abstract：:The gastric tolerance of parsalmide, a new analgesic, antirheumatic and sedative substance was tested on a group of 50 arthrorheumatic patients with the purpose of assessing gastric damage if any. It was also compared with the tolerance of the better known antitrheumatic drugs in current use. The study was conducted w...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mirelli E,Fichera G,Boidi G

更新日期：1976-10-31 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：:An account of the effects of recent influenza epidemics is given from the medical standpoint, and also with respect to their social and economic repercussions. The part played by air travel in the carriage of such epidemics is also examined. The immunity of the population of Rome towards an A strain swine fever (A/New...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Frugoni G,Dal Fabbro G,Drago G

更新日期：1976-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the present state of the Central ECG Department serving the "San Giovanni" group of hospitals in Turin and in consideration of the ever growing number of ECG's required daily, a reorganization of the department has become necessary. Such a reorganization must be based on the latest facilities offered by ele...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Spadaccini F

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief survey of the various modifications that may be encountered by drugs through the work of systems that detoxify the liver cell, attention is given to the problem of enzymic induction. The latter is the result of derepression of a gene that codes for a given enzyme; at the molecular level, derepression tak...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Lovisetto P,Giorcelli W,Actis GC,Biarese V

更新日期：1976-09-29 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：:Personal experience in 12 cases of atrial flutter treated with various types of atrial electrostimulation is reported. In 6 cases the sinusal rhythm was obtained immediately. In the remaining cases sinusal rhythm was also obtained with atrial fibrillation from a minimum of 2 minutes to a maximum of 48 hours. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

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

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique for recording His bundle and right branch potential through the veins of the arm instead of by the femoral route is described. Recordings were carried out in 70 patients. In 10, His potential was recorded simultaneously by the femoral and brachial routes. Potentials proved to be similar as regards morp...

journal_title：Minerva medica

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

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results observed during short-period dialysis management lasting 8 months in 80 patients are presented. There was no significant change in blood chemistry and clinical pictures, through intra- and interdialytic well-being improved. Six, out of 33 patients and to be transferred from 12 hr per week to more prolonged tre...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Dogliani M,Jeantet A,Coppo R,Canavese C,Camussi G,Giacchino F,Pacitti A

更新日期：1976-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of dyslipoproteinaemia of type V in a woman suffering from primary hypothyroidism, florid diabetes mellitus and obesity is reported. The case is commented on in general and as regards possible correlations between the diseases and the dyslipoproteinaemic picture. The various therapeutic treatment employed and r...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pagliano FM,Bombara R,Giraldi B,Visca U

更新日期：1976-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:13 patients aged between 69 and 85 suffering from atrial rhythm disease were examined. Special attention was paid to the relationships between this syndrome and acute cerebral vascular pathology. The series shows the high frequency in arrhythmic atrial disease of episodes of incipient loss of consciousness or authenti...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Stefani S,Klugmann

更新日期：1976-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Three groups of patients were compared statistically: 79 with the diagnosis psychosomatic headache' (in the strict sense of the term), 450 others whose headache was part of another disorder (termed symptomatic headache'), and 850 patients free from headache symptoms. The following characteristics were found for the gr...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Timsit M,Urbain E,Sabatier J,Timsit-Berthier M

更新日期：1976-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Headaches appear to be a reaction to changes in either exogenous levels. We are now investigating serum immunoglobulins in women with menstrual migraine and have found that in 22 women, 6 have low immunoglobulin A levels, all below the normal range, and 5 have high immunoglobulin M levels, above the normal range. The ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Grant EC,Pryse-Davies J,Goodwin PM,Caroll JD

更新日期：1976-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular mechanism of migraine attacks--intracranial vasoconstriction during the prodromal stage and passive vasodilatation of extracranial arteries during the painful phase--has been confirmed by modern methods. In addition, number of humoral factors--plasmakinin, serotonin, histamine--intervene in the chain of e...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Berde B,Fanchamps A

更新日期：1976-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of the abdomen by ultrasounds must now be included among routine tools in abdominal diseases. All abdominal organs, with the exception of the intestine with its gas content, are open to investigation with this technique which combines harmlessness and rapidity with its unique possibility of making differ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Durante E

更新日期：1976-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxation and tranquility are commonly induced by acupuncture. Techniques are presented and neurophysiological theories underlying the therapeutic effect are discussed. Emphasis is laid on the importance of this effect in psychiatric management. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Roccia L,Rogora GA

更新日期：1976-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of cold in neurosurgery (cryosurgery) has already clearly shown that it acts on the nervous structures in two opposite directions, depending on the temperature: i.e., at temperature from 0 degrees to --10 degrees, it stimulates the nervous fibres, and, at lower temperatures (below--80 degrees), it caus...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fasano VA

更新日期：1976-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperbaric oxygen may provoke lesions in various organs and tissues depending on the dose and application time. The toxic action mechanisms of oxygen are manifold. The pulmonary lesions that occur in mice submitted to various oxygen pressures are investigated. Anatomo-pathological examination revealed numerous alterat...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cerrati A,Italiano P

更新日期：1976-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of serious, recurrent enterorrhagia is reported. The cause could not be identified with normal diagnostic tools and was discovered only after explorative laparotomy. The finding was benign ulcerated tumour of the small intestine, histologically defined as fibroma with fluorishing cellularity. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Luccioli GM,Consiglio L,Simoni E

更新日期：1976-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare complication of calculous cholecystitis (calculous that had migrated from the gallbladder and held in a circumscribed peritoneal sac with no fistula between this and the gallbladder) was observed in a woman who had been suffering from dropsy of the gallbladder with calculi for some 13 years. The most recent lit...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Sommariva V

更新日期：1976-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental research designed to provoke subcutaneous granulomas by means of vegetable foreign bodies in animals is reported. The possibility of influencing the ongoing picture by means of anti-inflammatory drugs was also investigated. The findings were similar to those observed in a patient with a similar foreign bo...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Vizzini GM

更新日期：1976-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of somatostatin on plasma sugar and insulin levels was determined in 8 normal, 7 diabetic and 5 acromegalic subjects. An absolute fall in blood sugar values on the order of about 20% was noted, though during administration of the drug only, in all cases. Normal and diabetic subjects also showed an approxima...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Carmina E,Lanzara P,Janní A

更新日期：1976-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effectiveness and tolerability of diphthalone and indomethacine administered for long periods were compared in 10 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis in the active phase. Each patient was treated with one of the two drugs on a double blind basis. Diphthalone proved to be more active than indom...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Altucci P,Gattoni A,Leonessa V

更新日期：1976-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-ketonic hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic coma (N.K.H.H.C.) is by no means uncommon in diabetes. Its picture includes sensorial depression, hyperglycaemia, hyperazotemia, marked dehydration and plasma hyperosmolarity. It is mostly found in elderly subjects with non-serious diabetes. Reference is made to 6 personal cases...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Jorini M,D'Amico S,Gelsomino M,Mangione F,Fontanini F

更新日期：1976-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Birth of an infant at term to a diabetic woman with a severe form of Friedreich's disease is reported. The aetiopathogenesis of the cardiac deformities that led to the death of the child on day seven of life is discussed. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Moneta E,Cocchi A,Scoppetta C

更新日期：1976-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of short-life, low energy isotopes has enabled scinti-scanning to be usefully applied in paediatrics. A personal series relating to its employment in the diagnosis of tumours in young infants is presented. Illustrative cases in which the technique gave better indication of the site and extent of neopl...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mussa GC,Martini-Mauri M,Bacolla D,Bona G

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Lyell's syndrome (toxic necrolysis of the epidermis) are reported on account of their rarity. The differential diagnosis of this form and its aetiopathogenesis and treatment are described. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Barbanera M,Menicagli V,Pardelli GC

更新日期：1975-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain applications of radioisotopes to obstetric and gynaecological diagnosis are illustrated. Radioisotopes have been widely employed since the improvement in instrumental methods and the availability of short-life radioisotopes has removed the basic limitation which once prevented their use during the entire fecun...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Laconi A,Caffarelli F,Melfi F

更新日期：1975-12-12 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：:Lactic acid dehydrogenase (LAD) levels were determined in 82 pleural effusion liquids and the respective blood samples from 58 patients. Effusions were classed as transudates and exudates on the basis of clinical and laboratory data. The 16 transudates had absolute protein levels of less than 3 g/100 ml and a liquid: ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Dalmasso F,Pellegrino S,Bellero V

更新日期：1975-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The study deals with obstructed kidneys not visualizable by normal radiography. The various radiological techniques after endovenous urography are analysed as to what extent the data obtained enable the surgeon to choose between radical and conservative measures. The usefulness and limitations of i.v. urography with h...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Navarrette RV

更新日期：1975-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of the correlation between angiography (surgical) and thermography using liquid crystals on a plate (non-surgical, easy, low cost, quick and repeatable) is examined on the basis of a small series. Presuming clinical history is adequate and examinations have eliminated typically surgical cases, the results ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Raso AM,Raso SM

更新日期：1975-11-10 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：:The frequency of thyroid alterations was examined and dietary iodine intake was assessed via urinary iodine in 6-15 yr-old schoolchildren from 145 towns in Piedmont and the Aosta Valley. Local food iodine values were also determined in 56 towns. Alteration frequency and daily urinary elimination of iodine were inverse...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Costa A,Testori OB,Cenderelli G,Patrito G,Piazza A

更新日期：1975-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The A.A. report a case of duodenal ulcer observed in a young patient, showing at the same time and associated the three known complications of this disease. After gastric resection, urgently performed, followed a favourable post-operative course and a very good result at distance. On a study of 710 patients with gastr...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Briguglio A,Neri A

更新日期：1975-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The main points in the history of Australia antigen in the ten years since its discovery are summarised. Reference is made to an epidemic episode observed in a community in discussing a number of aetiopathogenetic and nosological features recently codified by official infectivology. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fortunato A

更新日期：1975-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Some cases of chronic subdural haematomas (in patients aged from 17 to 27 years) with unusual symptomatology and difficult diagnosis are presented. The usefulness of cerebral scintigraphy which can clarify any diagnostic doubt and lead to a right neuroradiological behaviour is underlined. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bellotti C,Formaggio G,Regalia F,Sacerdote I

更新日期：1975-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal research has shown that social failure to adjust can be prevented by early removal of ambiental factors encouraging pathological development of the Ego, and the detection and treatment of psychological tendencies towards the acquisition of deviant stimuli. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Barbagallo A,Bellia A,Benvenuto G,Cosentino F,Riggio TM

更新日期：1975-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiarthrosic effectiveness with respect to spontaneous pain upon movement and pressure, of alclofenac (4-allyloxy-3-chlorophenyl-acetic acid) was tested in a homogeneous group of elderly patients and compared with orally administered indomethacin. The research was carried out in strictly controlled, double-blind ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ziliotto G,Lamberti G

更新日期：1975-09-05 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