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Roberto Torre

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PubMed2004

[Screening for thyroid disorders in elderly patients].

In elderly patients, thyroid diseases may remain undiagnosed due to the lack of specificity of the clinical presentation. Thyroid function alterations seem to be more common in older persons than in adults. The aim of our study was to evaluate the incidence of thyroid function alterations in 300 elderly patients admitted to the division of Internal Medicine of the local hospital in Levanto, in a one-year period. Thyroid function alterations were discovered in 12.6% of the patients and considering the group of patients in whom a thyroid function alteration was demonstrated, 45% of them were affected by hypothyroidism (10.7% overt primary hypothyroidism, 28.9% sub-clinical hypothyroidism, 5.4% hypothyroidism secondary to hypopituitarism), 15.6% by hyperthyroidism (overt 7.8% , subclinical 7.8%), and 39.4% showed a low T3 syndrome. Our data confirm the high incidence of previously unrecognized thyroid diseases in the elderly patients admitted to an hospital and the profit that these patients can receive from the appropriate diagnosis at the admission and justify the cost of routine testing for FT4 and TSH in every person at hospital admission.

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[Nursing Intervention Classification (N.I.C.) and Nursing Outcome Classification (N.O.C,) of Iowa University: a description of methods, tools and contents].

This article is meant to introduce NIC and NOC classification by briefly describing the methodological pathway that was used to realize the two classifications and the underpinning philosophy that has enforced its implementation. The taxonomic structures of both classifications will be described too and the involvements on its use in the clinical field.

Education, Nursing↗
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[Infective endocarditis with para-aortic abscess in mechanical aortic prosthesis].

Infective endocarditis (the infection of heart valves or, in generally, of endocardium) is a serious disease that requires a fast diagnosis, an aggressive and appropriate therapy and, if necessary, a collaboration between internist and surgeon. In this article we report a clinical case of an infective endocarditis in an old female patient, yet treated for aortic valve stenosis with replacement with mechanical prosthesis complicated by paravalvular abscess.

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