prostatic hyperplasia/seizures

Epilepsy is defined as a tendency toward recurrent seizures unprovoked by any systemic or acute neurologic insults. It is a disruption of the electrical conductivity or activity in the brain, resulting in a seizure. In the United States, approximately 120 of every 100,000 people seek medical

Prescribing tricyclic antidepressants presents potential hazards to patients with heart disease, glaucoma, prostatic hypertrophy and epilepsy for their symptoms may be aggravated. Mianserin, on the other hand, has little effect on the heart and the parasympathetic nervous system and this drug may be

Systemic disease, either genetic or acquired, may prevent or decrease the severity of another disease. These observations have led to important therapeutic advances. The best-known examples are Edward Jenner's use in 1798 of cowpox to prevent smallpox and J.B. Haldane's 1942 observation that

Evidence is presented which supports the conclusion that the hormetic dose-response model is the most common and fundamental in the biological and biomedical sciences, being highly generalizable across biological model, endpoint measured and chemical class and physical agent. The paper provides a

Sacral anesthesia is a safe and effective procedure which we have used in 28 resections for benign prostatic hypertrophy, and in 42 resections of bladder tumors, 7 of them in women. The average age was 69 years. Average time for prostatic resection was 49 minutes and for bladder tumors, 23. Recovery

OBJECTIVE The case of a patient who was successfully treated with i.v. phenytoin for an acute exacerbation of refractory trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is reported. CONCLUSIONS A 77-year-old, 87-kg Caucasian man with a 12-year history of right-sided, classical TN was admitted for an acute exacerbation of

Amiodarone (Cordarone^®, Pfizer Inc) is an antiarrhythmic medication with a well-known toxicity profile, including rare cases of hyponatremia as a result of syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). We report on such a case in which a patient was found to be hyponatremic