Surgeon eye lens dose monitoring in interventional neuroradiology, cardiovascular and radiology procedures.

Purpose: This study investigated the radiation dose to surgeon eye lens for single procedure and normalised to exposure parameters for eight selected neuroradiology, cardiovascular and radiology interventional procedures.

Methods: The procedures investigated were diagnostic study, Arteriovenous Malformations treatment (AVM) and aneurysm embolization for neuroradiology procedures, Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (CA-PTCA), Pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator implantation (PM-ICD), Endovascular Aortic Repair (EVAR) and Fenestrated Endovascular Aortic Repair (FEVAR) for cardiovascular and electrophysiology procedures. CT-guided lung biopsy was also monitored.

Evaluation of body composition during low-dose estrogen oral contraceptives treatment.

Objective: To determine in a prospective study if the use of two low-dose estrogen oral contraceptives is associated with changes in weight or body composition.

Design: 80 outpatients referring to the family planning service, aged 18-43 years were randomly assigned to a treatment with the EE/desogestrel or EE/gestodene association, 20 patients with IUD, aged 26-40 years, were selected as a control group. Anthropometric data and body composition were taken at enrollment and after 6 and 12 months.

[Platelet aggregation inhibitory therapy in chronic arterial occlusive disease of the lower limbs: results of short-term clinico-instrumental study with indobufen].

Aim of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness of indobufen in the treatment of II degree stage lower limb occlusive arterial disease. Forty patients were randomly assigned to the iIndobufen (400 mg/die) treatment group or the no treatment control group (20 patients each). Doppler pressure measurement (Winsor index) and subjective symptomatology were evaluated at the time of enrollment and after one month.

[Treatment of postoperative pain with non-narcotic drugs; evaluation of lysine acetylsalicylate in high doses. Double-blind controlled study].

Further work on the treatment of postoperative pain with non-narcotic analgesics involving an investigation of the effect of twice the customary dose of lysine acetylsalicylate in a double-blind trial versus meperidine is reported. In addition to subjective and objective pain, the parameters included blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing rate, sweating, pupil diameter, nausea, vomiting, somnolence, hiccuping feeling of cold, erythema, dizziness, and nasograstric sound intolerance. Application of Wilcoxon's non-parametric tests and the chi-square test showed that the drug was as good as or better than meperidine with regard to pain, and performed very well overall with respect to the other parameters.