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A Zaitsu

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PubMed1992

Cardiac beriberi (shoshin beriberi) caused by excessive intake of isotonic drink.

A 21 month old female had voluntarily ingested 0.5-1.51 of isotonic sports drink daily from 10 months of age. She developed hyponatremia and beriberi heart disease, which resulted in metabolic acidosis and cardiogenic shock (shoshin beriberi). Mechanical ventilation was applied for pulmonary edema. Right heart failure was improved after administering vitamin B1. However, 5 days after the shock, hypoxemia and diffuse radiographic infiltrates progressed, and a diagnosis of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was made. After the occurrence of an air leak, the patient died of respiratory failure. The cardiogenic shock and pulmonary edema due to cardiac beriberi may have triggered the ARDS.

Beriberi↗
PubMed1992

[Effective continuous hemofiltration and plasma exchange for the treatment of subacute type fulminant hepatic failure].

By combination of continuous hemofiltration (CHF) with plasma exchange therapy we successfully treated a patient with subacute type fulminant hepatitis to keep her consciousness alert. The patient was a 55-year-old woman who admitted because of severe jaundice. On the 51st day after the onset she had consciousness disturbance and was transferred to our hospital. We started the therapy of CHF and plasma exchange at the patient's hepatic coma grade 4. On the 5th day her consciousness level recovered to grade 2 and we could keep the level for almost 2 weeks. This combination therapy seemed good not only for the improvement of consciousness of patients in hepatic coma but also to support the hepatic function of almost ahepatic patients.

Female↗
PubMed1991

[pH correction].

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Acid-Base Equilibrium↗
PubMed1990

Diabetes insipidus after traumata of two extremes in severity.

Two patients with post-traumatic diabetes insipidus (DI) are reported. One had suffered a fatal injury and the other a mild contusion without amnesia before DI developed. These two instances exemplify the wide spectrum of post-traumatic DI and, hence, the importance of ruling out DI even afer a mild closed-head injury.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Intercellular secretory canaliculi in the feline laryngeal gland.

Laryngeal glands of adult cats were observed by scanning electron microscopy. Intercellular secretory canaliculi in the gland were an arborized system of capillaries extended among acinar cells, and their stem or collecting canaliculus opened to the gland lumen. The inner surface of the canaliculi was provided with small globular microvili. The canaliculi in the laryngeal gland resembled the hepatic bile capillaries in lower vertebrates.

Animals↗