The acetylator phenotype has been determined (isoniazid half-life) in 31 patients, 25 of them women, who had exhibited a lupus erythematosus-like syndrome during treatment with hydralmine. Twenty-nine patients were slow acetylators, one was rapid (probably spontaneous SLE) and one uncertain. Only two patients had been given more than 200 mg of hydralazine daily. The mean duration of therapy was 32 months at the onset of symptoms. These were not serious but rather long-standing. Our study confirms that patients who risk developing hydralazine lupus are slow acetylators, especially females, treated with more than 100 mg daily. Rapid acetylators seem to develop this side-effect rarely, if at all.Hydralazine (Apresolin@) was the first drug reported to induce a syndrome similar to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (20). An important pathway for the metabolism of hydralazine is acetylation, which is under polymorphic genetic control (12,26). The enzyme involved also acetylates other drugs, such as isoniazid (INH) (II), certain sulfonamides (12, 29) and procaine amide (13,19,27). Slow acetylators are more prone to develop side-effects on conventional doses of INH (7), phenelzine (lo), sulphapyridine (5, 29) and dapsone (8) . Perry (25) found that nearly all patients who developed a lupoid syndrome during treatment with hydralazine were slow acetylators and that positive antinuclear factor (ANF) preceded the clinical symptoms. By contrast, Alarc6n-
Während der Jahre 1981–1984 wurden 13 Patienten mit klinisch manifesten postoperativen Darmfisteln (11 Dünndarm- und 2 Kolon-fisteln) mittels parenteral zugeführter hochkalorischer Ernahrung behandelt. Die Therapie erfolgte ausschließlich unter intensivmedizinischen Bedingungen und führte bei 7 Patienten zum spontanen Verschluß der Fistel; bei 2 Patienten erfolgte der Verschluß operativ nach zuvor verabreichter hochkalorisch-parenteraler Ernahrung. Die Therapiedauer betrug im Mittel 18 Tage, die benötigte Kalorienmenge lag bei 2900–3400 kcal/Tag.
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