Ten patients with prostatic carcinoma--six with stage C and four with stage D disease--were
treated for 6 weeks to 12 months with agonistic analogues of luteinizing hormone-releasing …

Objectives. The present study evaluated our experience with coronary artery bypass grafting
in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction. Background. Despite the ominous …

Relief of symptoms can be achieved following surgery for growth hormone (GH)-secreting
adenomas, as well as after pharmacological therapy with somatostatin analogs. Recently, long…

Subjects affected by Cooley's anemia who are transfused regularly to a high hemoglobin
level have an improved clinical picture and life-span. On the other hand, blood transfusions …

… OGTT was performed by collection of baseline blood samples followed by ingestion of a
75-g glucose load and subsequent blood sampling at 30-min intervals for 2 h to determine …

… The final addition of glycerol-3 phosphate (G-3P) permits estimation of the activity of the G-3P
cytochrome c reductase (G-3P dehydrogenase+complex III). Notice that in the tumor …

… All patients were transfused with leuco-depleted, genotyped red blood cells every 2–4
weeks in order to maintain a pre-transfusion haemoglobin level above 9·5 g/dl. Prior to the …

Hypercalcemia of cancer is due to secretion of substances with parathyroid hormone (PTH)-like
activity from tumours of the respiratory, gastrointestinal and urogenital tract as well as …

Despite improved hematologic care, multiendocrine dysfunction is a common complication
of homozygous transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia. In this study our goal was to estimate …

Hypoparathyroidism is thought to be a rare consequence of iron overload seen in β-thalassemic
transfused patients. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of …