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S Spoto

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[A 74-year-old woman with macrocytic anemia].

A seventy-four years old woman is assessed for asthenia, fatigue, non ulcerous dyspepsia with macrocytic anemia. The patient's medical history taking in Binswanger disease--diagnosed 5 aa before-, epilepsy-2 aa before- and a previous episode of TVP of the left leg, suggested the hypothesis that a B12 deficiency, by a chronic gastritis, would involve an increase of homocysteine cause of the clinical manifestations of megaloblastic anemia, Binswanger disease, tardive epilepsy and previous TVP. The fisic and blood and instrumental exams confirmed the clinical diagnosis. The patient is having vitamin B12.

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The antineoplastic treatment in the elderly.

More than 550,000 American people died for cancer only in 1998 and more than third of them were over 65 years of age. According to recent data in next decade more than 70% of all the deaths for tumour will be verified in the population over 65 years. The cancers mostly frequently associated with the deaths in the elderly population are the tumour of the lung, colon, prostate and breast. Therefore the geriatrics oncology is progressively assuming a central and essential role within the medical oncology. One of the aspects of great interest in the treatment of the cancers of the elderly patient (> 65 years) is the study about some pharmacokinetic modifications of the antitumour medicines in such band of age, and the study about some pattern of toxicity characteristics in the elderly patients. In this ambit there are a few studies in literature devoted specifically to such aspect. This study represents an attempt of revision of the literature finalized to analyse the toxicological and pharmacokinetic characteristics of the principal chemotherapeutic agents used in the therapy of elderly patients affected with cancer. In the last part of the review we have tried to synthesize the state of the art of the achieved results about the medicines that have shown a better therapeutic index and a better impact on the clinical benefit in such population of patients.

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[Sepsis].

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[Dyslipidemias].

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[Anemia].

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[Colorectal polyps].

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[Multiple cerebral tuberculomas resistant to conventional therapy in an immunocompromised subject].

A 33 years old immunocompromised woman was admitted for a fever of unknown origin during the last five months. She referred a body temperature up to 38.3 degrees C, headache, weakness. The physical examination revealed right homonymous hemianopia, hyperreflexia and Babinski on her right side. A TC scan and a following bioptic specimen showed multiple cerebral tuberculomas. A conventional therapy was started but no significative improvement was observed. She was finally treated with interferon gamma and GM-CSF in addition to the therapy with an important regression of the lesions and significative improvement of the fever and neurological findings.

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[Chronic diarrhoea].

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