Clinical and cost benefits of medical nutrition therapy by registered dietitian nutritionists for management of dyslipidemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Faced with increasing health care costs, it is incumbent to discern whether managing dyslipidemia with medical nutrition therapy (MNT) by a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) is clinically and cost effective.

Objective: To systematically examine evidence on the clinical effectiveness and cost benefit of MNT by an RDN for the treatment of dyslipidemia.

Methods: English and full-text research articles published between January 2003 and October 2014 were identified using PubMed, MEDLINE, and the Worldcat.

Parasellar myxoid chondrosarcoma: a rare variant of cranial chondrosarcoma.

Primary cranial chondrosarcoma in an uncommon cartilaginous tumours of which the myxoid variant is the least reported in the literature. This tumour accounts for 0.15% of all primary intracranial lesions and 6% of all skull base tumours.

Spontaneous chronic subdural hematoma in a young adult.

Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is a common pathology in the elderly but very rare in young adults. When CSDH occurs in this age group, severe head injury or some promotive factors are usually present. This article reports the case of a 29-year-old female presented at our Emergency Department with a few days' history of progressive frontal headache.

Limited approach to a thoracic spine osteoblastoma.

Osteoblastoma (OB) is a rare primary benign bone tumor. It generally occurs in the axial skeleton, where it preferentially involves the neural arch. The peak incidence of this neoplasm is in the first two decades of life.

Use of resorbable implants for symptomatic cervical spondylosis: experience on 16 consecutive patients.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of a consecutive series of 16 patients affected by degenerative cervical spondylosis and operated on by anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACFD) by means of anterior bioresorbable plate and screws. Further, the authors compared the results in these patients with a series of 13 patients also affected by degenerative cervical spondylosis in whom arthrodesis was obtained by means of cages without plates.\

Methods: The series included 8 males and 8 females aging from 37 to 69 years, operated from June 2003 to September 2004.

Prognostic role of depression after lumbar disc surgery.

A total of 73 patients underwent microdiscectomy for lumbar disc herniation between September 2001 and May 2002 at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Second University of Naples. Preoperatively and 3 and 6 months after surgery, patients were assessed on the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and on a visual analogue scale (VAS) for the subjective perception of pain. At 3 and 12 months, we found that patients with lower SDS scores (n=41) had a better outcome regarding pain than patients with relevant depressive symptoms (n=32).

Different receptors mediate the action of bombesin-related peptides on gastric smooth muscle cells.

Recent studies suggest that different subtypes of receptors may mediate the action of various bombesin-related peptides in different tissues. In the present study the ability of bombesin and its structurally related peptides [litorin, gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP), GRP18-27, neuromedin B, [Leu8]litorin, and bombesin nonapeptide BN(6-14)] to interact with smooth muscle cells isolated from guinea pig stomach was investigated. Each peptide induced a specific contractile response with potencies (D50 in pM) of [Leu8]litorin (0.