salicylates and Pericarditis

Topics: Acute Disease; Adult; Humans; Male; Pericarditis; Salicylates; Thyrotropin; Time Factors

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Arthritis; Electrocardiography; Humans; Inflammation; Morphine; Myocardial Infarction; Myositis; Pericarditis; Peritonitis; Pleurisy; Pneumonia; Salicylates

A 42-d floor pen study was conducted with broiler chickens comparing the effects on bird performance of 12 ppm TAMUS 2032 (also known as BT) and 55 ppm bacitracin methylene disalicyclate (BMD) when fed alone or in combination with 99 ppm monensin (MON). Unmedicated and 99 ppm MON treatments were included in the study design. Beginning on d 22 of study, birds in all 6 treatments were subjected to a modulated house temperature and airflow to mimic conditions conducive to outbreaks of colibacillosis. A natural outbreak of colibacillosis developed beginning on d 27. Primary lesions in dead birds included airsacculitis and pericarditis with occasional findings of perihepatitis. At d 42 of study, means for weight gain in the TAMUS 2032 and TAMUS 2032 + MON treatments were greater in comparison with the unmedicated and BMD treatments, and means for feed conversion for both treatments were improved in comparison with the unmedicated treatment. Mean feed conversion in the TAMUS 2032 + MON treatment was also improved in comparison with BMD treatment. Mortality due to colibacillosis was reduced in the TAMUS 2032 (0.051%), TAMUS 2032 + MON (0.642%), and MON + BMD (1.515%) treatments in comparison with the unmedicated treatment (13.402%) and the BMD treatment (11.159%). The results of improved performance and reduced mortality indicated that 12 ppm TAMUS 2032 was highly efficacious against colibacillosis in growing chickens. The reduced mortality percentages in the MON + BMD treatment indicated that this combination also provided a good level of protection against the natural outbreak of colibacillosis.

Topics: Animals; Bacitracin; Chickens; Disease Outbreaks; Drug Therapy, Combination; Escherichia coli Infections; Female; Hepatitis, Animal; Hot Temperature; Housing, Animal; Male; Monensin; Oligopeptides; Pericarditis; Poultry Diseases; Salicylates; Ventilation

A 23-year-old male patient, with a diagnosed mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes, was referred for recurrent fainting. Long sinus pauses were documented, and an atrial pacemaker with an active-fixation lead was implanted. He was admitted again 4 months later because of chest pain and diffuse ST segment changes. On the basis of these, pericarditis was diagnosed, corticosteroid therapy and the adjunct of salicylates were started, which in few hours enabled the relief of symptoms and the reduction of ECG abnormalities. However, 24 h later, the patient suddenly experienced severe hypotension and tachycardia, and an emergency echocardiogram showed pericardial tamponade. The differential diagnoses with atrial free-wall perforation and Dressler-like syndrome were discussed, along with the difficulties in management. By a 'wait and see' strategy, the active-fixation atrial lead was eventually changed into a passive-fixation one, while continuing corticosteroids and salicylates. The patient quickly improved and is now, after 1 year, symptom free. For the explanation of any phenomenon, it is important that as few assumptions as possible are considered, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory, according to the concept of Ockham's razor.

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Anti-Inflammatory Agents; Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; Cardiac Tamponade; Chest Pain; Device Removal; Diagnosis, Differential; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Equipment Design; Humans; Male; MELAS Syndrome; Pacemaker, Artificial; Pericardiocentesis; Pericarditis; Recurrence; Salicylates; Syncope; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult

Pericarditis complicating acute myocardial infarction assumes increasing importance in this era of quantitating infarct size by precordial ST segment mapping. Early recognition of this complication avoids diagnostic and therapeutic errors. In this study we looked for factors that could alert to the early diagnosis of pericarditis, such as ST elevation measured within 24 hours from onset, extent of CPK, LDH, and SGOT elevation, as well as degree of pump dysfunction. ST segment elevation in millimeters on admission seemed to be one factor that was of predictive value in this condition. Pericarditis occurred in three forms: (1) within a few hours from the onset of myocardial infarction and this form seems to carry a high mortality rate; (2) a more common variety occurs within 24 to 72 hours from onset and carries a higher mortality rate than matched controls; and (3) the late syndrome of Dressler's, not observed in our series. Aside from increased incidence of heart failure, other complications of myocardial infarction and the coronary risk factors were not significantly higher in patients with pericarditis. Salicylate treatment offers immediate relief in the majority of patients.

Topics: Aspartate Aminotransferases; Creatine Kinase; Heart Failure; Humans; L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; Male; Myocardial Infarction; Pericarditis; Radiography; Risk; Salicylates; Tachycardia; Time Factors

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Autoimmune Diseases; Humans; Myocardial Infarction; Pericarditis; Salicylates; Syndrome

Four women with fever, arthromyalgias, pericarditis, pleural effusion, high erythrocyte sedimentation rates, and lymphopenia had mitochondrial antibodies in the serum in the absence of antinuclear antibody. Their illness lasted 5-12 weeks and the antibody test results became negative on remission. Absence of specific bacteriological findings, normal antistreptolysin O titres, resistance to antibiotics, and good response to steroids suggested that these cases represented a milder and less persistent form of the syndrome resembling systemic lupus erythematosus described by German authors.

Topics: Adult; Antibodies, Antinuclear; Autoantibodies; Blood Sedimentation; Diagnosis, Differential; Drug Resistance; Female; Humans; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic; Mitochondria; Pericarditis; Pleural Effusion; Pneumonia; Prednisone; Salicylates

Topics: Ampicillin; Child, Preschool; Chloramphenicol; Colistin; Diagnosis, Differential; Drug Eruptions; Drug Hypersensitivity; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Electroencephalography; Erythromycin; Female; Fever; Humans; Hydrocortisone; Infections; Kanamycin; Kidney Diseases; Male; Middle Aged; Penicillins; Pericarditis; Pertussis Vaccine; Pleural Diseases; Recurrence; Salicylates; Tetracycline; Tonsillectomy

Topics: Antibody Formation; Autoantibodies; Desensitization, Immunologic; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Myocardial Infarction; Myocardium; Pericarditis; Salicylates; Syndrome; Time Factors

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Cardiac Tamponade; Humans; Male; Meningitis, Meningococcal; Military Medicine; Neisseria meningitidis; Pericarditis; Prednisone; Salicylates; Species Specificity; Virulence

Topics: Adolescent; Alanine Transaminase; Arthritis, Juvenile; Aspartate Aminotransferases; Bilirubin; Child; Child, Preschool; Clinical Enzyme Tests; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Fever; Hepatomegaly; Humans; Infant; Leukocyte Count; Liver; Liver Function Tests; Lymphatic Diseases; Male; Pain; Pericarditis; Pleurisy; Salicylates; Sex Factors; Splenomegaly; Sulfobromophthalein

Topics: Adolescent; Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Aminopyrine; Child; Drug Therapy; Endocarditis; Humans; Infant; Myocarditis; Pericarditis; Rheumatic Heart Disease; Salicylates

Topics: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Drug Therapy; Electrocardiography; Humans; Pericarditis; Prednisone; Salicylates; Vitamin A; Vitamins

Topics: Adolescent; Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Aortic Valve Stenosis; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Child; Drug Therapy; Electrocardiography; Humans; Mitral Valve Stenosis; Penicillins; Pericarditis; Postoperative Complications; Rheumatic Fever; Rheumatic Heart Disease; Salicylates; Sulfonamides; Thoracic Surgery; Tricuspid Valve Stenosis

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Heart Diseases; Pericarditis; Rheumatic Heart Disease; Salicylates

Topics: Back; Humans; Pericarditis; Pleura; Salicylates; Thorax