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C Bischoff

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PubMed1988

[Epidural lipomatosis as a complication of a long-term glucocorticoid therapy].

In a 47-year-old patient with asymmetrical proximal paraparesis a long cervical and thoracic spinal epidural lipomatosis was found, by computed tomography and (the first such case) magnetic resonance imaging, to be the cause of the signs of a transverse cord lesion. Such a space-occupying mass is a rare complication of long-term corticosteroid medication--in this case administered for over seven years for bronchial asthma. Contrary to the majority of similar reported cases, no decompression operation was performed, because the neurological signs had not progressed and the clinical findings in fact quickly regressed once the steroid dosage had been reduced and they showed a clear dependence on the amount of steroid administered.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Changes in posterior pituitary oxytocin release in vitro during the estrous cycle of female rats.

The in vitro release of oxytocin (OXT) from posterior pituitary lobes (PPL) of adult female rats is linked to the stage of the animals' sexual cycles. After incubation in normal Locke's solution (K+ 5,6 mM), the basal OXT release from the PPL of rats on diestrus 1 and estrus amounted to 2.25 +/- 0.53 ng/lobe/10 min (mean +/- S.E.M.) and 4.71 +/- 0.61 ng/lobe/10 min, respectively. Excess K+ (56 mM/l) in the presence of Ca++ (2.2 mM/l) increased OXT liberation from the PPl of diestrous and estrous rats to 12.41 +/- 2.65 ng/lobe/10 min und 36.33 +/- 6.18 ng/lobe/10 min, respectively. When Ca++ was omitted from the incubation medium, the K+-excess induced OXT release from the PPL of estrous rats decreased to 21.54 +/- 2.65 ng/lobe/10 min whereas no change occurred in the OXT-release from the rats' PPL on diestrus 1 in the presence of Ca++. The results indicate a cycle-dependent release and suggest that OXT plays a role in the reproductive processes.

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[Patient satisfaction with outpatient preparation prior to inpatient psychosomatic rehabilitation].

Patients often show lack of motivation prior to an inpatient behavioral therapy. On the other hand patients have problems to transfer the clinical experience into every day life after discharge. The test program "preparation and follow-up of psychosomatic inpatients" of the Psychosomatic Clinic Bad Dürkheim tries to solve these problems by selected interventions. This pilot program is evaluated in a field study with an experimental and a control group. The control group receives the regular inpatient treatment program. The experimental group additional outpatient interventions. The article presents a part of the total evaluation: acceptance of prestationary information. This was examined with an especially developed assessment questionnaire and a discharge questionnaire. The data clearly show a considerable patient' acceptance of these offers and their positive consequences on the individual therapy. The acceptance of the prestationary information meetings is thereby quite irrespective of the patient's age, gender, school education, and diagnosis.

Adult↗
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Magnetically elicited blink reflex: an alternative to conventional electrical stimulation.

Magnetically and electrically elicited blink reflexes were studied in 11 normal subjects and in 5 patients with partial peripheral facial nerve palsy. Both methods were able to elicit a reproducible blink reflex. In both groups the latencies of the magnetically elicited reflexes were equal to those that followed electrical stimulation. The magnetic stimulation technique offered 2 advantages over the electrical stimulation: (1) it was less painful and therefore better tolerated and (2) the coil position in the middle of the forehead was sufficient to elicit a bilateral blink reflex because the windings of the stimulation coil excited both supraorbital nerves simultaneously. This bilateral response enables one to reduce the number of stimuli and can be used in the examination of patients that have peripheral facial nerve palsies without the concomitant impairment of the reflex pathway in the brainstem. The magnetic technique can also elicit a blink reflex at stimulation points distant from the supraorbital notch. This finding offers an alternative explanation of the late responses of facial muscles following transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex.

Adult↗