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D Palladino

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A new method of biofeedback in the management of low vision.

Twenty-eight patients with low vision were enrolled into the study. A preliminary study was carried out on 18 eyes of 13 patients with low vision who underwent visual rehabilitation with a new instrument for biofeedback (BF) applied to vision; improved biofeedback integrated system (Ibis). Successively, eight patients (16 eyes) with bilateral low vision were subjected to biofeedback in one eye. The experimental and control eye were evaluated separately. Then a placebo training was developed on seven patients (12 eyes). Visual acuity, colour vision, automated perimetry, contrast sensitivity and flash VEP were evaluated. A brief review of the literature and the possible mechanisms behind the results are discussed.

Adult↗

[Urethral echography: potential and limitations].

Since in the early years of 1980, the diagnostic for images about male's urethral injury was exclusively assigned to urethrocystography. Sially in repeated check the gonads too often are exposed to ionizing radiations. Our results show urethrocystography/ultrasonography good correlation (13/15) cases) with 86% sensibility. Even if the urethrocystography is a methodic of first instance, the urethral ultrasonography is efficacious in follow up of urethral injury, particularly in the study of anterior urethra.

Adolescent↗

[ERCP in the diagnosis of bilio-pancreatic pathology. Comparison with echography and CT].

The authors have evaluated both sensitivity and specificity of ERCP in comparison with other imaging methods, such as US and CT, on the basis of a study of 63 patients with suspected pancreatobiliary pathologies. Our results show ERCP of chronic pancreatitis to have 83% sensitivity and 66% specificity. As for biliary pathologies, sensitivity was 94% and specificity 88%. In pancreatic pathologies, CT sensitivity was 99% and its specificity was 70%. The combined use of ERCP and CT determines a considerable rise in the percentages, and allows the evaluation of both the excretory tree and the parenchyma. As for biliary pathologies, the role of ERCP is fundamental, since its combination with the other methods (CT: sensitivity 72%, specificity 3.5%; US: sensitivity 70%, specificity 3.5%) has not determined but a slight increase in sensitivity, and no significant increase in specificity.

Adult↗