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Clinical presentation and management of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism of the Swiss Primary Hyperparathyroidism Cohort: a focus on neuro-behavioral and cognitive symptoms
To describe the clinical and biochemical profile of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) of the Swiss Hyperparathyroidism Cohort, with a focus on neurobehavioral and cognitive symptoms and on their...
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Apoplessia ipofisaria: rivalutazione dei fattori di rischio del sanguinamento negli adenomi ipofisari ed effetto sulla prognosi
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Open AccessSafety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of intravenous ghrelin for cancer-related anorexia/cachexia: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, double-crossover study
Twenty-one adult patients were randomised to receive ghrelin on days 1 and 8 and placebo on days 4 and 11 or vice versa, given intravenously over a 60-min period before lunch: 10 received 2 μg kg−1 (lower-dose) g...
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National survey on the management of primary hyperparathyroidism by Swiss endocrinologists
From the endocrine surgeon’s perspective, it is important to know how endocrinologists manage patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). The aim of this survey was to evaluate the preoperative diagnosti...
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Extensive spherical amyloid deposition presenting as a pituitary tumor
A 71-yr-old man was admitted for further evaluation and trans-sphenoidal surgery of a pituitary tumor. He complained of impotence and decreased libido over a period of about 40 yr. Thirty-eight yr ago he was t...
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Prolongation of life span in hypertensive rats by dietary interventions. Effects of garlic and linseed oil
The effects of long-term dietary application of garlic (dried powder, 0.5% in weight of standard chow; G group) or linseed oil (2.5%; L group) as well as a combination of both interventions (L+G group) on the ...
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Umweltbelastungen in der Region Leipzig-Halle-Bitterfeld und deren Bewertung
Wesentliche Grundlage der industriellen Entwicklung seit Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts ist im Raum Leipzig-Halle-Bitterfeld die Nutzung der Braunkohle als Energie- und Rohstoffbasis. Gekoppelt mit einer Reihe an...
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Hemodynamic correlates of baroreflex impairment of heart rate in experimental canine heart failure
The arterial baroreflex has been shown to be depressed in both clinical and experimental heart failure. The mechanism and significance of this depression remains controversial. Part of the change may reside in...
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Myocardial protection by ischemic preconditioning: The influence of the composition of myocardial phospholipids
It was the aim of this study to investigate (1) whether preconditioning modifies the fatty acid (FA) composition of myocardial phospholipids (PL), (2) whether a previous modification of membrane PL composition...
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Silver clusters in the cages of zeolites: A quantum chemical study
The electronic structure of zeolite A is developed in a step by step procedure from the simple OhH8Si8O12 molecule, to the ∞ 1 [(-O)2H4[Si8O12)] chain, to the
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Effect of a diet rich in linseed oil on complex viscosity and blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)
The influence of a diet rich in linseed oil (10 % in weight) with a content of 61.2 % of α-linolenic fatty acid on blood pressure and complex blood viscosity was investigated in spontaneously hypertensive rats...
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Significance of geometrical reference models of the left ventricle for a new concept of evaluation of cardiac pum** function
A methodological approach based on Frank's pressure-volume (P-V) diagram and model calculations for analyzing the determinants of stroke volume (SV) under conditions of altered ventricular geometrical configur...
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Principal considerations on the stroke volume-heart size relationship based on different heart models
The aim of the present study was to show by hemodynamic investigations in a rat heart and by theoretical considerations based on different heart models that a chronic enlargement of the heart does not necessar...
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The effect of decreased left-ventricular afterload on cardiac performance in the normal and hypertrophied rat heart
The effect of left-ventricular afterload on cardiac performance was investigated in normotensive Wistar rats and in spontaneously hypertensive rats (10 months old) with a left-ventricular hypertrophy of 54%. T...
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Left ventricular performance in rats with chronic cardiac overload due to arterio-venous shunt
The effects of experimental arteriovenous shunt (AV shunt) on left ventricular dynamics and myocardial mechanics were investigated in female Wistar rats, weighing approx. 240 g. The main goal of the study was ...
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Evaluation of left ventricular function in an experimental model of congestive heart failure due to combined pressure and volume overload
During a 6 month observation period after operation, typical symptoms of congestive heart failure, such as cyanosis, systemic oedema, ascites and pleural cffusion occur in the majority of rats which have a com...
