Can magnesium sulfate reduce the risk of cerebral injury after perinatal asphyxia?

Hypoxia-ischemia produces brain damage by processes that continue for many hours after reoxygenation/reperfusion. This provides a window of opportunity for therapy aimed at preventing further loss of brain cells. Sulfate magnesium can prevent posthypoxic brain injury by blocking glutamate receptors within the calcium (Ca++) ion channel.

[Combined therapy of multiple myeloma: cytostatics and plasmapheresis].

In 11 patients with III A stage multiple myeloma in every week before new course of cytostatics started, three times plasmapheresis therapy had been performed. There was no difference in reducing of plasma cell mass, plasma immunoglobulins concentration and proteinuria or disappearance of osteolytic bone lesions between the group of patients treated with combination chemotherapy and plasmapheresis and chemotherapy alone. However there was visible disparity in the disappearance of bony pains: rapidly in the plasmapheresis group.

[Use of vincristine-loaded blood platelets, danazol and gamma globulin in the treatment of patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura].

In 17 patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura unresponsive to treatment with steroids, immunosuppression or splenectomy, allogenic vincristine-loaded platelets were used. In 9 of them an increase of platelet number and regression of bleeding tendency was achieved. Among 13 patients with ITP who have been treated with danazol only in one case an increase of platelet number was observed.