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A case of primary paraganglioma of the urinary bladder with a high serum CA19-9 level is reported. A 44-year-old woman visited our hospital with the chief complaint of lower abdominal pain. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination incidentally revealed a cystic bladder tumor. Cystoscopy disclosed a broad-based non-papillary tumor on the posterior wall of the urinary bladder. With the diagnosis of a bladder submucosal cystic tumor transurethral needle puncture and biopsy were performed. The solution sampled with puncture was bloody. The patient suddenly complained of headache and blood pressure was elevated to 215/120 mmHg when we held the tumor with a cold cup biopsy forceps. Catecholamine levels of the solution in the tumor were abnormally elevated. The serum CA19-9 level was also raised. Ten days later, she underwent partial cystectomy. Histological findings of the removed specimen showed primary paraganglioma of the urinary bladder. The serum CA19-9 level decreased to normal limits on the 28th postoperative day. Our experience suggests that the level of serum CA19-9 may serve as a useful index for observing the clinical course of a patient with this disease.
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PMID:[Primary paraganglioma of the urinary bladder with high serum CA19-9 level: a case report]. 1076 5

In a 45-year-old man who from early childhood had been suffering of periodic fever, which did not respond to any therapy attempted, the ultimate diagnosis was hyperimmunoglobulinaemia D syndrome (HIDS). HIDS attacks typically occur every 4-6 weeks and last 3-7 days. The most frequent symptoms are fever, diarrhoea, arthralgias, cold shivers, abdominal pain, vomiting and headache. Physical examination often reveals lymphadenopathy, skin lesions, arthritides, splenomegaly and serositis. Laboratory investigation includes an acute-phase response with granulocytosis and enhanced erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The serum concentration of IgD is increased as is the concentration of IgA. There is no causal therapy. A causative gene mutation was recently identified.
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PMID:[Periodic fever due to hyper-IgD syndrome]. 1080 May 45

Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by catalytic deficiency of aldolase B (fructose-1, 6-bisphosphate aldolase). Herein we report on a case of hereditary fructose intolerance with initial presentation of episodic unconsciousness, seizure, hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly, and abnormal liver function since the patient was 11 months old. She was diagnosed as Reye's-like syndrome according to a liver biopsy done at 20 months of age. As she grew up, cold sweating, abdominal pain or gastrointestinal discomfort shortly after the intake of fruits was noted and she developed an aversion to fruits, vegetables and sweet-tasting foods. At 9 years of age, a fructose tolerance test signified a positive result that induced hypoglycemia, transient hypophosphatemia, hyperuricaemia, elevation of serum magnesium, and accumulation of lactic acid. Appropriate dietary management and precautions were recommended. The patient has been symptom-free and exhibited normal growth and development when followed up to 12 years of age.
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PMID:Hereditary fructose intolerance presenting as Reye's-like syndrome: report of one case. 1102 Oct 9

Although migraine is the main chronic headache in childhood and adolescence, it remains extensively misdiagnosed. Schematically, migraine is a severe headache evolving by stereotyped attacks frequently associated with marked digestive symptoms (nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain). Throbbing pain, sensitivity to sound, and light (and sometimes odors) are frequent additional symptoms. The attack is sometimes preceded by a visual or sensory aura. Rest brings relief, and sleep often ends the attack. Childhood migraine prevalence varies between 5 and 10%. Migraine episodes are frequently triggered by several factors: emotional stress (school pressure, vexation, excitement, upset), hypoglycemia, lack or excess of sleep (weekend migraine), sensory stimulation (loud noise, bright light, strong odor, heat or cold, etc.), sympathetic stimulation (sport, physical exercise). Attack treatments must be given at an early stage, oral ibuprofen (10 mg/kg) being particularly recommended. If the oral route is not available because of nausea or vomiting, rectal or nasal routes have then to be used. Non-pharmacological treatments (biofeedback and interventions combining progressive muscle relaxation) have demonstrated good efficacy as prophylactic measures. Daily prophylactic pharmacological treatments are prescribed as the second line after failure of non-pharmacological treatments.
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PMID:[Migraine, misunderstood pathology in children]. 1102 9

In childhood and adolescence, migraine is the main essential chronic headache. This diagnosis is extensively underestimated and misdiagnosed in pediatric population. Lacks of specific biologic marker, specific investigation or brain imaging reduce these clinical entities too often to a psychological illness. Migraine is a severe headache evolving by stereotyped crises associated with marked digestive symptoms (nausea and vomiting); throbbing pain, sensitivity to sound, light are usual symptoms; the attack is sometimes preceded by a visual or sensory aura. During attacks, pain intensity is severe, most of children must lie down. Abdominal pain is frequently associated, rest brings relief and sleep ends often the attack. The prevalence of the migraine varies between 5p.100 and 10p.100 in childhood. At childhood, headache duration is quite often shorter than in adult population, it is more often frontal, bilateral (2/3 of cases) that one-sided. Migraine is a disabling illness: children with migraine lost more school days in a school year, than a matched control group. Migraine episodes are frequently triggered by several factors: emotional stress (school pressure, vexation, excitement: upset), hypoglycemia, lack of sleep or excess (week end migraine), sensorial stimulation (loud noise, bright light, strong odor, heat or cold.), sympathetic stimulation (sport, physical exercise). Attack treatments must be given at the early beginning of the crisis; oral dose of ibuprofen (10mg/kg) is recommended. If the oral route in not available when nausea or vomiting occurs, the rectal or nasal routes have then to be used. Non pharmacological treatments (biofeedback and interventions combining progressive muscle relaxation) have shown to have good efficacy as prophylactic measure. Daily prophylactic pharmacological treatments are prescribed in second line after failure of non-pharmacological treatment.
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PMID:[Migraine and chronic headache in children]. 1113 52

Besides the classic motor swings, many non motor fluctuations may occur in Parkinson's disease, but the clinical spectrum and the frequency of these symptoms are not well recognized. A total of 47 parkinsonian outpatients were questioned about any symptoms associated with off state. Nine patients had no fluctuations, 16 referred only to motor fluctuations and 22 to motor fluctuations associated with non motor symptoms. Overall, these patients referred to 54 symptoms (average 2.3/patients, range 1-6). These symptoms were classified as: autonomic (3 difficulty in swallowing, 7 hot, 11 sweat, 2 cold, 1 pallor, 1 abdominal bloating, 1 abdominal pain, 1 abdominal and genital pain, 5 bladder dysfunction, 2 feet oedema); sensory (7 sensory dyspnoea, 1 pain in lower limbs, 1 internal tremor); cognitive (3 depression, 4 anxiety, 2 panic, 1 drowsiness, 1 confusion). In patients without off periods, the length, severity and the average dosages of levodopa were fewer than in patients with fluctuations. No significant differences were found between patients with motor off and patients with associated non motor off regarding age (71.2+/-9.6 years vs 71.6+/-10.7 years), length of the disease (83.2+/-38.5 months vs 95.9+/-58.1 months), the Hoehn-Yahr (3.06+/-0.96 vs 3.02+/-0.96) and Webster (15.5+/-6.99 vs 15.1+/-5.9) scale, the dosages of levodopa (680.9+/-238.9 mg/die vs 679.7+/-289.6 mg/die), the number (2.3+/-1.7 vs 2.8+/-1.5) and length (6.8+/-5.2 h vs 7.2+/-7.1 h) of motor off. The non motor fluctuations were recognized in about 60% of patients with motor fluctuations: usually they were mild and less important than motor off, but sometimes these problems were disabling and led to unnecessary tests and therapies.
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PMID:Non motor off in Parkinson's disease. 1169 27

Typical urticarial lesions are transient cutaneous swellings of sudden onset, often itchy, persisting for less than 24 hours and resolving to leave normal appearing skin. Angioedema lesions are similar subcutaneous lesions. Atypical urticarias persist for longer than 24 hours, may be painful and bruised in appearance and accompanied with severe systemic symptoms. Conditions where prolonged weals are present include delayed pressure urticaria and urticarial vasculitis. These conditions do not respond well to antihistamine therapy. In delayed pressure urticaria, weals appear after a delay of hours at sites of sustained pressure on the skin and occur in association with ordinary chronic 'idiopathic' urticaria. Weals of urticarial vasculitis show histological features of venulitis, and can be accompanied by arthralgia and abdominal pain. Rarely, the condition is due to infective or autoimmune disease. Urticarial diseases, sometimes with features of urticarial vasculitis, and with associated systemic features include Schnitzler's Syndrome, Still's disease and Muckle-Wells syndrome. The latter syndrome is linked with chromosome 1q44, as is autosomal dominant cold urticaria, an unusual physical urticaria. Persistent cholinergic erythema, a variant of cholinergic urticaria, has been mistaken for a drug eruption or cutaneous mastocytosis. Rarely, food and exercise induced urticaria and anaphylaxis occur when exercise follows a specific food or any meal within a few hours. The early stages of inflammatory disease may be mistaken for urticaria and angioedema, but lesions usually persist for longer than 48 hours and are accompanied by epidermal changes.
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PMID:Unusual urticarias. 1177 Jul 21

The trivalent, cold-adapted influenza vaccine (CAIV-T, FluMist, Aviron, Mountain View, CA) is a live attenuated influenza virus vaccine that is administered by nasal spray. CAIV-T is efficacious in preventing influenza virus infection. The vaccine was submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for licensure in healthy children and adults. Universal immunization is being considered in children, and an effective vaccine with minimal adverse reactions is thus required. The published studies on the safety of CAIV-T in children reviewed in this article were clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted in children from 1975 to 1991, clinical trials from 1991 to 1993 sponsored by a cooperative agreement between NIH and Wyeth-Ayerst Research, and clinical trials from 1995 to the present sponsored by a cooperative agreement between NIH and Aviron. Safety assessments included the occurrence of: 1) specific influenza-like symptoms, unexpected symptoms, and use of medications within the first 10 days after vaccination; 2) acute illness and use of medication within 11 to 42 days postvaccination; 3) serious adverse events and rare events within 42 days after vaccination; 4) healthcare utilization within 14 days after vaccination; and 5) acute respiratory symptoms with annual sequential vaccine doses. CAIV-T was safe and well-tolerated. Transient, mild respiratory symptoms were observed in a minority (10%-15%) of children and primarily with the first CAIV-T dose. Vomiting and abdominal pain occurred in fewer than 2 percent of CAIV-T recipients. The gastrointestinal symptoms were mild and of short duration. An excess of illness or use of medication was not observed after the 10th day of vaccination. Sequential annual doses of CAIV-T were well-tolerated and not associated with increased reactogenicity. CAIV-T did not cause an increase in healthcare utilization. Thus CAIV-T is safe in healthy children and should complement the use of inactivated influenza vaccine, trivalent (IIV-T) in children with underlying chronic conditions.
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PMID:Safety of the trivalent, cold-adapted influenza vaccine (CAIV-T) in children. 1212 58

This double-blind randomised study compared the tolerability of ibuprofen (up to 1.2 g daily), aspirin and paracetamol (both up to 3 g daily) for up to seven days, in patients with mild to moderate pain resulting from cold/flu symptoms or sore throat (CF/ST) (n = 2,815). The main outcome was the rate of significant adverse events (SGAE). Rates of SGAE for ibuprofen, aspirin and paracetamol were respectively 12.0%, 15.7% and 12.3%. Ibuprofen was significantly better tolerated than aspirin (p = 0.02) and had comparable tolerability with paracetamol. The latter was also true for total digestive system events and for abdominal pain and dyspepsia. In conclusion, in patients with CF/ST, ibuprofen used at over-the-counter doses is as well tolerated as paracetamol and much better tolerated than aspirin.
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PMID:Tolerability of ibuprofen, aspirin and paracetamol for the treatment of cold and flu symptoms and sore throat pain. 1251 Sep 44

A healthy 17-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of left upper quadrant abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. Her hematocrit was 22. On physical examination, she had left upper quadrant fullness and tenderness. Initial computed tomography revealed a large, loculated, left-sided retroperitoneal hematoma. Blood pool scintigraphy with labeled red cells revealed a very large photon-deficient area with 3 areas of active bleeding in the upper margin of the cold area. An angiogram showed active extravasation from the left inferior phrenic artery. The patient was felt to have had spontaneous adrenal hemorrhage, likely within a preexisting, large adrenal cyst. Spontaneous hemorrhage into an adrenal cyst is a rare entity that can be life-threatening if not treated early in its course.
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PMID:Spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage localized by blood pool scintigraphy. 1473 6


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