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een the mental components of SF-36, indicates that the quality of life restriction is based on a physical, but not on a mental impairment.Monteggia lesions and Monteggia-like lesions involve ulna and radius injuries, which can not be successfully treated using the surgical principles of isolated fractures. Proximal ulnar fracture, radio-humeral dislocation, and additional dislocation in the proximal radioulnar joint result in the disintegration of the functional unit, and there is a complex injury across the elbow to the forearm, resulting in poor clinical outcomes. Thus, addressing all osteo-ligamentous injuries is essential for the long-term course.Medicinal plants are used in traditional medicine to treat a wide range of ailments. The knowledge of them is handed down from generation to generation and is described in several pharmacopoeia and in the general literature. The immense biodiversity of the Brazilian flora, covering about 25% of all plant species worldwide, makes Brazil a huge potential source of medicinal plants. Indeed, many of these plant species are already used in the Brazilian ethnopharmacology for their probable effect to induce diuresis, to reduce fluid retention, and to treat cardiovascular and renal disorders. This review article describes and discusses the main native Brazilian medicinal plants (including some of their isolated compounds) used as diuretics. It also gives a comprehensive analysis of the most relevant scientific studies presented to date, as well as addressing a special topic with future prospects for plant species that have not yet been scientifically studied. In brief, several plants can be indicated for more detailed study, with a view to obtain scientific subsidies for a new and effective diuretic medicine in the future. These include Bauhinia forficata, Leandra dasytricha, and Tropaeolum majus. Other species have reputed medicinal properties but lack experimental assays to demonstrate their pharmacological effects (e.g., Mikania hirsutissima, Phyllanthus niruri, and Tagetes minuta). Several active principles are indicated as responsible for the diuretic effects of the plants studied, with emphasis on phenolic compounds as flavonoids, phenolic acids, and xanthones. These results should encourage more detailed preclinical, clinical, and phytochemical investigations on Brazilian plants in the future.Sigesbeckia orientalis, more commonly referred to as Herba Sigesbeckiae or Xi Xian Cao in traditional Chinese medicine and hy thiêm in traditional Vietnamese medicine, is used in China and Vietnam to treat inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism, and joint pain. In initial investigations, the dichloromethane extract from the aerial parts of S. orientalis showed distinct inhibitory effects on the release of interleukin-8 in human neutrophils. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was the phytochemical investigation of the bioactive dichloromethane extract and the in vitro analysis of the effects of the isolated compounds on interleukin-8, interleukin-1β, tumor necrosis factor-α, and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 release, and surface expression of adhesion molecules (CD11a, CD11b, and CD62L) in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human neutrophils to identify the active principle(s). The separation of the bioactive dichloromethane extract using various chromatographic techniques led to the isolation of nine compounds. Their chemical structures were elucidated from nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry data. One diterpene, 17(13 → 14)-abeo-ent-3S*,13S*,16-trihydroxystrob-8(15)-ene, was identified as a new natural product. Three germacranolide sesquiterpene lactones inhibited interleukin-8 production with IC50 values between 1.6 and 6.3 µM, respectively, and tumor necrosis factor-α production with IC50 values between 0.9 and 3.3 µM, respectively. Furthermore, they significantly inhibited interleukin-1β and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 production and diminished the effects of lipopolysaccharide on the surface expression of the adhesion molecules CD11a, CD11b, and CD62L. These findings support the traditional use of S. orientalis in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.The present work provides an overview of the various nuclear medicine methods in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative parkinsonian syndromes and their respective evidence and is intended to enable practical decision-making aids in the application and interpretation of the methods and findings. The value of the procedures differs considerably in relation to the two relevant diagnostic questions. On the one hand, it is the question of whether there is a neurodegenerative parkinsonian syndrome at all, and on the other hand the question of which one. While the DAT-SPECT is undisputedly the method of choice for answering the first question (taking certain parameters into account), this method is not suitable for answering the second question. To categorise parkinsonian syndromes into idiopathic (i. e. Parkinson´s disease) or atypical, various procedures are used in everyday clinical practice including MIBG scintigraphy, and FDG-PET. We explain why FDG-PET currently is not only the most suitable of these methods to differentiate an idiopathic parkinsonian syndrome, from an atypical Parkinson's syndrome, but also enables sufficiently valid to distinguish the various atypical neurodegenerative Parkinson's syndromes (i. e. MSA, PSP and CBD) from each other and therefore should be reimbursed by health insurances.Treatment of tremor is a challenge in everyday clinical practice; tremor in movement disorders such as essential or orthostatic tremor (ET, OT) or Parkinson's disease (PD) can rarely be treated sufficiently with oral medication. An alternative to deep brain stimulation is the targeted local lesion of specific structures of the thalamus and basal ganglia by means of transcranial magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS). MRgFUS allows to thermally ablate small areas of the brain safely and precisely. this website MRgFUS treatments are performed without opening of the skull under MRI control ('incisionless surgery'). This minimal invasive procedure can improve the often severely impaired quality of life of the mostly elderly patients on a day to day basis without the need for long in-patient procedures. A sustained effect of the lesion treatment has so far been investigated and documented over 4 years.