[The multidisciplinary management of acute pancreatitis: a review of 244 cases].

Background: Acute pancreatitis (AP) has still a high mortality rate; therefore the accuracy of the predictors of severity actually employed and the therapeutic choices are under debate. The aim of this work is to valuate the accuracy of the prognostic factors actually employed and the results of a multidisciplinary treatment of the AP.

Methods: A consecutive series of 244 patients affected by AP (168 mild, 76 severe) is analysed.

[A study of the fixing cement resistance by measuring the amount of dissolved zinc in human saliva].

Use of particular cement depends on its advantageous and disadvantageous properties. Several cements for definite cementation and one for temporary cementation, most commonly used in fixed prosthetics, were studied. The amount of salivary zinc dissolved from cement was determined by the method of atomic absorption spectrophotometry on a Pye Unicam SP 9,800 instrument, using correction of nonspecific signals by means of a deuterium lamp.