[Up-date on acute ischemia of the limbs]. / Aggiornamenti in tema di ischemia acuta degli arti.

The authors report their experience in the treatment of acute ischemia of the limbs during the last year. They underline the importance of a right diagnostic and therapeutic treatment particularly in a little hospital, as reported in an algorytm published recently in the literature. They analyze 11 patients, one of them with an embolism of the arm, with a different degree of ischemia. The results are similar to those reported in the literature.

[Acute intestinal ischemia. Review of the literature and personal experience]. / Ischemia intestinale acuta. Revisione della letteratura ed esperienza personale.

The authors report the experience of their surgical department in the diagnosis and treatment of acute arterial mesenteric ischaemia. Their results are similar to those of the literature. Stress is laid on early diagnosis and interest of mesenteric angiography, laparoscopy and color flow ultrasound. Arterial revascularisation must be the surgical aim but the prognosis of acute mesenteric ischaemia remains very severe.

[Carotid vessels studied by Doppler color echography and digital angiography. Results of meta analysis]. / Studio dei vasi carotidei mediante eco color-Doppler ed angiografia digitale. Risultati di una meta-analisi.

Twenty patients were studied by color Doppler flow imaging and digital angiography. According to the literature the results support necessity of color flow in the study of the patients with plaque. The authors emphasize the role of angiography only in the surgical patients for the anatomic evaluation of the carotid territory.

[Changes in carcinoembryonic antigen and tissue polypeptide antigen in monitoring the post-operative course of some tumor types]. / Il comportamento del CEA e del TPA nel monitoraggio del decorso post-operatorio di alcuni tipi di tumore.

The authors tested TPA in association with CEA in colon rectal, breast and stomach cancer. The results proved the reliability of TPA in these neoplasms and the correct use of TPA in association with CEA test in monitoring breast cancer. It's use proved to be typical screening test both for the high percentage of true positive and the lack of false negative.

[Association of ferritin with the CEA test in post-operative monitoring of colo-rectal, breast and stomach carcinomas]. / L'associazione della ferritina al CEA test nel monitoraggio post-operatorio dei carcinomi del colon-retto, della mammella e dello stomaco.

On the basis of more than 3,000 tests carried out on 1,561 patients suffering from suspected or certain malignant tumours, the authors established the necessity of CEA test in post-operative follow-ups, according to the plentiful literature regarding this matter. New tumoral markers led the authors to verify if it was useful to associate the ferritin to CEA test. From the results and the statistical data, they concluded that it was useful to associate the two markers only in negative CEA test when confronted with clinical suspected metastatic diffusion.