[Effectiveness of a protocol treatment for overweight/obese patients (SIAN - ASL RMA)].

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of treatment protocols in patients overweight/obese, pertaining to outpatient of dietary preventive of SIAN (in English: Service of Food Hygiene and Nutrition) RMA.

Materials And Methods: We extracted data from the medical records of patients with BMI≥25 (2009-2012). It was conducted a descriptive analysis, univariate analysis (chi-square test; p≤0.

[Simvastatin in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia].

We have treated twelve patients with simvastatin: six had type IIA hypercholesterolaemia and the other six had type IIB. These patients have been examined before and after therapy, by an ophthalmologist. After therapy, the levels of the total cholesterol and triglycerides were decreased while HDL cholesterol was increased.

[Hyperlipidemia: physiopathology and our experience in the ambulatory care of 3 groups of patients undergoing blood lipid normalization treatment].

The authors tested the efficacy of three different lipid-lowering drugs in subjects with more or less severe alterations of the lipoprotein pattern. All subjects were submitted to blood tests prior to and at the end of treatment with special attention to the trend of the lipid pattern, assaying cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglyceride, total lipid blood levels and lipid electrophoresis. The drugs employed were: pantothenic acid, sulodexide, and DEAE-dextran.

[Cryptogenetic ulcerative colitis. Our clinical experience with new therapeutic approaches].

Sixteen patients with flare-ups of ulcerative colitis were studied. Before and after treatment, patients were submitted to the customary laboratory tests and to x-ray (contrast enema) and endoscopic examination, biopsy material being harvested during the latter. Treatment consisted in the oral administration of 2-4 g 5-ASA daily for 30 days.