Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques最新文献
{"title":"[CD5 positive b-lymphocytes in autoimmunity: possible role in Graves' disease].","authors":"A Afeltra, S Russo, C Peri, A Paggi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CD5+B cells, recently defined B-1a cells, are the main clonotype in the early B cell repertoire and persist throughout adult life. This subset is committed to the production of antibodies, defined \"natural antibodies\", that bind a lot of exogenous antigens, isologous and heterologous serum proteins, tissues and/or self antigens, such as hormones, nucleic acids and phospholipids. These antibodies, mostly IgM, but also IgG and IgA, are polyreactive: their role is likely that of first line of defence against invading microorganisms. Natural antibodies produced by CD5+ B cells may be involved in maintenance functions such as removal of dead cells. Because of their ability to bind self antigens, they may be important in the establishment of autoimmune phenomena. An increase of CD5+ B cells has been demonstrated in some autoimmune disorders. The authors examine the functional characteristics and the expansion of this subset in different diseases. In particular they report the increase in active Graves' disease and discuss the role of CD5+ B lymphocytes in the immune imbalance present in this thyropathy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 5","pages":"167-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19739915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Ciaraldi, R M Pareo, R Quattropanetti, S Quattropanetti
{"title":"[Hypospadias: complications and adult sequalae].","authors":"F Ciaraldi, R M Pareo, R Quattropanetti, S Quattropanetti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypospadia is a very frequent urogenital malformation. The authors consider the immediate disorders, the outcomes and the involvements in the adults and in the elders to the attempts of surgical regress.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 5","pages":"203-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19738392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Spinazzola, C Barletta, G Demartino, F Martini, S Natili, P Noto, F Ferri, G Tossini, G Visco
{"title":"Beta-endorphins ACTH and cortisol in CSF and plasma of HIV infected patients.","authors":"F Spinazzola, C Barletta, G Demartino, F Martini, S Natili, P Noto, F Ferri, G Tossini, G Visco","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interactions between HPA (Hypothalamic-pituitary-axis) and immune system seem to involve the EPO (endogenous opioid peptides) system, as shown by some recent findings. Possible relationships between beta-endorphin (beta-End) synthesis and severity rate of immunodeficiency have been studied in 48 HIV Ab positive patients, at different stages of infection. A statistically significant decrease in the beta-End synthesis was observed in these patients, as compared to a control group of 19 healthy subjects, but this decrease was not related to the CD4+T lymphocytes number. Plasmatic levels modifications of HPA-related peptides were not observed in the IVC1 CDC group.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 5","pages":"161-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19739136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M De Lellis, M Giampietro, M Mastracci, R Cerbo, M Mazza
{"title":"Apnostresstherapy and psychosomatic pathology.","authors":"M De Lellis, M Giampietro, M Mastracci, R Cerbo, M Mazza","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors, after having underlined history and peculiarities of the Apnostresstherapy, set out a range of 80 cases treated of infantile psychosomatic pathology. They describe diagnostic criteria with relative diagnosis of 80 cases, indications and modalities of the treatment. Clinical results, statistically evaluated, are reported, at first on the whole group and, then, in a differential way, in a group that have carried out the treatment for 3-6 months and in another group to whom the treatment length is been of 6-12 months.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"141-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19526612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Batori, L S Gallinaro, R Turano, M Ruggieri, A Forte
{"title":"Chemical pleurodesis in the treatment of iterative neoplastic effusion.","authors":"M Batori, L S Gallinaro, R Turano, M Ruggieri, A Forte","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The presence of a pleural effusion is a serious complication in the course of neoplastic diseases, where it assumes a determining medical and prognostic role. Thus the applications of adequate therapeutic methodologies becomes of primary importance to drain the effusion and to obtain an efficacious pleurodesis. In view of this the authors describe a case of iterative neoplastic pleural effusion which they have been able to observe recently.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"151-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19526614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Circadian rhythms of fibrinogen and antithrombin III in liver cirrhosis.","authors":"P Pasqualetti, R Casale","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Since acquired deficiencies of fibrinogen and antithrombin III are reported in liver cirrhosis and it is known that their plasma levels fluctuate during the day, the circadian rhythms of plasma fibrinogen and plasma antithrombin III were investigated in patients with compensated and decompensated cirrhosis, compared to healthy controls.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Three groups of subject were considered: (A) 10 healthy controls; (B) 10 patients with compensated liver cirrhosis; (C) 10 patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. The fibrinogen and antithrombin III levels were determined in blood samples drawn in each studied subject during the span of a whole day and every three hours starting from midnight. The time-related data were analyzed by means of the \"mean-group cosinor\" method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant (p < 0.05) circadian rhythms were detected for the two variables in groups A and B, with peaks in the afternoon hours. No significant (p > 0.05) rhythms were found for group C. A significant (p < 0.05) difference was found between the three groups regarding the circadian rhythm of fibrinogen, and between controls and patients with compensated cirrhosis and between compensated and decompensated patients regarding the circadian rhythm of antithrombin III.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These data suggest that in healthy subjects the plasma levels of fibrinogen and antithrombin III present daily variations with own circadian rhythms, and that liver cirrhosis is associated with chronobiological circadian changes in the coagulation system, related to the stage of the disease. This progressive derangement could be considered as an index of evolution in the natural history of cirrhosis of the liver.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"125-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19526609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P Ballardini, I Cicognani, E Montanari, F Fabbri, R Ferrari, A Del Noce
{"title":"[Appearance of anti-DNA antibodies after treatment with interferon in a patient with chronic type C viral hepatitis].","authors":"P Ballardini, I Cicognani, E Montanari, F Fabbri, R Ferrari, A Del Noce","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development of autoantibodies and autoimmune reactions has been reported during and after interferon (IFN) therapy. We report the case of a 55-years-old woman who developed anti-DNA and anti-nuclear antibodies after a 9 months treatment with alpha-IFN for chronic hepatitis C. Autoantibodies appearance has not modified the response to therapy; no clinical sign of autoimmune disease is appeared in a 5 months follow-up. HLA typing didn't show a genetic predisposition for the development of autoimmune reactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"131-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19526607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Catania, C Ajassa, M S Magno, G Berardelli, R Bellagamba, S Tzantzoglou, M Falciano, C M Lanzalone, N Catania
{"title":"[Acyclovir in the treatment of varicella in immunocompetent children].","authors":"S Catania, C Ajassa, M S Magno, G Berardelli, R Bellagamba, S Tzantzoglou, M Falciano, C M Lanzalone, N Catania","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We evaluated safety and tolerance of acyclovir ACV per os in immunocompetent children affected by chicken-pox admitted to our department from January 1993 to December 1994. 183 subjects (102 males and 81 females) aged between 0 and 14 years were treated by ACV (80 mg/kg/daily in 4 divided doses): 88 children were treated within 24 hours and 95 subjects within 48 hours from the onset of symptoms. The control group consisted of 83 children (52 males and 31 females) aged between 0 to 14 years. In all patients routine blood-test were performed and in those with respiratory illness Chest-Rx was also done. We evaluated clinical course, degree of eruption, the appearance and kind of complications, duration of hospitalization, the compliance and the potential consequences on specific antibody response. Our results show a faster improvement of clinical symptoms in treated patients with respect to the control group with shortening of the period of the fever, itch and appearance of new vescicles. The percentage of complications was lower in treated than in untreated patients. 16 cases tested for specific antibody response showed protective titers six months after treatment. In conclusion, ACV administered per os within 48 hours from onset of exanthema causes reduction of the period and the degree of general symptoms and exanthema, a lower incidence of complications even if non statistically significant. The drug is safe and well-tolerated.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"115-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19525323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Immunopathogenic mechanisms in glomerulonephritis].","authors":"A Amoroso, L M Cavarretta, F G De Rosa, G M Ferri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this note the involvement of the immune system in glomerular injury is discussed: humoral and cell-mediated immune response, and soluble mediators of inflammation play an important role in the development of tissue injury. Clinical and experimental studies are in progress to better define the different pathogenic mechanisms involved in glomerular diseases and to give us new therapeutic approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"133-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19526610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P Nazzaro, M Manzari, M Merlo, R Triggiani, A M Scarano, A Lasciarrea, N Marella, A Pirrelli
{"title":"Stress reactivity in responder and non-responder hypertensives treated with verapamil and enalapril.","authors":"P Nazzaro, M Manzari, M Merlo, R Triggiani, A M Scarano, A Lasciarrea, N Marella, A Pirrelli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypertension was found to be associated with sympathetic overdrive but it is still debated if the antihypertensive agents can differently affect the stress response in hypertensive subjects. Through a psychophysiological study, we evaluated the effect of verapamil (V) and enalapril (E), both as monotherapy and association. Office BP was successfully reduced (< 145/90 mmHg) in 11 patients treated with V (V-Resp) and in 10 patients treated with E (E-Resp). Both the drugs were prescribed in 9 patients (V+E) who did not sufficiently lower their blood pressure (N-Resp) with monotherapy. Patients performed three stressors (color word stroop, cold pressor and handgrip). Extracardiovascular and hemodynamic functions were measured during baseline, stress and recovery periods. The response was evaluated adding the changes occurred in every phase of the psychophysiological session. This was performed before run-in and after any modification of the therapeutic intervention. The emotional arousal (phrontalis muscular contraction, skin conductance, peripheral temperature) was reduced when BP was normal. No change in BP reactivity was found. HR response decreased in V-Resp and cardiac output increased in E-Resp while the vascular reaction was restrained in E-Resp and V-Resp. This was reduced also in N-Resp when they assumed V+E and normalized their arterial pressure. The findings indicate that the sympathetic reactivity may be modified by the therapy. In particular, verapamil restrained the cardiac stress response without lowering the cardiac output and was advantageously associated with enalapril to control the psychophysiological response in more resistant hypertensive patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":21382,"journal":{"name":"Rivista europea per le scienze mediche e farmacologiche = European review for medical and pharmacological sciences = Revue europeenne pour les sciences medicales et pharmacologiques","volume":"17 4","pages":"105-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19525325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}