H�moperfusion ? Pro und Kontra

Abstract

6 patients with severe self-poisoning were treated by charcoal-haemoperfusion in our centre up to now. In four of them (all suffering from sleeping drug overdosage) the treatment was successful. Two patients with intoxications by agrochemicals died in spite of haemoperfusion. Side effects of haemoperfusion were drops of blood pressure and platelet count, depletion of immune bodies, and adsorption of remedies. Up to now, the indication for haemoperfusion has to consider these secondary actions of encapsulated charcoal as inevitable.

Hemofiltration and Plasma Dopamine β-Hydroxylase Activity

“…A disturbance of the baroreceptor reflex due to deafferentation resulting from polyneuritis [6], noradrenaline deple tion in adrenergic nerve terminals [14] and reduced sym pathetic sudorimotoric [15] or pupillomotoric [16] activity have been reported. In experimental renal failure [17] dis turbances of synthesis, storage, reuptake and catabolism of noradrenaline of adrenergic nerve terminals were ob served.…”