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S Romeo

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PubMed1982

The diagnostic content of family practice: 50 most common diagnoses recorded in the WAMI community practices.

Because there are several methodological deficiencies in previously published studies, a prospective study was carried out of the 50 most common diagnoses of community-based family practices in the Pacific Northwest. Age and sex of patients and reliability of data were controlled. The data reported show reasonable concordance with other published accounts for 10 most common diagnostic categories. For less frequent diagnoses, however, high variability in rank order is the rule, both within this study and by comparison with other studies. This suggests that the diagnostic content of family practice is far from universal and that diagnostic idiosyncrasies of physicians, regional differences in rates of disease, practice style, and as yet other unexplained factors may significantly influence the diagnostic content of family practice.

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[Varicose disease of the lower limbs: analysis of the most common predisposing factors in a sample of 589 patients from eastern Sicily. A retrospective study].

Authors analyze, retrospectively, the principal predisposing factors to varicose illness: age, sex, pregnancy, oral contraceptives, and labour activity, in 589 patients. They consider the correlation between subjective symptomatology and the time of varicose appearance, in order to individualize a pre-clinical status.

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[The course of varicose disease. Parallel retrospective study of 2 ethnic groups (Catania-Basel)].

Authors presents a retrospective study with two different ethnic groups, one of them from Catania and the other from Basilea, with varicose veins and subjected to a saphenectomy. They studies the following parameters: age at the entrance, and when varicose veins appeared; correlation between varix appearance date and subjective symptomatology; and rapport between varix complications and its duration. The possible incidence of "ambiental factor" and contrasts between the two groups are considered.

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[Headache as a postoperative symptom of patients subjected to saphenectomy using subarachnoid analgesia].

Having confirmed the development of cephalea in a large number of patients undergoing saphenectomy under subarachnoidal anasthetic, the authors wanted to research its probable causes. With this in mind, they observed a group of patients who had varices of the lower limbs which they had operated. They present their study methodology, and then examine and discuss the results. The conclude that many factors are responsible for the aetiology of the symptoms of cephalea. The sex, age, and conditions of venous hypertension in the posterior tibial vein are particularly determining factors.

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[Cholecystectomy and colorectal cancer: a retrospective study of a sample of 285 operated patients].

A review of 285 patients operated for colo-rectal cancer in order to evaluate cholecystectomy rate in their pathologic history is reported. A surprisingly high rate (9.47%) was registered also when compared with Literature data. Although not definitely conclusive for a positive correlation between cholecystectomy and colo-rectal cancer, the Authors believe that this study identifies a subgroup of patients potentially at risk for colo-rectal cancer. In these subjects a prophylactic, periodic colonoscopy could be useful.

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[Parenteral nutrition of patients under intensive chemotherapy: comparative study of two lipid emulsions].

Neoplastic patients receiving intensive chemotherapy often need total parenteral nutrition (TPN), with lipid emulsions based on long-chain triglycerides (LCT) or medium-chain triglycerides (MCT). Potential benefits of MCT include easier metabolism and limited storage. Our present investigation was performed to define if there is any real clinical advantage of any of these lipid emulsions in this group of patients. Fifty-one patients receiving the LCT emulsion and sixty of them receiving the MCT-LCT one were evaluated retrospectively. TPN with 40% of non-protein kilocalories as fat was administered during a mean time of 11.5 days. No differences in total cholesterol, albumin, prealbumin, transferrin, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and transaminases were found between both groups, neither in nitrogen balances. In conclusion, in a group of neoplastic patients receiving intensive chemotherapy, we did not found any advantage of TPN with LCT or MCT-LCT either in nutritional laboratory parameters or in liver function.

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