Early Stage Combination Treatment with Methylprednisolone Pulse and Remdesivir for Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia.

Background: This study evaluated the clinical outcomes of patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia treated with remdesivir plus standard corticosteroid treatment (SCT) or with remdesivir plus high-dose corticosteroid pulse therapy (HDCPT).

Methods: One hundred and two patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure were included. The patients were divided into two cohorts.

Balloon kyphoplasty in traumatic fractures of the thoracolumbar junction. Preliminary experience in 12 cases.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness and safety of Ballon Kyphoplasty as a new method of treatment for traumatic fracture of the thoracolumbar junction.

Methods: We treated twelve patients 8 patients male and 4 female. The average age was 47,3 years (22-75 years).

Carotid endarterectomy: a retrospective analysis. Microendarterectomy and transcranial Doppler ultrasound monitoring.

Background: Analyses of the results obtained following our protocol for the surgical therapy of carotid artery stenosis is the aim of this study.

Methods: Ninety-one procedures were performed on 84 patients by the same surgical team. Indications for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) were 50-70% internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis in 8% of the patients (100% symptomatic), 70-90% stenosis in 67% (64% symptomatic) and 90-99% ICA stenosis in 25% of our patients (33% symptomatic).

Effects of progesterone on sperm function: mechanisms of action.

Progesterone stimulates sperm functions, e.g. hyperactivation, acrosome reaction, binding to oocyte zona pellucida and penetration rate into the hamster oocyte.

Domiodol treatment for bronchopulmonary diseases in the paediatric age group: a double-blind controlled clinical trial versus placebo.

Thirty children (25 males, five females), mean age 9.33 +/- 2.57 years, with acute infectious pulmonary diseases or acute flare-ups of chronic bronchitis, were randomly treated with either domiodol or placebo.

[Beta-pancreatic function in subjects with thalassemia. A 4-year follow-up].

High Hb level transfusion scheme for treatment of thalassemia mayor has improved life prognosis but has increased also the incidence of Diabetes Mellitus. 10 patients with thalassemia major have been followed with OGTT for a period 4 years long (1979-1982). In 1979 we changed from low to high level transfusion regimen, and we began to use the pump for slow subcutaneous administration of desferrioxamine to treat iron overload.