Nillius SJ,Wide L

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thymolipoma in an 8-year-old boy is reported. The tumour had appeared on a routine chest X-ray as a broadened heart shadow and a peculiar right heart contour. Cardiac hypertrophy was suspected primarily. At thoracotomy a thymic tumour was found. ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Sundström C

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphological changes in the liver and pancreas during the first 12 hours in the acute afferent loop syndrome were studied in rats with a Billroth II gastric resection. Two essentially different types of changes were found in the pancreas. One was a coagulative necrosis without an inflammatory reaction, which has ...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Dahlgren S,Stenram U

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the sympathetic nerve system is still unknown in different types of hypertension. The procedure used in the evaluation of suspect renovascular hypertension has been revised in such a way that renal blood flow, renal arterial blood pressure and plasma renin activity in renal vein could be determined prior t...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Lörelius LE,Löfroth PO,Wiklund L,Mörlin C,Aberg H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic distribution and the relation between diagnosis and symptoms, symptom duration, tumour site, tumour size and breast size were studied in 1 244 women with breast symptoms examined at a special breast tumour clinic. 9% of the women had cancer, 62% fibroadenosis and 6% fibroadenoma. In 18% no breast diseas...

journal_title：Upsala journal of medical sciences

authors： Rimsten A

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00