A 54-yr-old male (American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 3) is scheduled to undergo an Automatic Internal Cardiac Defibrillator change under general anesthesia. His history is remarkable for coronary artery disease, hypertension, and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. He is 104 kg and...
In one study, when using total testosterone assay, the incidence of hypogonadal levels of testosterone was 20% in men over 60, 30% in men over 70 and 50% over 80 years old. When using free testosterone assay, the incidence was even higher, in detail 40, 70 and 90% for men in th...
elemental chromium as niacin-bound chromium/day, while the control group received only water for the initial three weeks. During weeks 4–6, the dose of niacin-bound chromium was doubled. AgedZucker fatty ratsin treatment group showed significantly lower blood pressure as compared to control(47)...
Case study 2 62yr old male presented to emergency with platelets 1. With a working diagnosis of ITP, he was treated with immunomodulatory agents. Further investigation showed a concurrent diagnosis of plasmacytoma and high Immunoglo- bulin A levels. Management with chemotherapy was delayed due to ...
Hypertension is the most prevalent cause of cardiovascular disease and kidney failure, but only about 50% of patients achieve adequate blood pressure control, in part, due to inter-individual genetic variations in the response to antihypertensive medicat
1-15. A Single Family Having Both Atypical Pip and ABO Blood Types: Kaoru MORITA (Dept. Legal Med.; Sch. Med., Toho Univ., Tokyo) A family group, whose proband (76 years old male) was hard to determine his ABO blood groups, was recently referred to our division. Our checking of ...
Bone marrow derived MSCs (BM MSCs) were isolated from commercially available fresh human bone marrow aspirates from a 28 yr old male (AllCells, Alameda, CA) using density centrifugation and plastic adherence as previously described. An adherent population of MSCs was obtained 3 weeks after the ...
Ageing is associated with increased blood pressure (BP), reduced sleep, decreased pulmonary function and exercise capacity. The main purpose of this study
N/D Total sample: 52(11% M, median age: 54 yr, range: 48–70 yr) % change in O2 delivery, Hgb, temperature, PaCO2, heart rate, intracranial pressure Before transfusion Hgb:Median: 9.7 g/dLRange: 7–13 g/dL,After transfusion: 10.8 ± 1.4 g/dL Cerebral ischemia and stroke ...
In addition to age, the proportion of men in the old group was significantly higher than in the young group (p < 0.001). Benign prostatic hyperplasia was diagnosed before the start of this study in 94 (71.8%) male patients with OAB, although there was no significant difference in treatment...