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A 40-year-old man with a 3-year history of uncontrolled NIDDM, 2-pack/month cigarette smoking habit and alcohol abuse, was admitted to our university hospital. He presented with severe back pain, persistent cough and fever. A left lung infiltrate was noted on chest X-ray film. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from arterial blood. Thoracic bone destruction with pleural mass lesion confirmed by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance image (MRI). These findings mislead our diagnosis to pyogenic osteomyelitis associated with NIDDM. An absence of marked clinical and roentgenological improvement after antibiotic therapy and strict glycemic control with insulin was noted. This suggested to us the need for needle biopsy of the osteolytic and mass lesions confirmed by imaging techniques. This resulted in making the diagnosis of metastasis of small cell carcinoma from the left lung. The correlation between NIDDM and pulmonary small cell carcinoma possibly induced by genetic abnormality remains to be resolved. By making the most of imaging techniques and needle biopsy, the possibility of pulmonary small cell carcinoma complicating NIDDM can be appropriately evaluated.
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PMID:Vertebral bone metastasis of small cell carcinoma of lung in a diabetic patient, initially diagnosed as pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis. 807 45

Bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus type 2 are often found among adult patients. However, coincidence of these two diseases is very rare. The aim of the study was the retrospective analysis of all patients with bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus type 2 hospitalised in Department and Clinic of Internal Diseases and Allergology in Zabrze, Silesian School of Medicine in Katowice in 1988-1997. Diabetes mellitus type 2 was diagnosed according to WHO criteria of 1985 and bronchial asthma was diagnosed with the use of American Thoracic Society criteria. Bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus type 2 occurring together were found in 18 patients (0.3% of all hospitalized patients). In most patients the symptoms of bronchial asthma preceded the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus by a few years. All these cases were heterogeneous in terms of the duration of the diseases, clinical picture, and therapeutical approaches. In patients with bronchial asthma the existence of diabetes mellitus type 2 was not related to use of glikocorticosteroids. Patients in whom the coexistence of bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus type 2 was found should be subjects of further studies to extend our knowledge of patomechanism of these diseases.
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PMID:[Coexistence of bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus type 2--retrospective analysis]. 1059 27

BACKGROUND: The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system plays an important role in the development and progression of hypertension and accelerated atherosclerosis (atheroscleropathy) associated with the cardiorenal metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Additionally, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system plays an important role in vascular-endothelial-intimal cellular and extracellular remodeling. METHODS: Thoracic aortas of young male transgenic heterozygous (mRen2)27 (Ren2) rats were utilized for this ultrastructural study. This lean model of hypertension, insulin resistance and oxidative stress harbors the mouse renin gene with increased local tissue (aortic) levels of angiotensin II and angiotensin type 1 receptors and elevated plasma aldosterone levels. RESULTS: The ultrastructural observations included marked endothelial cell retraction, separation, terminal nuclear lifting, adjacent duplication, apoptosis and a suggestion of endothelial progenitor cell attachment. The endothelium demonstrated increased caveolae, microparticles, depletion of Weibel-Palade bodies, loss of cell-cell and basal adhesion hemidesmosome-like structures, platelet adhesion and genesis of subendothelial neointima. CONCLUSION: These observational ultrastructural studies of the transgenic Ren2 vasculature provide an in-depth evaluation of early abnormal remodeling changes within conduit-elastic arteries under conditions of increased local levels of angiotensin II, oxidative stress, insulin resistance and hypertension.
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PMID:Ultrastructure Study of Transgenic Ren2 Rat Aorta - Part 1: Endothelium and Intima. 2249 5