purpose : to describe a case of acute angle-closure glaucoma associated with oral topiramate (topamax, aria daroo) therapy case report: two weeks after initiation of oral topiramate therapy for epilepsy, a 35-year-old woman presented with blurred vision and headache. intraocular pressure in both eyes was significantly elevated and her visual acuity was 20/30 ocular uterque (ou). bilateral conju...

The long-term effect of percutaneous and oral estrogen replacement therapy on blood pressure, plasma renin substrate, and serum estrogens was examined in a 2 year placebo-controlled study with 110 early postmenopausal women. The women were allocated to four treatment groups: (1) oral cyclical combination of 2 mg estradiol valerate and cyproterone acetate, (2) oral placebo, (3) percutaneous 17 b...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hypertensive crisis is a condition characterized by rapid and inappropriate symptomatic elevation of blood pressure (BP) that is commonly seen in Emergency Departments. Oral or sublingual captopril is commonly used in the Emergency Departments. The unpleasant taste of the sublingual drugs causes uncomfortable condition to the patient. Studies showing no difference betw...

The purpose of this study was to quantify the impact of oral screen (OS) application on intra-oral pressure characteristics in three malocclusion groups. Fifty-six randomly recruited participants (26 males and 30 females) who met the inclusion criteria of either an Angle Class I occlusal relationships or Angle Class II1 or II2 malocclusions, were assigned by dentition to group I (n = 31), group...

Low arterial pressure* (Hypopiesis) is a term applied to low arterial pressure in general, whether physiological or pathological, temporary or permanent, congenital or acquired. Hypopiesia (primary low arterial pressure) is a clinical series of primary congenital, constitutional or familial origin, characterised by persistently lowered arterial pressure occurring as a part of a low vitality sta...

volumetric techniques were employed to study the adsorption of co2 on a purified multi-wall carbon nanotubes (mwnt’s) sample, as a mesoporous material, at isothermal conditions of 288, 293 and 298 k and pressures ranging from 30 to 150 kpa. langmuir, freundlich and sips equations were used to represent the isotherms. also the parameters of these fitted isotherm models have been determined. the ...

The link between high maternal blood pressure and poor pregnancy outcome is well established. Similarly the causal relationship between acute maternal hypotension and acute fetal distress is well recognised. The link between poor pregnancy outcome and persistent maternal hypotension is less well known. McClure Brown [1] was the first to report an increase in perinatal mortality in the presence ...

Background—Low-pressure cardiac tamponade is a form of cardiac tamponade in which a comparatively low pericardial pressure results in cardiac compression because of low filling pressure. This syndrome is poorly characterized because only isolated cases have been reported. We conducted a study of its clinical and hemodynamic profiles. Methods and Results—From 1986 through 2004, we evaluated all ...

AIM To investigate the effect of oral nifedipine on ocular blood flow in patients with low tension glaucoma (LTG). METHODS In this prospective study we examined the effects of 3 weeks of treatment with oral nifedipine 30 mg/day in 11 patients with LTG, by using colour Doppler ultrasound imaging to measure haemodynamic variables in the central retinal (CRA), short posterior ciliary (SPCA), and...

INTRODUCTION This study was undertaken to determine the mean peak filter resistance to airflow (Rfilter) encountered by subjects while wearing prototype filtering facepiece respirators (PRs) with low Rfilter during nasal and oral breathing at sedentary and low-moderate work rates. MATERIAL AND METHODS In-line pressure transducer measurements of mean Rfilteracross PRs with nominal Rfilter of 2...