Nutrition and diet. Part 3: management of adult obese patients.
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Extensive degradation of the 1,3-dimethyl derivative of phenobarbital occurs when it is injected with trimethylanilinium hydroxide in methanol into a gas chromatograph. The application of mass spectrometry demonstrated that the major products are N-methyl-2-phenylbutyramide, N,N-dimethyl-2-phenylbutyramide, methyl 2-phenylbutyrate, N,N,N'-trimethylethylphenylmalondiamide, and N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylphenylmalondiamide. The methyl group of the ester arises from the methanol solvent, whereas the methyl groups of the substituted amides arise from the parent compound or the methylating reagent. Tetramethylammonium hydroxide causes much more degradation than trimethylanilinium hydroxide under comparable conditions.
A new simple pneumatic-hydraulic injection device has been constructed, tested, and used in clinical angiography. Is is the only injector which produces a square wave velocity curve with immediate rise time. Disposable plastic syringes are used which convert the velocity profile of the plunger into a smooth buildup time of the injectate, reducing recoil. The unit can be operated by both local or remote triggering. It has numerous advantages over commercially available devices, such as small size, simplicity of design, and safety features which eliminate shock hazards and reduce human error.
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Fibrinogen/fibrin degradation products (FDP) have been measured in serum by radioimmunoassay for fragment E (FgE), one of the terminal fragments in plasmic digestion of fibrinogen, and the results compared with those determined by both a tanned red cell haemagglutination inhibiton immunoassay (TRCHII) and a latex particle agglutination inhibition immunoassay. The detection limit of the FgE assay was 0.8 ng/ml, that of TRCHII was 625 ng/ml and the latex particle agglunitaion inhibition immunoassay was 10 mug/ml. All the samples measured had detectable levels of FDP with the FgE assay, whereas only 88% were measurable with the TRCHII and 2% by the latex particle agglutination inhibition immunoassay. A comparison of those samples giving a positive result with both the TRCHII and FgE assay showed overall agreement between the results of the two types of assay, but there was considerable scatter of FgE levels at each point of the TRCHII. The major advantages of the radioimmunoassay system are greater sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility.
Coagulation studies were carried out in 117 Jamaicans with homozygous sickle-cell disease in the steady state, and 40 local controls. The patients had significantly higher factor-VIII levels, higher platelet counts, lower factor-V and plasminogen levels, shorter thrombin times and higher serum fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) than the control group. The low factor-V and plasminogen levels, and high FDP levels, might be explained by activation of the coagulation system and continuous clot lysis even in the absence of painful crisis. The high factor-VIII levels and short thrombin times found in these patients could not be explained.
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The sensitivity of collagen-induced platelet aggregation to aspirin was measured in vitro on platelet-rich plasma from 20 normal subjects and five patients with von Willebrand's disease. Although aspirin tolerance tests performed in vivo at the same time showed an abnormal prolongation of the bleeding time in three of the patients studied, no evidence was found for an enhanced sensitivity to aspirin in vitro.