Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is characterized by leukemic cells with abundant "hairy" cytoplasm, strong cytoplasmic positivity for tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP), characteristic immunophenotype and sensitivity to treatment with purine nucleoside analogs. HCL-variant (HCL-v) encompasses chronic B-cell leukemias resembling classical HCL but exhibiting variant cytomorphology, variant immu...

Procainamide, a type 1A antiarrhythmic drug, blocks sodium channels and reduces the maximum rate of rise of the cardiac action potential (Vmax) in a rate-dependent fashion. In vitro, the magnitude of this rate-dependent reduction in Vmax is greater in tissue that is partially depolarized at rest than in tissue with a normal resting potential. Reductions in Vmax produced by drugs that block sodi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of pentoxifylline on hydrochloric acid-induced lung lesions in rats subjected to mechanical ventilation. METHODS Twenty male, adult Wistar-EPM-1 rats were anesthetized and randomly grouped (n=5 animals per group) as follows: control-MV (mechanical ventilation, MV group); bilateral instillation of HCl (HCl group); bilateral instillation of HCl followed by pent...

P is one of the major causes of drugchest pain and was admitted to our hospital. An induced lupus erythematosus (DIL) [1]. Patients taking electrocardiogram showed monomorphic ventricular procainamide for prolonged periods often develop tachycardia (VT; heart rate 150/min), which was sucanticardiolipin antibodies, as well as anti-DNA and cessfully treated with 600 mg of i.v. procaina...