AIM The aim was to investigate whether dexmedetomidine had a toxic effect on cerebral neurons when it was administered centrally into the cerebrospinal fluid by the intracisternal route. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighteen rats were anesthetized and the right femoral artery was cannulated. Mean arterial pressures, heart rates, arterial carbon dioxide tension, arterial oxygen ten...

Glutathione transport into mitochondria is mediated by oxoglutarate (OGC) and dicarboxylate carrier (DIC) in the kidney and liver. However, transport mechanisms in brain mitochondria are unknown. We found that both carriers were expressed in the brain. Using cortical mitochondria incubated with physiological levels of glutathione, we found that butylmalonate, a DIC inhibitor, reduced mitochondr...

OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of the pathophysiology, manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) as it occurs in cancer. DATA SOURCES Published articles, research reports, and book chapters. CONCLUSIONS The syndrome of DIC is a serious hypercoagulation state that in its acute form may be life-threatening. The hemorrhage and intravascular coa...

Mixing aqueous solutions of sodium diclofenac (DIC-Na) and ranitidine hydrochloride (RAN·HCl) afforded an off-white solid (DIC-RAN) that was investigated from the microscopic, thermal, diffractometric, spectroscopic, and functional (chemometrics-assisted dissolution) points of view. The solid has a 2:1 (DIC:RAN) molar ratio according to (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It is therma...

BACKGROUND Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a syndrome characterized by over-activation of intravascular coagulation, accompanied by consumption of coagulation factors. It is a pathologic systemic inflammatory response accompanied by release of coagulatory substances into the circulation. AIM The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of early the early diagnosis of D...

Introduction Fibrinolytic shutdown plays a pivotalrole in the pathogenesis of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). We tested the hypothesis that the levels of thrombin activatable fi brinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) are not suffi cient to overcome fi brinolytic shutdown, thus contributing to MODS and the poor prognosis in sepsis-induced DIC. Met...

The role of disseminated intravascular clotting (DIC) in the pathogenesis of the bleeding diathesis kwashiorkor was investigated in 22 patients. According to the severity of the clinical and haematological findings, two grades of DIC were observed. A severe grade of DIC was shown in 6 cases (5 fatal) presenting with thrombocytopenia, hypofibinogenaemia, and multiple coagulation defects, and wi...

Fox, B. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 680. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. In a clinico-pathological study of 13 children who died with Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, there were deposits of fibrin in many organs, especially the adrenal glands and the kidneys. This finding supports the hypothesis that disseminated intravascular ...

A 67-year-old man with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) and previous myocardial and cerebral infarctions had uncontrollable bleeding after undergoing dental extraction because of an exacerbation of chronic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. After successful treatment of the bleeding with the transfusion of fresh frozen plasma and platelets, na...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) although a well known complication in neonatal sepsis is extremely rare in congenital syphilis and there are scanty reports of this entity in the literature. Intracranial bleeding following DIC in neonatal congenital syphilis is even rarer, and has been reported only once earlier. We are reporting the second case of neonatal DIC with intracranial hae...