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Allergens in allergy diagnosis: a glimpse at emerging new concepts and methodologies
(2012)
Allergic diseases are important concern of public health. A reliable diagnosis is of utmost importance for the management of allergic patients both when immunotherapy is planned and when the treatment is essentially based ...
Environmental pollution effectson reproductive health? Clinical-epidemiological study in southern Italy
(2012)
This study aims to address the clinical, statistical and Epidemiological Relationship Between Birth Defects and Environmental Pollution, in the Campania Region and in Salerno.
Objectives: We examined four groups of subjects ...
Descriptions and evaluations: The Victorian man of business revisited
(Roma : Carocci, 2012)
This paper addresses the twin issues of “description” and “evaluation” with reference
to Victorian discussions of the business ideal. The first section offers a brief
overview of novelistic portrayals of businessmen, ...
Vaptans and hyponatremia in critical patients
(2012)
Hyponatremia is the most frequent fluid and electrolyte disorder in hospitalized patients (20%), particularly in ICU, associated with an increase in morbility and mortality. While hypovolaemic hyponatremia needs to be ...
Dopamine use in intensive care: are we ready to turn it down?
(2012)
Dopamine is still frequently used as a first line
vasopressor agent in hypotensive patients, when physicians
are afraid of noradrenaline and believe that dopamine, with
its β and α, inotrope and vasopressor effects, ...
18F-FDG PET and PET/CT in the localization and characterization of lesions in patients with ovarian cancer
(2012)
Aim: The aim was to compare the imaging findings of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET and integrated PET/CT in patients with primary, recurrent or metastatic ovarian cancer.
Materials and methods. 21 women with ovarian ...
Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage in pregnancy: a case series
(2012)
Pregnancy is a recognized risk factor for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Headache is very frequent in normal pregnancy and it is a common sign shared between several intracranial diseases. We present a case ...
Anesthesiological considerations in shoulder surgery
(2012)
In 1970, Winnie proposed the brachial plexus block as an alternative and effective anaesthesia technique for shoulder surgery. From that date, several techniques have been developed to approach the brachial plexus: the use ...