[Psychological study of adults surgically treated in childhood for hypospadias]. / Rilevazioni psicologiche su soggetti adulti operati in età pediatrica di ipospadia.

The authors present the study and results in 100 subjects operated of hypospadia. They interviewed patients within 15 and 22 years old, in randomized selection and in permanent percent relations as far as: different types of pathology, the age of surgery effected in Vicenza Hospital - Pediatric Surgery Department (1971-1981). Through a structured questionnaire they tried to analyse psychological lived in operated subjects as far as: surgery, convalescence, psychologic problems before and after surgery, way of life when they became adults. Results explain that exist some psychologic problems in operated patients (8.5 years old) before surgery and during convalescence, while there is no problem after surgery. Moreover when these subjects became adults their kind of life (school, profession, sexuality) is without psychopathological problems. This is because of positive attitudes pre-acquired, brief convalescence and above all the high and positive quality of surgery effected.

[Cardiosurgical intervention in extracorporeal circulation and intellectual performance in childhood. Study and follow-up of 20 cases]. / Intervento cardiochirurgico in C.E.C. e performance intellettiva in età pediatrica. Studio e follow-up di 20 casi.

6 and 12 months before and after surgery in E.C.C., twenty subjects, at the age of development between 6 and 14 years, suffering from congenital heart disease, were subjected to psychometric observations with tests of level and others (wisc, raven, pm 38, rey, bender), in order to analyse the intellective level, specific mental capacities and eventual modifications in the mental and cognitive performances of the patients. No psychometric, statistically meaningful variations were generally noticed during the 3 observations. No meaningful correlations resulted between the duration of E.C.C. and psychometric observations. The patients subjected to the E.C.C. longer than the average of the total group generally didn't show any statistically meaningful variations in the scores of the 3 observations. To sum up the authors think that the experimental group showed and maintained before and after the cardiac surgery, a normal developing and maturative level and anyway that after the follow-up, no changes in the several intellective capacities of the patient were noticed.