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Good fundamentals of posture and balance are essential for the efficient performance of both simple daily tasks and more complex movement patterns. In particular, postural balance is the ability to keep the body in equilibrium and to regain balance after the shift of body segments: postural control mechanisms of integration of the visual, vestibular and foot afferential channels contribute to this. This document provides recommendations based on scientific evidence, clinical practice, and consensus between experts concerning the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of postural dysfunction at the three stages of life as the developmental age, adult age, and old age > 65 years and follows the "National Guidelines on Classification and Measuring of Posture and its Dysfunctions" per the Italian Ministry of Health (December 2017). The paper answers four main questions: i) "Which measures can be adopted to prevent postural dysfunctions?" ii) "What can we do in order to make a correct diagnosis of postural dysfunction?" iii) "What are the correct treatment programs for postural dysfunctions?" iv) Which professional competencies and experiences are useful for preventing, diagnosing and treating postural dysfunctions? By the Consensus of the Experts and the scientific evidence, emerge that the approach to postural dysfunctions requires a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team. Furthermore, rehabilitation treatment interventions must be specific to the age groups that have been indicated, to consider the integration of the main systems and subsystems of postural control that change with age.
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Equilibrio Postural , Postura , Consenso , PieRESUMEN
The investigations on the risk of hepatocarcinogenesis in the HBsAg chronic carriers have suggested that the early detection of primary liver carcinoma requires epidemiological and laboratory follow up of their state of health. The preliminary results of the comparative investigations of 103 HBsAg carriers detected among blood donors and 93 controls without HBsAg are presented. Epidemiological inquiries, clinical examinations and laboratory tests (HBsAg, serum alpha-fetoprotein, alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, proteinogram, siderophilin, immunoglobulins M, A, G) were carried out. Elevated levels of alpha-fetoprotein, alkaline phosphatase and gamma- glutamyltranspeptidase were recorded in carriers as compared to controls (38.8% and 86%, respectively). The elevation of the levels of liver damage markers was significantly correlated, in the HBsAg carriers, with the carrier state over 3 years and less with the age-group. In the case of two carriers with elevated levels of alpha-fetoprotein (> 600-> 1,000 ng/ml) ultrasonography confirmed the suspicion of primary liver carcinoma.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular/diagnóstico , Portador Sano/diagnóstico , Antígenos de Superficie de la Hepatitis B/sangre , Hepatitis B/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Adulto , Biomarcadores/sangre , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/epidemiología , Portador Sano/epidemiología , Enfermedad Crónica , Femenino , Hepatitis B/epidemiología , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/epidemiología , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Prevalencia , Factores de Riesgo , Rumanía/epidemiología , Factores de TiempoRESUMEN
The investigations carried out in 92 patients with confirmed diagnosis of primitive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have demonstrated that in almost half of them hepatitis was present in their antecedents, indicating the intervention of hepatitis virus in the etiology of this disease. In this context, the primary prophylaxis of primitive HCC is mainly based on the prophylaxis and control of viral hepatitis. As the interval detection-death was in most cases very short (1-2 month), the secondary prophylaxis consisting in performing more of the investigations recommended for the early diagnosis of primitive HCC is essential.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular/epidemiología , Neoplasias Hepáticas/epidemiología , Factores de Edad , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/diagnóstico , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/mortalidad , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/mortalidad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Rumanía/epidemiología , Factores SexualesAsunto(s)
Familia , Antígenos de la Hepatitis B/análisis , Hepatitis B/transmisión , Adulto , Portador Sano , Niño , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , RiesgoRESUMEN
Vaccinal poliovirus type 1, Coxsackie B3 virus and echovirus type 1 survived in mineral water, camomile infusion and coffee for over 20 days. In contrast, Chinese tea, lime and mint infusions had a possibly transient inactivating effect on the same enterovirus strains. There was a direct relationship between the concentration of the infusions and their inactivating action. The vaccinal poliovirus was more sensitive than Coxsackie and echoviruses to the inactivating action of the infusions.
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Bebidas , Enterovirus/crecimiento & desarrollo , Microbiología de Alimentos , Café , Enterovirus Humano B/crecimiento & desarrollo , Aguas Minerales , Plantas Medicinales , Poliovirus/crecimiento & desarrollo , Té , Factores de TiempoRESUMEN
Out of 205 children, former patients with viral hepatitis, investigated after the end of the follow-up period by clinical and laboratory examinations, 9 (4.4%) presented mild or moderate pathological alterations. At the second control, carried out after an another interval de 1-1½ years, the pathological alterations were refound only in 2 of the former patients, suggesting that all the others presented lasting forms of acute viral hepatitis evolving towards healing. The presence of AgHBs and the alteration of proteinogramme in the acute phase of VH can serve as criteria of unfavourable prognosis of the disease evolution and impose a preferential follow-up of this category of patients.