A servo-controlled pressure generator for physiological applications.

An electrocardiographic recording obtained during diagnostic evaluation of recurrent transient loss of consciousness in a 53-year-old man is presented. Carotid sinus massage (CSM), having elicited a ventricular asystole of >5s duration was deemed to have provided a possible diagnostic basis for syncope. However, apart from the pause and somewhat unexpectedly, CSM also suppressed preexisting frequent ventricular ectopy. Explanations for this unexpected finding can only be considered speculative, but include direct CSM-induced parasympathetic suppression of ectopic activity at intra-ventricular pacemaker sites, concomitant diminution of sympathetic neural activity at ectopic sites, or interruption of 'linking' of normal ventricular activation to initiation of premature ventricular contractions.

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PubMed2003

[Treatment of inflammatory pyodestructive processes of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area, and neck by laser and magnetic-laser exposure of the carotid sinus using the Optodan laser apparatus].

This paper presents the priority original methods (patent No. 2101046, Russia) for the treatment of inflammatory pyodestructive processes in the oral cavity, maxillofacial area, and neck (odontogenic abscesses and phlegmons including those complicated by mediastinitis and sepsis), sinusitis, carbuncles and furuncles of face and neck skin, parotitis, sialadenitis, adenophlegmons, lymphadenitis, periotitis, alveolitis, arthritis, arthrosis of the temporomandibular joint, odontogenic and traumatic osteomyelitis, infected purulent traumas (including gunshot ones), fractures of the jaws, etc. making use of Optodan laser (patent No. 2014107, Russia) for laser and magnetic-laser therapy.

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PubMed2002

[Persistent left superior vena cava with right-left shunt into the left atrium].

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