A Fatal Case of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome After Paralytic Bowel in a Patient Taking Antiparkinson Medication.

Objectives: We report a fatal case of neuroleptic malignant-like syndrome, which occurred as a consequence of paralytic bowel in a 72-year-old woman on treatment with antiparkinson medication.

Case Description: Contrast enhanced computerized tomography of the chest and abdomen demonstrated the presence of paralytic bowel.

Results: The patient died.

Blood pressure at rest, during 24 h monitoring and in response to sympathetic stimulation in hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome.

Objective: As subjects with metabolic syndrome have an increased sympathetic activity regardless of the presence of arterial hypertension, this study aimed at evaluating in hypertensives whether this condition has repercussions on differences in resting, ambulatory and under sympathetic stimulation blood pressure levels.

Methods: Blood pressure (BP) was measured at rest and in response to isometric exercise and cold pressure test by zero-random sphygmomanometer. Moreover 24 h BP monitoring was performed by using Spacelabs 90207.

Association between vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and fasting idiopathic hypercalciuria in recurrent stone-forming patients.

Objectives: To investigate the association between fasting idiopathic hypercalciuria (IHc), defined as IHc in the fasting state associated with normal parathyroid function, and ApaI, BsmI, and FokI polymorphisms of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene in 159 hypercalciuric recurrent stone formers. IHc contributes to the formation of calcium kidney stones in more than one half of reported cases.

Methods: We examined 62 patients with fasting IHc (24 women, mean age 42.