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M Reinhardt

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[Determination of digoxin by enzyme immunoassay and radioimmunoassay (author's transl)].

The results of parallel determinations of digoxin in the sera of non selected patients (n = 104) by enzyme immunoassay (EMIT-EIA) and radioimmunoassay (J-125 labeled RIA) were compared with each other. The determinations revealed considerably different concentrations; the values determined by EIA were statistical lower (for EIA 1.09 +/- 0.99 ng/ml, for RIA 1.34 +/- 1.01 ng/ml, p less than 0.01). In sera with hemolysis and in sera of patients with hyperlipidemia and uremia false-negative results were found by EIA. After elimination of these sera an exact concordation of the values of both the methods was obtained (for EIA 1.12 +/- 1.01 ng/ml, for RIA 1.12 +/- 1.02 ng/ml, r = 0.95).

Digoxin↗

[Experience and results in the evaluation of documentation-oriented medical records in the German Democratic Republic].

At the instance of the chronic liver diseases (Nr. 571 and 573 IKK) is shown in form of a model which high value of information the process of the stored data of the headline of a medical record suited for documentation. Thus informations concerning the clinical morbidity/mortality, analyses according to age and sex, residence and admitting institution, comparison of admission, treatment and post-mortem diagnoses, ascertainment of the diagnosis and finally economic data may be got. From this result the epidemiological conclusions and the statements for analyses of factors.

Adolescent↗

Epidemiology of chronic liver diseases.

In the GDR mortality from liver cirrhosis decreases in contrast to most other countries though the alcohol consumption of the population is continuously increasing. In Capital Berlin and in the industrialized districts mortality from cirrhosis is higher than in the rural areas. Within a period of 6 years the number of inpatients with chronic liver diseases has risen from 11.600 to 14.200. From the epidemiologic point of view, virus hepatitis is not the main source of liver cirrhosis. The total recovery rate of acute hepatitis has increased from 80% to 94% over a period of some 8 to 10 years, liver cirrhosis was found to have developed only in 0.3%. 70% of cirrhotic patients did never suffer from virus hepatitis, as their anamnesis revealed. 73% of 1.8 million blood donors that were subjected to SGPT and HBAg-screening tests showed histologic changes of the liver. With the use of these screening methods it has been possible to register 7% persons with liver diseases among these blood donors. Early recognition and treatment of chronic liver diseases seem to result in a reduction of mortality from liver cirrhosis.

Alanine Transaminase↗

[Studies on the frequency and diagnostic value of hepatomegaly].

In 4 groups of patients (I = 1 621 internistic in-patients, II = 2 073 donors with increased SGPT-values, III = 2 619 after-examined patients with hepatitis, IV = 514 patients of a sanatorium for liver diseases) frequency and diagnostic validity of the symptom enlargement of the liver are tested. The most frequent cause of hepatomegalia is in group I an insufficiency of the right heart. The highest percentage, however, is to be found in liver diseases, then come heart insufficiency, diseases of stomach and gall-bladder, diabetes, rheumatic diseases. In these diseases liver biopsy detects additional changes in many cases. The validity test in the 4 groups yields very different results, dependent on the number of patients and the diagnostic questioning. The symptom hepatomegalia cannot be used as a screening test, but it is of high diagnostic value in the clinical diagnostics.

Blood Donors↗