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En el presente artículo se describe la técnica de aumento del piso del seno maxilar a través del reborde alveolar, mediante el uso de osteotomos en combinación con procedimientos de regeneración ósea guiada y uso de biomateriales de relleno. Se reporta el caso de una paciente femenina de 65 años de edad, con disminución de altura ósea del reborde alveolar, debido a la neumatización de los senos maxilares, asociada con moderada reabsorción ósea, a quien se le colocó a nivel del primer molar superior izquierdo implantes 3,5 x 11 mm IMTEC Endure Internal Hex System y se aplicó la técnica descrita de aumento del piso del seno maxilar. Mediante esta técnica es posible la elevación atraumática de la membrana sinusal, con bajo riesgo de lesionarla.
In the present article, the technique of maxillary sinus floor increase through the alveolar ridge by using osteotomes in combination with bone regeneration guided procedures and the use of biomaterial fillings is described. It is reported the case of a 65 year old, female patient, with a decrease of alveolar ridge bone height due to the pneumatization of the maxillary sinus, associated with moderate bone re-absorption. The procedure consisted on the placement of a 3.5 x 11 mm IMTEC Endure Internal Hex System implant, at the level of the superior left first molar and the application of the technique described before (maxillary sinus floor increase). By using this technique, an atraumatic elevation of the sinus membrane is possible with low risk of injuring it.
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Studies performed to date on the prevalence of biliary lithiasis (BL) in chronic renal failure patients on hemodialysis (HD) have given contradictory results. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the prevalence of BL and its main associated risk factors in a population of hemodialysis patients, and to compare the results with those we had obtained previously in an overt population of the same zone. The study included 171 patients (83 M, 88 F), mean age 62.5 years and mean duration of dialysis 66.7 months. The screening protocol also included body mass index (BMI), a number of biochemical parameters and an ultrasound scan of the gallbladder and biliary tract. The general prevalence of BL was 33.3% (30.1% in men and 36.4% in women), and this figure was significantly higher than that found in our previous study. Prevalence increased with age in both sexes (Mantel-Haenszel Chi-squared = 5.4, p < 0.03), but not with duration of dialysis. The main risk factors, evaluated with multiple logisstic regression, were the presence of diabetes mellitus and high serum phosphorus levels. Specific symptoms were also significantly associated in BL patients. No association was found with parity, BMI or serum lipid alterations. In conclusion, the prevalence of BL in a Sicilian population of HD patients was higher than that found in an overt population of the same area and the associated main risk factors were not coincident. Further studies are needed to establish the role played by the phase of end-stage renal disease before HD and to correct the metabolic disturbances to limit a high percentage of morbidity in a disease already in itself sufficiently disabling.
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Cholelithiasis/epidemiology , Cholelithiasis/etiology , Kidney Failure, Chronic/complications , Renal Dialysis , Chi-Square Distribution , Female , Humans , Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy , Logistic Models , Male , Middle Aged , Prevalence , Risk Factors , Sicily/epidemiologySubject(s)
Kidney Diseases/blood , Laminin/blood , Peptide Fragments/blood , Procollagen/blood , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Creatinine/blood , Female , Glomerulonephritis/blood , Glomerulonephritis, IGA/blood , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , PrognosisABSTRACT
The prognostic role of the expression of bcl-1, bcl-2, bax, PCNA, and DNA-ploidy in a series of 25 oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) was investigated. The average age of the patients was 62.04 years (range, 27 to 81 years), with a sex ratio (M/F) of 23:2. The follow-up mean time was 2.24 years (range, 8 months to 8 years from surgery). Immunohistochemistry for PCNA, bcl-2, bcl-1, and bax proteins was carried out on 5-microm serial sections from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue. The findings were compared with clinicopathologic data and with follow-up. The statistical evaluation of the results of the current study suggests that the low positivity for PCNA with a high positivity for bcl-2 protein are related to a better clinical behavior of the tumors. By converse, a high expression of PCNA, bax, and bcl-1 appears to correlate with a worse prognosis. All of our cases of SCC showed the presence of aneuploid populations, which was not correlated with the clinicopathologic parameters or with the overexpression of bcl-1, bcl-2, bax, and PCNA. Therefore, the aneuploidy per se did not predict the clinical evolution for the single cases of cancers. Nevertheless, once the parameters considered for the evaluation of DNA were examined in detail, it appeared that some of them, individually or combined with each other or with the expression of bcl-1, bcl-2, and bax, gained statistical significance in predicting the clinical evolution of SCC of our series. Particularly, high values of 2cDI and DNA-MG and the absence or reduction of the euploid population were associated with a short interval between surgery and recurrence or death, and this significance persisted when the simultaneous presence of overexpression of bcl-1 was considered.
