Determinants of patient satisfaction in postoperative pain management following hand ambulatory day-surgery.

abstract：:A case of Caroli's disease is presented. Stress is laid on the importance of transcutaneous cholangiography in the diagnosis of this morbid form, and the usefulness of both echotomography and computed tomography. The latter permits visualisation of the intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts and indicates the extent of the...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cusumano S,De Mori E,Colombi S,Carugati A

更新日期：1984-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The endotoxin presence was tested by Limulus Lysate Test (LLT) in plasma and ascites of 29 patients with cirrhosis, all having demonstrable portal hypertension and ascite. It was positive in plasma in 7 cases (24.1%) and in ascite in 12 cases (73.12%). All the cases with endotoxin in the plasma were positive in ascite...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pozzato G,Miani N,Frezza M

更新日期：1981-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cirrhotics presented higher insulin production, in the presence of a drop in glycaemia significantly less than controls, following 1 g of tolbutamide i.v. The drug also brought on a rapid drop in NEFA and a rise in plasma growth hormone. The pathogenesis of altered glucose tolerance in liver cirrhosis is discussed. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Greco AV,Ghirlanda G,Rebuzzi A,Altomonte L,Manna R

更新日期：1976-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:After some preliminary remarks of a biochemical and pharmacological nature, the authors have started a clinical study to test the antiinflammatory activity of the S-adenosyl-methionine (SAMe). An open trial, carried out on 90 patients with severe degenerative arthropathies has shown that 30 mg SAMe intravenously twice...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Polli E,Cortellaro M,Parrini L,Tessari L,Chériè Lignière G

更新日期：1975-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with pure mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation were studied with cardiac catheterization in the usual fashion before and after administration of 2.5 mg. of propranolol. At the end the selective left ventricular angiocardiography was performed. The following parameters were calculated: heart rate, mean...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： D'Annunzio E,Mobilij A

更新日期：1980-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common carcinomas throughout the world. Although the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies have made some progression in the treatment of CRC patients, the mortality of CRC remains relatively high. Hence, it is an urgency to find out the detailed mechanisms of how C...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Liu S,Xu B,Yan D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination was made of the series of 439 lung tumours diagnosed ambulatorially at the Turin Social Health Dispensary to assess the diagnostic return from several techniques (cytology of the sputum, bronchial aspirate and brushing; histology on a biopsy specimen) used singly or in combination. It was also sought to...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Marchisio U,Bugiani M,Castiglioni G,Forconi G,Massa GL,Arizio A

更新日期：1984-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-blind, between-patient experimental technique was employed to investigate the anti-inflammatory, antalgic and myorelaxant activity of a new synthetic compound, parsalmide. 30 patients suffering from arthrosic and inflammatory arthropathies in various sites and in newly acute phase, were treated with the sub...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Menci S,Rossi M,Del Curatolo G,Orsucci PL

更新日期：1976-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:As the use of cross-sectional imaging increases so does the incidence of asymptomatic pancreatic cysts. Pancreatic neoplastic cysts can be broadly grouped into mucinous lesions and solid pseudopapillary neoplasms, which have malignant potential and serous lesions, which have negligible malignant potential. Non-neoplas...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Smith LA,Mckay CJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are characterized by an unfavorable outcome in the majority of adult cases. Several clinical trials have confirmed the usefulness of a pediatric-type therapy applied to adult patients. Adults present with higher risk features at diagnosis that predispose them to chemoth...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Lanza F,Maffini E,Saraceni F,Massari E,Rondoni M,Daghia G,Olivieri A,Cerchione C,Martinelli G

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 16 patients with high cortisol plasma levels MRI and CT investigation of adrenal gland region was performed; 13 also had the pituitary region examined. CT and MRI results in Cushing's Syndrome due to adrenal glands etiology (8 cases) are overlapping. The morphological criteria utilized consist in the radiological f...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Avataneo T,Potenzoni F,Cesarani F,Isaia GC,Rizzi G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:18 patients with "primary empty sella" were reviewed for this study. In 3 of them the sellar enlargement was discovered occasionally by performing skull radiographs for other reasons. The galattorrhea-dismenorrhea or amenorrhea syndrome and obesity were the most common clinical features. Endocrinological tests were no...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pompili A,Jachetti M,Carapella CM,Crecco M,Gaudino G,Isabella F,Mastrostefano R

更新日期：1985-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:12 patients with normal QRS either in basal condition or during atrial pacing, undergone on single premature atrial stimulation, showed several types of intraventricular aberrancies. These have been revalued with atrial premature stimulation introduced over a progressively increasing frequency of fixed atrial stimulat...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Balestra G,Rusticali F,Aquilina M,Morgagni GL,Oldani A,Morgagni W

更新日期：1978-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of distal veins of the legs is important for its frequency and its potential proximal extension. The incidence of embolization in distal DVT is limited and treatment still undefined. METHODS:After diagnosing with duplex scanning a distal DVT patients were included in a 24-week f...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Belcaro G,Laurora G,Cesarone MR,De Sanctis MT,Incandela L,Dugall M,Mezzanotte L

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of neuropathic pain is a medical challenge. The responsiveness to the different classes of drugs is often unsatisfactory and frequently associated to a wide range of side effects. International guidelines suggest for the "localized" neuropathic pain the topical treatment with 5% lidocaine medicated plast...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Provinciali L,Lattanzi S,Chiarlone R,Fogliardi A,Intelligente F,Irace C,Lanzilotta M,Palomba R,Storelli E,Zampi M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper was to evaluate how many patients with syncope should be hospitalized according to the 2001 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of syncope. METHODS:Starting from August 2002 we prompted a Syncope Unit (SU), as a multi-disciplinary functional structure including t...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bartoletti A,Fabiani P,Gianni R,Cappelletti C,Santoro GM,Fortini A,Adriani P,Baccetti F,Buffini G,Lavacchi A,Ticali PF,Viganò S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a pilot study on the use of oral medroxyprogesterone acetate (Provera-Upjohn) at high dose in a series of 50 consecutive women with advanced breast (30 cases) and endometrial carcinoma (20 cases) are reported. Patients with progressive disease, non liable to further conventional treatments, received MPA...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bernardo-Strada MR,Imparato E,Aspesi G,Pavesi L,Robustelli Della Cuna G

更新日期：1980-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The causa mortis of Napoleon Bonaparte has been vexata quaestio for a long time. The author tries to outline a picture of Napoleon from a sanitary point of view. From the report of doctor Francesco Antonmarchi who performed the autopsy, the author tries to understans the cause of death: gastric perforation due to mali...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Camici M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behaviour of the partial tensions of respiratory gases and the main parameters of acid base balance in hypoxaemic and eucapnic chronic bronchopneumopathics undergoing oxygen therapy has been assessed. The patiests were subdivided into two groups, the first consisting of subjects undergoing oxygen therapy alone, th...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ferrara A,Numeroso R,Santerni N,Fumagalli G

更新日期：1976-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies demonstrate that the adherence to asthma guidelines (GL) is poor, but only a few of them were performed in community pharmacies. Thus, we decided to study this phenomenon by administering a questionnaire (Q) in two pharmacies. METHODS:A Q was developed and administered to 138 patients-custom...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bonanni G,Saso L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Italy, the attitude displayed by psychosomatists towards hypnosis and A.T. is decidedly favourable, since they are considered as forms of short-term psychotherapy, this being primarily indicated in the management of psychosomatosis. While some reservations may be expressed with regard to the employment of hypnosis ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Antonelli F

更新日期：1975-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervicocephalic chemodectomas are rare non-chromaffin paraganglionic tumours, most often originating in the carotid body or the jugular ganglion. Their main features are a reluctance to invade adjacent tissue and the absence of general clinical signs. Since they are histologically quite varied they may at times be dif...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Rabbia C,Liboni W,Pia F,Degiorgis C,Baldioli P

更新日期：1983-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetic disorders in the Caucasian population, with estimated between 70,000 and 100,000 patients worldwide. Even if improved diagnostics and clinical management have led to an increased life expectancy, CF still remains a disease that significantly impacts patients' life in ter...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Baiardini I,Steinhilber G,DI Marco F,Braido F,Solidoro P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one alcoholics, previously admitted to the hospital for medical care and treated with disulfiram, were re-examinated after 1-3 years. In thirty of them (58%) total abstinence was found; eighteen patients (35%) behaved so in spite of disulfiram withhold during the first year of self-administration. No side-effect...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bendia MT,Giaquinto S,Massi G,Ricolfi A,Vitali S

更新日期：1979-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to the literature carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) is thought to be the most sensitive and specific marker of alcohol abuse, but must always be combined with other laboratory tests. Until now the amount of CDT that indicates a state of chronic alcoholism has not been established. Therefore,...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Zolezzi C,Fasano MC,Sormani G,Minarini A,Pizzoferrato A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study reports the results of a study of a random sample of 40 patients with medial fractures of the collum femoris in whom the caput femoris was substituted by Thompson's cemented prosthesis, taken from a series of 189 operations performed between 1981 and 1987. In conclusion, Thompson's prosthesis is demonstrated...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Guagnini M,Bertini G,Celenza M,De Tullio V,Sarda G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a worldwide health problem due to its high prevalence, incidence and impact on patient morbidity and mortality. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most important complications of DM. The indication of renal biopsy in diabetic patients is a widely debated topic and the final decision i...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bermejo S,Pascual J,Soler MJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemodynamic of venous circulation of lower limbs seems to be not yet fully understood and different methods are available to study clinical patterns of venous insufficiency, deep venous incompetence or venous occlusion. Simple and common methods as venography, venous doppler and plethysmography are frequently use...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Belcaro G,Caizzi N,Cotellese R,D'Aulerio A,Rotolo A,Legnini M,Di Vincenzo V,Rossi M,Di Stefano S

更新日期：1984-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Original and known methods and ordinary routine tests were used to evaluate changes in bile salts, phospholipids and cholesterol and in serum lipids induced in 50 patients during treatment with chenodeoxycholic acid (2-12 mg/Kg/day) for about 15 months. No significant differences in serum lipids, though a clear fall i...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Barbara L,Roda A,Sama C,Festi D,Mazzella G,Aldini R,Sorci F,Roda E

更新日期：1977-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Detecting coronary artery disease at a subclinical level has always been a challenging task for cardiologists. Various non-invasive echocardiographic approaches such as measurements of left ventricular hypertrophy, diastolic function, left atrial enlargement, valve sclerosis and calcification, epicardial fat thickness...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Benfari G,Rossi A,Geremia G,Vinco G,Zivelonghi C,Milano AD,Gottin L,Ribichini FL,Onorati F,Faggian G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00