Biomedical subjects

H Stöltzing

Publications and source records attributed to H Stöltzing.

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PubMed1981

[Transparent adhesive tape as postoperative dressing. Randomized, clinical study for comparison with a conventional dressing technic].

To evaluate the effect of a thin, transparent, adhesive and elastic polyurethane drape permeable only to gas and water vapor molecules but not to bacteria in comparison to a conventional drape for postoperative dressings, a randomized trial was conducted in 90 male and female patients. 44 patients had the transparent adhesive drape and 46 a conventional dressing. Both groups were reasonably well matched according to age, sex, height, weight and type of operation. There was no difference in healing of skin wounds. But reddening around the stitches was seen more often in patients with the conventional dressing than in those with the polyurethane drape (p less than 0.05). Surprisingly, most of the patients with the transparent drape (42 of 44) accepted it. The transparent adhesive drape was found to be much less expensive than the conventional dressing.

Adult↗

PubMed1981

Effect of 1-aminoadamantanes on adenine nucleotide and serotonin storage in blood platelets.

The platelet release reaction, the liberation of adenine nucleotides and serotonin (5-HT) from osmiophilic dense granules, can be induced in human platelets by C-alkyl-derivatives of the antiviral and anti-Parkinson drug 1-aminoadamantane (D 1). The release-inducing activity is enhanced with increasing chain length and with the number of C-alkylsubstituents, respectively. The parent compound, D 1, liberates only 5-HT. Analyses of LDH activity in the incubation medium of the platelets and electron micrographs of platelets treated with 1-aminoadamantanes support the assumption that ATP, ADP, and 5-HT are released from the organelles by an exocytosis-like process rather than by destruction of the plasma and organelle membranes. The number of osmiophilic dense granules in platelets isolated from human and rabbit blood is decreased by the action of the drugs. This is in contrast to other subcellular structures where no morphological changes can be observed. The ADP-stimulated platelet aggregation is inhibited by preincubation with 1-aminoadamantanes. The inhibitory activity of the drugs on platelet aggregation parallels the effects observed after induction of the release reaction: the inhibition of platelet aggregation is enhanced with increasing C-alkylation. Hence, the inhibition of ADP-induced platelet aggregation can be used to screen for the releasing activity of 1-aminoadamantanes which have, as far as tested, similar effects on 5-HT storage in blood platelets and in the CNS. The time-, temperature, and concentration-dependent 5-HT uptake by platelets (K = 0.75 micro M; V max = 0.22 nmoles/min X 10 9 cells) is noncompetitively inhibited by the drugs with K1-values varying from 10 to 100 micro M depending on the degree of C-alkylation.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

PubMed1980

[Effect of planned treatment policy in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding using endoscopic neodymium-YAG laser therapy (author's transl)].

In a prospective trial with and without laser therapy the outcome on 105 patients was evaluated according to a defined protocol and terminology. Only patients with actively bleeding lesions during early endoscopy had laser therapy. Patients showing evidence of recent bleeding or no bleeding had none. Defects of the laser equipment or impossibility of reaching a bleeding lesion prevented its use in some patients (control group). There was no difference concerning rate of recurrent bleeding or mortality. Controlled trials with defined groups of patients are urgently needed.

Adolescent↗

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Upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding: assessing the diagnostic contributions of the history and clinical findings.

Various strategies can be used in the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding. This study investigates the relevance of anamnestic and clinical findings for the diagnosis of the bleeding source. The authors introduced a computer-aided diagnostic system using Bayes' theorem and compared it with clinicians' predictions using anamnestic and clinical findings only. There was no difference in the overall accuracy rates, but a difference was observed in the diagnostic behaviors of the two "systems." In addition, the discriminatory ability of the computer-aided system, the sharpness of the predictions obtained, and the reliability of the posterior probabilities were analyzed. It is concluded that the clinician and the computer-aided system are not able to discriminate well between the disease categories. Derived classification matrices and probability-based measures show the reasons for the inadequacy of diagnostic information obtainable from the clinical history and physical findings.

Bayes Theorem↗