Impedanciometry

Voltage-activated sodium channels play a primary role during ischemic brain edema and thus are a pharmacological target for therapy. Lidocaine, a sodium channel blocker, was tested in male Sprague-Dawley rats anesthetized with thiobarbital (60 mg·kg(-1) i.p.) and perfused i.v. with Ringer's solution (n = 9) or lidocaine (0.75 mg·kg(-1), n = 9, or 1.5 mg·kg(-1), n = 6). Two tungsten microelectrodes were implanted in the cerebral cortex to register changes in tissue impedance in response to the voltage fall of a square wave electric pulse (100 μA, 10 ms), before and after infusion of lidocaine or Ringer's solution and during global cerebral ischemia due to a respiratory arrest induced by D-tubocurarine...

It is well known that chronic treatment with lithium gives cytoprotection from ischemia and neurodegeneration. Despite the clinical relevance, the potential effects of acute lithium treatment just before and during early stages of ischemia are not well known. Brain impedance was measured in an experimental global ischemia model, to determine these potential effects and their time course,as measured in minutes. Thiobarbital anesthetized (60 mg·kg(-1), intraperitoneal injection) male Sprague-Dawley rats were infused intravenously (i...

Weight loss and malnutrition related mainly to lean mass loss can develop in advanced stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and are a clear indication of phenotypic heterogeneity. The presence of weight loss and malnutrition is associated with a worse prognosis, independently of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1)). The most widely accepted thresholds for risk are 21 for the body mass index (BMI) and 17 and 14 for men and women, respectively, for the fat-free mass index (FFMI). The coexistence of both defines a situation of greater nutritional risk (cachexia)...

In Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2008, important data were presented on the natural history, diagnosis and treatment of both gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and Barrett's esophagus. Contributions to diagnosis consisted of the importance of critical analysis of symptom profile in clinical practice and consolidation of impedanciometry as a diagnostic technique in GERD. Treatment highlights consisted of new data on the safety and utility of radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of high- and low-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus...

Otospongiosis is an osteodystrophy of the temporal bone, characterized by disordered neoformation and deposition of bone, characterized by the presence of a progressive conductive, sensorineural or mixed hearing loss and tinnitus. Typically, otospongiosis presents as a slowly progressive conductive hearing loss in the third to fourth decade of life. Uncommonly children and adolescents may also have conductive or sensorineural hearing loss caused by otosclerosis. We describe a case of an 11-year-old patient, with progressive unilateral conductive hearing loss for 5 years...

AIM: Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) can monitor diabetics suffering from the frequently occurring state of hyperglycemia, as this can cause alterations in the water distribution in the body. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between the composition of the body and the diabetic disease during decompensation through the impedanciometric analysis in diabetic patients of type 1 and type 2 and to understand the possible alterations of water distribution...

BACKGROUND: Small for gestational age (SGA) has been associated with decreased insulin sensitivity (IS). A possible mechanism is the postnatal development of a metabolically disadvantageous body composition (BC). AIM: To determine whether there are differences between IS and BC in girls in early puberty who were SGA (birth weight < 10th percentile) or appropriate for gestational age (AGA, 10th-90th percentile). METHODS: Age-matched (SGA/AGA) early pubertal girls (Tanner II) were recruited from local schools...

OBJECTIVE: Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine with potential atherogenic properties whose role in human obesity has been recently suggested. The aim of our study was to analyze the physiologic distribution of IL-18 among sexes and all decades of the adult life in a healthy population randomly selected and to study its relationship with anthropometric, body composition measurements and leptin concentrations. We also studied the relationship of IL-18 with smoking and arterial hypertension, known risk factors implicated in atherogenesis...

The function of respiratory muscles, and mainly inspiratory muscles, is impaired in COPD patients. Most of these impairments are essentially due to pulmonary hyperinflation that puts these muscles in a disadvantageous situation. The main consequence of this dysfunction is respiratory muscle fatigue that may cause shortness of breath, exertion intolerance, and hypoventilation with onset of hypercapnic respiratory failure. This function may be measured at the pulmonary function laboratory by means of unspecific (spirometry, pulmonary volumes) or specific tests (maxim respiratory pressures [MIP - M], transdiaphragmatic pressure, tension-time index of the diaphragm, electromyography, or endura tests)...

In coordination with the Paediatrics Department, we drew up a protocol for the "Early Detection of Hearing Loss in High-Risk Neonates" based fundamentally on the sequential application of impedanciometry and the Auditory Brain Stem Response (ABR). These are the results obtained from October 1994 to March 2001. Of the 240 children examined, we found 36 cases (15%) of severe-to-profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (> 60 dBs HL). 55% was associated with risk factors. However, we diagnosed only 2 of these cases of hearing loss (5...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Deficiency of growth hormone (GH) in the adult is accompanied by changes in the body composition and a diminished health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). The aim of the study was to assess the biochemical response to GH replacement therapy and its safety as well as the resulting body composition and HR-QoL. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred sixty-five patients with hypopituitarism and GH deficiency were studied. A double-blind,randomized, placebo-controlled, 6-months study was first designed,then followed by a further 6-months period in which all patients received GH...

The present work describes the first case of HIV infected patient admitted to nutritional therapy in a multidisciplinary Nutritional Support Unit in Perú, and is the first of this type published in Perú. We show the case of a teen-ager patient with severe gastrointestinal and nutritional alterations as a complication of HIV infection, who required parenteral total nutrition for 21 days. During this treatment period we did not observe any complication as result of nutritional intervention; on the contrary, we observed a great clinical improvement and an adecuated nutritional response trough the most recognized biochemical parameters and using Body composition by Impedanciometry, a new technic for our country...

The target of this paper is to evaluate the importance of Impedanciometry in a protocol with transient evoked otoacoustic emissions on high risk infant hearing screening. We used tympanometry and stapedious reflex only when otoacoustic emissions became altered. This method try to decrease the impact in this test caused for middle ear diseases. We realized an Impedanciometry study in all children with abnormal otoacoustic responses and then, we obtained normal otoacoustic responses when tympanometry normalize...

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