[Cardiac damage during radiotherapy of the mediastinum]. / Cardiolesività in corso di radioterapia sul mediastino.

Two cases of patients with neoplasias who were given radiotherapy on the mediastinum are reported. Serious and fully documented ECG alterations were observed in these patients, but the cause is not easy to ascertain, since the results were neither identical nor clinically attributable to a common pathogenetic factor.

[Cerebral ischemic disease in women. Notes on a CT-documented case series]. / La malattia ischemica cerebrale nella donna. Considerazioni su casistica TAC documentata.

Risk factors in a group of 50 women affected by CT-documented stroke have been analysed. Arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and hyperglycaemia proved the most frequent.

[Asymptomatic electrocardiographic abnormalities during antiblastic chemotherapy]. / Anomalie elettrocardiografiche asintomatiche in corso di chemioterapia antiblastica.

In patients under antiblastic treatment electrocardiographic abnormalities without subjective symptomatology were observed. The genesis of these abnormalities is discussed in the light of wath is known from the literature. Periodical electrocardiographic control of patients treated with antiblastic drugs is highly recommended.

[Evaluation of erythrocyte deformability in subjects with essential arterial hypertension]. / Valutazione della deformabilità eritrocitaria in soggetti con ipertensione arteriosa essenziale.

Red blood cell filtration rate was studied in patients with essential hypertension selected according to the homogeneity of parameters which could interfere with such a test. An increase of filtration time in control subjects was put in evidence both in patients without vascular complications and in patients with cerebrovascular diseases; no significant difference was seen between the two groups. The red cell filterability behavior can be correlated to hypertension and is an expression of red cell deformability alterations. The variation of this hemorheological parameter could be better defined by an improvement of the red cell filterability test and by further studies on the membrane function in essential hypertension.