Rapidly enlarging thigh swelling after manipulative therapy: An unexpected response to therapy

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuo-Chin Huang ◽  
Pang-Hsin Hsieh ◽  
Kam-Fai Lee ◽  
Robert Wen-Wei Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Manipulative Therapy ◽  
Thigh Swelling

Similar response to therapy of pituitary adenomas with and without SOX2-expressing cells

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihail Coculescu ◽  
Anca Campean ◽  
Cristina Stancu ◽  
Cristina Capatina ◽  
Gheorghiu Monica Livia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pituitary Adenomas ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Similar Response

Assessing Acute Decompensated Heart Failure – Strategies and Tools

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Ali Vazir ◽  
Martin R Cowie ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure ◽  
Pulse Contour Analysis ◽  
Decompensated Heart Failure ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Clinical Syndrome ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Contour Analysis ◽  
Physiological Variables ◽  
Co Morbidity

Acute heart failure – the rapid onset of, or change in, signs and/or symptoms of heart failure requiring urgent treatment – is a serious clinical syndrome, associated with high mortality and healthcare costs. History, physical examination and early 2D and Doppler echocardiography are crucial to the proper assessment of patients, and will help determine the appropriate monitoring and management strategy. Most patients are elderly and have considerable co-morbidity. Clinical assessment is key to monitoring progress, but a number of clinical techniques – including simple Doppler and echocardiographic tools, pulse contour analysis and impedance cardiography – can help assess the response to therapy. A pulmonary artery catheter is not a routine monitoring tool, but can be very useful in patients with complex physiology, in those who fail to respond to therapy as would be anticipated, or in those being considered for mechanical intervention. As yet, the serial measurement of plasma natriuretic peptides is of limited value, but it does have a role in diagnosis and prognostication. Increasingly, the remote monitoring of physiological variables by completely implanted devices is possible, but the place of such technology in clinical practice is yet to be clearly established.

Trombodynamics Method in the Assessment of Coagulation Parameters in Psychopharmacotherapy of Endogenous Mental Disorders

Psychiatry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
N. S. Karpova ◽  
O. S. Brusov ◽  
I. V. Oleichik ◽  
M. I. Faktor ◽  
N. S. Levchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Procoagulant Activity ◽  
Coagulation Activity ◽  
Continuous Type ◽  
Chronic Neuroinflammation ◽  
Psychopharmacological Treatment ◽  
Before And After ◽  
First Time ◽  
Schizotypal Disorder

Background: currently, it has been proven that the pathogenesis of endogenous mental disorders is associated with the process of neuroinflammation in the brain of patients. It is also known that chronic neuroinflammation, accompanied by a violation the permeability of the blood-brain barrier. It is accompanied by the activation of platelets that generate procoagulant microparticles, which leads to a disturbance of the hemostasis system, causing an increase in blood clotting in patients. Objective: to investigate the dynamics of procoagulant activity of blood in patients with endogenous mental disorders before and after psychopharmacotherapy.Patients and methods: the study included 185 patients aged 16 to 64 years with the following mental disorders: schizophrenia with attack-like/attack-progressive/continuous type of course (F20.00–2), affective disease (F31.1–5; F32.0–3; F33.0–3), schizotypal disorder with affective fluctuations (F21.3–4). The thrombodynamic test (TD) was performed on T-2 Trombodynamis device according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Hemacore LLC, Moscow, Russia). All patients received standard pharmacotherapy according to their condition.Results: a significant decrease of procoagulant activity of spontaneous clots in the patients’ blood after psychopharmacological treatment is observed. Our data on the positive dynamics of changes in the values of TD test’s indicators in most of the examined patients suggest that a decrease in the coagulation activity of the patients’ blood as a result of treatment may be associated with the anti- inflammatory effect of antipsychotics and antidepressants.Conclusion: for the first time, it was shown that there is a positive dynamic in changing the values of the main parameters of the TD test in most patients with endogenous mental diseases. The results of TD tests can be the basis for monitoring the response to therapy.

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