Clinical Study of Serum Serotonin as a Screening Marker for Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Over time, studies have shown the importance of determining serotonin levels to diagnose somatic and psychiatric disorders. There are theoretical premises and practical ways to achieve a subtle correlation between the existence of comorbid psychiatric disorders and somatic diseases caused by the changes observed in serotonin levels. The present study, classified as retrospective and quantitative, provides evidence for determining the serotonin levels in patients with diabetes and anxiety or depression.

Proinsulin and age in general population.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between fasting proinsulin (PI) and age in general population and to determine whether there are differences regarding this association in obese and non-obese persons.

Methods: A random population-based sample (n=656) of Romanians (26-80 years) living in Bucharest, Romania was studied; 432 persons had diabetes and they were not analyzed in this paper. Circulating levels of fasting plasma glucose (FPG), fasting plasma insulin (FPI), fasting plasma proinsulin (FPP), fasting plasma C-peptide, HbA1c, lipid profile, creatinine, urea were measured.

The extended use of modular knee endoprostheses.

Modular knee prostheses have been used since the 1980's. Their goal was to offer an alternative to reconstructing large bony defects without using bone grafting. Initially, they were used for reconstruction after resection of tumours about the knee.

[Resection--reconstruction in malignant tumors of the locomotory apparatus].

The malignant bone and soft tissue tumors, represents, like any other type of cancer, a continuous challenge for surgeon, who is constrained to search and find new techniques, to improve not only the life expectancy, but the quality of the life too. This aim determined orthopedic surgeons to perform new operations, with a complex technique, like resection - reconstruction of the limb. In orthopedic clinic of Elias Hospital, we had 35 patients with malignant tumors of the limbs; we performed 14 resection--reconstructions, with or without preserving the joint mobility.