abstract：:The authors describe the characteristics of a rare hemoglobin mutant found in a young female. She carries the aminoacid replacement of Hb-Hinsdale:beta139(H17)ASN-->Lys, which was identified at molecular level. This case, clinically and hematologically symptomless, is identical, but genetically independent, to the cas...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Degani V,Leone D,Murtas R,De Angelis S,Rabino-Massa E

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spa therapy is frequently used in daily rheumatological practice, but its benefit remains to be evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of mud-packs and mineral baths with fluorurate radioactivity water from the thermal resort of Merano (Bolzano) versus short wa...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fioravanti A,Bisogno S,Nerucci F,Cicero MR,Locunsolo S,Marcolongo R

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:The frequency of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) increases with age and more effective and less toxic chemotherapy schedules are needed in elderly patients. Cisplatin-based regimens are considered the best treatment for advanced NSCLC, although they produce only a modest advantage in overall surv...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Lippe P,Silva RR,Giuliodori L,Cancellieri MA,Battelli N,Massacesi C,Berardi R,Bisonni R,Gesuita R,Cellerino R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief review of Takayasu's Arteritis (TA), a chronic granulomatous arteritis that mainly affects the aorta and its major branches, is made. The various ethiopathogenetic mechanisms which may give origin to the vascular damage and its pathologic pattern are described. TA is a more widespread disease than previously s...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Parisi G,Gobbini AR,Vedovini G,Castro R,Campanella G,Biagi P

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Doping is widely known as the use of banned substances and practices by athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. The term doping likely derives from "dope", an ancient expression referred to a primitive alcoholic drink that was used as a stimulant in South African ceremonial dances; gradually, the term...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Lippi G,Guidi G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper the incidence of lymphomatous disease in Messina and its province, with growing urbanization and rural limiting areas, is discussed: by analysing 150 cases of malignant lymphoma observed at our Institute from 1990 to 1995. The method proposed, based on data obtained from the medical files of these...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Chillè G,Tomasello R,Silipigni AM,Picone GS,Chiofalo G,Rizzotti P,Caristi N,La Torre F

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The priorities of a modern emergency care unit with more than 20,000 patients/year are analysed underlining that only a professional organization can offset the increasing demand of the population. The importance of a pre-evaluation of the patients in a triage unit to privilege the real emergency cases is underlined. ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Massaia Lamberti G,Roveda G,Boni M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Tissue Factor (TF, thromboplastin) as the major factor in initiation of the blood coagulation process has been known for more than 100 years. Its importance for the development of clinical thrombosis, be it venous or arterial, and the complexity of the cell biology of TF, have however been increasingly app...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Camici M,Sagripanti A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calm breathing requires little effort on the part of the inspiratory muscles to overcome the elastic and non-elastic resistances of the chest-lung system. Spontaneous expiration is passive and does not engage the respiratory muscles. In the event of restriction or obstruction, however, there are changes in these two t...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Anania A,Striglia E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthmatic subjects can only be allowed to take part in sport activities after a careful functional evaluation of pulmonary function. For sport disciplines which require a mainly anaerobic metabolism it is enough to evaluate the respiratory function at rest, while for sport disciplines which require a mainly aerobic me...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Romano A,Canino B,Lo Presti R,Oddo G,Sarno A,Caimi G

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 58-year old man affected by heart failure on ischemic basis, as clinical onset of essential mixed cryoglobulinemia (EMC) is reported. Laboratory assays, ECG at rest and exercise electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, myocardial scintigraphy, cardiac catheterization with coronarography, hepatic, bone and kidn...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bragagni G,Baldini A,Bianconcini M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), a disease still of unknown origin, is a generalized autoimmune disorder characterized by immunological abnormalities, microvascular dysfunction, and tissue fibrosis. The mechanism leading to selective microvascular injury in PSS is not completely known, however it is now clear tha...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Cafagna D,Melon F,Balbi M,Ponte E

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：METHODS:The peripheral blood lymphocytes and lung function have been studied in 25 patients: 12 affected by atopic asthma and 13 affected by non atopic asthma. RESULTS:The results obtained indicate that peripheral blood CD3 and CD4 cell as well as HLA-DR marker are higher in the extrinsic asthma group. CONCLUSIONS:Th...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Anania A,Fassio S,Cascio G

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A case of Still's disease in the adult, an uncommon seronegative rheumatoid arthritis-like disease with prominent systemic features is reported. This case did not show the typical clinical features and appeared like a fever of unknown origin. CASE REPORT:A 60 year-old female was admitted to the hospital for...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Regoli G,Trotta M,Agostino I

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:An open-label, randomised, multicentre study was carried out to compare the efficacy and tolerability of indomethacin capsules and ketoprofen controlled-release capsules in the symptomatic treatment of coxarthrosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:113 out-patients were enrolled: 57 were assigned to receive indomethac...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Marcolongo R,Canesi B,Ferri S,Oriente P,Perpignano G,Serni U,Tirri G,Trotta F,Dal Prà A,Lucchini M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors compared the results and complications in surgical treatment of idiopathic scoliosis with Harrington's rod instrumentation with subtrasversal wires in dorsal treat. METHODS:A research on 87 cases operated on for idiopathic scoliosis from 1987 to 1995 is carried out. The 87 cases include 65 femal...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Costanzo G,Savi Scarponi F,Fricano C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：MATERIALS AND METHODS:Serum levels of IgA, IgG and IgM were measured in 46 patients (34 women, 12 men) with rheumatoid arthritis. The duration of the disease ranged from 6 months to 30 years; the patients follow-up ranged from 6 months to 12 years. RESULTS:Serum IgA levels higher than the normal (> 450 mg/dl) were fou...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Ferlazzo B,Bonanno D,Quattrocchi P,Mazzeo L,Barrile A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to evaluate, by Stress-Exercise Electrocardiography (SE), the presence of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) in patients with asymptomatic or symptomatic carotid stenosis, who had no history of myocardial ischemia. MATERIALS, METHODS AND RESULTS:133 patients with significant carotid...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Sconocchini C,Racco F,Pratillo G,Alesi C,Zappelli L

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a peripheral neuropathy is the best known neurological complication of Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia (WM), the association of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or other Motor Neuron Diseases (MND) with monoclonal gammopathies is described. We report the case of a male patient (41 years old) with WM and A...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Vannucci P,Castiglioni M,Filidei M,Riccioni N

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elderly population is rapidly increasing in Western countries. Old age indirectly represents one of the most important risk factors for the development of neoplasias. In Italy in 1991 a total of 14,572 deaths from tumours were recorded, equivalent to 27% of all deaths; of these over 66% affected individuals aged o...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Caruso U,Bianco V,Corsonello F,Giunta S,Riondino G

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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：:The authors examine the clinical connotations of arterial hypertension in a geographical population of 1002 patients attending the Cardiological Outpatient Clinic of Unit no.2 in the Isonzo area (Monfalcone) using the most appropriate statistical methods, such as SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) impl...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Tamburrini LR,Ponte E,Benedetti M,Burri R,Carbonari A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteric glial cells, strictly associated with enteric neurons to build up enteric ganglia, belong to the enteric nervous system (ENS), which coordinates many bowel functions. The ENS is spread throughout the gut in myenteric and submucosal plexuses. In our research work, we studied immunohistochemically the ENS in two...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Bongioanni P,Castagna M,Morisi M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological aging in older women it is not necessarily the cause of a change in their sexual attitudes. The organic changes, during concomitant illness, is often known to be the cause of sexual dysfunction, when present. Psychosocial factors are also very important in determining sexual dysfunction. Successful manag...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Calcaterra R,Cembalo G,Belmonte M,Merante A,Mattace R

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Acarbose represents the first of a new class of oral antidiabetic drugs: the alpha-glucosidases inhibitors. This drug in fact delays the production of monosacchtarides inhibiting the alpha-glucosidases of the small bowel, that are responsible of digestion of complex polysaccharides and sucrose. In patients with insuli...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Coli P,Pea E,Lacorte M,Passaglia C,Carrai M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HCV positive hepatitis possesses a relevant social impact as regards national health costs. On the other hand, interferon (IFN) therapy represents to date the best therapeutic approach to this problem. However, several clinical questions have arisen regarding the efficacy and safety of long-term treatments, and above ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Perasso A,Testino G,Sumberaz A,Ansaldi F

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results obtained with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVGG) in 15 patients suffering from Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) with substantial motor damage. All of them met the NINCDS criteria for a diagnosis of certain GBS and were graded using a specific scale on entry, after 2 weeks, one month, two months, six ...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fasanaro AM,Pizza V,Rossi V

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well known is the need to treat "acute onset" Anorexia Nervosa in care units. Nevertheless even the "successfully treated" patients show a very high percentage of relapse. The aim of our study has been to revalue different clinical, nutritional (hemoglobin, transferrin, IGF1), hormonal (thyroid function, gonadotropins...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Foppiani L,Uva V,Falivene M,Valenti S,Traversa C,Rasore E,Giusti M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 104 workers were examined. They were employed in selecting rags and separating the lining from wollen fabrics to be used again as thread waste in the textile industry. The aim of the study was to point out tendon and joint related disorders of the upper limb due to repetitive and forced movements. Twenty-ei...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fioravanti A,Cocco R,Francioni C,Innocenti A,Megale F,Priolo F,Raspanti S,Sabadini L,Sartorelli P,Vannucchi CE

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several issues concerning the biocompatibility) testing of medical devices as stated in European directive 90/385 and 93/42 are discussed. The authors describe the fundamental characteristics that biomaterials should have to be employed in the human body, the assays useful for testing different aspects of biocompatibi...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Pizzoferrato A,Arciola CR,Cenni E,Ciapetti G,Granchi D,Savarino L,Stea S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Popliteal cysts presenting as thrombophlebitis are unusual diseases of the popliteal fossa and are commonly associated with rheumatoid arthritis or meniscal tears. The authors report the case of a 38-year-old man with Reiter's syndrome in which a synovial cyst of the popliteal space, mimicking symptoms suggestive of d...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Mangiafico RA,Santonocito M,Mandalà ML,Spada RS,Benedetto FA,Malatino LS

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of coronary artery disease is lower in women than in men. Ovarian estrogen is believed to decrease the risk of coronary heart disease. Today, there is an increasing demand for estrogen replacement not only for amelioration of menopausal subjective symptoms but also for the prophylactic action of estroge...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Sarubbi B,Ducceschi V,Russo B,Di Micco G,Iacono A

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of serum bile acids was performed in 86 uremic patients without any liver or bile tract diseases. Thirty-six patients (23 males and 13 females, aged 21-60 years) were on conservative dietary treatment, whereas 50 uremics (31 males and 19 females, aged 23-82 years) were on maintenance hemodialysis. The assa...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Balestri PL,Berni R,Cupisti A,Giordani R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructural change brought about by administration of oestrogens on articular cartilage were evaluated in the course of the present study. To this end 3 stabilized postmenopausal patients were selected who were to undergo bilateral hip prosthesis. After the first operation the patients were started on continuo...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： Fioravanti A,Ruozi P,Bellisai F,Marcolongo R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in prisoners and outpatients attending our center. 2205 specimens were consecutively obtained under code and screened for anti-HCV by the second generation RIBA test and Hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) by CORAB test. After serum samp...

journal_title：Minerva medica

authors： De Mercato R,Cantiello JP,Celentano U,Giani U,Romano A,Guarnaccia D,D'Antonio A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00