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S Picco

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PubMed1975

[Clinical and statistical considerations on the relation between hematocrit value and blood viscosity].

Blood viscosity at various speed gradients was determined in 186 patients, a range of 245 haematocrit readings varying between 12 and 72 being examined. Statistical analysis of the results revealed a direct proportionality relationship between the two parameters, with viscosity expressed in logarithms. The regression lines accentuate their slope as the speed gradient falls. When determined at high speed gradients, blood viscosity can quintuplicate its value by varying the haematocrit from 10 to 70, while it can increase fully ten times at low speed gradients with the same haematocrit reading variations. Using blood from the same subject, resuspended at different haematocrits, viscosity values were obtained along the lines of regression up to haematocrits of about 70; for higher readings, viscosity data lie above these lines to a greater extent the higher is the speed gradient. Emphasis is laid on the great importance of the haematocrit reading from the rheological viewpoint and the significant clinical deductions that can be made.

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[Non-endocarditic mitral insufficiency].

A case of non endocarditic mitral insufficiency in a 76 years old woman is described. After an extensive pathogenetical introduction, a comparison is made between clinical features of this case an its pathogenetical possibilities. The conclusion is drawn that there are most probabilities for an atherosclerosis of the antero-medial limbus of the mitral valve, arising from a coexisting atherosclerotic mild stenosis of the aortic valves.

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[Motor rehabilitation in the aged. Clinical evaluation of the physiokinesis therapy department at a geriatric division for acute diseases].

Physiokinesitherapeutic results obtained in a geriatrics division showed that aged subjects with motor is injuries have the same chance of recovery as those in middle age. The time required for each stage and the overall duration of treatment are more or less the same. No special technological differences are involved, though close psychological training is necessary, and encouragement of the open brain-environment system may useful. Restrictions, though hardly even contraindications, may be encountered in the form of other infirmities more commonly associated with age. It is clear, therefore, that physiotherapy should always be attempted in the aged, in keeping with the clinical picture as well as the motor lesions involved. Physiokinesitherapy Geriatrics.

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[Clinico-radiological considerations on senile atrophic gastritis].

59 cases of patients in geriatric age have been examined in which clinical symptomatology, radiographic exams and laboratory data had indicated the possible presence of gastric neoplasia. The repetition of the radiographic exam after giving methoclopramide for some days has demonstrated, excluding neoplastic lesion, that it was senile atrophic pseudo-tumoral gastritis. The diagnosis has been confirmed in numerous cases by gastroscopy with biopsy.

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[Current knowledge on memory in the elderly].

In geriatric practice, much thought must be given to initial changes in intelligence and memory due to old age and often suddenly aggravated by dysmetabolic and circulatory disease. Awareness of the memory faculty in the elderly is vital in clinical practice for the purposes of pharmacological and psychological designed to reduce the intellectual decline of the patients. This deficiency in mental personality is an important limitation to rehabilitation which remains the aim of medical attention.

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