Primary pancreatic hydatid cysts are rare and its percutaneous treatment and catheterization technique has, to the best of our knowledge, not been published in literature. A 33-year-old male patient who presented with abdominal pain was evaluated by ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography examinations. Both examinations revealed a cyst in the neck of the pancreas. After the administration ...

BACKGROUND Sputum production induced by inhalation of hypertonic saline solution has been proposed as a technique to collect secretions and inflammatory cells from the airways of subjects with bronchial asthma or with a history of smoking. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a sputum induction procedure on spirometric results and arterial oxygen saturation (SaO(2)) in asthmatic...

We have read with great interest the article by Castagnaro et al (October 1999),1 reporting a significant drop in oxygen saturation in the absence of an equivalent drop in FEV1 during sputum induction. This, however, has not been our experience. Although we agree that FEV1 may fall in asthmatics, COPD patients,2 and normal volunteers,3 we have not seen significant changes in oxygen saturation. ...

Previous attempts to use urinary protein profiles for diagnostic purposes have been rather disappointing with respect to their clinical validity, in part because of the insufficient reproducibility, sensitivity, and rapidity of available techniques. Therefore, a newly developed, high-throughput technique, namely surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization (SELDI) ProteinChip array-time of flig...

OBJECTIVE To compare the diagnostic yield of AFB positivity with sputum induction to spontaneous sputum examination in suspected cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. STUDY DESIGN Comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from January to December 2006. METHODOLOGY Sputum specimens were collected by both techniques from 164 patients with clinical and radiolog...

1) External recording of cerebral clearance was performed after Kr85 saline solution injection into the common carotid artery. Clearance curve thus obtained was divided into 3 exponentials. The 3rd phase represents mainly clearance of the area perfused with external carotid artery and the rest of the curve after subtraction of the 3rd phase can be treated in the similar way to that of reported ...

BACKGROUND Cerebral edema is a potentially devastating complication of various acute neurologic disorders. Its successful treatment may save lives and preserve neurologic function. REVIEW SUMMARY Different pathophysiological mechanisms are responsible for the formation of cytotoxic and vasogenic edema. Yet, these 2 types of edema often coexist and their treatment tends to overlap, with the ex...

We have previously reported that there are inter-individual differences in the cardiovascular responses to experimental muscle pain, which are consistent over time: intramuscular infusion of hypertonic saline, causing pain lasting ~60 min, increases muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA)-as well as blood pressure and heart rate-in certain subjects, but decrease it in others. Here, we tested t...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyze the cough response to three airway challenges in order to clarify whether the recording of the provoked coughs would be beneficial in the management of asthma. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING University hospital. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen healthy subjects, 16 steroid-naïve subjects with asthma, and 16 subjects with steroid-treated asthma. INTERVENTIONS Inhalati...

Normal and malignant human cervical cancer cells were imaged in vivo with confocal, phase contrast, and brightfield microscopies. Results were compared between cells in growth medium before and after addition of acetic acid, hypertonic saline solution, toluidine blue, and Lugol's iodine. The exogenous agents changed the backscattering characteristics of the cells when measured with confocal mic...