References: Hair growth and hair loss
Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1975 May;140(5):789-96.
Complications of heparin therapy.
Gervin AS.
Currently, heparin therapy is rarely extended for periods required for the onset of chronic complications. Thus, alopecia and skeletal defects are infrequently encountered. However, during pregnancy, prolonged therapy with heparin may be used. Heparin does not cross the placental barrier, whereas the warfarin class of anticoagulants is freely transported across the barrier. Thus, if extended anticoagulation is required during pregnancy, heparin is preferred to provide maternal anticoagulation while protecting against fetal hemorrhage. Hemorrhage, the most frequent and most feared complication of heparin therapy, does not occur spontaneously in all patients receiving large doses of heparin. However, in certain populations, hemorrhage must be anticipated and appropriate modifications made in the heparin dosage. Elderly women, persons with thrombocytopenia or drug induced platelet dysfunction, or persons who have undergone recent surgical treatment or trauma are sensitive to standard heparin dosages and may bleed during heparin therapy. In these situations, the initial heparin dosage must be appropriately decreased and subsequent dosages carefully determined by frequently monitored coagulation studies. a well maintained, functional coagulation laboratory is imperative in these situations. By careful monitoring of coagulation parameters and by the selection of the smallest effective heparin dosage, complications can be minimized. The clinical cognizance of heparin induced thrombocytopenia is increasing. This disorder must be considered when hemorrhage and low platelet numbers appear during heparin therapy. Discontinuance of heparin therapy causes a rapid increase in platelet counts and diminution of bleeding. The indiscriminate use of protamine sulfate to neutralize heparin must be discouraged. One must resist the temptation to administer multiple extra doses of protamine to assure achievement of hemostasis. The precise dosage of protamine sulfate calculated to neutralize a given heparin dosage must be used. Additional doses of protamine must be determined by coagulation studies, such as whole blood clotting time, protamine titration test, or thrombin time with toluidine blue correction. If proper attention is directed to the dosage of protamine, relative to heparin, the complications of neutralization rarely will occur. Heparin is a basic drug in the armamentarium of the contemporary surgeon. Successful clinical use of heparin requires fundamental knowledge of coagulation mechanisms, the manner in which heparin alters these mechanisms, and the factors which predispose to complications. The complications of heparin therapy can be minimized by strictest attention to selection of initial dosage and by careful subsequent determination of the precise coagulation status of the patient.
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Treatment for extensive indolent lymphoma should provide optimization of efficacy while avoiding excessive toxicity. Rituximab may be an ideal agent to combine with chemotherapy because of its lack of classical myelotoxicity. In this study, 27 patients with a variety of histologies of indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma have been treated utilizing a novel three-drug combination. Nine patients had relapsed disease and 18 were previously untreated. Patients first received cyclophosphamide 800 mg/m(2) and mitoxantrone 8 mg/m(2) i.v. on day 1, every 3 weeks for 2 cycles. Subsequently, patients received rituximab 375 mg/m(2) followed by mitoxantrone 8 mg/m2 every 2 weeks for 4 cycles. This regimen and, in particular, the rituximab infusion were extremely well tolerated. Only two of 27 patients experienced a grade 1/2, infusion-related reaction during the first rituximab infusion. Grade 4 neutropenia was noted at some point in 16 patients who were then offered granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor support for improvement of neutropenia. No infections were noted. Alopecia was minimal. Of 27 patients, 19 achieved a complete response (CR), one achieved an unconfirmed CR (CRu), and five patients achieved a partial response, for an overall response rate of 92.5%. Molecular remissions were noted in seven of 12 tested patients in CR. We concluded that the cyclophosphamide/mitoxantrone/rituximab (CyMiR) regimen is effective and extremely well tolerated. Furthermore, rituximab infusion-associated morbidity is markedly reduced.
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Endocrinology. 2001 Dec;142(12):5332-41.
Aberrant growth plate development in VDR/RXR gamma double null mutant mice.
Yagishita N, Yamamoto Y, Yoshizawa T, Sekine K, Uematsu Y, Murayama H, Nagai Y, Krezel W, Chambon P, Matsumoto T, Kato S.
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
VDR forms heterodimers with one of three RXRs, RXR alpha, RXR beta, and RXR gamma, and it is thought that RXR ligands can also modulate the trans-activation function of VDR/RXR heterodimers. In the present study we generated VDR/RXR gamma double null mutant mice to examine the convergent actions of vitamin D and vitamin A signaling and to explore the possibility of a functionally redundant VDR. Although RXR gamma(-/-) mice exhibited no overt abnormalities, VDR(-/-)/RXR gamma(-/-) mice appeared similar to VDR(-/-) mice, showing features typical of vitamin D-dependent rickets type II, including growth retardation, impaired bone formation, hypocalcemia, and alopecia. However, compared to VDR(-/-) mice, growth plate development in VDR(-/-)/RXR gamma(-/-) mutant mice was more severely impaired. Normalizing mineral ion homeostasis through dietary supplementation with high calcium and phosphorous effectively prevented rachitic abnormalities, except for disarranged growth plates in VDR(-/-)/RXR gamma(-/-) mutant mice, and alopecia in both VDR(-/-) and VDR(-/-)/RXR gamma(-/-) mutant mice. Histological analysis of VDR(-/-)/RXR gamma(-/-) growth plates revealed that development of the hypertrophic chondrocytes was selectively impaired. Thus, our findings indicated that the combined actions of VDR- and RXR gamma-mediated signals are essential for the normal development of growth plate chondrocytes, and raised the possibility that a functionally redundant VDR is present on chondrocytes as a heterodimer with RXR gamma.
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