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M Ferrara

Publications and source records attributed to M Ferrara.

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Dysphagia lusoria: proposal of a new treatment.

Recent observation of one patient suffering from dysphagia lusoria has suggested critical review of treatment of the symptomatic aberrant right subclavian artery. Surgical correction of such an anomaly is difficult and may produce serious complications, and is not always successful. Endoscopic dilatation of the oesophageal stricture, even though it might only produce temporary relief of dysphagia, represents a valid therapeutical alternative because of its favourable cost/benefit ratio, low incidence of complications and patient acceptability.

Aorta, Thoracic↗

[Hemorheological changes during exercise].

It is now necessary to study the macro- and microcirculatory modifications of the organism following the stress. We have devoted our attention to the hemorheological parameters, which have been evaluated in a group of ten sedentary subjects, of fourteen athletes under twenty years of age, and of ten subjects whose age was over thirty, who carry on physical unbroken performance. We have evaluated the modifications of total blood viscosity and of red blood cell deformability after an ergometric test. Our results show that the hemorheological pattern gets worse after strenuous muscular exercise; moreover, the advancing age gets worse the hyperviscosity response. The pathophysiological mechanism which causes the hemorheological disorder is yet unknown, so it is clear the importance of studying the hemorheological balance in order to clarify the pathophysiology of stressed muscular function.

Adult↗