Arylsulfatase A in urine of patients with urothelial tumors.

A significant increase in urine arylsulfatase A activity (p less than 0.01) was found in patients with urothelial tumors. Arylsulfatase A activity was 1.

[Hypertensive crisis. Clinical and therapeutic study of 130 cases (author's transl)].

The clinical aspects and response to therapy of 130 hypertensive emergencies are reviewed in this report. According to the main features of the clinical picture, the patients were divided into neurologic, cardiac or mixed emergencies. The patients were evaluated with clinical examination, fundoscopy, routine biochemistry, ECG, and chest radiograms.

[Low dose clofibrate in the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia in hemodialysis patients (author's transl)].

Sixteen patients on regular hemodialysis were treated with clofibrate, 500 mg three times a week for six weeks. A sustained and significant reduction of serum triglycerides occurred in thirteen patients. Serum cholesterol was also significantly reduced, although to a lesser degree.

A fixed combination of hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride for the treatment of essential hypertension.

The combination of hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride has been used in a group of patients diagnosed as having essential hypertension. Sixty-five percent of the patients for whom dietary restrictions did not achieve a reduction in blood pressure were initially controlled with this combination; the addition of a second or third drug was required by the remaining patients. During the six-month follow-up, the control of blood pressure was satisfactory with increased drug requirements, but the diuretic had to be discontinued in 12 patients because of side effects.