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L Steidl

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PubMed1984

[EMG method in assessing diaphragmatic paralysis in a miner as an occupational disease].

A diaphragmatic palsy of a miner as an occupational accident happened during backdrawing pit props out of a low seam. For this trauma an excessive stretching of the spinal roots of the n. phrenicus with simultaneous presence of osteoarthrotic alterations in the area of the cervical vertebra was held responsible. The investigation of the cervical muscles on the side of palsy demonstrated a depressed activity corresponding to the radicular phrenicus palsy.

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PubMed1983

Prognostic value of the staging system proposed by Merlini, Waldenström and Jayakar for multiple myeloma.

We have reviewed a series of 90 consecutive patients with multiple myeloma (MM) diagnosed in the period 1.1.1971-31.12.1980 and subsequently treated with an intermittent administration of melphalan and prednisone (62 IgG MM, 20 IgA MM and 8 Bence-Jones (BJ) MM). Unfavorable prognostic factors were: presence of micromolecular M component (K or lambda), serum creatinine greater than or equal to 2 mg/dl, serum calcium greater than or equal to 12 mg/dl, presence of BJ proteinuria, Hb less than 10 g/dl, diffuse osteolytic lesions, bone marrow plasma cell percentage greater than or equal to 30%. In particular, according to the recent staging system proposed by Merlini et al. [Blood 55: 1011, 1980], the most important prognostic parameters for IgG and BJ MM were: serum creatinine, BMPC % and serum calcium; for IgA MM the most important were: serum hemoglobin, calcium and M component levels. We have compared the survival curve of 45 patients who died, with the predicted survival curve according to the multivariate regression analysis of Merlini and co-workers; the prediction was equally precise for all the three types of MM considered, thus showing the high sensibility of this new staging system.

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