Buprenorphine treatment: a three-year prospective study in opioid-addicted patients of a public out-patient addiction center in Milan.

The data shown here were collected with an open label prospective design from March 2001 to February 2004 while conducting routine recruitment and therapy of heroin-addicted patients. All of the data collected demonstrate the safety and efficacy of buprenorphine therapy and different characteristics observed in buprenorphine patients versus methadone patients.

Multimodal drug addiction treatment: a field comparison of methadone and buprenorphine among heroin- and cocaine-dependent patients.

Aims: Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of buprenorphine (BUP) and methadone maintenance treatment in opiate-addicted patients in a clinical nonexperimental setting.

Design: We used a naturalistic observational prospective study of 24 months' duration.

Setting: Subjects were enrolled and treated at a drug addiction outpatient clinic of the National Health System Local Unit in Milan, Italy.

[Laparoscopic appendectomy. Retrospective analysis of our experience compared with the literature].

Background: The benefits of laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) remain controversial. This study reports a critical examination of our experience in a peripheral hospital.

Methods: A total of 128 appendectomies have been performed since January 1996, of which 63 (49%) were laparoscopic.

[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Our experience].

Background: The many advantages and extreme versatility made laparoscopic cholecystectomy (L.C.) the gold standard for symptomatic cholelithiasis.

[Gastric carcinoma. Our experience].

This study analysed 66 cases of gastric cancer from 1985 to 1992. Twenty-seven patients (41%) has been treated with anti-H2 drug, either medical care or Jerkily "a la demande": 12 patients have been treated several years. Of the 66 patients: 52 (89%) were operated on while the other 16 received medical treatment because of the extension disease and their precarious condition.