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G Giraldi

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PubMed1998

[Hardiness test in obstetrics. Behavior of the pregnant woman facing the stress of labor and delivery].

BACKGROUND: Evaluation of the hardiness test, already used to evidentiate the ability to face the stress, among women in pregnancy, in order to evaluate the possibility to face the stress of labor and delivery. METHODS: The test has been used in 67 normal pregnant women, with gestational age between the 32th and 36th week of gestation. The value of the hardiness test in the three components of "Challenge", "Control", and "Commitment" has been evaluated. These indexes have been correlated with the modality of delivery, age, choice of epidural analgesia, fetal weight and gestational age at delivery. RESULTS: Higher incidence of vaginal delivery among subjects with high value of hardiness in relation with subjects with low value of hardiness has been found. The index parameter which seems most conditioning the ability to affront the stress of labor is the "Challenge". Significant correlation between the value of hardiness and other parameters of delivery are not evident. CONCLUSIONS: The values of the Hardiness test seems to be significant, but it would be a mistake to use them as a predictive index of the modality of delivery; it seems to be most important to employ the test to assure more care to pregnant women with a reduction of the ability to face the stress of labor and delivery, in order to reduce the risk of problems in mother-child relations.

Adult↗
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[The lung in AIDS].

The aim of this study was to underline the important role played by respiratory tract pathologies in HIV-infected subjects and to evaluate the incidence of respiratory pathologies in HIV-positive subjects in the province of Cosenza. After examining recently reported data, the authors analyse the patients studied by the Infectious Disease and Pneumology Divisions of the United Hospitals of Cosenza with the collaboration of the Virology Unit over the two-year period 1992-1994. As well as the lower incidence of HIV infection in this area compared to the rest of Italy, the paper highlights the reduced percentage of concomitant respiratory pathologies. The authors attempt to interpret the significance of these results.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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[Update on HIV infection in the province of Cosenza. HIV infections and respiratory disease].

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the incidence of HIV infection and concomitant pathologies, paying special attention to those involving the respiratory tract, in the Province of Cosenza through a retrospective study of patients monitored by the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Pneumology with the collaboration of the Virology Unit of the United Hospitals of Cosenza. The results obtained show that there is a lower incidence of AIDS and HIV-correlated respiratory pathologies in this area compared to the rest of Italy but, in spite of this, the authors highlight the need in Calabria for those centres and structures that have been planned but never completely realised (Law 135/90; DPR 7/4/94; etc.) which would enable infected subjects to be identified and the necessary measures for prevention, diagnosis and treatment to be implemented.

Adolescent↗