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C Belli

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PubMed1976

[On the use of an anabolic hormone in the acute myocardial infarction. Experimental trial on 486 patients (author's transl)].

An anabolic hormone, methandrostenolone, was shown to be able to decrease significantly the cicatrization-time on animals with induced sperimental acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A controlled clinical trial was performed on group of 246 patients affected by AMI, giving them methandrostenolone at dose of 25 mg im.m. per day, for the first ten days from the beginning of symptoms. An omogeneous group of 240 patients with AMI was used as control. The mortality rate resulted 13,4% in the treated group 18,7% in the control's. 10 patients in the treated group (4,2%) died of cardiac failure versus 17 (7,1%) in the control group, 9 (3,7%) of cardiac rupture in the former versus 6 (2,4%) in the latter. As far as these differences are concerned statistical significance was not reached. A larger number of patients would be requested.

Aged↗
PubMed1976

[Variable aspects in mitral valve prolapse. Echographic and phonocardiographic studies of 68 cases (author's transl)].

Previous parallel echocardiographic-angiocardiographic studies have proven specificity and sensitivity of ultrasonography in diagnosing prolapse of the mitral valve. Echocardiograms and phonocardiograms from 68 patients with mitral valve prolapse were studied. Echocardiograms suggestive of mitral valve prolapse were obtained in 66 patients. The typical abnormality consisted of an abrupt posterior displacement of the mitral valve leaflets, either late systolic or pansystolic. Moreover a new pattern not previously described was observed, i.e. an abrupt isolated early systolic posterior motion of the mitral leaflets ("early prolapse"). Phonocardiography, on the other hand, showed a variable spectrum of acoustic findings: non-ejection systolic click and/or late systolic murmur, pansytolic murmur, early systolic click,ejectioarly systolic click, ejection murmur, in variable association, and finally no abnormal sound at all ("silent prolapse"). The authors conclude that mitral valve prolapse may be suspected, whatever the auscultatory finding. Echocardiography provides a useful, non invasive method for detecting those forms which also present an uncommon auscultatory pattern.

Adolescent↗