Prevalence of Paget's disease of bone in Italy.

Unlabelled: We examined the prevalence of PDB in Italy from radiological, scintigraphic, and biochemical surveys in two Italian towns. Prevalence rates varied from 0.7% to 2.

Determination of functional portal-systemic shunting in patients submitted to hepatic angiography.

Angiographic visualization of the hepatic vascular bed by selective angiography can be profitably complemented with the evaluation of functional portal-systemic shunting by D-sorbitol bioavailability. Seventeen patients requiring diagnostic arterial catheterization were studied: most of them had biopsy-proven liver cirrhosis. Patients were studied at rest and after overnight fasting on two subsequent days, in which a sterile pyrogen-free solution (1.