[Female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome in somatic and psychosomatic rehabilitation center - an exploratory study on access routes and differences in patient characteristics].

Study Objective: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is characterized by e. g. chronic, multilocular pain, and mental health problems.

Intranasal oxytocin increases covert attention to positive social cues.

Background: The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) has positive effects on the processing of emotional stimuli such as facial expressions. To date, research has focused primarily on conditions of overt visual attention.

Method: We investigated whether a single intranasal dose of OT (24 IU) would modulate the allocation of attentional resources towards positive and negative facial expressions using a dot-probe paradigm in a sample of 69 healthy men.

[Predictors of participation in medical rehabilitation follow-up in working patients with chronic back pain].

Background And Aim: Outpatient follow-up programmes aim to increase the sustainability of rehabilitation. However, the factors influencing participation in follow-up programmes are still unclear. The aim of this study was to examine participation in the MERENA follow-up programme of the Rhineland-Palatinate German Pension Fund.

[Disabled elderly people waiting for institutionalization to a hospital ward: prospective study in the administrative district of Strasbourg (France)].

Objectives: Our aim was to estimate the number of non-satisfied instutionalization requests for inpatients and to describe the strategies elaborated to compensate for the waiting time.

Methods: This prospective follow-up study concerning all requests for institution admission for inpatients aged 75 years or older hospitalized in acute care and rehabilitation wards. Descriptive data were gathered throughout the social support process conducted during the hospitalization.

[Preventive operations of the lung and bronchial system].

There are four major prophylactic indications in thoracic surgery: (1) Intra-pulmonary coin lesions with malignancy up to 50% and other potentially malignant tumors (carcinoid tumor, cylindroma, mucoepidermoid tumor, papilloma); (2) mediastinal tumors with potentially malignant growth (teratoma); (3) chronic lung infections including tuberculosis (bronchiectasis, abscess, chronic pneumonia, persistent tuberculoma, tuberculous cavity, destroyed lobe/lung); (4) cystic pulmonary disease followed by frequent complications (infection, bleeding, pneumothorax).

Different effects of furosemide on alpha-adrenoceptors and on platelet aggregation in man.

The effect of a long-term administration of furosemide (2 x 30 mg/day for 3 weeks) on platelet alpha 2-adrenoceptor density and the fraction of high-affinity binding sites, as well as on platelet aggregation induced by adrenaline and ADP, was studied ex vivo in 8 normotensive volunteers. For comparison the in vitro effect of furosemide on platelet aggregation was also evaluated. Furosemide decreased alpha 2-adrenoceptor-density (P less than 0.

Effects of nitrendipine and tiapamil on 45Ca2+ influx and on platelet aggregation.

The effects of the dihydropyridine derivative nitrendipine and of the phenylalkylamine derivative tiapamil on 45Ca2+ influx was determined in platelets in vitro and on platelet aggregation ex vivo. Thrombin-stimulated 45Ca2+ influx was inhibited by 10 mumol/l nitrendipine and 100 mumol/l tiapamil. ADP- and adrenaline-induced platelet aggregation were inhibited in normotensive volunteers following short-term administration of nitrendipine (20 mg b.