porphyrias/hypoxia

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International air travel: a risk factor for attacks in acute intermittent porphyria.

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Five patients are reported with acute intermittent porphyria in whom attacks were apparently precipitated by international air travel. In four subjects this was the initial presenting attack and in a fifth the cause of an acute relapse in a patient requiring regular haem arginate prophylaxis.

Changes of myocardial functions in acute hepatic porphyrias. Role of heme arginate administration.

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In three patients with attacks of acute intermittent porphyria we found markedly impaired functions of the left ventricle accompanied by ECG changes that returned to normal after administration of heme arginate or cytochrome C administration. In nine patients with other types of porphyria, and in

Blindness of cerebral origin in acute intermittent porphyria. Report of a case and postmortem examination.

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Sudden permanent blindness of cerebral origin, in addition to severe abdominal pain, hypertension, convulsions, and peripheral neuropathy developed in a 21-year-old woman, a victim of acute intermittent porphyria. Findings of the pathological examination of the brain showed extensive infarction in

[Leading neurological symptoms of internal diseases].

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After description of the central-nervous signs due to hypoglycemia, hypoxia, hypo- and hypercalcemia there are discussed several internal diseases with prominent neurologic symptoms like endocrine disorders of thyroid, adrenal and pituitary gland, malignant diseases especially regarding the

[Tetraplegia, resuscitation and epileptic seizures after partial colon resection in a 41-year-old woman].

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A 41-year-old woman, suffering from continuous abdominal pain, only presented a non-specific inflammation of the whole colon and an unclaryfied hyponatriaemia; in spite of the only doubtful explanation by an enormous elongation of the colon, it was partially resected. Thereafter, the patient's

[Postoperative cognitive deficits].

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Cognitive dysfunctions are relatively common in postoperative and critically ill patients. This complication not only compromises recovery after surgery, but, if persistent, it minimizes and compromises surgery itself. Risk factors of postoperative cognitive disorders can be divided into age and

Hemin, an iron-binding porphyrin, inhibits HIF-1α induction through its binding with heat shock protein 90.

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Hypoxia and growth factor stimulation induce hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), conferring upon cancer cells the ability to adapt to microenvironments and enhance proliferation, angiogenesis and metastasis. Hemin, an iron-binding porphyrin, has been used to treat porphyria attacks, particularly

[Phenomenology of the Klüver-Bucy syndrome in man].

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The KBS was first described on the basis of experimental bilateral temporal lobectomy in monkeys. Extrapolating any syndrome from monkey to man is frought with controversy, but the 53 patients with KBS reported here are significant for the completeness of its expression and the opportunity to follow

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