Publications by authors named "A Ziliotto"
Objective: To assess the utility of handwriting rehabilitation (HR) in Parkinson disease (PD) patients who experienced difficulties with handwriting and signing.
Methods: Sixty PD patients were prospectively studied with graphological evaluations. Thirty PD patients were assigned to HR for 9 weeks.
Objectives: The reduction of pain due to routine invasive procedures (capillary heel stick blood sampling for neonatal metabolic screening) in the newborn is an important objective for the so-called "Hospital with no pain". Practices such as skin to skin contact, or breastfeeding, in healthy newborn, may represent an alternative to the use of analgesic drugs. The aim of our work is to evaluate the analgesic effect of breastfeeding during heel puncture in full term healthy newborn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cases of 189 patients treated at the Surgery Service for gastric carcinoma from January 1960 to December 1978 and followed until April 1984 were reviewed in terms of evolutive behavior. Correlations between sex, age, duration of symptoms, site of tumors, lymph node metastases, stage of tumors, operability, resectability, treatment and survival were attempted. With respect to age, of the patients not operated on, survival was longer for more advanced age; the opposite occurred for the group of patients who were operated on.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present study, the completeness of vagotomy in patients who underwent truncal and highly selective vagotomy is evaluated, comparing them with control groups of normal persons and patients with a duodenal ulcer. The evaluation was made by the Hollander test, followed by the endoscopic Congo red test, using the same hypoglycemic stimulus. Gastric acid production was higher in the patients with duodenal ulcer, followed by the normal persons.
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