Biomedical subjects

S Casale

Publications and source records attributed to S Casale.

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PubMed2002

[Computerized modification of Fukuda test].

OBJECTIVES: To study a new method to apply to Fukuda test in order to overcome the interpretational difficulty associated with a subjective evaluation of the exam. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During the exam, the patient wears a specially-designed headpiece, with a band at the back fitted with a sensor accommodating both a gyroscope and a bi-axial accelerometer. When asked to step in place, he does so in the Romberg position, eyes closed, successively rotating his head to the right and to the left. RESULTS: On analyzing the data obtained through the laterality variable (right/left oscillation) and time variable, it resulted that the difference between the averages referring to the laterality variable of right-handed and left-handed subjects was statistically significant (P = 0.001), while the difference between the averages of the time variable was not. CONCLUSIONS: To be able to propose an evaluation of the clinical validity of the test, further research must be carried out on pathological subjects, thus verifying the applicability of the method to the full.

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PubMed1995

Suicide and custody.

Custodial settings are recognized as an important context both with respect to suicide and self-harm and for HIV prevention and care. This article examines briefly what is known about suicide and self harm in relation to custody, emphasizing the increased risk of suicide and self-harm with suicidal intent among certain subgroups within the custodial population. Subsequently the discussion focuses on the current lack of information as regards HIV prevalence in custodial settings and on HIV related policy and practice in custody. The writer attempts to draw out the implications for HIV related suicide in custody, arguing for a rethinking of traditional approaches to suicide in the light of the new stresses arising from the advent of HIV and AIDS in custody.

Adolescent↗

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Syphilitic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.

A case of syphilitic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta is described. This unusual finding may be misdiagnosed as "inflammatory" abdominal aortic aneurysm, another condition associated with an intense periaortic inflammatory reaction. The authors discuss the differential diagnostic problems and the surgical technique advisable in these cases.

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Tension-free hernioplasty: technical remarks and personal experience.

The authors report their experience with 463 tension free hernioplasty procedures for inguinal and femoral hernias. The surgical technique included the insertion of both a polypropylene plug and a polypropylene mesh, and was carried out mostly in local anesthesia (84.2%) using bupivacaine 0.25% for ileoinguinal and ileohypogastric blockage and mepivacaine 0.5% for local infiltration. There was no major intraoperative complication; local postoperative complications were rare (10%) and easily managed; postoperative pain was frequently observed (66%), though mild and transient; resumption of working activity occurred within a month in 96.6% of cases; there were only 3 post-operative recurrences (respectively, at 1, 6 and 12 months). The authors conclude that the tension free hernioplasty is a simple, rapid, low-cost and effective technique, easily performed under local anesthesia.

Adolescent↗