A Case of Sudden Shock during Caesarean Section in whi ch Amniotic Fluid Embolism is Suspected.

We report a case of sudden shock during caesarean section under combined spinal epidural anesthesia. The patient was a 29-year-old woman. During the operation vital signs had been almost stable until a female-baby was born.

[Anesthetic Management of Two Patients with Chilaiditi Syndrome].

Chilaiditi syndrome is assosiated with hepatodiaphragmatic interposition of the colon and the small intestines. We anesthetized 2 patients with Chilaiditi syndrome. A 62-year-old woman with interposition of the intestine was scheduled for right femoral fibrosarcoma resection.

[Present situation of labor analgesia in the Kagoshima City Hospital].

At the Kagoshima City Hospital, the epidural labor analgesia is not given by anesthesiologists. Education of the pregnant woman as well as medical staff and the sufficint manpower are necessary. Furthermore, satisfactory cooperation between obstetricians and anesthesiologists together with the maternity ward increases the safety of epidural labor analgesia.

Novel mRNA molecules are induced in hypertrophied ventricles of carnitine-deficient mice and belong to a family of up-regulated gene in cells overexpressing c-erbB-2.

To clarify the pathogenesis of cardiac hypertrophy in carnitine-deficient juvenile visceral steatosis (JVS) mice, we performed differential mRNA display analysis with the ventricles of control and JVS mice. We found a novel up-regulated gene, designated as carnitine deficiency-associated gene expressed in ventricle (CDV)-3. Northern blot analysis with a cDNA probe derived from the novel gene revealed two substantial mRNA species of prominent 4.