Objective: To validate urinary Vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) for screening adrenal medullary disorders, taking plasma-free Metanephrine as the gold standard. Study Design: Cross-sectional validation study.
Usama Bin Khalid +5 more
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Pheochromocytoma With Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: A Rare Tumor-in-Tumor Case. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) occurring in a Pheochromocytoma in the adrenal gland is exceptionally rare and prone to misdiagnosis. The special coexistent tumors harbor distinct genetic mutations. This uncommon case could introduce novel considerations and a strong teaching message to all the clinicians and pathologists.
Lei C, Guo Y, Luo Y, Liang Q, Luo J.
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Background: Pheochromocytomas (PHEO) and paragangliomas (PGL) are derived from paraganglia of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Most of the sympathetic PHEO/PGL secrete either catecholamine or their metabolites, metanephrines, whereas ...
Poonam Gupta +6 more
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Paraganglioma of Urinary Bladder Presenting as An Early Preeclampsia with Successful Perinatal Outcome After Surgery: A Case Report and Review of Literature [PDF]
Paraganglioma in urinary bladder associated with pregnancy is extremely rare with a prevalence of less than 1%. We report a case of 25-year-old pregnant female who presented with gross haematuria and clot retention during first trimester.
Kaje Yogesh Dattatrya +4 more
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Urinary and plasma catecholamines and metanephrines in dogs with pheochromocytoma, hypercortisolism, nonadrenal disease and in healthy dogs. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of pheochromocytoma (PC) is based on a combination of clinical suspicion, finding an adrenal mass, increased plasma, and urine concentrations of catecholamine metabolites and is finally confirmed with histopathology.
Boretti, F.S. +8 more
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Background and Aim: Inactivity increases the risk of chronic diseases. The aim of the present study was to investigate the acute changes in Normetanephrine and glucose in boxing with Kinect Xbox with and without blood flow restriction as an alternative ...
Zeinab Sadat Mousavi +4 more
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Post-exercise cold-water immersion modulates skeletal muscle PGC-1α mRNA expression in immersed and non-immersed limbs: evidence of systemic regulation [PDF]
Mechanisms mediating post-exercise cold-induced increases in PGC-1α gene expression in human skeletal muscle are yet to be fully elucidated, but may involve local cooling effects on AMPK and p38 MAPK related signalling and/or increased systemic β ...
Allan, Robert J. +7 more
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Relationship between Vitamin D Status and Autonomic Nervous System Activity [PDF]
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased arterial stiffness ...
Burt, Morton Garth +3 more
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Management of Patients with Adrenal Incidentalomas
The problem of choosing the tactics of the management of patients with adrenal incidentalomas is topical without doubt, considering the widespread use of modern instrumental methods for topical diagnosis.
L.А. Lutsenko
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Fluorometric Determination of Urinary Metanephrine and Normetanephrine
Abstract A detailed procedure for the quantitative determination of metanephrine and normetanephrine is given. Epinephrine and norepinephrine are eliminated by selective adsorption on an alumina column. Metanephrine and normetanephrine are isolated with a cation-exchange resin.
S, BRUNJES, D, WYBENGA, V J, JOHNS
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