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V Fossaluzza

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Efficacy and tolerability of nimesulide in elderly patients with osteoarthritis: double-blind trial versus naproxen.

A double-blind trial was carried out to assess the therapeutic efficacy and tolerability of nimesulide versus naproxen in the treatment of elderly patients with osteoarthritis. A total of 40 elderly female patients with osteoarthritis of the hip and/or knee were entered into the study and treated with either 200 mg/day nimesulide or 500 mg/day naproxen for 28 days. Both treatments were very effective in alleviating spontaneous pain, pain on movement, morning stiffness and joint mobility. Nimesulide was better tolerated than naproxen with fewer and less serious side-effects being reported. The results of this study show nimesulide to be effective and well tolerated in the treatment of elderly patients with osteoarthritis.

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Salivary gland echography in primary and secondary Sjögren's syndrome.

A series of different ultrasonographic abnormalities detected by salivary gland echography (SGE) were investigated for their discriminant power for Sjögren's syndrome (SS) in 53 patients with either primary SS (n = 27) or secondary SS (n = 26), as well as in 90 controls. Among the controls, 26 suffered from dry mouth and/or recurrent or persistent swelling of at least one parotid or submandibular gland due to other selected disorders, while 64 were healthy, asymptomatic subjects. Mild, evident or gross inhomogeneous parenchymal patterns were the only variables selected by stepwise discriminant analysis, when comparing patients to controls. However, a mild submandibular inhomogeneity did not prove useful for such a discrimination. Based on these data, a simplified evaluation and standardised quantification of salivary involvement, as detected by SGE, is proposed using an echographic score (range 0 to 6) which assigns points to the different degrees of glandular inhomogeneity. Score values above 0 showed a sensitivity of 88.8% in primary SS and of 53.8% in secondary SS, as well as a specificity of 84.6% and of 92.2% with respect to either symptomatic or healthy controls. The lower sensitivity of SGE for patients with secondary SS presumably was a result of their milder salivary involvement.

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Sequential salivary scintigraphy in Sjögren's syndrome: proposal for a new method of evaluation.

Thirty-seven non-elderly primary Sjögren's syndrome (I SS) patients, and 27 controls complaining of xerostomia and/or recurrent or persistent swelling of at least one parotid or submandibular gland due to other selected disorders, were studied. A new scintigraphic score (scsc) is proposed for a standardised semiquantitative evaluation of salivary involvement by qualitative sequential salivary scintigraphy (SSS), and is compared with two other well-known methods generally used for this purpose. The scsc proved to be much more suitable for such an evaluation: the other criteria did not allow us either to classify or to score a great number of cases. Furthermore, the scsc allowed us to obtain better SSS sensitivity (89.2%) and specificity (96.3%) values for I.SS (33 of the 37 I SS patients and 26 of the 27 controls were correctly classified by discriminant analysis, for scsc values greater than 8). This was made possible by the different "weights" which we assigned to the various glandular and oral parameters in the scsc determination.

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[T lymphocyte subpopulations in rheumatoid arthritis].

The study of T lymphocyte subpopulations defined by monoclonal antibodies in a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and a control group indicated no significant differences in the percentages of total T lymphocytes (OKT3+) or helper-inducer lymphocytes (OKT4+). However there was a significant diminution in suppressor-cytoxic lymphocytes (OKT8+) in patients with active forms of the disease. This diminution led to an increase in the proportion of OKT4+/OKT8+ in patients with active R.A. forms compared to both those in remission and the control group.

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[Unusual case of chronic myeloproliferative syndrome].

A patient with myeloproliferative syndrome presenting the variety of aspects of both polycythemia vera and agnogenic myeloid metaplasia and megakaryocytic myelosis is described. According to the more recent hypotheses on the matter, our report confirms the presence of inseparable links among the above mentioned myeloproliferative disorders. The wrong diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease based on the histological features of the spleen is also discussed.

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