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The aim of this pilot case-control study was to measure nitric oxide (NO) gas in air incubated in a catheter balloon in the uterus of healthy women and patients with pelvic inflammatory disease, to determine the optimal time of incubation and to find whether NO level rises after manipulation in the uterine cavity. We measured nitric oxide levels in air incubated for 2-10 min in a catheter balloon in the uterine cavity in 6 non pregnant women from 22 to 50 years of age with lower abdominal pain and 10 healthy women with regular menstrual cycles. After an incubation time of just 2 min, intrauterine nitric oxide levels were significantly increased in patients with diagnosed pelvic inflammatory disease compared to healthy women. Uterine nitric oxide levels did not rise after manipulation in the uterine cavity. In conclusion, NO gas can be measured directly in the uterine cavity with a fast, simple, well-tolerated and safe method. The levels of nitric oxide are increased in women diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease already after an incubation time of 2 min.
Nitric Oxide 2011 May 31
PMID:Measurement of luminal nitric oxide in the uterine cavity using a silicon balloon catheter. 2153 Jun 71

A 5-year-old girl presented with acute nocturnal episodes of loss of consciousness following abdominal pain and crying. Epilepsy was primarily diagnosed but the course of the disease was suggestive of pulmonary hypertension. An adapted invasive assessment of pulmonary pressure and pharmacological challenge allowed for diagnosing vasoreactive pulmonary arterial hypertension. Initial treatment with sildenafil was not effective. Thus, calcium channel blockers were introduced when positive vasoreactivity was confirmed and permitted to stop the occurrence of the syncope and dramatically improved clinical status. At 2 years follow-up she is well without any complaint and in functional class I. Echocardiography shows a slightly enlarged but not hypertrophied right ventricle with a nearly normalized estimated right ventricular pressure. The last catheterization shows subnormal values of pulmonary arterial pressure (mean pulmonary artery pressure: 24 mmHg) and pulmonary vascular resistance (5, 4 Wood units*m2), normalizing with inhaled Nitric Oxide (mean pulmonary artery pressure of 14 mmHg and pulmonary vascular resistance of 1.5 Wood units*m2). Vasoreactive pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare entity in children but it should not be misdiagnosed with seizures due to the presence of syncopal episodes. According to current knowledge, this form seems to have a better prognosis than non-reactive pulmonary arterial hypertension and the treatment of choice remains as calcium channel blockers. The management of this case was characterized by successive mishaps and potentially harmful mistakes and underscores the potential risk with pediatric PH evaluation in non-expert centers.
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PMID:Vasoreactive Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Manifesting With Misleading Epileptic Seizure: Diagnostic and Treatment Pitfalls. 3133 8