{"title":"[Aerosol generation and delivery systems for pulmonary drug administration: theory and practice].","authors":"M T Newhouse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years aerosol therapy has become increasingly important for the management of asthma and COPD as well as for the treatment of airway and parenchymal infections in bronchiectasis and in AIDS patients with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. In the management of asthma inhaled steroids have become the mainstay of therapy in adults and children while bronchodilators have been relegated to a secondary role. While there has long been considerable controversy about the best way to generate and deliver aerosols, it has become evident that metered dose inhalers (MDI) and their increasingly sophisticated valved accessory devices are the most efficient, versatile and cost effective aerosol systems for the majority of patients in the adult and paediatric age group. By contrast, nebulizers are inefficient and costly and powder inhalers, while providing aerosol on inhalation, have major limitations in the paediatric age group, in less cooperative or handicapped patients and in those in emergency departments or on assisted ventilation. Recent studies have demonstrated that even in life-threatening asthma, MDI generated aerosols delivered by means of valved holding chambers are better suited to managing the acute episode because of the improved speed of administration and lower cost. Developments in aerosol therapy are likely to remain in the forefront of the management of a variety of airway and pulmonary parenchymal diseases as new and improved pharmaceutical agents and aerosol delivery systems are developed.</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 8","pages":"363-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19364153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Tuberculosis--a forgotten disease?].","authors":"O Wieser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistics show that half of the world population are infected by mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, in third-world countries with the highest mortality rates no statistics are available. In the industrialised countries AIDS leads to a new spread of tbc, particularly with mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOT). Epidemiology, modes of infection, bacteriology, pathology, diagnostics, standards and therapy in selected cases (MOT) are surveyed. This seems necessary from a statistic point of view a general practitioner is contacted only every 5th-12th year by a patient suffering by tuberculosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 8","pages":"392-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19365416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The basic regulation of personal medical care].","authors":"M Broglie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 8","pages":"406-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19365420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[77-year-old otherwise healthy colleague, suffers from eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulmann syndrome)].","authors":"W Keitel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 8","pages":"411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19365422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Obliterating diabetic microangiopathy of the diabetic foot--reality or false conclusion?].","authors":"E Chantelau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Occlusive diabetic microangiopathy like diabetic retinopathy and diabetic nephropathy has not been confirmed unequivocally in the diabetic foot. Non-occlusive disturbances, such as impaired vasomotion due to diabetic neuropathy, have been documented in the diabetic foot. Their clinical relevance, however, remains to be established. Recent reports have shown that the histopathological picture of diabetic gangrene is associated with septic vasculitis rather than diabetic microangiopathy. The assumption that diabetic gangrene in the presence of palpable foot pulses is due to occlusive microangiopathy and thus can be treated only by major amputation, appears to be unfounded.</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 8","pages":"376-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19365414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Value of thrombolytic therapy in deep venous thrombosis].","authors":"T Wagner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thrombolytic therapy in a large number of patients may prevent post-thrombotic symptoms occurring as late consequences of deep vein thrombosis. In clinical studies, streptokinase either in conventional low dose, longterm, intravenous or in repeated intravenous short term ultra high dose regimens, urokinase and recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activators: all these plasminogen activators have been confirmed to successfully restore the patency of veins. As deep vein thrombosis generally extends over longer distances and are mostly older before being diagnosed, a lysing period of a couple of days must be taken into account. On the other hand, deep vein thromboses aged more than 2 weeks generally are no longer amenable to thrombolytic treatment. Due to their lack of short-term and long-term hazards, thromboses of the arms and the lower legs are not regarded an ideal indication for thrombolysis. Up to now, none of the currently available plasminogen activators has demonstrated superiority over the others, neither in respect of efficacy nor safety. With streptokinase intermittent intravenous ultra-high doses success rates of up to 80% (complete plus partial recanalization) can be achieved within a three-day treatment period. For its accompanying increased hazard of fatal pulmonary embolism, however, it is considered to be contraindicated in patients with pelvine thrombosis. Furthermore, contraindications to streptokinase such as streptococcal infections and prior lysis with streptokinase should always be kept in mind. In these cases streptokinase may be substituted by rt-PA, which, however, in the indication of deep vein thrombosis, is still not well documented today.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 6-7","pages":"324-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19320538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Coronary reocclusion--an unsolved problem in thrombolytic therapy of acute myocardial infarct].","authors":"K Huber","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main problem after originally successful thrombolytic reperfusion is early thrombotic reocclusion which occurs in up to 20% despite adequate anticoagulant therapy. Early rethrombosis can be attributed to a permanent procoagulatory state caused by residual stenosis, residual thrombosis, by a \"paradoxical\" procoagulatory effect of the thrombolytic agents used, and by the existence of systemic thrombogenic risk factors. Thereby, most important mechanisms of rethrombosis are generation, exposition and activation of thrombin and a thrombin-induced increase in platelet aggregability. Up to now, therapeutic measures have not proved useful (early balloon angioplasty, prolonged t-PA infusion), have not been effective enough (platelet inhibition with aspirin, anticoagulation with heparin), or are not entirely investigated (combination therapy of fibrin-specific with non-specific thrombolytic agents, use of t-PA mutants with prolonged biological efficacy). As far as thrombin plays the key role in the process of rethrombosis, it is believed that the use of specific and highly active thrombin inhibitors, e.g. hirudin, might mostly be appropriate in solving the problem of \"reocclusion\".</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 6-7","pages":"316-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19320539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Thrombolysis -- past, present, and future].","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 6-7","pages":"267-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19319307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Possibilities and limits of local intra-arterial fibrinolysis in thromboembolic vascular occlusions of the central nervous system].","authors":"F Brassel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is now possible with the help of microcatheters to superselectivity catheterize the cerebral vessels right up to the point of thromboembolic vascular occlusion. Short acting fibrinolytic agents such as urokinase and rt-PA are ideally suited for local intraarterial fibrinolysis (LIF) of thromboembolism in cerebral arteries. Despite high dosages (1,000,000-2,000,000 I.U. urokinase/hr), the risk of symptomatic haemorrhage is relatively low if therapy is started within 4-5 hours of the onset of symptoms and is administered only for a short time (1-2 hrs). To reduce the high mortality rate in patients with thromboembolic occlusion in the vertebrobasilar territory, LIF is the treatment of choice. If therapy is promptly started within 4-5 hours of the clinical onset of symptoms, a favourable clinical course may result even in patients with internal carotid artery or middle cerebral artery occlusions. However, further studies are required to optimize the treatment strategy in the latter group of patients. Results of studies to date have shown that the immediate intraarterial fibrinolysis of the acutely occluded central retinal artery is by far superior to conservative therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 6-7","pages":"351-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19320542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Value of thrombolytic therapy in childhood].","authors":"M Wilken","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indications for fibrinolytic therapy in infants and young children differ significantly from those in adults. In preterm and newborn infants, it is mostly the catheter-associated thrombosis following catheterisation of the umbilical artery or vein that requires fibrinolytic therapy. In young children the main indication is arterial thrombosis after cardiac catheterisation. Based on the current literature and our own experience guidelines as well as recommendations for dosages are given for systemic and local therapy with streptokinase, urokinase and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator.</p>","PeriodicalId":23901,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete","volume":"48 6-7","pages":"356-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19320545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}