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R Oda

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PubMed1986

Acute effects of phenytoin on brainstem auditory evoked potentials: clinical and experimental study.

In a patient with phenytoin (PHE) intoxication, the brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were lost except for wave I and wave V. The patient recovered. In rats given PHE, we found changes in amplitude, morphology, and latency of BAEP. Within 5 minutes, all waves disappeared except for wave I, and soon thereafter all waves were lost, with PHE plasma concentration between 45.8 and 52.1 micrograms/ml or above. Ninety minutes after infusion, waves gradually reappeared. Loss of BAEP cannot be used as a criterion for brain death unless PHE intoxication is ruled out.

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PubMed1985

The syndrome of posterior thalamic hemorrhage.

In six patients with CT evidence of posterior thalamic hemorrhage, we found the following signs: saccadic hypometria away from the lesion; defective pursuit toward the lesion with corresponding opticokinetic abnormalities; mild ipsilateral ptosis; ipsilateral miosis; unilateral sensory neglect; and sensorimotor hemiparesis. This distinct syndrome has a benign course and satisfactory recovery. It differs from the classic picture of thalamic hemorrhage, and can be called "the syndrome of posterior thalamic hemorrhage."

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PubMed1985

[The cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of beta-glucuronidase and beta 2-microglobulin in neurological disorders].

beta-Glucuronidase (beta-GL) and beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2-m) of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were assayed from the patients with various neurological diseases, in order to evaluate the difference of mean value of these enzyme activities in several groups of neurological diseases, diagnostic usefulness for one of the central nervous system tumor markers, and the usefulness to differentiate carcinomatous meningitis from infectious meningitides. The subjects were 99 patients with various neurological diseases, and these were classified in the following eight diagnostic groups, central nervous system degenerative diseases (6 cases), cervical spondylotic radiculomyelopathy (15 cases), Guillain-Barre syndrome (8 cases), subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to ruptured aneurysm (6 cases), infectious meningitides (21 cases), carcinomatous meningitis (9 cases), metastatic extradural spinal cord tumors (10 cases) and brain tumors (24 cases). CSF was also obtained from 13 subjects without any known neurological diseases for beta-GL and beta 2-m as the normal control values. beta-GL and beta 2-m were measured by Tsukamoto's method and the radioimmunoassay method (Phadebas, beta 2-m test) respectively. The statistical analyse were done by using the student t-test and expressed as p values. In the normal control group of 13 individuals without any obvious neurological diseases, the mean values +/- standard error of means (SEM) of beta-GL and beta 2-m were 122.5 +/- 10.8 micrograms/dl/hr, and 0.99 +/- 0.15 mg/l respectively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1984

Measurement of urinary thiamine propyl disulfide metabolites as an index of liver function.

Thiamine propyl disulfide (TPD) was orally administered in patients with liver disease to measure the main metabolite, 2-hydroxypropyl methyl sulfone (2HPMS), in urine, for the test of liver function. The amount of urinary excretion of 2HPMS decreased in proportion to the degree of severity of liver disease, with intimate correlation with various tests reflecting hepatic reserve function (p less than 0.01). Phenobarbital (PB), one of the inducers of hepatic microsomal drug metabolizing enzymes scarcely influenced the results of this test. In patients with ordinary liver disease without remarkable disturbance of intestinal absorption and renal excretory function, this method appears to be clinically applicable.

Acute Kidney Injury↗