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L Stanciu

Publications and source records attributed to L Stanciu.

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A prospective study of postacute viral hepatitis: the role of HBsAg.

Twenty-two patients with HBsAg positive acute viral hepatitis have been followed-up for two years after the acute episode. Besides the usual clinical, pathological and biological examinations, the following tests were carried out: serum HBsAg: circulating T and B lymphocytes: serum IgG, IgA, IgM: leukocyte migration test to HBsAg; serum complement: autoantibodies, rheumatoid factors, cryoglobulins, alpha-fetoprotein. Serum HBsAg persistence was correlated with some features of the acute episode: protracted clinical form: recurrences or relapses; splenomegaly; decrease of circulating T-lymphocytes; presence of lymphocyte sensibilization to HBsAg. Among the seven serum HBsAg carriers, three developed a chronic hepatitis. The state of healthy chronic HBsAg carrier was associated with high levels of serum IgA (over 300 IU/ml). A chronic hepatitis has been also diagnosed in four out of the 15 patients who cleared their serum HBsAg. The presence, on the one hand, of a chronic hepatitis among the patients who cleared their HBsAg and, on the other hand, its absence in some of the HBsAg carriers suggest that HBsAg persistence is not a sine qua non condition for the development of the chronic liver disease. The onset of autoimmune phenomena due to the disturbance of immunologic homeostasis and perhaps other genetic or environmental factors seemingly allow the perpetuation of a hepatic damage.

Acute Disease↗
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Colchicine treatment effects on liver cirrhosis assessed by liver blood flow measurements.

Hepatic fibrosis is common in all chronic liver diseases. This fibrosis induces morphological, functional and hemodynamic changes. Among the antifibrotic drugs, colchicine gave the most encouraging results. In a group of 22 patients with liver cirrhosis, the hemodynamic changes were studied before and after 24 months of antifibrotic treatment with colchicine (1 mg daily, 5 days a week). The liver blood flow (LBF) was estimated every year by a noninvasive radioisotopic method. After colchicine therapy the determinations showed, an obvious improvement of the liver blood flow with an increase of K (from 0.159 to 0.1678) (p less than 0.001) and a per cent decrease of delta from 44 to 32 (p less than 0.001), thus showing an improvement of the liver blood supply. The simultaneous and favourable changes of the liver biochemical tests and of the sinusoidal hemodynamic parameters strongly suggest that the perfusion improvement, induced by a loss of liver collagen, might explain the tendency of the biochemical data to resume normal values.

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The value of echocardiography in the early diagnosis of myocardial impairment due to connective tissue diseases.

The study comprised 14 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 12 patients with diffuse scleroderma. Echocardiography ascertained 5 cases of congestive and 1 case of restrictive cardiomyopathy among the patients with SLE, as well as 6 cases with restrictive cardiomyopathy among those with scleroderma. The authors specify two important echocardiographic variables: the E-septum distance and the septal and wall motion after amyl-nitrite test, which reveal the intrinsic contractile properties of the myocardium, allowing an early diagnosis of myocardial impairment, as well as the selection of patients for an efficient treatment with vasodilator drugs.

Cardiomyopathy, Dilated↗
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Influenza hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies in hospitalized children. Distribution of specific activity into IgM, IgG and IgA classes.

Sera from 75 children hospitalized with a clinical diagnosis of acute respiratory virus disease were tested by hemagglutination-inhibition as regards influenza A2 and B antibody shifts. In 48 patients there was an antibody shift during the clinical evolution of the disease (against influenza A2 in 34, B-- in 11, A2 and B in 3cases). A significant proportion of sera with antibody shift associated with a decrease of serum IgG levels and with an increase of serum IgM and IgA levels.

Antibodies, Viral↗
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[Diagnosis of primary chronic rheumatic carditis in adults].

The authors maintain that in some cases one can note the so-called primar chronic rheumatic carditis, or apparently primary rheumatic carditis. Streptococcal infections can be held responsible for the eventuality of a sub-clinical evolution of rheumatism, and there which develops as a clinical form of latent rheumatism, and there is the possibility of ulterior development of valvular cardiopathy without a clear history of acute rheumatic fever in the antecedents. One of the groups subjects with maximal exposure to repeated streptococcic infection is represented by the teaching personnel working permanently in school or pre-school children collectivities or with teen-agers, which are both carriers and disseminators of the rheumatogenic streptococcal infection. Of a total of 50 cases of apparently primary chronic valvular cardiopathies that have been followed by the ASCAR personnel, 48 had tonsillary infections in their antecedents, 8 had arthralgia and 4 cases were detected by chance. In school collectivities at high risk prophylaxis with penicillin should be mandatory, both for the students and for the teaching personnel.

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[Study of Coxsackie A 10 virus infection in newborn and suckling mice of the strains A2G, ICR-K and CBA].

Differences in the susceptibility to paralytogenic infection with Coxsackie A10 virus were found in neonate and suckling mice belonging to A2G, ICR-K and CBA strains and ICR-K/CBA and CBA/ICR-K hybrids in the F1 generation. At the first passage in vivo the more susceptible strains selected paralytogenic viral particles from among the cytopathogenic and non-pathogenic Coxsackie A10 virus populations. The differences in susceptibility could not be related either with the humoral immune response to virus or to the rate of fixation of virus on the neonate mouse muscle cell receptors. These differences are, however, in agreement with the data concerning the synthesis of interferon in the striated muscle, the lots with greater resistance to viral infection being also those which synthesize interferon in higher concentrations. The hybrids resulting from the parental strains more susceptible to virus, presented a resistance superior to that of the parents.

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