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In nocturnal enuresis, motivational therapy, alarm therapy, and drug therapy, such as anticholinergics, imipramine, and sertraline, are the mainstay of treatment. In the present study, we used motivational therapy, oxybutynin, and propranolol in children with primary nocturnal enuresis to determine if propranolol is an effective treatment. Fifty-two children with primary nocturnal enuresis were included in the study. Firstly, motivational therapy was given for 1 month to all patients. Patients who failed the motivational therapy were randomly given oxybutynin or propranolol. The patients were re-evaluated after 1 month of drug therapy. There was not a significant difference between oxybutynin and propranolol groups for initial frequency of nocturnal enuresis ( p > 0.05). Of 52 patients, 28 (53.8%) patients improved by motivational therapy. There were 14 patients in the oxybutynin group. One patient was excluded from the study because facial flushing and mouth drying developed in the first week of oxybutynin therapy. In oxybutynin group, 12 of 13 (92.3%) patients improved. There were 10 patients in the propranolol group. In the propranolol group, while nine (90%) patients did not improve, one patient had significant remission (90%, p < 0.001). No significant adverse reaction was noted during propranolol therapy. There was no significant difference between oxybutynin and propranolol groups for initial frequency of nocturnal enuresis (p > 0.05). A significant difference was found between the groups for the remission of nocturnal enuresis ( p < 0.001). Our findings showed that motivational therapy is the first line treatment in primary nocturnal enuresis, and oxybutynin but not propranolol is effective in patients who failed with the motivational therapy.
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PMID:Use of propranolol in children with primary nocturnal enuresis. 3079 96

Mechanisms of cortical psychoses are approached by complementing big data-driven genetics and imaging with a putatively subverted neurovascular "reverse plumbing" by arteries. The "cortical spread" of grey matter loss in schizophrenia and the mid-pericallosal "congestion" in fMRI of periodic catatonia - treatable electromagnetically along arteries - are interpreted in terms of the fastest interstitial outflow through the Cerebral IntraMural Reverse Arterial Flow-engine (CIMURAF, Treviranus 2018-19) draining "waste" via arterio-adventitial lymphatics to the neck. Such repetitively sliding segments of CIMURAF are wrung downstream by muscles likely steered by the neurovascular pterygopalatine ganglion. At the pericallosal artery, along its ideal long straight segment, this likely happens diverging from the mid-callosum towards the front and the back. In the case of a convergent inversion a mid-callosal clash will result, which is observable in psychoses as a mid-callosal high-flow-spot simultaneously with hyper-perfusions of branches and "backwatering" of pial vessels with reactive waste - till date interpreted psycho-mathematically. CIMURAF might also accelerate the perivascular intrusion of MCs by flushing autocrine signals (of which electro-magnetism moves the dipoles) through a putative periadventitial counter-current. Psychoses plausible occur through tryptase-mediated attacks operated by mast cells against oligodendrocytes' cytoskeleton (Medic 2009) and probably via complement-4 (Schizophrenia WG, 2014) against neurons. Usually MCs are essential long-lived "orchestrators" of homeostases and immune or barrier defences interacting with nerves, immunocytes, organs, and routes. MCs after somatic programming as to "destination & destiny" (Treviranus 2017a, 6.2., 2018) rapidly intrude also into the brain's parenchyma, first within the lymphatics and then putatively by crossing-over to extraluminal arterial routes. MCs transverse the BBBs, while macrophages only trespass in "disease" (Faraco et al. 2017). Both can be "subverted" by a list of microbes (and putatively blown up by COVID-19 within walls). Enuresis and MCs' reactions to clozapine add to the interactive support from (epi-)genetics and imaging.
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PMID:Psychoses by Attacks from Subverted Mast Cells: A Role for Arterial Intramural Flow Badly Steered by the Nasal Ganglia? 3289 Mar 71