Corrigendum to "Anabolic Hormone Deficiencies in Heart Failure with Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction and Correlation with Plasma Total Antioxidant Capacity".

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2020/5798146.].

Anabolic Hormone Deficiencies in Heart Failure with Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction and Correlation with Plasma Total Antioxidant Capacity.

Background: While anabolic hormone deficit is a common finding in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), few data are available in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).

Methods: Blood samples were collected for metabolic (total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, creatinine, and glucose) and hormonal (IGF-1, DHEA-S, TSH, fT3, fT4, and T) determination, comparing 30 patients with HFpEF and 20 patients with HFrEF. Total antioxidant capacity was evaluated by using the spectrophotometric method using the latency time in the appearance of the radical species of a chromogen (LAG, sec) as a parameter proportional to antioxidant content of the sample.

[The importance of the aponeurotic relaxing incision in the plastic repair of inguinal and femoral hernias according to the McVay method].

The AA. propose the utilization of the relaxing incision of the aponeurosis during the Hernioplasty according to McVay's procedure. The main advantage of such a method is the lower tension of the suture of the plasty, with several aspects, which take to a lower incidence of recurrences.

[Non-atherosclerotic and non-inflammatory juvenile popliteal obstructive arteriopathy (personal observations on a case)].

On the ground of a personal observation of juvenile popliteal obstructive arteriopathy, the Authors have considered, after a brief revision of the literature, the physiopathology and the pathologic anatomy about this pathology which, even if uncommon, must by anyhow taken into consideration among the possible causes of "claudicatio intermittens" in young patients. A right diagnosis can be made only during the surgical intervention, the indications of which are represented either by a clinic objectiveness consistent with a peripheral obstruction with description of chronic or openly acute arterial failure, or by an angiographic checking which shows a stop along the femoropopliteal axis. The prognosis is generally good, as the literature confirms, and particularly in the case observed by the Authors it was quite satisfactory after a follow up of four years.

[Apropos of a case of Palma's syndrome].

The Authors refer about a case of rare obstructive arteriopathy of the Hunterian superficial femoral artery, disease better known as Palma's Syndrome.

[Treatment of varices of the lower extremities during pregnancy].

The authors studied 500 pregnant women suffering from varicose pathology, they had the opportunity to observe in the years 1979, 1980, 1981. The range of age hit was between 18 and 46 years. A higher prevalence occurred in pluriparae (82.

[Surgical treatment of superficial thrombophlebitis].

A series of 38 cases of superficial thrombosis occurring during the period 1-12-1979 to 1-12-1981 was examined. The series included 10 cases of iatrogenic thrombophlebitis of the upper limbs, one case of Mondor's thrombophlebitis, and 27 cases of superficial thrombophlebitis of the lower limbs in subjects with essential varices of the legs. A particular predilection for women and for advanced age was noted, as well as particular frequency in the area of distribution of the Great versus and Small Saphenous Vein, and a sharp prevalence of segments below the knee as compared with the thigh.

[Surgical treatment of inguinal hernias, using the McVay technic].

The Authors operated on a series of 173 patients with direct, indirect or relapsing hernia and crural hernia by Mc Vay's surgical procedure, of which they outlined the salient aspects. The study led to some statistical considerations with regard to the rate and time of appearance of the various types of subject hernia in the two sexes and also evidenced two cases of post-operative complication very probably due to the technique used. The follow-up evidenced only one case of relapse.