(1) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
(2) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
(3) Intracerebral hemorrhage appeared in apoplectic fashion on two occasions and surgery was done after each attack.
(4) Before apoplectic fans of the Portland Timbers, whose home city bears the nickname Rose City, start writing in to complain, we’re referencing the decisive interventions made by Seattle’s Andy Rose in his last couple of games.
(5) The authors review 38 cases of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage operated on within 7 hours after the apoplectic attack.
(6) A decreased plasma level of the enzyme was found following a stroke in patients with cerebral bleeding, subarachnoid bleeding, and the apoplectic type of cerebral infarction.
(7) All 50 patients had EEG's and CT scans within the first two weeks of the apoplectic event.
(8) The apoplectic event developed spontaneously in one, and in the other it developed within two weeks of completing a course of radiotherapy to the pituitary gland.
(9) A 43-year-old patient was admitted to hospital with an apoplectic stroke caused by an angiographically confirmed partial stenosis of the arteria cerebri media branch.
(10) The highest hemorrhage rate (70.0%) was found in patients with prior neurological history who experienced apoplectic deterioration (acute-on-chronic presentation).
(11) Consistent therapy of hypertension decreases significantly the incidence of cerebral apoplectic attacks.
(12) In the second instance, a group was established with the apoplectic persons and their spouses on seven occasions.
(13) The second form differs clinically from the first by apoplectic-like development with a coma and rapid short course.
(14) But when the package and its accompanying photos arrived, I was apoplectic.
(15) Nicotine consumption alone increases the risk of cerebral apoplectic attacks in relation to age, by the 3-fold up to the 5-fold.
(16) Patients in whom apoplectic attacks had occurred, or who had local neurologic symptoms or a history of evident cerebrovascular disorders, were not included in the study.
(17) Five histologically distinctive uterine smooth muscle neoplasms with multifocal hemorrhages termed apoplectic leiomyomas were studied.
(18) The object of this investigation was to establish self-help groups for apoplectics and their spouses and to gain basic experience for establishing future self-help groups.
(19) Basing on the experiences, the author thinks of the next .--'Cerebro-vascular dementia may be able to be prevented, if a very small dose of triiodothyronine (T3) is given to the early stage after an apoplectic attack with a consideration to side-effects of T3.
(20) Next time you watch Alex Ferguson apoplectic about some perceived refereeing error or John Terry snarling, it might be hard not to bear in mind the good grace of the likes of Louis Smith, the charismatic British gymnast .
Apoplexy
Definition:
(n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no adrenal apoplexy or extensive haemorrhage that could explain shock in these patients.
(2) Acute symptomatic failure of the pituitary gland (pituitary apoplexy) commonly occurs in patients who have asymptomatic pituitary tumors.
(3) Catastrophic haemorrhage may occur even in small pituitary tumours and may result in the clinical syndrome of apoplexy with or without subsequent hypopituitarism.
(4) In 12 cases of pituitary apoplexy, a preexisting unsuspected adenoma was found.
(5) Therefore, our retrospective study suggests that pituitary apoplexy is not uncommon and has an acute clinical presentation.
(6) Pituitary apoplexy is an unusual manifestation of metastatic pituitary disease.
(7) In rats, a single administration of acrylonitrile (vinyl cyanide) produces a rapidly occurring bilateral adrenal apoplexy.
(8) Total and coronary mortality rates have been determined and also the incidence of certain non-fatal states which required hospitalization due to various types of coronary heart disease (CHD), hypertension, brain apoplexy, diabetes mellitus and malignancies.
(9) Histologically an adrenal apoplexy with necrosis and in liver, spleen and lung a lot of neutrophils were seen.
(10) They illustrate the difficulty of differentiating pituitary apoplexy from other acute neurologic conditions.
(11) In the majority of apoplexy patients the absence of a primary haemorrhage points to acute vascular occclusion with regional ischemia as the initiating event.
(12) Pituitary apoplexy is a syndrome with variable clinical manifestations depending on which parasellar structures (such as the optic nerves and chiasm, cavernous and sphenoid sinuses, or the hypothalamus) are compressed when the pituitary undergoes rapid enlargement.
(13) Pituitary apoplexy, a rare but life-threatening condition, may be highly variable in its clinical appearance and therefore should be considered in any patient with abrupt neurologic deterioration.
(14) Postpartum abdominal apoplexy is a rare obstetric complication that is associated with a very high maternal mortality rate.
(15) During the first year after the pituitary apoplexy, severe proliferative retinopathy developed in the left eye, which became almost blind.
(16) This report deals with a detailed course of one patient with acromegaly who had a pituitary apoplexy.
(17) A case of acromegaly complicated by pituitary apoplexy is described.
(18) The aim of surgical intervention is primarily to prevent ischemia and simultaneous cerebral apoplexy, and only after this to prevent the progressions of the existing ischemic changes.
(19) Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical features.
(20) A patient, 38-year-old man, with hemorrhage into a prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma, or pituitary apoplexy, is reported.