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A Orsini

Publications and source records attributed to A Orsini.

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[Treatment of Kawasaki's syndrome with high dose intravenous gammaglobulins].

The apparition of coronary aneurysms in Kawasaki syndrome is the reason for the serious nature of this disease. Many attempts have been made to prevent this complication. Two children, respectively 10 and 28 months old, were treated in our unit with salicylate and high dose intravenous gammaglobulin by analogy with the treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. The clinical, electrical, radiological, echographic cardiac surveillance did not show any sign of aneurysms more than 6 months after the onset of the disease. Following the Furusho's study, high dose intravenous gammaglobulin seems to reduce the frequency of coronary aneurysms in patients with Kawasaki syndrome.

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Memory encoding processes in mild and severe dementia. Preliminary data.

Memory coding processes can be divided according to their attentional requirement into "automatic" and "effortful". The aim of current research was to explore both automatic and effortful processes in early and late stages of Alzheimer type dementia. Patients were classified on the basis of restrictive clinical and neuropsychological criteria, in order to pinpoint possible specific impairments in the two patients' subgroups. The present paper reports preliminary data about 15 mildly and 15 severely demented patients. Statistical analysis showed that both the automatic and the effortful coding processes are impaired at the late but also at the early stages of dementia.

Alzheimer Disease↗
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[Recognition of object figures in unusual perspective and mental imagery].

Two cases are described: one with left occipital lesion and the other one with bilateral occipital damage; the first showed deficit of Mental Imagery and preserved recognition of pictures in unusual perspective; the second, vice-versa, showed integrity of Mental Imagery and deficit in visual recognition. The relationship between Mental Imagery and recognition of pictures in unusual perspective is discussed.

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[School screening of hemoglobinopathies in the Marseilles area. An analytic study of 35,289 tests].

A systematic screening for thalassemias and hemoglobinopathies was performed in 35,289 children with a double test associating blood cell counts and hemoglobin electrophoresis. Four hundred thirty-seven (1.23%) hemoglobin abnormalities were found, consisting of 274 cases with thalassemia (0.77%) and 159 hemoglobinopathies (0.45%) among which there were 80 cases with sickle-cell trait (0.22%), 30 with hemoglobin C (Hb C) (0.08%), 19 with Hb D (0.05%), 12 with HbJ (0.03%), 12 with Hb E (0.03%). There was an obvious ethnic influence as, among 17,180 autochtonal French children, only 15 abnormalities were found (0.08%) while 392 were found in 16,850 non autochtonal children (2.32%) and 30 in 1,259 French children from Corsica (2.38%). The highest incidence was found in Italians (173 of 6,455-2.68%) and Maugrabins (105 of 3,014-3.48%).

Adolescent↗
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[Technical innovations in femoro-tibial reconstructions].

The literature on reconstructive femoro-tibial surgery includes distal by-pass implantation, personally considered the most interesting and most debated part. Four cases treated with double femoro-popliteal and popliteo-tibial reconstruction, three with the jump-by-pass technique and one with the sequential-by-pass technique are reported. Of these cases, three are complete with fluximetric and angiographic examination before, during and after the operation. Final results are considered satisfactory, notwithstanding certain inconveniences which were dealt with as they arose. Long-term follow-up permits some optimism for the future of this surgery, although the technical difficulties are by no means negligible.

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