[Benign histiocytosis: Rosai-Dorfman disease].

Background: Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD)) is a rare entity with pathological accumulation of specific, activated macrophages, mainly in cervical lymph nodes. However, in half of patients its primary presentation is extranodal. Its aetiology is unclear; several clues point in an immunological direction.

Treatment of the Budd-Chiari syndrome by insertion of a wall-stent in the hepatic vein after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty: the necessity of follow-up.

Budd-Chiari syndrome is a rare disease and, with or without treatment, the prognosis is usually poor. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the hepatic vein in Budd-Chiari syndrome is a safe method, although recurrent stenosis makes it necessary to repeat it several times in most cases. Insertion of a wall-stent in the hepatic vein seems to be a more long-lasting treatment.

Accuracy and reproducibility of 30 devices for self-measurement of arterial blood pressure.

Thirty commercially available noninvasive devices for self-measurement of blood pressure were tested for accuracy and reproducibility against intraarterial measurement in 15 normotensive and 15 hypertensive subjects. For reference to outpatient measurements, a standard sphygmomanometer was included. Analysis of the data for any device was performed according to a statistical model in which two types of errors, representing accuracy and reproducibility, were distinguished: offset (mean difference between intraarterial measurement and device) and standard deviation (comprising intraindividual and interindividual variability).

Microinjection of substance P and ACh into rat intermediolateral nucleus elicits cardiovascular responses.

The effects of substance P (SP) or acetylcholine (ACh) microinjected into the intermediolateral nucleus of the spinal cord (IMLn) on arterial pressure (AP) and heart rate (HR) were investigated in 22 male Wistar rats under urethan and artificial ventilation. L-Glutamate (Glu) was microinjected into the IMLn between C7 and T4 to locate cardiovascular sites. Micropipettes containing Glu were stereotaxically positioned in 82 histologically verified sites in the IMLn between C7 and T4 on both the right and left sides.