Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to U Giannuzzi.
The author divides the diseases due to blood hyperviscosity into primary, secondary and intermediate diseases; he describes the symptoms characterizing the diseases and the therapeutic procedures apt to reduce viscosity.
The author discusses several pathologic conditions which may occur as acute metabolic complications of diabetes mellitus. Prior to the introduction of insulin in the management of the disease, these complications were the principal causes of mortality in diabetic patients.
The Author describes the main signs of Waldenström macroglobulinemia, first described in 1944, which is characterized by IgM paraproteinemia, tumefaction of the lymphoid tissues, hemorrhagic diathesis, and blood hyperviscosity.