Publications by authors named "Minnici G"

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  • * A study compared 12 Gitelman syndrome patients (ages 6-18) to healthy controls, confirming typical biochemical markers and noting significantly lower inorganic phosphate levels in the patients.
  • * The findings reveal that Gitelman syndrome may also lead to renal phosphate wasting, indicating that affected individuals can have mild to moderate low phosphate levels.
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The authors report a case of paroxysmal supraventricular reciprocal tachycardia, associated with transient Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in a 25-year-old woman, without heart disease, at 31 weeks gestation. The arrhythmia was successfully converted to sinus rhythm by intravenous flecainide. After delivery the arrhythmia and pre-excitation syndrome spontaneously disappeared and were not observed yet during the 6 months follow-up.

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Intestinal involvement of endometriosis requiring treatment is 5%, but only 0.7% needs intestinal resection. The authors report two cases of colic endometriosis and illustrate problems in diagnosis and management of this disease.

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The authors report a case of congenital genu recurvatum: a rare malformation characterized for abnormal hyperextension of knee and wide limitation of flexion. Pathogenesis, clinical pictures and therapy are described.

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