kaolinite and Hypertension

Topics: Angiotensin II; Animals; Aorta; Autonomic Nervous System; Blood Pressure; Brachiocephalic Trunk; Carotid Arteries; Catecholamines; Cats; Cerebral Ventricles; Disease Models, Animal; Dogs; Haplorhini; Hemodynamics; Hot Temperature; Hypertension; Kaolin; Methods; Rabbits; Rats; Subclavian Artery; Sympathectomy; Vascular Diseases

Topics: Adult; Drug Combinations; Humans; Hypertension; Hypokalemia; Kaolin; Male; Morphine Dependence; Substance-Related Disorders

Twelve Indian patients with pre-eclampsia, 15 with eclampsia and 15 with normal pregnancy in the third trimester were investigated. A systemic bleeding diathesis was encountered in two patients with eclampsia and in none with pre-eclampsia; two patients with pre-eclampsia, however, had excessive uterine haemorrhage. Coagulation studies showed statistically significant prolongation of thrombin time, elevation of serum fibrinogen degradation products (FDP) and hypofibrinogenaemia in patients with pre-eclampsia as well as eclampsia. In patients with eclampsia, significant thrombocytopenia also occurred. Euglobulin lysis time showed no significant change in patients with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. There was no significant difference in the coagulation profile between patients with eclampsia and pre-eclampsia, except for more hypofibrinogenaemia in the former. The laboratory findings suggest the occurrence of intravascular coagulation in patients with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.

Topics: Adult; Albuminuria; Blood Coagulation; Blood Coagulation Disorders; Blood Platelets; Eclampsia; Edema; Female; Fibrinogen; Hemorrhagic Disorders; Humans; Hypertension; India; Kaolin; Middle Aged; Phosphatidylethanolamines; Pre-Eclampsia; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Trimester, Third; Prothrombin Time; Serum Globulins; Thrombocytopenia; Uterine Hemorrhage

Topics: Animals; Brain Chemistry; Brain Stem; Dopamine; Ethylamines; Female; Hypertension; Intracranial Pressure; Kaolin; Male; Norepinephrine; Rabbits; Serotonin

Topics: Blood Pressure; Blood Pressure Determination; Humans; Hypertension; Injections; Kaolin; Renal Artery