RESUMEN
Germ cell tumour is the most frequent malignant tumour type in young men with a 100% rise in the incidence every 20 years. Despite this, the high sensitivity of germ cell tumours to platinum-based chemotherapy, together with radiation and surgical measures, leads to the high cure rate of > or = 99% in early stages and 90%, 75-80% and 50% in advanced disease with 'good', 'intermediate' and 'poor' prognostic criteria (IGCCCG classification), respectively. The high cure rate in patients with limited metastatic disease allows the reduction of overall treatment load, and therefore less acute and long-term toxicity, e.g. organ sparing surgery for specific cases, reduced dose and treatment volume of irradiation or substitution of node dissection by surveillance or adjuvant chemotherapy according to the presence or absence of vascular invasion. Thus, different treatment options according to prognostic factors including histology, stage and patient factors and possibilities of the treating centre as well may be used to define the treatment strategy which is definitively chosen for an individual patient. However, this strategy of reduction of treatment load as well as the treatment itself require very high expertise of the treating physician with careful management and follow-up and thorough cooperation by the patient as well to maintain the high rate for cure. Treatment decisions must be based on the available evidence which has been the basis for this consensus guideline delivering a clear proposal for diagnostic and treatment measures in each stage of gonadal and extragonadal germ cell tumour and individual clinical situations. Since this guideline is based on the highest evidence level available today, a deviation from these proposals should be a rare and justified exception.
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Neoplasias de Células Germinales y Embrionarias/diagnóstico , Neoplasias de Células Germinales y Embrionarias/terapia , Neoplasias Testiculares/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Testiculares/terapia , Europa (Continente) , Humanos , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Masculino , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Orquiectomía , Terapia Recuperativa , Testículo/patología , Factores de Tiempo , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos XRESUMEN
The method for inducing arrhythmias or asystole by the application of a 50 Hz alternating current (ac) has been applied to isolated guinea-pig left atria and papillary muscles in order to characterize arrhythmogenic and antiarrhythmic substances. Aconitine, BaCl2 (less than 2 mmol/l) and hypoxia decrease threshold of ac-arrhythmia and ac-asystole, in both tissues to a similar extent, whereas carbachol and BaCl2 (greater than 2 mmol/l) increase threshold. The calcium antagonists nifedipine and diltiazem lower threshold of ac-asystole but differ with respect to threshold of ac-arrhythmia, which is increased by 10(-6) mol/l diltiazem in left atria and papillary muscles by about 30% and remains nearly unaffected with nifedipine. The Na+-inhibitory substance flecainide reverses the decrease in threshold of ac-arrhythmia and ac-asystole brought about by aconitine. Threshold of ac-arrhythmia lowered by hypoxia is increased by diltiazem in a concentration-dependent manner, whereas decrease of threshold of ac-asystole is even augmented. Therefore, the method offers an opportunity of quantifying the action of arrhythmogenic agents at concentrations which are too low to induce arrhythmia, as well as to characterize the activity of antiarrhythmic drugs in the presence of arrhythmogenic substances.
