[Transport of some amides across various segments of the small intestine of Testudo hermanni].
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S Curci
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Non-electrolyte permeability across Bufo bufo gall-bladder.
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Morphological evaluation of full-thickness idiopathic macular holes by optical coherence tomography.
PURPOSE: To assess the efficacy of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for the morphological evaluation of idiopathic full-thickness macular holes and for detecting any morphological changes with time. METHODS: Serial sagittal tomographs through the macula were taken by OCT in a consecutive series of 34 eyes of 34 patients with diagnosis of idiopathic full-thickness macular hole. The patients were divided into two groups on the basis of "recent" (group 1, 25 patients) or "not-recent" (group 2, 9 patients) onset of symptoms related to the macular hole. Fourteen of the 25 patients in group 1 and all nine in group 2 underwent vitrectomy. The 11 in group 1 who refused surgery were observed by OCT examination with follow-up from 6 to 13 months. RESULTS: In most eyes OCT scans revealed two different anatomical features of macular holes depending on the time of onset of symptoms. Eleven of the 14 "recent-onset" holes that underwent surgery showed "sharp", undermining edges at preoperative OCT; the other three had "rounded" edges. Seven of the nine eyes operated for long-standing full-thickness macular holes had preoperative "rounded" edges, while the edges in the remaining two eyes were "sharp". OCT of eight of the 11 non-operated eyes in group 1 showed a morphological evolution of the macular hole edges from a "sharp" to a "rounded" contour and an increase in the diameter of the hole. CONCLUSIONS: OCT can help in the morphological evaluation of idiopathic full-thickness macular holes and in the detection of morphological changes with time.
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Valuation of the psychiatric damage. Considerations about two clinical cases.
We report a description of two mothers who scrupulously followed clinical controls and tests advised during pregnancy within a hospital environment, and who then gave birth to babies with serious deformation pathologies. In both cases, the seriousness of the psychiatric damage, is obviously useful for the medico-legal assessments. We have studied in both cases their mental make-up, understood as stable relationships between parts of the mind (thought, language, perception...). We have observed that in a fragile make-up a non significant event in many ways can cause an extremely violent reaction, whilst on the contrary, a serious event in "solid" people may not cause damaging consequences. The assessment of the mental make-up, conditions the degree of psychiatric damage, which is useful to the medical examiner, and is of fundamental importance for the individual choice of a therapeutic process.
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