abstract：:We studied hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg), surface antibody (HBsAb) and "core" antibody (HBcAb) prevalence in 166 among hospital personell and patients with and without liver disease. Results show there is a very high prevalence of hepatitis B virus markers in such populations and the presence of HBcAb in a...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ardito D,Bianco T,Demundo T,Loiodice L

更新日期：1980-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional conservative treatment of chronic uremia is aimed at reducing protein intake to a minimum level compatible with nitrogen balance. A great progress in this field is represented by a low protein diet associated with some essential aminoacids and ketoanalogues. A group of 20 patients with chronic renal failu...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Giovannetti S,Barsotti G,Morelli E,Ciardella F,Mariani G,Molea N,Panicucci F,Rossi B

更新日期：1980-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:After examining the most recent findings on the physiopathology of the renin-angiotensin system, techniques are analysed for the determination of renin activity (PRA). These are still inadequate and imprecise, notwithstanding radioimmunological techniques and stress is laid on the importance of their standardisation. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Parlapiano C,Vincentelli GM

更新日期：1980-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive method for spectrophotometric determination of penicillamine is described. It is based on the chromatic reaction of penicillamine with phosphomolybdic acid. The method has good sensitivity (1.49 divided by 11.92 microgram/ml) and it is proposed for a clinical control. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Gallo N,Donato Bianco V,Bianco P,Luisi G

更新日期：1980-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this present research work the Authors think that a preliminary echocardiography study may be useful to evoluate the type of answer of the cardiac muscle to the artificial stimulus; they deem, forthmore, thot, among the ecocardiografic obtainable parameters the principle importance must be attributed to the velocit...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Scotto Di Quacquaro G,Franciulli V,Di Napoli T,Punzi M,Giovine F

更新日期：1980-08-25 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：:Personal experience acquired at the allergology polyclinic of the Zurich University dermatological clinic is referred to in an account of the path leading from the provisional diagnosis of respiratory syndrome (rhinopathy and bronchial asthma) to a specific aetiological diagnosis, and hence to treatment of the cause (...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Wüthrich B

更新日期：1980-07-31 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：:The considerable progress made recently in the study of amyloid substance have led to the identification of numerous organised protein components in typical microfibrillar structures. In spite of the biochemical heterogeneity of fibril proteins, it is still possible to find similar chemicophysical and tintorial featur...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Lovisetto P,Gilardi E,Frascisco M,Marchi L,Mairano D

更新日期：1980-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a pharmacokinetic and clinical study of cephamandol naphate indicated that the drug quickly reaches high plasma concentration after both i.m. and i.v. bolus administration. Urinary excretion of the biologically active form is as much as 84--90% of the total dose and mostly takes place in the first 6 hr....

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Di Nola F,Eandi M,Capra E,Soranzo ML,Bosio G,Bramato C,Salassa B,Andrini L,Robecchi GA

更新日期：1980-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypnosis therapy, with its ego support and strengthening techniques, with its cathartic or hypoanalytic method (automatic writing, drawing, hypnodrama but, above all, age regression), by means of will strengthening technique, post-hypnotic comands, etc., represents an all-round system whose aims are not simply to reac...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mastronardi V

更新日期：1980-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors present two cases of atypical depression with prevalently or exclusively somatic symptomatology. They discuss successively on the significance of latent and masked depressions and depressing equivalents, underlining the remarkable importance of the problem also for practical doctors and non-specialists. In...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Finavera L,Armocida G,Majeron MA,Romerio C

更新日期：1980-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acquired idiopathic agammaglobulinaemia in a 23-yr-old woman is presented. The picture included frequent and recurrent lung, sinus and mastoid infections, and diarrhoea. The pathogenesis, radiological picture, and differential diagnosis of this immunological disorder are described. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Neretto G,Poti A,Genovese MG

更新日期：1980-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors report their experience with the placebo, an essential step in the clinical study of reflexotherapy. They assert that also in this branch of medicine it is possible to carry out a "double blind" clinical experimentation by means of placebo, that is, an essential condition in order to develop a scientific a...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ceccherelli F,Ambrosio F,Manani G,Zanardi L,Giusti P

更新日期：1980-03-31 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：:The Authors, on the base of their experience by the Institutes of Surgical Semeiotics at the Trieste University and of Surgical Pathology at the Padua University, report 30 cases of malignant neoplasms of the anus and the anal canal. 17 patients were males and 13 females. Pathological, clinical and diagnostic problems...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pietri P,Terranova O,Gabrielli F,Rebuffat C

更新日期：1980-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:12 patients admitted for neurological diseases and suffering from sleep disturbances, were given Flunitrazepam and placebo (double blind test) in a single evening dose of 1 and 2 mg. Morning recordings of the expectation wave according to G. Walter's technique did not reveal significant changes in wave morphology, amp...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Rizzo PA,Caporali M,Spadaro M,Zanasi M

更新日期：1980-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of xeroradiography for the study of lipomas (limbs, thoracic wall, pelvic and shoulder girdles) was evaluated on 36 consecutive patients; in 16 cases (44%), histological diagnosis on the surgical specimen was also available. Xeroradiography was more effective than standard x-ray films in 13 cases of 14 submitt...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Nessi R,Freri F,Coopmans De Yoldi GF

更新日期：1980-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A new enzymatic fluorimetric assay for the determination of total serum bile acids is described. The enzyme 3 alpha-idroxysteroid NAD oxireductase by oxydising the free OH in position 3 alpha of bile acid molecule, reduce NAD previously added. Afterwards the hydrogen of the generated NADH is transferred by a diaphoras...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Annoni G,Barbi G,Benzio G

更新日期：1980-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In an assessment of the degree of adrenergic activity in the course of diabetes mellitus, plasma levels and urinary excretion of norepinephrine and epinephrine were determined in 20 normal subjects and 47 diabetics: 11 in good control (group I), 23 in poor control (group II), 13 with frank ketoacidosis (group III). Th...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bolli G,Cartechini MG,Compagnucci P,Massi-Benedetti M,Filipponi P,Nicoletti I,De Feo P,Angeletti G

更新日期：1979-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In the treatment of varicose veins and their complications most European phlebologists use today, unlike the past, surgery, sclerotherapy and compression without any preconceived preference, guided solely by the indications of choice of each method. Within this framework, it is generally admitted that surgery is by fa...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bassi G

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:A case of trophoblastic disease in a twin pregnancy is described from its diagnosis to follow-up after emptying of the uterine cavity. The possible causes of trophoblastic disease are discussed. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Dolfin G,Dolfin AM,Giana M,Siliquini GP,Siliquini PN

更新日期：1979-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Methergoline was administered for 5 consecutive days starting on the morning after delivery in the block of lactation in 30 patients. The efficacy of the drug was evaluated in terms of milk production, and mammary congestion and pain. The results obtained and the absence of side-effects showed that the drugs was very ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Giana M,Dolfin G,Siliquini G

更新日期：1979-11-10 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：:The action of alpha-mercaptopropionylglycine has been studied in 27 subjects occupationally exposed to lead. In addition to improved efficiency of liver function, the results show a tendency to normalization of the various porphyrinic metabolism parameters considered. A significant increase was observed in erythrocyte...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Franco G,Malamani T,Scalisi L

更新日期：1979-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Only seven hundred cases of chordoma approximatively are reported in medical literature from 1850 to date. We now describe two cases recently observed at our Medical Division, one of sacro-coccigeal chordoma and the other developed from clivus of Blumenbach. Their peculiarities are briefly discussed and compared with ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mensi F,Bombara R,Massari A,Sala F,Visca U

更新日期：1979-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of corticosteroid-sensitive pulmonary eosinophilia with protracted course, followed up for more than years, is reported. After highlighting the diagnostic difficulties of such clinical pictures and their as yet ill-defined nosological contours, the comparative benignity of most of such forms is stressed. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Agati G,Sacco E,Raimondi M

更新日期：1979-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and features of the smallpox virus are described and an account is given of the clinical picture of the disease. Tables and graphs are cited to illustrate the progress of the WHO's eradication campaign over the last 10 years. In dealing with part played by the aeroplane in the epidemiology of smallpox, a...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cavaricci A

更新日期：1979-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional study was made of 40 patients with bioptically diagnosed CPH. Fractional BSF clearance was the most frequently altered test and its correlation with the anatomical damage was significant. In particular, the fractional uptake clearance (K1) gave a pointer to both the presence of liver damage and its type. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Testa R,Dellepiane F,Assereto R,Celle G

更新日期：1979-07-14 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：:A case of carcinoid tumor of the last ileal loop is presented; the first clinical sign was exophthalmos due to bilateral orbital metastases. The case is believed to be the third recorded one of carcinoid with metastases to the orbit; other metastatic lesions were located in myocardium, liver, spleen, kidney, ovary and...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Gandini R,Mariscotti C,Cunietti E

更新日期：1979-03-17 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：:Results with diethyl-IDA in the diagnosis of dilatation and obstruction of the bile ducts are reported. By comparison with methyl-IDA, the more rapid blood clearance and slower renal excretion of diethyl-IDA do not lead to interference on the part of the right kidney and ureter during the first 30' of scintiscanning. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mussa GC,Bona G,Silvestro L

更新日期：1979-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress is laid on the importance in digestive and absorptive physiology. The methods used for the re-insertion of the duodenum in the digestive circuit in the surgical correction of servious post-Billroth II syndromes are explained. Direct duodenal reconversion by means of the transformation of gastrojejunostomy into ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Brancadoro G,Petrassi A,Ettorre D,Prosperi L,Cellitti M,Brocato R,Brancadoro D

更新日期：1978-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A physiopathological approach to the treatment of chronic pneumogenous respiratory insufficiency is proposed. To this end, disturbances of the ventilatory and alveolocapillary stages of the pulmonary respiratory function are discussed. Particular attention to distribution and diffusion disturbances and the main diseas...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Petraglia A,Scarpitta M,Caruso C,Consoli A

更新日期：1978-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 1258 polyps from the lower gastro-intestinal tract removed by rectoscopy or coloscopy and examined histologically there were 744 adenomas, 72% tubular, 27% papillary and 1% villous. 96.5% of all adenomas were extracted from patients aged over 40 years. Four fifths of the tumours were found in the rectum and sigm...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Frimberger E,Kühner W,Seib HJ,Ottenjann R

更新日期：1978-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in body weight (absolute and percent), overweight index, and body surface area were examined in 27 grossly obese subjects after jejunal-ileal by-pass. Curves were steeper and linear for 3-4 months and then flattened out for the remainder of the twelve-month period of observation. They were parallel to each oth...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Doldi SB,Germiniani R

更新日期：1978-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of aneurysmatic dilatation of the vena cava superior is presented. This lesion is rare and not commonly taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis of anterior mediastinal masses. Chest X-rays taken during inspiration and expiration and in the standing and reclining positions (particularly the second...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bonomo L,Basilico L,Falappa PG,Ronzoni G

更新日期：1978-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:PRA (in the supine and erect subject) and urinary sodium before and after acute treatment (100 mg i.m.) and chronic treatment (100 mg per os for 8 days) were examined in two groups of subjects with no signs of cardiovascular or renal disease. It was found that indomethacin, which is a well-known inhibitor of prostagla...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Frisina N,Buemi M,Lasco A,Bellinghieri G,Lo Schiavo F,Ceruso D

更新日期：1978-09-15 00:00:00