Azathioprine-related cholestatic jaundice in heart transplant patients.

Azathioprine is an immunosuppressive drug occasionally indicted as the cause of some episodes of acute cholestasis. The case described confirms the possibility of acute, severe, and reversible cholestatic hepatopathy of iatrogenic (toxic rather than idiosyncratic) origin.

[Evaluation of the cardiac and peripheral vascular effects of the administration of single-dose enalapril and captopril in essential arterial hypertension].

The effects of single orally-administered dose of enalapril and captopril on central and district-peripheral circulations have been studied in 20 patients with essential arterial hypertension. Either drug caused a decrease in arterial pressure, telesystolic and telediastolic parietal stress, and a reduction in the peripheral vascular resistance of upper limb district. Furthermore, at the upper limb district level, increases in arterial flow and venous-system capacity have been observed.

[Rehabilitative approach in osteoarticular pathology in the elderly].

Acute and chronic osteoarticular pathology is quickly reviewed. After a review of the most important orthopaedic operations, the most significant types of physical therapy that are most suitable for individual cases are described in detail. Finally it is pointed out that physical exercise is the most natural way to stimulated new bone growth and that medical gymnastics is important for the elderly and using menopause.

[Paramorphism and the sport of volley ball].

The Author on the basis that sport activity is a great preventive treatment against paramorphisms analyzes volley-ball and particularly the possible connections between paramorphism, spinal column and volley-ball.

[Sex hygiene of the athlete and related problems].

The Author tries to summarize in a few pages the problems of sex hygiene and of sexual education in general and of athletes in particular. This is a problem which risks to be exasperated because it had not been treated in the past and because now it is too much in information only. This work is a contribution to education purposes.

[Sports performance of women during the menstrual cycle].

Sports woman performance during menstrual cycle has been examined by many Authors, but the comparison of performance during all menstrual cycle has been less examined. The results of a research carried out on a group of 40 women attending the Parallel Courses' of Verona, of ISEF of Bologna, are illustrated. The conclusion of this research are: a less sporting efficiency in the premenstrual period, a normal or almost normal efficiency in the other period, including the menstrual one as well.

[Sports activities and maternity].

Woman is at last a protagonist in the world of sport. We wanted to check if this interferes, and how, in the natural function of maternity. A study carried out on 20 mother athletes, showed that sport activity does not affect neither pregnancy nor birth.

[Physiological bases of female sports activities].

Some physiological ideas about female sporting activity, on the basis of new laws on sanitary protection of sporting activity are summarized. This paper is directed to sanitary operators who are being urged by law to judge whether an athlete can practise sport or not. The Author discusses the anato-morphologic, physical being, muscular, respiratory, cardio-circulatory, endocrine, neuro-psychical and psycho-somatic aspects of female organism and possible results in sporting competitions.