[Ilizarov's external fixator: principles and applications].

abstract：:Two cases of purulent meningitis in subjects with misinterpreted chromophobe adenoma of the hypophysis are presented. Radiography in the acute stage revealed typical enlargement of the sella turcica and thus established the diagnosis, which was eventually confirmed histologically during surgery. The frequency with whi...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ciatto A

更新日期：1978-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:4 cases of duodenal ulcer, diagnosed by gastroscopic examinations three of which were already treated medically with insufficient results, are presented. Acupuncture was carried out several times (about 5 to 7) during 1-2 months and gave rise to a complete disappearance of the clinical symptoms and complete healing of...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Salvi E,Pistilli A,Romiti P,Bedogni G,Pedrazzoli C

更新日期：1983-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation (LTx) remains the only effective treatment of selected patients suffering from end-stage respiratory disease. However, its main limitation is represented by the shortage of suitable organs. In the last years, LTx is progressively changing in the clinical arena and different strategies aiming to in...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Boffini M,Solidoro P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the treatment of two patients with acute renal insufficiency with carbenicillin for Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis haematemesis, melaena and omnipresent petechiae were observed. Suspension was followed by rapid regression and the normalisation of clotting. Attention is drawn to haemorrhage as clotting. Attention...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Sasdelli M,Santoro A,Cesari D,Cagnoli L,Zucchelli P

更新日期：1975-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:It is repeatedly advocated in the medical literature the need of reshaping the care process in order to better address the unmet clinical needs of the highly vulnerable and complex ageing population. In the past twenty years, frailty has assumed the role of an arising and independent geriatric condition, different fro...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Jarach CM,Cesari M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Corticosteroids, antidopaminergig agents and 5-HT3 antagonists are the most commonly used drugs in the treatment of chemotherapy-induced vomiting. Acupuncture and acupressure have also appeared to exert antiemetic effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of acupressure in the treatment of chemoth...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Gardani G,Cerrone R,Biella C,Mancini L,Proserpio E,Casiraghi M,Travisi O,Meregalli M,Trabattoni P,Colombo L,Giani L,Vaghi M,Lissoni P

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained with immunotherapy in 318 cases of lung cancer showed that an initial Tine test is useful prognostically (initial negativity is equivalent to poor survival), and survival increases and decreases in function of positivity and negativity respectively. The soundness of immunotherapy is borne out by the s...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Tanzj PL

更新日期：1976-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) malaria is the most important parasitic infection of humans, responsible for about 2,000,000 deaths every year. Cytoadherence of P. falciparum parasitized erythrocytes (pRBC) to vascular endothelium contributes to the pathogenesis of severe malaria causing microcirculatory obst...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Basilico N,Mondani M,Parapini S,Speciale L,Ferrante P,Taramelli D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper was to evaluate the effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) vs. air insufflation on post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) abdominal pain and distension. In addition, we investigated the changes in the partial pressure of end-tidal CO2 (PetCO2) and the partial pressure of arterial C...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Luigiano C,Ferrara F,Pellicano R,Fabbri C,Cennamo V,Bassi M,Ghersi S,Billi P,Polifemo A,Festa C,Cerchiari E,Morace C,Consolo P,Alibrandi A,D'Imperio N

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Hyponatremia, an electrolyte disturbance, can be due to loss of solutes or to an increase of ''free'' water concentration, predominantly caused by excessive antidiuretic hormone (ADH) secretion. When acute, hyponatremia is threatening, because it can cause cell swelling and severe neuromuscular symptoms (central po...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Rotolo G,Sarakatsianou V,Figlioli F,Taormina G,Racalbuto A,Mangiaracina D,Gullotti D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:18 cases of anatomically verified lung cancer were studied scintigraphically with microspheres of human albumin labelled with 99Tc, mercury bichloride (197Hg) and citrate of gallium (67Ga), to assess the diagnostic value of this technique. Using albumin microspheres, changes in the scintigraphic picture were obtained ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bergonzi M,Foresti V

更新日期：1976-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports data concerning the prevalence of anti HCV in a population of 166 drug addicts and 25 partners (14 drug addicts and 11 with no history of substance abuse) of subjects proven anti HCV positive. The study was carried out in order to evaluate the importance of the haematic and sexual modes of transmiss...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Vannucci P,Dei A,Moncini C,Corti F,Boffoli M,Cancellotti F,Pesola A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examine the pharmacological characteristics, distribution and clinical effects of natural (somatostatin) and synthetic (octreotide) growth hormone release inhibitors (GHRIH). They mainly discuss the analgesic effect of these substances using intraspinal, epidural and subarachnoid administration. The intras...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Beltrutti D,Debernardi F,Pelosi G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with various neoplasias and radiological and scintigraphic evidence of multiple osteolytic lesions were studied between March 1979 and December 1981 at the Savona Oncology Service. All of them were treated with chemo and/or hormone therapy, plus 100 UMRC salmon calcitonin a day for 20 days a month until...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pastorino G,Bianucci M

更新日期：1983-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A case characterized by a dark pigmentation of the skin with an initial hypotension and a lung tuberculosis in the remote anamnesis is described. The skin pigment was formed by lipofuscin and emosiderin, but only the former was found in the liver biopsy. Anyway, the pigment was not melanine and the surrenalic function...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bertello P,Ciocca Vasino MA,Ferrua F,Lalloni R,Di Cerbo M,Rietto GB

更新日期：1979-02-04 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：:Acute suppurative thyroiditis is an acute disease of the thyroid gland. In this paper the authors report a case of acute suppurative thyroiditis complicated by abscessual evolution in an addict patient study with ultra-sonography and treated with fine needle aspiration and antibiotic therapy. The patient reached our o...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Gimondo P,Messina G,Gimondo S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis risk factor, 8,5% two, 2,7% three and 0,6% four.rs have been investigated in 194 males and 135 female, 25 years old. Elevated lipids were found in 7,3% of the sample; "labile" and stable hypertension in 2,7%; diabetes mellitus in 2,7% and overweight in 19%. 19% of the subjects smoked more than 20 cigar...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Vergani C,Minozzi A,Pozzi G,Cappelletti M,Dell'Orto C,Cesana GC,Colombo F,Corbetta E

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Author refers some data about prevalence and incidence of infection and morbidity in tubercular disease. These data are very discordant according to different social conditions of countries in which they are been derived. Particularly, he analyses the importance of an extended tuberculin survey, as the essential metho...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pio A

更新日期：1984-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors examine the possibilities of instrumental diagnosis in patients with the "diabetic foot" syndrome. The lack of clinical relevance of the so called "microangiopathy" is stressed, because. Indeed, either the "macroangiopathy" or the diabetic neuropathy are responsible for almost all the symptoms of this synd...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bronzi G,Orlando D,Venarucci V,D'Alonso L,Bellagamba G,Delle Monache G

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper provides the description of a data-base developed to include in a quite structured format most clinical data used for patient management in a hospital setting. The system was aimed at achieving a reasonable compromise between the significant but complex solutions the research offers and the real needs of med...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Torchio M,Molino F,Seidenari C,Molino G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignancy of the liver with a worldwide increasing incidence. The incidence of HCC is closely related to the epidemiology of the risk factors which are mainly represented by chronic viral hepatitis B and C. Obesity and type II diabetes, often associated with c...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cicinnati VR,Sotiropoulos GC,Beckebaum S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple routine endoscopic screening test has been sought for the diagnosis of chronic atrophic gastritis. An endoscopic-bioptic study was therefore carried out on 850 subjects presenting consecutively at a Digestive Endoscopy Department with dyspeptic-pain symptomatology. In a first sample of 389 patients, 2 biopsie...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Leandro G,Di Mario F,Valiante F,Cardin F,Farinati F,Manghisi OG,Caruso ML,Di Matteo G,Giorgio P,Naccarato R

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer. For over a decade, the gold standard of treatment and secondary prevention of cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) has been represented by low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs), which are currently recommended as the first-...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ageno W,Barni S,Di Nisio M,Falanga A,Imberti D,Labianca RF,Mantovani L

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 1986 and December 1991, the Italian Cooperative Group on AIDS-related tumours documented 94 HIV related solid tumours. Of 21 germinal testicular tumours collected, ten were seminomas. Cervical carcinoma was observed observed in 28 IVDAs (intraepithelial in 8 and advanced, with rapid progression, in on...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Crosato IM,Tirelli U,Vaccher E,Clerici M,De Lalla F,Faustini M,Gritti F,Lazzarin A,Magnani G,Marini B

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interest that surrounds the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is due not only to its causal role in several gastroduodenal diseases, but also to its supposed involvement in the pathogenesis of extragastric manifestations. This review provides a literature update on the hypothetic correlation between H. pyl...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pellicano R,Savi L,De Martino P,Morgando A,Astegiano M,Pinessi L,Rizzetto M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic back pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide and it is still inadequately treated. Tapentadol is a dual-acting analgesic drug μ-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, carrying a lower risk for opioid withdrawal symptoms and opioid-related adverse effects in compariso...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Finco G,Mura P,Musu M,Deidda C,Saba M,Demelas I,Evangelista M,Sardo S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study is to verify the therapeutical effect of acupuncture reflexotherapy in low back pain treatment and to test if the number of sessions could influence the results at the end of therapy. METHODS:Thirty-one patients, suffering from low back pain, were randomly divided into 2 groups: the first gro...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ceccherelli F,Gagliardi G,Barbagli P,Caravello M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) has a crucial role in the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions and rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) can increase its diagnostic yield. Rapid on-site evaluation is not always available and after EUS-FNA provides a cytology specimen with scant c...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Arena M,Eusebi LH,Pellicano R,Palamara MA,Iabichino G,Consolo P,Fagoonee S,Opocher E,Barabino M,Luigiano C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The many aspects of heart electrical activity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have recently been described in numerous occasions. A vectorcardiographic study was made of two sisters with an echocardiographic diagnosis of hypertrophy of the free wall of the left ventricle. Both the ECG and the VCG shown evidence of pseu...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Alcini E,Mottironi P,Anastasi R,Palagi L

更新日期：1984-10-27 00:00:00