Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease: A Narrative Review of Evolving Perspectives and Long-Term Implications.

Cardiovascular illnesses remain the primary cause of death, accounting for at least 17.9 million fatalities per year and posing a significant public health problem because of its extensive predominance and effect on healthcare systems. The etiology of cardiovascular disease is complex and involves several environmental and lifestyle factors.

Profile of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases during the Pandemic in a Cardiology Clinic of a COVID-19 Support Hospital.

Background: During the pandemic, our hospital became a COVID support hospital and consequently the cardiology clinic had restricted activity; thus, it received only suspect and/or patients confirmed positive with the various COVID-19 strains that were associated with a chronic/flaring cardiovascular pathology.

Methods: Two batches of patients admitted during a one-year period were compared in the cardiology clinic over two different periods of time: BATCH I (1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020), in a non-COVID context (BATCH I N-COV) and BATCH II (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021) comprising patients that presented with respiratory infection of SARS-CoV-2 (BATCH II COV-2), associated with chronic and/or acute cardiovascular condition. To determine the profile of the patients admitted in our clinic, we observed the following parameters: age, type of cardiac condition, and admission mode (for the N-COV group).

The esophagogastric junction cancer: diagnosis and surgical treatment challenges.

Aim: To present our experience in esophagogastric cancer.

Material And Method: Fifty nine subjects with esophagogastric junction cancer (52 men and 7 women, aged between 41 and 74 years), selected from 79 esophageal cancer patients admitted in the last 20 years (1982-2002) were analysed. The diagnosis was established on the clinical picture (esophageal syndrome 54 cases, weight loss 51 cases, anemia 49 cases), on the imaging tests (chest X-ray, barium swallow and CT scan) and endoscopy.

Cystic tumors of the pancreas. Considerations upon 34 operated cases.

Aim: To point out the morphologic, clinic and therapeutic aspects of pancreatic cystic tumors.

Material And Method: 34 pancreatic cystic tumors (21 males and 13 females, aged between 21 and 68 years), admitted in the last 15 years were analyzed. They were true cysts in 3 cases (9.