[Clinical evaluation of the therapeutic effect of D-L-carnitine in the acute phase of myocardial infarct in relation to the behavior of the serum myoglobin concentration curve]. / Valutazione clinica dell'effetto terapeutico della D-L-carnitina nella fase acuta dell'infarto del miocardio in riferimento al comportamento della curva di concentrazione serica della mioglobina.

Clinical experience carried out on 40 patients with AMI - 22 of them treated with 15 g daily of D-L-Carnitine and 18 untreated - is reported. Our interest was to study the therapeutic action of this drug evaluating if it was able to modify the curve of serum myoglobin level released from necrotic or ischaemic areas. The conclusion is drawn that this drug could act feebly only during the earlier stages of AMI, but many reserves are expressed.

[Pathogenetic interpretation of left ventricle obstruction in hypertrophic obstructive myocardiopathy]. / Interpretazione patogenetica della ostruzione del ventricolo sinistro nella miocardiopatia ipertrofica ostruttiva (MCO).

Nine patients affected from IHSS have been studied by 2D-echocardiography examination. Following detected pictures the Authors try to explain the pathogenesis of the dynamic obstruction of the L.V. The Authors conclude ascribing it to the postero-medial papillary muscle that move abnormally towards the IVS. Instead the SAM could be ascribed to the chordee of the mitral value, but these are considered unable to obstruct L.V. The differences between SAM and L.V. obstruction are underlined and discussed.