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MRI findings and evoked potentials in patients with myotonic dystrophy versus facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
1997
Evoked potentials recordings have been applied to many neurological disorders, localizing the lesions in the central nervous system (CNS) pathways. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a slowly progressive degenerative disease involving the muscles of the face and shoulders. On the contrary, myotonic distrophy (MD), the most frequent and severe myotonic disease, is caracterized by myotonia (delay of relaxation after voluntary contraction), muscular atrophy and dystrophic changes in non-muscular tissues. In the present investigation, patients with clinically and electromyographically verified FSHD and MD were examined using somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and brainstem aud…
Hearing loss in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy.
1986
Bilateral sloping high frequency hearing loss of 20–90 dB was found in six out of ten patients with infantile or adolescent onset FSHD. In all cases the basic defect could be traced to the cochlea. The outer hair cells of the basal turn are predominantly affected. In 20 patients with various other forms of muscular dystrophy or neuromuscular disorders with an FSH distribution, no sensorineural hearing loss was found. Myopathology of FSHD patients extended from mild to severe, often showing inflammatory infiltrates and type I fibre atrophy, without unequivocal differences between the two groups with and without hearing loss. It is concluded that cochlear dysfunction is a specific and frequen…
Pepsinogēna un gastrīna-17 nozīme autoimūna gastrīta diagnostikā
2015
Ievads: AG ir pārāk reti diagnosticēts stāvoklis ar augstu KV attīstības risku. Ilgstošas asimptomātiskas gaitas dēļ to ir grūti diagnosticēt, tāpēc nepieciešamas jaunas, efektīvas un mazāk invazīvas diagnostikas metodes. Mērķis: Darba mērķis ir analizēt seruma biomarķieru (pepsinogēns, G-17) nozīmīgumu AG diagnostikā. Materiāli un metodes: Pētījuma modelis ir nejaušās izlases princips, iekļaujot pacientus, kuri laika periodā no 2004. - 2014. gadam Gremošanas veikuši augšējā gastrointenstinālā trakta endoskopiju. Lai izmērītu seruma biomarķieru (pepsinogēns un G-17) līmeni, pacientiem tika ņemti asins paraugi. Balstoties uz Sidnejas klasifikāciju, tika ņemtas biopsijas. Rezultāti: Pētījumā …
Effetto della posizione degli ovoli sulla produttività del carciofo spinoso di sicilia
2010
In Sicily, the Spinoso di Sicilia artichoke is appreciated at regional level for its organoleptic characteristics, but in recent years, its cultivation area has been subject to a progressive reduction because of its susceptibility at the atrophy of head, low earliness, low productivity, and lack of uniformity of the productions. These problems are due to genetic variability, diseases and disforme propagation material (ovoli). This study was conducted to evaluate the influence of the ovoli position (apical, median and basal) in the rhizome of mother plants on morpho-phisiological and productive aspects of the artichokes. The results showed that basal ovoli gave faster growth, better plant co…
A case-control study on risk factors for nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular cataract: The Casteldaccia Eye Study
2005
Purpose: To investigate risk factors for nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular age-related cataract. Methods: A case-control study was carried out on subjects aged 40 years and older, living in Casteldaccia, Sicily. Twenty-seven potential risk factors were investigated. Nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities of the lens were classified according to the Lens Opacities Classification System II. Subjects with advanced lens opacities represented the cases, while an identical number of subjects without or with early cataract, matched for sex and age, were recruited as controls from within the same population. Results: Univariate analysis showed that myopia and iris atrophy w…