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G Fiasconaro

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PubMed1987

[Bone echinococcosis].

Hydatidosis of the bone is a rare form of human echinococcosis. Due to the clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic problems involved, the costal and occipital locations are of particular interest. Both are rare and differ from visceral locations in that they are always "primary" and have the capacity to destroy the bone matrix and infiltrate the adjacent tissues. The course of the disease is particularly slow and without specific signs and symptoms so that it can look like any bone condition. Laboratory tests are frequently negative and not wholly specific. While some authors claim that the radiological picture is of no diagnostic significance, others state that it offers pathognomonic signs. Diagnosis will be obtained through the combined assessment of clinical, radiological, laboratory and anamnestic data. Provenance from a rural area should reinforce the suspicion. Surgery, whether radical or conservative, is the key factor in treatment though local recurrences are common. Better results are obtained by combining surgery with Mebendazole for pre and postoperative prophylaxis. Large doses over a long period will give a better clinical course and reduce the incidence of recurrences. The prognosis is good for both sites as long as surgical treatment is given in good time.

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PubMed1987

Active ovulation management increases the monthly probability of pregnancy occurrence in ovulatory women who receive intrauterine insemination.

The authors examined the hypothesis that active ovulation management would increase the monthly probability of pregnancy occurrence (MPO) in ovulatory women who require intrauterine insemination (IUI). All patients were initially treated during spontaneous ovulatory cycles with IUI performed after the detection of an endogenous lutenizing hormone (LH) surge (phase 1). For phase 2, those patients who had not conceived were offered treatment with fertility medication and IUIs were scheduled accordingly. Four of 76 (5.3%) patients conceived during 180 treatment cycles in phase 1; 9 of 44 (20.5%) patients conceived during 105 treatment cycles in phase 2. The average MPO was 0.022 in phase 1, and 0.085 in phase 2: the difference is significant (P less than 0.02). The authors conclude that fertility medication improves MPO in ovulatory women who undergo IUI for certain infertility situations.

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PubMed1987

Treatment of glossopharyngeal neuralgia by carbamazepine.

An elderly woman who presented with Adams-Stokes attacks that were preceded by paroxysms of neuralgia was successfully treated with carbamazepine. Ventricular asystole was provoked by pharyngeal pain and coincided with loss of consciousness. Vagal reflexes are probably responsible for the bradycardia that causes the cardiac symptoms of glossopharyngeal neuralgia. Carbamazepine (600 mg/day) abolished the pharyngeal pain and associated cardiovascular manifestations in this patient for at least ten months.

Adams-Stokes Syndrome↗