[Pharmacologic induction of fetal immobilization for prenatal diagnostic-therapeutic procedures].

Neuro-muscular blocking agents are currently administered to the fetus during intrauterine procedures, in order to freeze fetal movements and to avoid traumatic effects. The authors have evaluated three drug regimens (Pancuronium, Vecuronium, Atracurium), both via the intramuscular and the intravascular route of administration to the fetus. The time lapse between injection and disappearance of movements and the duration of paralysis have shown no significant differences for each group.

[Role of interleukin-1-alpha and growth factors in postmenopausal osteoporosis].

This study aims to verify the changes occurring in factors such as interleukin alfa-1 (IL1-alpha) and growth factor (GF1) during surgical menopause, with or without hormone replacement therapy. Forty patients, who underwent hysterectomy, entered this perspective and longitudinal study: in ten out of these forty patients the ovaries were preserved. The remaining thirty patients, whose ovaries were removed, were randomly given either estrogen or estro-progestin therapy or no therapy at all.