Recently the medical community got to acknowledge that, al­though not as relevant as in women, male osteoporosis is an epidemiologically relevant feature of the disease and one out of three osteoporosis fractures occurs in the male population. Aim of this study was to evaluate bone mineral density and bone metabolism markers in a selected series [...]

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Clinical and laboratory data of patients and controls are report­ed in Table I. BMD was reduced in 16 (64%) out of 25 patients: 5 patients (20%) could be classified as osteoporotic and 11 patients (44%) osteopenic on the basis of at least one measurement. Table II reports mean BMD values for lumbar spine (LS) and [...]

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Introduction Metabolic bone disease is a complication of chronic liver dis­ease (CLD) and is well known as “hepatic osteodistrophy”. Osteoporosis accounts for the majority of cases, whereas osteomalacia is rare in the absence of advanced liver disease and severe malabsorption. The prevalence is the same in men and women, however the published prevalence of os­teoporosis [...]

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At variance with Pa02st and Ve, which tended to return toward normal as a consequence of the pro­gressive recovery of perfusion during the first week or the first month, the P(A-a)02, P(a-A)C02, and Vd/ Vt%, even after appropriate treatment, showed the persistence of some abnormalities six months later. The incomplete recovery of perfusion and of [...]

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The recovery of pulmonary perfusion after embo­lism may be influenced by several factors, such as prompt and adequate treatment, recurrence of em­boli, and underlying pulmonary pathologic abnormal­ities. Therefore, an accurate follow-up of patients, both in the early stages after embolization and later on, is clinically helpful. Previous reports show that perfusion lung scintigra­phy, owing to [...]

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Mean values (±1 SD) of ULSs and of pulmonary gas exchange parameters in the acute phase of pul­monary embolism are reported in the following tabu­lation: At this time, the mean number of ULSs was 11.3 ±2.6, showing that the fraction of the pulmonary arterial tree obstructed by emboli was 63 percent on the average (18 [...]

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Chest Roentgenogram The chest roentgenogram was obtained in the upright position. X-ray tube conditions were set to keep the exposure time to a minimum for each roentgenogram (0.05 s) and were kept constant in successive roentgenograms. Chest x-ray films were read by three observers according to a standardized reading sheet. The following roentgenographic findings, as [...]

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