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G Carmenini

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PubMed1983

[Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis, clinical and histopathological study of three cases].

We report three patients with giant cell arteritis but no clear clinical signs of temporal artery involvement, during an episode of polymyalgia rheumatica. In the first case a biopsy performed upon an apparently normal temporal artery showed a typical hortonian arteritis. The same finding was obtained from a pulseless right temporal artery in the second patient, who suffered a sudden blindness of right eye after a trigeminal neuralgia. In the third case the polymyalgic symptoms developed together with a syndrome of the aortic arc. The histologic findings of the temporal artery were normal, whereas the biopsy performed on both the subclavian arteries during surgical revascularization demonstrated a typical giant-cell arteritis in the acute stage. The cases mentioned above confirm that there is a close relation between polymyalgia rheumatica and Horton arteritis. In the latter the temporal localization could be inconstant.

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PubMed1981

[Immunological implications in the pathogenesis of Horton arteritis].

Fragments of temporal artery obtained by surgical biopsy from 3 patients suffering from Horton arteritis were employed for immunopathologic studies by direct immunofluorescence. In 2 of the cases, granular deposition of IgM, C1q and C3 but not of albumin were observed in the wall of vasa vasorum of the temporal artery. Elution techniques determined the disappearance of the immunoreactants. In one case in which biopsy fragments of temporal artery were obtained prior to and after steroid treatment it was observed that IgM and complement, previously present, disappeared after such treatment. The data reported indicate that indeed immunologic factors play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease and that the immunoreagents present on the wall of vasa vasorum are not evidence of increased vascular permeability but indicate an active immunologic process which takes place in them.

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[Reinfusion ascites therapy: considerations after a year's experience].

Ascites often appears as a complication of several illnesses. The therapy is essentially based on the use of low-sodium diet, plasma or albumin infusion, diuretics and low-dosed ACE-inhibitors. To use the simple paracentesis or special techniques as Rhodiascit or Lee Veen Shunt means not to resolve definitively the problem and sometimes to cause undesirable complications. The authors present a new therapeutic tactics that joins the use of technique of double filtration of ascitic fluid and reinfusion of concentrated proteins (DFAF) with the injection in the peritoneal cavity of beta-interferon and the venous infusion of ATIII. Twenty patients affected by hepatic cirrhosis with the presence of ascitic fluid not treatable with the usual therapy have been subjected to this treatment. All the patients showed an immediate improvement of the clinical situation. After one year of observation, we describe our results. Twelve patients needed a further treatment with the DFAF technique, two patients died for the original pathology and six patients just needed an adjustment of pharmacologic therapy.

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