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G Morandi

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[Echo-angiocardiographic correlations in congenital abnormalities of the mitral valve (author's transl)].

Echocardiographic findings satisfactorily compared with angiocardiographic data in six infants affected by congenital abnormalities of the mitral valve. Peculiar echocardiographic features were as follows: a) mitral stenosis: reduced E-F slope of the anterior mitral leaflet, paradoxical diastolic movement of the posterior leaflet, enlargement of the left atrium; b) "parachute mitral valve": small, dysmorphic, stiff mitral valve, with an extra echo projecting between those of the two leaflets; c) "cor triatriatum": enlarged left atrium whose cavity is divided in two portions by an extra echo; d) "hypoplastic left heart syndrome": the mitral leaflets are thin, short. The ventricular cavity and the diameter of the aorta are small; the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery are on the contrary markedly dilated.

Angiocardiography↗

Drug-induced alterations of the hypothalamus-hypophysis axis.

Omitting hormonal variations caused by other drugs already objects of research, the behaviour pattern of GH, PRL, TSH, following acute administration of cimetidine, nomifensine, domperidone has been considered in normal subjects, in patients with pituitary non-secreting and PRL-secreting adenomas and in patients with amenorrhea-galactorrhea syndrome without evidence of adenoma. The results confirm the influence which drugs employed in the therapy of non-endocrine diseases provide a way to alter the functions of the hypothalamus, sometimes relatively specifically, and the secretion of pituitary hormones provides us with a possibility of analyzing the CNS output.

Adenoma↗