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G Carpani

Publications and source records attributed to G Carpani.

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PubMed1978

[Adenomyoma of the gallbladder].

The clinical, anatomopathological and radiological data concerning adenomyoma of the gall bladder are considered. The differential features of the pain in patients suffering from adenomyoma and calculosis are reviewed and a line of therapeutic conduct proposed in the light of modern pathogenetic views.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

[A case of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland, with uptaking metastases, treated with surgery and isotope therapy].

A short review of the relevant literature is followed by the presentation of a case of follicular cancer of the thyroid with uptaking spinal metastases. Five months after almost total thyroidectomy for right macrofollicular goitre and left follicular cancer, a 131-I scintiscan showed uptake in the right lobe of the thyroid and IX and X dorsal vertabrae. Resection of the remainder of the thyroid was followed by the administration of 100 and then 150 mC of 131-I. The result at 10 months was satisfactory, though not final; no uptake at the Xth vertebra, reduced uptake at the IXth, disappearance of subjective and objective symptoms of spinal pain.

Adenocarcinoma↗
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Sickle cell thalassemia in pregnancy: a case report.

A 31-year-old pregnant woman at 20 weeks' gestation was sent to our hospital for fever, anemia, and arthralgias. As she was known to be a double heterozygote for beta-thalassemia and hemoglobin S, a diagnosis of hemolytic anemia caused by sickled red cells vasocclusive crises was made. The patient was submitted to partial exchange transfusion (PET) with a complete recovery. A second PET was performed at 36 weeks' gestation, and elective cesarean section was performed at 37 weeks, with the birth of a normal female neonate.

Adult↗
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[Familial transient red cell aplasia from parvovirus B-19 infection].

In our Paediatric Clinic we observed a case of transient aplastic crisis caused by Parvovirus B19 in a child and his mother, both affected by spherocytic haemolytic anemia. Anti-Parvovirus IgM antibody titre and viral search by PCR were positive. Anemia was treated with transfusion of concentrated red blood cells. In case of a family onset of hyperacute anemia it is necessary to consider a bone marrow aplastic crisis of the red series, induced by Parvovirus B19, especially if there is notice of an ongoing outbreak of erythema infectiosum.

Adult↗
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Periodic acid Schiff (PAS) positivity in fetal erythroblasts.

The smears of 26 fetal blood samples taken for prenatal diagnosis were stained for the PAS reaction. Twelve out of 26 cases were subsequently found to be normal and 14 were found to be affected by different abnormalities; 83.4% of normal cases and 92.8% of abnormal cases showed moderate positivity to the PAS reaction. A higher percentage of PAS positive erythroblasts was found in the abnormal cases (p less than 0.01). Five cases with a percentage greater than 10% also showed a very high percentage of erythroblasts. No linear correlation was found between PAS positivity and erythroblastosis either in the normal or the abnormal cases, but pooling them resulted in a correlation between PAS positivity and erythroblastosis (r = 0.536; p less than 0.005). PAS positivity was most often diffuse and scored 1+. Since erythroblastosis is considered an indirect sign of fetal liver erythropoiesis, the hepatic environment and its peculiar hemopoiesis could play a role in producing a cohort of PAS positive erythroblasts.

Congenital Abnormalities↗