The ability of fluconazole to penetrate into ventilated, healthy and inflamed lung tissue in a model of severe sepsis in rats.

Background/aims: We measured the extracellular concentrations of fluconazole in lung tissue of septic and healthy rats.

Methods: A single intravenous dose of 6 mg/kg total body weight of fluconazole was administered intravenously to rats following insertion of microdialysis probes into lung tissue. Another probe was inserted into skeletal muscle and served as control.

Concentrations of voriconazole in healthy and inflamed lung in rats.

By utilizing the microdialysis technique, we investigated the pharmacokinetic profile of voriconazole in the interstitium of the lungs and skeletal muscle tissue of rats after a single intravenous dose under healthy and inflammatory conditions. As expected, voriconazole penetrated excellently into the interstitium of tissues, and its levels were descriptively almost identical to free concentration-versus-time profiles in plasma.

Unmyelinated nociceptive units in two skin areas of the rat.

Responses of unmyelinated afferent fibres were investigated in two skin nerves of Sprague-Dawley rats. The units were tested as to whether they responded to mechanical probing of the skin, to controlled radiant heat stimulation, and/or to cooling of the skin (to less than or equal to 5 degrees C). Ninety-six units in a n.

[Cardiac arrest following protamine sulphate administration (author's transl)].

This study presents the case history of a patient who suffered from recurrent pulmonary embolism, despite heparinisation, after a car accident and who died during preparation for caval ligature. We feel that the protamine sulphate given for neutralization of the heparin effect played an important role, since no signs of massive pulmonary embolism were found at autopsy. Protamine sulphate is known to possess a significant cardiovascular depressive action.