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F Lamisse

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[Acute poisoning. Apropos of 1200 cases].

The team studied 1 200 cases of acute intoxications both accidental and self inflicted, self inflicted poisonings are much more frequent than accidental ones and in general occur more often amongst the young and by women; the median age is about thirty. Barbituric are often the means. There is a progressive increase in the use of tranquilizers and of thymo-analeptics as their use becomes greater. A mixture of poisons increases the dangers because this frequently results in more rapid loss of consciousness; also more than one poison increases the risk of shock and of thermo-regulation, respiratory problems necessitate intubation and artificial respiration which both increase the risk of assification. The characteristics of certain poisons are stressed and in particular the thymo-analeptics; also the supervision of the patients in an intensive care unit.

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[Transfusional malaria. Another case (author's transl)].

Transfusional malaria is an unusual disease. Any fever, happening immediately after blood transfusions must evoke this diagnosis, confirmed by parasites detection in the blood. The treatment is rapidly efficacious. The prophylaxis is at the present time insufficient and would require fluorescent antibody test generalization.

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[Laryngeal edema and alveolar hypoventilation as primary manifestations of hypothyroidism (author's transl)].

Laryngeal manifestations are well known and relatively frequent in hypothyroidism. For example horseness, which is due to edematous infiltration of the larynx and vocal cords is often the patient's chief complaint, prompting his initial consultation with a specialist. Of much rarer occurence, however is the concomitant development of laryngeal edema and acute respiratory failure. We report one such case history below.

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[Tumor of the adrenal gland associating pheochromocytoma and ganglioneuroma (author's transl)].

An adrenal gland tumor associating of both a pheochromocytoma and a ganglioneuroma was discovered upon its fissuration in a 58-year-old male having a family history of neurofibromatosis. The patient's clinical course was fatal due to complications of necrotizing enteritis which was discovered at laparotomy. The association of pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuroma, and "café au lait" spots in the same patient illustrates the polymorphism of neural crest dysgenetic pathology.

Adrenal Gland Neoplasms↗
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[Tetanus. An appraisal of 503 cases (author's transl)].

Five hundred and three patients with tetanus were hospitalized in the intensive care unit of "Hôpital Bretonneau" between January 1st, 1960 and December 31, 1979. An analysis of all these 503 cases is undertaken herein. The results of a similar study by the authors concerning 254 cases of tetanus were published in this journal in 1971 [16]. Frequent reference is made to the earlier study in order to evaluate any differences in prognosis which have occurred since that time.

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Effects of oral glucose on intermediary metabolism in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients versus healthy subjects.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the mechanisms and metabolic consequences of the insulin resistance of patients treated by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). DESIGN: CAPD patients and healthy subjects ingested a similar mean oral glucose load per kilogram of fat-free mass (FFM) [1.20+/-0.03 g/(kg FFM) vs 1.20+/-0.06 g/(kg FFM); CAPD vs healthy subjects]. Substrate oxidation was monitored over 6 hours using indirect calorimetry. SETTING: Peritoneal dialysis unit of a tertiary-care institutional center. OUTCOME MEASURES: Glycemia, insulinemia, substrate oxidation. PATIENTS: Six CAPD patients (68+/-5 yr) and 6 healthy subjects (24+/-1 yr). The CAPD patients had similar body mass index (21.4+/-1.3 vs 22.9+/-1.1 kg/m2), a higher percent fat (25.8%+/-3.7% vs 16%+/-2.2%; p < 0.05), and a lower FFM (42.2+/-2.2 kg vs 56.5+/-2.6 kg; p < 0.01) than healthy subjects. RESULTS: The CAPD patients displayed a higher glycemic and insulinemic responses to glucose than did healthy subjects (p < 0.05), but similar glucose oxidation and storage. Lipid oxidation and plasma nonesterified fatty acids were not increased in CAPD patients versus healthy subjects, in spite of a higher adiposity. Fat oxidation was related to fat mass in CAPD patients (r2 = 0.77, p < 0.05) but not in healthy subjects (r2 = 0.05). CONCLUSION: CAPD patients display an insulin-resistance not explained by an increased lipid oxidation. The maintenance of intracellular glucose utilization at the expense of higher glycemic and insulinemic responses suggests a defective glucose transport.

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