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- Vrethem, Magnus, 1955-, et al.
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Painful polyneuropathy in patients with and without diabetes : Clinical, neurophysiologic, and quantitative sensory characteristics
- 2002
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Ingår i: The Clinical Journal of Pain. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0749-8047 .- 1536-5409. ; 18:2, s. 122-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: To study pain characteristics and peripheral nerve involvement in patients with painful diabetic and nondiabetic polyneuropathy in comparison with patients with nonpainful polyneuropathy. Patients and Methods: Fifty-five patients with polyneuropathy (37 with painful polyneuropathy, of whom 19 had diabetes and 18 had no diabetes, and 18 with painless polyneuropathy of different etiologies) were examined clinically using quantitative sensory tests and neurophysiology. Pain intensity and characteristics were analyzed by daily ratings on a 10-step verbal scale and by a questionnaire. Results: Most patients experienced pain of more than one character. There was no clear difference in character or duration of pain between patients with and without diabetes. The mean value of the daily rating of pain intensity showed that pain was more severe in the evenings than in the mornings and that diabetic patients reported worse pain than nondiabetic patients. Thirty-two of the 37 patients with pain had paresthesias and/or dysesthesias, whereas only 7 of 18 patients without pain had paresthesias. Pain was always located in the feet, and, in most patients, also in the lower part of the legs. Some patients also experienced pain in the hands. Tactile sensibility, measured by quantitative tests, was more affected in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients with painful polyneuropathy compared with patients without pain (p = 0.02). Temperature, pain, and vibratory sensibility were equally affected in all patient groups. Nerve conduction velocity, amplitudes, and distal latency were equally affected in the pain group as compared with the control group, indicating that both thin and thick nerve afferents are affected in patients with painful as well as nonpainful polyneuropathy and that etiology has no clear impact on nerve involvement. Conclusions: Neuropathy pain was always located in the feet and more severe in diabetic patients compared with patients with neuropathy pain of other etiologies. The authors also found evidence for a greater tactile sensibility involvement in patients with neuropathy pain, irrespective of etiology, whereas other quantitative sensibility and neurography parameters were equally affected in all patient groups.
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- Österlund, Barbro, et al.
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Surgical stress induces acute coronary release of tissue-type plasminogen activator in the pig
- 2000
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Ingår i: Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. ; 44:10, s. 1226-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) is an endothelium derived key enzyme in the initiation of endogenous fibrinolysis. Acute regulated release of active t-PA occurs within minutes in response to threatening thrombotic vessel occlusion. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of surgical stimulation on the kinetics of t-PA release in the coronary vascular bed in the pig. METHODS: In anaesthetised pigs (n=16), arterio-venous concentration gradients of t-PA, and plasma flows (retrograde thermodilution) were obtained across the coronary vascular bed before (control) and at 1, 3, 5 and 10 min after sternotomy. RESULTS: At control, no significant coronary net flux (release or uptake) of t-PA was observed, while sternotomy induced a rapid net release of total t-PA (132.6 ng x min(-1)), with an associated increase in active t-PA (93.6 ng x min(-1)). This response, evident already after 1 min, showed a peak at 5 min and returned towards baseline levels within 10 min. No concurrent alterations in aortic levels of active t-PA were found and haemodynamic variables were unaltered. CONCLUSION: The rapidly increasing and transient net coronary release of t-PA after sternotomy suggests that the endothelium actively promotes local endogenous fibrinolysis during surgery. Such events could reflect a dynamic responsiveness to protect the coronary circulation during stress.
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