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H Skalická

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PubMed1995

[Rheumatoid pericarditis: correlation with immunologic parameters].

In 35 patients with rheumatoid pericarditis the laboratory findings were compared with those of a group of 65 patients with rheumatoid arthritis without a pericardial exudate. The authors assessed the red cell sedimentation rate and serum levels of immunoglobulins G, M, A, semiquantitative values of the rheumatoid factor, circulating immunocomplexes, C3 and C4 complement components, the positivity of antinuclear antibodies and values of C-reactive protein. The authors found significantly elevated values of immunoglobulins M in patients with rheumatoid arthritis without a pericardial exudate. As regards the other investigated parameters the two compared groups did not differ.

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PubMed1992

[Complete recovery of left ventricular function after myocardial infarct].

In a 27-year-old patient with an infarction of the anterior myocardial wall, significant from the haemodynamic aspect, a complex procedure is described by which in the course of four hours after the beginning of complaints normalization of the lumen and blood flow of the coronary artery supplying the infarction focus was achieved. The authors used thrombolytic intravenous treatment which involved infusion of 1.5 million u. of streptokinase (Streptase, Boehringer, Ingelheim) in the course of 45 mins., N-acetylcysteine 2.0 g i.v. (Broncholysin, Spofa) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. In the course of 16 days the left ventricular function recovered completely: the ejection fraction was 67% before the infarction, on the first day of infarction 45% and before discharge 64%.

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PubMed1987

Heart and vessel hypertrophy in hypertension: possibilities of regression.

Fifty-two middle-aged hypertensive males with left ventricular hypertrophy, diagnosed by echocardiography, were divided into two groups; 30 of them were treated with beta-blockers and 22 with methyldopa. Where blood pressure was insufficiently controlled, diuretics and, eventually vasodilating agents, were added to both treatment regimes. During 2 years of follow-up, blood pressure decreased significantly. The greatest decrease was observed during the first 3 months. Echocardiography revealed the greatest decrease in posterior wall and interventricular septal thickness also during the first 3 months. Posterior wall hypertrophy was reversed completely in the next 3 months, while further regression of interventricular septal hypertrophy was continuous during the remaining follow-up period. Left ventricular hypertrophy was reversed completely in 27 (51.9%) probands and remained unchanged in two patients. The regression was incomplete in 23 (44.2%) patients who were more obese and whose left ventricular hypertrophy was initially more pronounced. Regression of hypertrophy was not associated with a deterioration in left ventricular function and was achieved even after the addition of vasodilating drugs. No differences were observed between the treatment groups. The pathogenesis of left ventricular hypertrophy still remains unclear. After 2 years, no changes in peripheral vascular resistance in the forearm were observed at reactive hyperaemia. These results indicate that there might be a delay in the regression of vessel hypertrophy compared with that of the left ventricle.

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