Biomedical subjects

A J Gallo

Publications and source records attributed to A J Gallo.

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PubMed1995

[Meningitis due to Enterococcus faecalis].

Enterococcus faecalis meningitis is an infrequent entity that accounts for less than 1% of all suppurative meningitis in the adult. Usually, this infection affects patients with compromised host defenses or those who have congenital or acquired CNS lesions mainly as intrahospitalary infections. An 85 year old woman from our community (Tandil county) without any predisposed condition, was admitted in the hospital in an unconscious state (grade 3 Glasgow's index), meningeal signs and purulent CSF, from which E. faecalis was isolated. The patient was treated with IV Ampicillin and Gentamycin (17 days), intrathecal Gentamycin (4 days) and IV dexametasona (6 days). The clinical and bacteriological remission was achieved, without any sequel or relapse during 2 years follow up.

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PubMed1985

Hemodynamic effects of prolonged treatment with diltiazem in conscious normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.

To determine systemic and regional hemodynamic effects of prolonged treatment with the calcium antagonist diltiazem (30 mg/kg twice daily by gastric gavage, for 3 weeks), data from 12 Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and 10 spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats were compared with those obtained from 11 WKY and 10 SHR controls treated with the vehicle. Systemic and regional hemodynamics were determined in the conscious, unrestrained state using the reference sample microsphere method. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) decreased in SHR by 9% (183 +/- 4 to 167 +/- 4 mm Hg; p less than 0.05) but remained unchanged in WKY, while cardiac index (CI) tended to decrease in both strains; heart rate fell by 15% only in WKY (481 +/- 10 to 354 +/- 13 beats/min; p less than 0.05). Total peripheral resistance index (TPRI) tended to decrease in SHR but to increase in WKY. Organ blood flow in SHR decreased in skin and splanchnic organs, while organ vascular resistance decreased in brain and increased in splanchnic organs. In contrast, organ blood flow increased in heart and decreased in kidneys and skin of the WKY, while organ vascular resistance decreased in heart and increased in kidneys and skin. Thus, diltiazem produced nonuniform and different hemodynamic effects in the two strains. Further, diltiazem did not alter the cardiac mass in either rat strain. We therefore conclude that diltiazem demonstrated a mild hypotensive effect in SHR that was associated with slight reductions in CI and TPRI, the latter being nonuniformly distributed in the component organ circulations.

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PubMed1984

Systemic and regional hemodynamic effects of acute and prolonged treatment with urapidil or prazosin in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.

The regional and systemic hemodynamics of urapidil and prazosin were investigated after intravenous (1 mg/kg or 0.01 mg/kg, respectively) and prolonged (three weeks) oral treatment (20 mg/kg a day or 2 mg/kg a day, respectively) in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats. Following intravenous administration, both urapidil and prazosin decreased mean arterial pressure, mediated through a decrease in total peripheral resistance and accompanied by a transient increase in heart rate in both strains. The changes in regional circulations were more widespread after urapidil, but of longer duration after prazosin. Prolonged administration of urapidil or prazosin resulted in a significant decrease in mean arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance only in SHR. With urapidil treatment, the decrease in vascular resistance was distributed throughout all circulations, with no change in heart rate or cardiac index. Heart rate increased in WKY rats and cardiac index increased in SHR following prazosin treatment. Cardiac mass remained unchanged following treatment with either drug.

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PubMed1984

Urapidil in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats: the effects on systemic and regional haemodynamics and cardiac mass.

The effects of treatment for three weeks with urapidil (10 mg/kg p.o. twice daily) on systemic and regional haemodynamics and cardiac mass were studied in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Urapidil decreased mean arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance index (176 +/- 3 versus 145 +/- 5 mmHg and 0.61 +/- 0.02 versus 0.49 +/- 0.02 units, respectively; each P less than 0.01) in SHR without affecting heart rate, cardiac index or cardiac mass. No systemic haemodynamic changes were observed in WKY rats. All organ vascular resistances decreased significantly in SHR and blood flow increased to skin (P less than 0.01) and kidneys (P less than 0.05). These data indicate that urapidil is a potent antihypertensive agent in SHR which reduced mean arterial pressure through a decreased total peripheral resistance that was distributed throughout all circulations. Despite these haemodynamic changes, cardiac mass did not change.

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