[Agenesis of the right carotid in a subject with dextrocardia. Diagnostic imaging in 1 case with unique characteristics].

A man aged 51 with dextrocardia and right common and internal carotid artery agenesis is described. Cerebral blood flow is allowed internally by the left carotid and left vertebral antegrade flow, while right artery has only the function to drain the blood from the left side of vertebral system. A small external right carotid does exist, but it is separated from the cerebral hemodynamics.

[Von Hippel syndrome with recurrent pheochromocytoma].

A patient with Von Hippel disease is described. The Von Hippel syndrome is a genetic disease characterized by a retinal angiomatosis and multiple tumors (renal and pancreatic sites are common). The pheochromocytoma is-on the contrary-very uncommon and the association with 2 pheochromocytomas has probably never been reported.

Diabetes and coronary risk factors, relative risk for single factors and aggregation of more factors in a general population sample from northern Italy.

In the course of a general population survey in Mirano (Venice), Northern Italy, a random sample of 1,903 subjects (50.1% men) aged 20-59 was examined. Fifty-five were diabetic (fasting plasma glucose greater than or equal to 140 mg/dl or diagnosed by a physician) and 1,670 non-diabetic subjects (fasting plasma glucose below 110 mg/dl).

[Changes in blood Zn, Se, Cd, Pb during therapeutic abstinence from alcohol in 101 cases of alcoholism].

The patients were subdivided into 3 groups, in accordance with clinical, echographic, laboratory and laparoscopy criteria: without liver disease, with liver disease and with alcoholic cirrhosis. In alcoholics with liver disease (with or without cirrhosis), we found a constant significant decrease in lead during abstinence, while in patients with cirrhosis zinc has a significant increase. Always lower to normal the blood selenium.