Medical Literature - 1977 |
Danazol in the treatment of hereditary angio-neurotic oedema
Blackmore WP. 5/1977 J.Int.Med.Res.
5(Suppl 3):38-43.
Not available online.
Methyltestosterone therapy in hereditary angioedema
Sheffer AL, Fearon DT, Austen KF. 3/1977 Annals of Internal Medicine
Mar;86(3):306-308
In a double-blind study of four patients with hereditary angioedema, the efficacy of methyltestosterone (taken daily in 10-mg linguet form) in preventing attacks was shown. There were 19 episodes during 11.8 months of placebo administration, compared with only four attacks during the 46 months of cumulative methyltestosterone treatment (P less than 0.001). The mean serum C4 protein level was twice as high in all patients when they were taking the drug (176 +/- 36 mug/ml) as compared with the placebo (84 +/- 21 mug/ml), and rose to normal range in three of four patients.
Available online at: annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=690932 (small fee)
Obesity in children. Environment or genes? New treatment for hereditary angioedema.
11/1977 The Journal of the American Medical Association
238(19):2009-2010
Available online at: jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=356438 (small fee)
Participation of Hageman factor dependent pathways in human disease states
Colman RW, Wong PY. 12/1977 Thrombosis & Haemostasis
Dec 15;38(4):751-775.
Abnormalities of Hageman factor dependent pathways have been described in a wide variety of human disease states. Congenital deficiencies of factor XII (Hageman trait) prekallikrein (Fletcher trait) and high molecular weight kininogen (Williams, Fitzgerald and Flaujeac traits) although resulting in profound in vitro changes, do not cause in vivo difficulties. In contrast, deficiency of C1 esterase inhibitor (hereditary angioedema) results in significant morbidity and mortality. Acquired diseases may exhibit decreased synthesis of these three proteins in cirrhosis and dengue fever. In vivo activation of factor XII initiated pathways occur in septic shock, disseminated or localized intravascular coagulation, typhoid fever, polycythemia vera, hyperbetalipoproteinemia, coronary artery disease, nephrotic syndrome, transfusion reactions, hemodialysis and extracorporeal bypass. Activation of both the intrinsic system and tissue mediators contribute to the vasomotor phenomena in carcinoid syndrome and postgastrectomy dumping. Roles for factor XII, prekallikrein and kininogen have been suggested in gouty arthritis, allergic disorders and cystic fibrosis but the evidence is not yet convincing in these disorders. [References: 179].
Not available online.
Tranexamic acid: preoperative prophylactic therapy for patients with hereditary angioneurotic edema
Sheffer AL, Fearon DT, Austen KF, Rosen FS. 7/1977 Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Jul;60(1):38-40.
Short-term therapy of 96-hr duration with tranexamic acid was prophylactically effective as defined by the absence of attacks of angioedema in 14 patients with hereditary angioedema undergoing 10 dental and 4 general surgical procedures. Eight of the 14 patients had previously undergone dental extractions without prophylactic therapy with antifibrinolytic agents and each had experienced one or more attacks of angioedema. Seven of these 8 patients had a cumulative experience of 13 episodes of laryngeal edema after dental extractions and the eighth had a bout of cutaneous angioedema. Although the number of dental extractions conducted without prophylactic antifibrinolytic therapy cannot be accurately defined in retrospect, the prominence of laryngeal edema in this circumstance is striking when compared with the absence of attacks in the presence of prophylaxis with tranexamic acid. Methyltestosterone and impeded androgens are now known to be effective prophylaxis for spontaneous and, presumably, postoperative attacks when employed chronically because their administration is associated with correction of the biochemical defect of hereditary angioneurotic edema, but their chronic administration to children and women of childbearing age requires further definition because of their potential pituitary suppressive action. Tranexamic acid prophylaxis makes it possible to offer to untreated patients with hereditary angioneurotic edema dental work and other operative procedures that in the past were withheld or conducted with considerable risk.
Available online at: jacionline.org/article/0091-6749(77)90080-X/
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