Atrial fibrillation in the elderly.

abstract：:The literature reports many cases of eosinophilic pulmonary infiltrations, with different etiology. In our case clinical pictures were not very clear and specific at first and the clinical course was altered by an ex adjuvantibus steroid treatment before admission to hospital. It was new and unusual because it present...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bartolomei C,Arcabasso GD,Paoletti P,Baldacci S

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old female with a history of accentuated dyspnea, pleural thickening in anteromedial portion with left patchy parenchymal shadowing invading adjoining parasternal structure of the rib cage, presented 13 months later marked superclavicular, anterior mediastinic and parahilar left lymphadenopathy. Open surgica...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Michetti G,Cottini M,Scelsi L,Pugliese C,Minio A,Arnone P,Bamberga M,Ori Belometti M,Scelsi R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of 5 cases of primary breast lymphoma highlights the marked rarity of the lesion and the extreme difficulty of pre-operative diagnosis. It is also shown that the disease generally runs a rapid course and that prognosis is usually unfavourable. The most effective treatment appears to be a combination of surger...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Obialero M,Zanetti PP,Dandria A,Francone C,Gagna G,Calabrò B,Peradotto F,Ferrini A

更新日期：1984-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 335 subjects, all drug addicts for the presence of the following serological markers: HIV1 antibody, HBsAg, HBsAb, HBcAb totals. We conclude that subjects HIV1 positive (n. 149) present HBsAb in a significantly lower number (p greater than 0.001) than HIV1 negative subjects (n. 95). The presence of HBcAb is...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mauri R,Fumagalli S,Durello R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of fibronectin were determined in 50 lung cancer patients and in 25 normal subjects. Immunoturbidimetric assay was performed to detect possible variations of plasma fibronectin concentration in neoplastic patients. Moreover plasma levels of fibronectin were related to clinical stage, histological type of...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Leonardo E,Mancuso M,Sanfilippo B,Dogliotti C,Scagliola D,Oliaro A

更新日期：1985-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:At first Authors explain the stages of tubercular disease in which a programme of functional respiratory rehabilitation can be advised. Then they deal with the main aspects of rehabilitating treatment in some tubercular manifestations, as sero-fibrinous pleural effusion, tubercular empyema, parenchymal fibrosis and su...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Donner CF,Fracchia C,Ioli F,Meriggi A,Patessio A,Spada EL,Vecchio C

更新日期：1984-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different phantoms were used to carry out several scintigraphic experiments with a gamma camera linked to a computer. Each image was subjected to several types of electronic processing. The contrast was assessed in certain pre-established areas in order to obtain an indication of the efficacity of the various tech...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ciambellotti E,Ramella S,Coda C,Lanza E,Cartia GL

更新日期：1986-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of total A-V block observed in a 16 year old who had been suffering for two years from episodes of MAS and in whom further investigation revealed a prolapse of the rear flap of the mitral valve is reported. In the light of literature data, possible relations between the two conditions, A-V block and mitral valv...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Di Blasi S,Zizzo S,Panno S

更新日期：1980-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference is made to personal experience of psycholability is most patients with cardiac achalasia in presenting the results of a preliminary study of the relation between psychic trauma and the onset of this affection, in which a retrospective investigation was made of 47 clinical records prepared for surgical purpos...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cardi M,De Marchi C,Felli F,Paoletti PL,Paolini A

更新日期：1984-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:103 patient suffering from thyroid solitary nodule have been examined with gray-scale ultrasonography. 79 patients have been histologically confirmed. Research has been done with multi-transducer computerized water-bath equipment ( OCTOSON ). The results are discussed and a classification of the thyroid solitary nodul...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Gadaleta A,Paoletti A,Mestichelli A,Maltese E,De Berardis B

更新日期：1984-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently determined entity, hyperosmolar coma is a good example of a clinical candition attributable to a fundamental alteration, namely extracellular hyperosmolarity. The principal stages in its history are summarised. The laws governing osmosis are recalled and the various features of the sndrome are studied. Atte...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mantz JM,Tempe JD,Jaeger A,Kurtz D

更新日期：1976-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There are discordant opinions in literature on the techniques of execution of the cholecystography. The authors have examined 104 consecutive patients with the clinical suspicion of gallstones in order to verify the usefulness of the plain radiogram and of the cholecystokinetic test. All the patients have been studied...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Garretti L,Bocchini R,Russo F

更新日期：1986-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of left atrial myxoma is described. The neoplasia was observed in a female with no previous rheumatic history in whom cardiopathy was diagnosed only a few months before hospitalisation. The rapid and erratic course of the cardiopathy, the fact that changes of posture modified objective symptoms, the presence of...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Giuliani GC,Liberali L,Catapano F,Verdun di Cantogno L

更新日期：1984-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Personal experience of pacemakers in patients suffering from (symptomatic and asymptomatic) 2nd degree AVB and 3rd degree AVB is reported. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Politi GC,Pucci G,Bellaviti N,Repetto S,Romanini BM,Ferro C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placing implants in the edentulous jaw of an individual with severe posterior mandibular atrophy is challenging due to the insufficient bone height above the inferior alveolar nerve canal. The different reconstruction techniques available cause extensive morbidity, are costly, and require prolonged treatments. In here...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ye M,Liu W,Cheng S,Yan L

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain non-invasive techniques like Doppler CW and strain gauge plethysmography are highly effective ways of evaluating the natural history of postphlebitic syndrome. 40 patients of both sexes, average age 51.5 +/- 6.9 with a history of deep venous thrombosis (28 documented phlebographically) were subjected to Dopple...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Macchione C,Zanocchi M,Longo F,Friziero M,Poli L,Ferraris A

更新日期：1985-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An account is given of some peculiar ECG pictures observed during two studies performed at the Air Force Aerospatial Medicine Research Centre. The first study covered in-flight heart rate recordings in trainee pilots and can be regarded as an early example of dynamic ECG, as also employed in the rehabilitation of hear...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ramacci CA

更新日期：1979-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:21 patients suffering from arteriopathy of the lower extremities and treated with a variety of surgical techniques and arterial recanalization have been studied by means of pre- and post-operative angiography and thermography. After analysing the results, the value of thermography, particularly as regards assessment o...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Falchero F,Gandini G,Rosso G,Becchi G

更新日期：1979-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The subject of this dissertation is the diet of flight personnel. A rapid review of the general question of diet in general and that of flight personnel in particular is given. On this basis, the various aspects of the problem (energy sources, calorie requirements, activity of the individual, etc.) are examined. The c...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Serra LC

更新日期：1982-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic value of radiographic and radioisotopic examinations in multiple sclerosis is noted. Multiple sclerosis is clinically diagnosed. If invasive and possibly dangerous examinations are to be avoided, only computerised axial tomography can often clarify differential diagnosis from other forms causing subtent...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Limido G

更新日期：1984-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation data were studied in 77 patients with severe burns divided into two groups (A, 45 cases, and B, 32 cases). Increased PDF, platelet deficiency, enhanced fibrinogen turnover, and paracoagulation tests showing disseminated intravascular coagulation were frequent in both groups. Platelet deficiency was signifi...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bréan L,Bormioli M,Angela GC,Ferrari F

更新日期：1975-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The trend of antibodies tested with indirect hemagglutination, of total IgE and complement fraction was examined in patients with liver hydatid disease, treated with surgery and benzoimidazoles. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Orlando R,Tosone G,Del Pezzo M,Piccoli S,Rendano F,Palimento D,Conti A

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin diseases rarely present serious clinical diagnostic problems for the specialist. All too frequently, however, they are impossible to diagnose aetiologically, since so many are of psychosomatic origin. In the light of the close relationship between skin and nervous system, the neurophysiological and neuropsycholog...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Tobia L

更新日期：1982-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of cholestatic toxic hepatitis observed during the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with gold salts (colloidal sulphide) is reported. The primarily histological diagnosis was supported by the absence of hepatotoxic drugs and the ruling out of other forms of liver disease. Furthermore, the histological...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Frigerio G,Terruzzi V,Butti GC,Minoli G,Rossini A

更新日期：1981-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomopathological, clinical, therapeutical aspects of intraluminal duodenal diverticulum are analyzed. This is an illness of which are described in all literature of world about 47 to 70 cases. On intraluminal duodenal diverticulum is described with x rays examinations. The diagnosis of this illness is made by radio...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Rusconi U,Limido G,Donnini S,Maspero U,Borghi A

更新日期：1980-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and the characteristics of the infections of ascitic fluid in cirrhotic patients at the moment of hospital admission. METHODS:A total of 314 patients consecutively submitted to ascitic fluid tap within 3 days of hospital admission were studied. Each patien...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Marelli A,Nardecchia L,De Gennaro F,Bodini P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 592 cases of gastric carcinoma operated on between January 1960 and December 1974 at the S. Croce Hospital at Cuneo is reported. The following observations were made: greater frequency in males (68.25%). The following localizations: cardiac portion 31 cases; fundus 20; body 93 and antropyloric 249. Cancer ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cartia Q,Quaranta L,Lucarini L,Galgano E

更新日期：1977-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the observation of a high percentage of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, the mechanisms of the establishment and transmission of such resistances on an extra-chromosomal basis (R factors) are examined in detail. After noting that the increased incidence and spread of bacterial strains resistant to chemot...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fortunio G,Cortronei G

更新日期：1975-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:161 cases of CML have been studied. Clinically significant adenopathies were present in 3,2% of the patients at the moment of diagnosis, and in the subsequent course they appeared in 7% of them. The behaviour of adenopathies showed to be unrelated to: --splenomegaly; --blastic metamorphosis in the peripheral blood or ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Paolino W,Infelise V,Degani G,Falda M,Paolino F,Fiorio C,Marmont F,Coda R

更新日期：1980-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy of glutaraldehyde-phenate against four other glutaraldehydes. DESIGN:We use two methods: (1) Bacteriostatic method- With 97 microrganisms of 8 different species. (2) Bactericide method- With a low contamination (10(4)cfu) plus organic soil (simulating the work conditions of glutaralde...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Herruzo-Cabrera R,Gil-Miguel A,Fernandez-Arjona M,Rey-Calero J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00