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We report anesthetic management for a 13-year-old boy undergoing surgical removal of the bilateral adrenal pheochromocytoma. His blood pressure was well-controlled at the time of the operation with an alpha-adrenergic receptor-blocking agent and a calcium channel blocker. His laboratory test, howeve...
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PMID: 20229765
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We provide the first clear examination of static CA in healthy humans over a wide range of blood pressure. In 11 healthy humans, beat-to-beat blood pressure (radial arterial), middle cerebral artery blood velocity (MCAv; transcranial Doppler ultrasound), end-tidal Pco(2), and cerebral oxygenation (n...
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PMID: 20083726
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The term Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) was coined in 1985. It is a relatively rare, life-threatening clinical syndrome characterized by acute respiratory failure and non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema during or following a blood transfusion. Although its true incidence is unknown, a rat...
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PMID: 20156708
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This study provides early evidence of the beneficial role that vitamin E-bonded dialyzers may have in preventing IDH. Larger controlled trials are needed to confirm this original finding....
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PMID: 20383856
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Reduction in low molecular weight hemoglobin concentrations to less than 1% is insufficient to abrogate the vasoconstrictor effects of HBOC infusion in healthy awake sheep or in mice with reduced vascular nitric oxide levels associated with endothelial dysfunction. These findings suggest that testin...
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PMID: 20179495
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On a total of 2499 "Fiches d'Effets Indésirables Receveurs" (FEIR) registered in 2006 in five French regions, 416 with "unidentified diagnosis" were analysed. Fifty-seven percent of them were kept classified in "unidentified diagnosis". Forty-three per cent of FEIR were reclassified, some in alread...
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PMID: 20153674
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We evaluated prognostic factors for leptospirosis in 168 consecutive hospitalized patients in Guadeloupe. Factors independently associated with severity included chronic hypertension or chronic alcoholism, late initiation of antibacterial therapy, abnormal chest auscultation results, icterus, oligoa...
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PMID: 20113574
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We hypothesized that ADM prevents sex-dependent impairment of autoregulation during hypotension after FPI through inhibition of ERK MAPK upregulation. FPI increased ERK MAPK more in males than in females. CBF was unchanged during hypotension in sham animals, was reduced more in males than in females...
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PMID: 20170313
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Risk factors for spinal cord ischemia are aneurysm extent, open surgical repair, prior distal aortic operations, and perioperative hypotension. Augmenting spinal cord perfusion by increasing arterial pressure, lumbar cerebrospinal fluid drainage, and reattachment of segmental arteries are effective...
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PMID: 19920758
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Due to sympathetic de-centralization, individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), especially those with tetraplegia, often present with hypotension, worsened with upright posture. Several investigations in the non-SCI population have noted a relationship between chronic hypotension an...
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PMID: 19842013
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Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a major bacterial pathogen affecting children globally. Approximately 15% of school-age children experience a symptomatic episode of GAS culture-positive pharyngitis each year. Although the incidence of invasive GAS disease under these circumstances is low (0.5%-2%), a...
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PMID: 20145509
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Intravenous amiodarone alone or in combination with digoxin was found to be safe and effective in controlling refractory and life-threatening SVT in neonates and small infants....
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PMID: 20093999
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Hemodialysis treatment was associated with increased low-frequency BRS, especially in sessions without hypotension. Hypotensive episodes were associated with significant increases in both low-frequency BRS and high-frequency BRS, mainly in patients with severe hypotension. The magnitude of the incre...
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PMID: 19927010
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Opioid-related hypotension and bradycardia were reversed by naloxone with a late (30 min) overshoot of R43 and R17% after remifentanil and sufentanil, respectively. Following etorphine, overshoot in mean blood pressure was R9%, whereas heart rate still remained below S9% when compared with control....
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PMID: 20077594
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In the intensive care unit (ICU), clinical staff must stay vigilant to promptly detect and treat hypotensive episodes (HEs). Given the stressful context of busy ICUs, an automated hypotensive risk stratifier can help ICU clinicians focus care and resources by prospectively identifying patients at in...
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PMID: 20973998
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Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in pediatric acute kidney dysfunction has evolved in recent decades; however, little objective data exist for complications associated with CRRT. Santiago and colleagues are among the first to document four complications of acute kidney dysfunction in crit...
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PMID: 20156312
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There is not enough evidence to evaluate reliably the effect of altering BP on outcome after acute stroke. However, treatment with DCLHb was associated with poor clinical outcomes. Beta receptor antagonists, CCBs, nitric oxide, and prostacyclin each lowered BP during the acute phase of stroke. In co...
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PMID: 20614431
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This study investigated possible implication of nitric oxide and prostanoids in anaphylactic reaction in small mesenteric and coronary arteries. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Isolated arteries from guinea pigs, sensitized with 0.5 mL of horse serum or sham-sensitized, were challenged with 1% of horse serum...
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PMID: 20234162
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We present a 49-year-old woman undergoing operative hysteroscopy and myomectomy, who sustained sudden hypotension and decrease in the end-tidal carbon dioxid levels during the procedure. Systemic gas embolism was confirmed by echocardiographic evidence of bubbles in both right and left cardiac cavit...
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PMID: 20462140
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