{"title":"[Diffuse pulmonary microlithiasis (a clinical case)].","authors":"M M Piscitelli, F Stefanelli, A Volpe, A Nunziata","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present a clinical case pertinent to a patient suffering from persistent dry cough and dyspnea by effort. It is described the diagnostic course that enables to identify a diffuse pulmonary microlithiasis, of rare cheeking, whose pathogenetic hypotheses and differential problems are tackled.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 5","pages":"343-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13306836","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":"[A case of asthma caused by gastroesophageal reflux. A clinical case].","authors":"L Gallinaro, P Pelosi, S Pagano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The association between gastroesophageal reflux and respiratory disease is recognized long time ago. We can distinguish two kinds of asthma: asthma caused by a gastroesophageal reflux and asthma complicated by a gastroesophageal reflux. In the clinic evaluation it is important to establish the nature of reflux. It is essential to effect the Bernstein's test.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 5","pages":"375-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13306837","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}
G Saviano, G Borrelli, V Cerbone, F La Gala, P Ferrara
{"title":"[Future of immunologic therapy of bronchogenic carcinoma].","authors":"G Saviano, G Borrelli, V Cerbone, F La Gala, P Ferrara","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The AA. report their experience as to the treatment applied to patients suffering from unremovable bronchial cancers. They can therefore stress the results obtained by chemotherapeutic treatment associated to thymopentin as well as interferon-thymopentin treatment. Elderly patients were subjected to interferon-thymopentin therapy, which helped in improving their life standard and survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 5","pages":"395-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12890811","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":"[T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with primary pleuro-pericardial involvement].","authors":"P Pelosi, L Gallinaro, V Di Nubila","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors describe the case of a woman with T-cell LLA with primitive pulmonary-pericardiac localization. It is very important to effect the diagnosis with flow cytometry, without which, treatment could be late.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 5","pages":"383-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13306839","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 Caputi, C Guarino, V Cautiero, L Sorrentino, P Cione, S Cuccurullo, C Tarantino
{"title":"[Cefotetan treatment of suppurative bronchopulmonary syndromes sustained by anaerobic germs].","authors":"M Caputi, C Guarino, V Cautiero, L Sorrentino, P Cione, S Cuccurullo, C Tarantino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Authors have analyzed the effect of Cefotetan in 20 patients affected by bronchopulmonary pathologies supported by anaerobic bacterium. During 7 days doses of 50 mg. pro Kg/pro die were given. From beginning to end of the treatment clinical, hematochemical and radiological data were evaluated. Bacteriological analysis was made on samples drawn with BFS according to a traditional method and with microbiology specimen brush. Almost all the patients (95%) realized improvements in clinical symptomatology and in radiological picture.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 5","pages":"401-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13306843","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":"[Obstructive bronchopneumopathies in respiratory pathology in Taranto. Epidemiological data].","authors":"E Corbo, G Viesti, F Salamino, C Tarantino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The above epidemiological study was undertaken with the object of establishing the proportion of respiratory pathology represented by chronic bronchopulmonary obstructive bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma in a highly industrialized city such as Taranto. The period covered was the years 1988, 1989 and first half of 1990. In addition, the distribution of chronic obstructive bronchopulmonary disease according to sex and age and the influence of smoking were analyzed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 4","pages":"243-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12834130","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":"[The microbiological aspects of AIDS-related respiratory infections].","authors":"A Ponticiello, A Sanduzzi, V Pezzella","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Main etiologic agents of AIDS-related infections pneumonia and diagnostic tools useful to identify microorganism are discussed. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) remains the most important performed technique to collect pulmonary secretions, but it needs to be completed by colorimetric, immunological (monoclonal antibodies), serological (ELISA vs. mycobacterial antigens), molecular (DNA probes) techniques. These tools are very useful to identify pathogen agents.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 4","pages":"279-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12834135","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":"[AIDS and the respiratory apparatus: a bibliographic review (I)].","authors":"A Ponticiello, V Pezzella, M Della Sala","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is characterized by severe abnormalities of cellular immunity with a marked reduction of helper/inducer T lymphocyte from peripheral blood and, clinically, by a high incidence of infection caused by opportunistic or more common pathogen organisms and by development of Kaposi's sarcoma in previously healthy young patients. The AA. underline epidemiologic, pathogenetic and immunologic points of this syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 4","pages":"287-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12834138","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":"[The role of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in assessing pulmonary compromise in AIDS].","authors":"F Perna, A Sanduzzi, A Ponticiello","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The severe immunologic alterations caused by HIV infection is at the base of respiratory tract infections, neoplasms and inflammatory complications which represent the most frequent cause of death in AIDS patients. The etiological diagnosis is difficult and often needs invasive procedures. Among those, BAL is surely the most useful method because of its lesser invasiveness and better tolerability and more for its sensibility and easier repeatability. Besides the etiological evaluation of lung infections, BAL allows to obtain and analyze immunologic and inflammatory cells from alveolar spaces consenting the acquisition of data regarding immunopathogenetic mechanisms related to pulmonary complications during AIDS. We report data about cytoimmunologic study of BAL fluid in 10 patients of ours.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 4","pages":"269-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12834134","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":"[Pulmonary Tbc in the 90's in Taranto and province (epidemiological data)].","authors":"C Tarantino, E Corbo, F Salamino, G Viesti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have reported the results of a clinical and epidemiological study on the cases of the tuberculosis of the lung observed in two years (1988-1989) and in the first half of the 1990 in Taranto and in the district of Taranto. The data obtained show the incidence of tuberculosis is enough high today.</p>","PeriodicalId":77011,"journal":{"name":"Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace","volume":"45 4","pages":"251-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12834139","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}