Hematuria is a very frequent clinical occurrence and is connected with a number of genito-urinary diseases. Our present work is aimed at checking the usefulness of ultrasonography (US) in etiological diagnostic of hematuria. 516 patients with hematuria and 1788 controls were included in the present study. Renal and urological diseases were found in 74% of patients with hematuria and in 22.7% of those without. Their prevalence is analogous of the general population for those diseases easily detectable by US, such as cystic and heteroplastic diseases. On the contrary, no correspondence was observed for cases of inflammatory, for which echography has never been a reliable diagnostic tool. Furthermore, US sensitivity, if associated with hematuria, was 93%, specificity was 100%, diagnostic accuracy 99% and predictive value about 100%. Ultrasonography is easy to perform, well tolerated, involves low cost and may therefore be considered as the investigation technique of choice for the study of hematuria.

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[Chronic renal insufficiency of single kidney associated with genital, bone, and palpebral malformations].

Authors describe renal failure in a young woman with solitary pelvic kidney. Renal malformation was associated with genital and bone malformations that can be accounted for by the close relationship linking the genito-urinary and vertebral apparatuses during the first weeks of intrauterine life. Palpebral malformation which occurs very rarely in cases with renal malformations as reported in the literature was ascribed to hereditary factors. Changes of some indexes (serum and urine electrolytes, plasma renin and aldosterone) observed during the evolution of renal failure appear to confirm the role played by potassium in hormone balance and suggest repeated tests and dietary adjustments.

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[Hormone changes during the sirocco].

The results of a study of 15 subjects on the occasion of a sirocco wind are reported. Behaviour of ARP, aldosteronaemia, cortisolaemia, Ht and serum electrolytes was assessed. A significant increase in ARP, aldosteronaemia and Ht was observed during the sirocco, while serum electrolytes went down. Cortisolaemia did not perform uniformly, increasing in some subjects and falling in others.

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[Uremic polyneuropathy. Case studies].

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