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It is reported on 20 patients (17 women, 3 men) who had undergone a bicycle-ergometric load in the acute phase of virus hepatitis (an average at the 16th day after admission to hospital). Among the significant changes of the activity the slight increase of SGPT 30 minutes after the end of the load as well as the clear decrease of the enzyme activities of SGPT and SGOT below the initial value 48 hours after load are particularly to be emphasized. LDH and CPK exhibited only insignificant changes of activity. It remains open to what extent there exists a connection between the ECG-changes proved in about half the women and the virus hepatitis as a cyclic infectious disease. In the 20 patients examined a clinically recognizable deterioration in the course of the disease by the load examination did not appear.
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PMID:[Bicycle ergometric testing in the acute phase of liver disease with particular reference to changes in serum enzymes]. 52 40

The effect of ip administrated aflatoxin B1 and rubratoxin B, singly and in combination, on dogs was determined by serum tests, by observations of clinical signs and survival times, and by evaluation of gross and microscopic lesions. The dog is sensitive to the toxic effects of both mycotoxins. Glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, lactic dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase activities and survival time varied in relation to dose and to the mycotoxin(s) administered. All three plasma enzymes were elevated regardless of dose with the combination of aflatoxin B1/rubratoxin B at 24 hr after dosing, except LDH, which was within the normal range but only at the lowest dose level. Several serum constituents including BUN, cholesterol, uric acid, and total bilirubin were elevated, whereas serum glucose was depressed in dogs treated with the multiple-toxin regimen; these changes were not seen in dogs given only aflatoxin B1 but were characteristic in rubratoxin-treated animals. In general, gross findings at necropsy were similar in all dogs regardless of the dose regimen. A striking similarity existed in the histologic changes observed between lesions experimentally induced by the mycotoxin combination and those lesions reported for dogs fed toxic feed in laboratory studies or in natural cases of hepatitis X. Of particular similarity were the severe kidney lesions observed in dogs exposed to the mycotoxin combination and kidney lesions reported in natural outbreaks of hepatitis X. There can be little doubt of an association between hepatitis X and aflatoxin B1, although it is apparent that the disease probably involves more than a single toxic factor. Our results suggest that hepatitis X in dogs includes aflatoxin B1 as a primary etiological factor but that rubratoxin B also may be involved.
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PMID:Acute toxicity of aflatoxin B1 and rubratoxin B in dogs. 58 96

In 50 patients with different liver diseases (20 with subsided viral hepatitis and 30 with degenerative liver damages) the serum enzyme course of SGOT, SGPT, LDH and CPK was investigated after ergometer load. The enzymes were estimated before as well as 1/2, 2, 4, 24, and 48 hours after load. 48 hours after load additionally the liver biopsy after Menghini was carried out. According to the histological findings the 20 patients with viral hepatitis were subdivided into 13 with still active and 7 with residual hepatitis as well as the 30 patients with degenerative liver damages into 15 with toxical hepatosis, 6 with fatty degeneration of the liver cells and 9 with signs of metabolic activation. Since the significant increases of enzymes could not be proved in any of the fours enzymes 1/2 to 48 hours after load we are of the opinion that the liver, independent on the kind of the lesion, better tolerates physical work. Moreover, it seems that load investigations under ergometry with estimation of the course of the serum enzymes are unsuited for the judgment of the degree of activity and the degree of cure of liver diseases, respectively.
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PMID:[Physical capacity of patients with liver diseases as well as its significance for therapy and evaluation]. 66 3

A 16-year-old girl with myocarditis and hepatitis in the course of mycoplasma pneumoniae infection was reported. She had fever and coughed for ten days prior to admission. At the time of admission infiltrations of the left lower lung field were revealed on the chest X-ray films. The ESR was elevated and CRP+6. There were no leukocytosis and anemia, but S-GOT, S-GPT and LDH were moderately increased. On the 11th day of admission VPC in bigeminy appeared and the third sound was heard. Subsequently biphastic and inverted T waves in leads V2 and V3 and flattening of T waves in leads II and aVF appeared. At the same time, the cardiac shadow was enlarged. Antibody titer to mycoplasma pneumoniae increased to more than 1:640 two weeks after admission and then it decreased gradually. The cold agglutinin test was 1:64 on the 8th day of the disease and then it became normal. ASO, antibodies to DNA and immunoglobulins were normal; ANA, Coombs test and LE test were negative. The abnormal ECG-findings were normalized three months later.
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PMID:A case of myocarditis caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. 74 5

By the determination of the aldolase, GOT and LDH isoenzymes in the plasma the stage of the acute and chronic hepatitis can be well established. The suitable use of modern statistic methods (multivariate analysis) allows the characterisation, recognition and separation of the groups of disease acute, chronic persisting, chronic aggressive hepatitis and liver cirrhosis as well as the proof of transition forms and severe courses. In acute hepatitides with protracted course under prednisolone therapy in contrast to histology already after a short time changes of the isoenzymes in the hepatic tissue and in the plasma are shown. Apparently the isoenzymes are sensitive indicators of intracellular metabolic processes.
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PMID:[Significance of isoenzymes in acute hepatitis and differential diagnosis of chronic forms of hepatitis]. 85 91

100 patients who got over a virus hepatitis underwent a bicycle ergometry. At the beginning and at the end of the experiment as well as 24 hours after this the isoenzymes of aldolase, GOT and LDH in the plasma were determined by means of kinetic methods. On the basis of the activities of the isoenzymes for the test persons (children and adults of either sex) an arrangement in the groups pathologic--suspicious--normal can be carried out which is compared with the physiologic parameters and the clinic. The results of bicycle ergometry much differ. High effects without pathological changes of the activities of isoenzymes are an objective criterion of the quick, riskless rehabilitation of the test persons.
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PMID:[Significance of isoenzymes for the prognostic evaluation of acute hepatitis--studies under load]. 85 92

A laboratory method for the indirect detection of hepatitis-B antigen (HB8Ag) based on the presence of 'anomalous' LDH isoenzyme by disc electrophoresis has been developed. The method is specific and highly sensitive when compared with existing methods.
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PMID:New laboratory method to detect hepatitis-B (Australia) antigen based on 'anomalous' lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme. 93 67

The induction of hepatitis in adult hamster by H-1 virus was documented by demonstrating an increase in serum SGOT and SGPT at 3-9 wk postinoculation. The electrophoresis pattern of LDH isoenzymes showed a marked increase in the liver fraction (fraction 5) indicating liver damage in infected hamsters. The pathology displayed in diseased livers revealed a focal degeneration of hepatic cells although infiltration of white cells was not observed. H-1 virus is apparently capable of producing hepatitis (without symptoms) in adult hamsters as well as cause hepatitis and severe cerebral disease in newborn hamsters.
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PMID:Induction of hepatitis in adult Syrian hamster by H-1 virus. 114 33

Triggered by a case of ischaemic hepatitis (shock liver) in a patient with severe respiratory insufficiency, we tried to gather information about clinical characteristics and incidence. To our surprise, this information could be found neither in major critical care, medical or gastroenterology textbooks nor in textbook indices or works on differential diagnosis. From Sept. 1989 to May 1990 we studied all possible cases of ischaemic hepatitis in a 390 bed general hospital, to establish incidence. Using computerised data from the clinical chemistry laboratory, all patients with grossly abnormal liver function tests were identified. In this nine-month period 27 adult patients had a peak ALAT level of > 500 U/l: 8 of these suffered from ischaemic hepatitis, using the criteria described by Gibson et al. In another 5 this diagnosis was suspected but could not be ascertained before death (30% and 18% of all cases). In all these cases ASAT, ALAT, LDH levels were 8-100 times normal, but bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl transferase and prothrombin time were only slightly abnormal. With correction of the underlying disorder enzyme levels returned to normal very rapidly, in 5-10 days. Ischaemic hepatitis could easily be distinguished from other causes such as alcoholic, viral or drug-induced hepatitis. Ischaemic hepatitis was the most frequent cause of severely elevated ASAT, ALAT and LDH in hospitalised patients. The diagnosis can easily be made on clinical characteristics and the typical biochemical pattern. An elaborate work-up or invasive procedure is redundant. Prognosis per se is excellent but depends on the underlying disorder.
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PMID:[Ischemic hepatitis]. 140 10

An experimental model of toxic liver injury in rats was employed to assay the effect of Nifedipine (a calcium antagonist blocker) and S-Adenosylmethionine (a precursor of glutathione). An important decrease in both perivenular fibrosis and cirrhosis was found. Furthermore, a significant decrease in lactic acid levels was found in the group of animals treated with pharmacologic therapy, although no correlation was seen between lactic acid levels and the different degrees of perivenular fibrosis. No significant variations in ALT and AST enzymes were observed between both groups, as opposed to a significant decrease in LDH enzyme in the Nifedipine+S-Adenosylmethionine group. The results indicate an improvement in the histologic picture of the liver in rats treated by means of pharmacological association, without any change in inflammatory infiltrate and with a slight decrease in necrosis, indicating an action mechanism via creeping fibrosis (instead of a hepatitis pathway).
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PMID:Effect of nifedipine and S-adenosylmethionine in the liver of rats treated with CCl4 and ethanol for one month. 151 99


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