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P Mauro

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PubMed1991

Psychiatric diagnoses in ulcerative colitis. A controlled study.

Fifty patients with UC and 50 matched controls with urolithiasis were interviewed with the SADS (lifetime version) and completed the SCL-90. According to information given during the SADS, there was a history of psychiatric disturbance in 11 UC patients (22%) and 8 controls (16%). At the time of the interview a psychiatric disturbance was present in 31 UC patients (62%) and four controls (8%), the most frequent diagnoses in the former being minor depression and generalised anxiety disorder. Patients with UC scored significantly higher than the controls on all the different SCL-90 subscales.

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PubMed1988

[Type A personality and risk of post-infarction coronary events].

The purpose of this study was to verify the prevalence of Coronary-prone Behaviour Pattern in a group of eighty-eight patients recovering from their first episode of myocardial infarction. These patients were followed for a period of 4 years to verify the eventual appearance of coronary events, after their first myocardial infarction, with high Coronary-prone Behaviour Pattern levels. The results showed that the number of subjects who died from recurrent myocardial infarction was nearly twice as high in type B, non coronary-prone subjects, as in type A subjects. The Authors hypothesize that specific ways of coping with stressful events adopted by type A subjects may constitute a protection factor as regards the risk of death from recurrent myocardial infarction.

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PubMed1986

Type A behavior pattern and mortality after recurrent myocardial infarction: preliminary results from a follow-up study of 5 years.

The purpose of the current study is to examine the association between the type A Behavior Pattern (TABP) and recurrent myocardial infarction (RMI). Rosenman's Structured Interview was administered to a consecutive series of patients admitted to the hospital for myocardial infarction (n = 88). Incidence and mortality from RMI in relation to TABP categories were evaluated after a follow-up period of 5 years. The number of new episodes of myocardial infarction observed in the extreme categories was nearly the same but the number of subjects who dies was nearly twice as large in the B as in the A1 category (10.3% vs. 5.8%, chi 2 = 9.074, p less than 0.0283). No subject was observed to survive after RMI in the B group. In agreement with other recent studies, our preliminary results failed to confirm the association between TABP and RMI, but showed a protection from death for subjects displaying high TABP levels. This finding is discussed in terms of the possibility for type A subjects to cope better with the acute illness.

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PubMed1985

Slow-release lithium in treatment of schizoaffective syndromes.

Schizoaffective disorders are a blurred category of psychiatric pathology in which lithium seems to exert therapeutic effects. The present study was made on patients suffering from affective syndromes with positive schizophrenic symptoms ranging from none to severe. They were hospitalized because of an acute episode, treated with a slow-release lithium preparation (Hypnorex) following the attack therapy and followed up for a mean period of two years. Diagnosis were done according to the American Psychiatric Association diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM III) criteria, while clinical evaluations were carried out on the basis of an original lithium therapy assessment protocol. Lithium was demonstrated to be prophylactic to relapses of affective symptoms, its effectiveness as a whole being proportional to the purity of the major affective disorder. Slow release lithium was found a reliable pharmaceutical tool in both providing therapeutic results and avoiding severe side-effects. The therapeutic range of lithium serum levels was within 0.5-0.6 mEq/l. It is hypothesized that the response to lithium therapy could be a guide in the differential diagnosis between schizoaffective and schizoaffective-like syndromes.

Adolescent↗
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[Post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernia with late diagnosis. Report of a clinical case].

Starting from the observation of a case of late diagnosed left-side hernia after traumatic rupture of diaphragma, the authors consider the increasing incidence of this pathology during the years. The increased frequency of thoraco-abdominal traumas and the more sophisticated diagnostic tools, permit an earlier diagnosis nowadays. In our patient the diagnosis was made late on the basis of the standard x-ray of the thorax. The CT scan of the thorax and of the abdomen gave more informations. Left thoracotomy enabled a wide exposure of the herniated viscera; the breakthrough of the diaphragm was repaired by means of interrupted suture and it was necessary to apply two prostheses of synthetic material.

Adult↗
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[Chromoendoscopy in the diagnosis of precancerous lesions of the esophagus. Our experience].

The elements of an unfavourable prognosis for oesophageal cancer are frequent metastasis, high incidence of local recurrence and mainly the difficulty of an early diagnosis. Alcohol, tobacco and precancerous lesions are the most important risk factors of these tumours. According to literature, the authors suggest the method of chromoendoscopy, with vital staining by lugol or blue toluidine for endoscopic; guidance to biopsy in the aimed screening of patients, whose habits--alcohol, smoking--should cause, in time, the rising of lesions with neoplastic potentiality. Endoscopy with bioptic test is the best diagnostic investigation. In fact sensibility and specificity of these investigations increase using this method with vital staining.

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