G Cozzolino

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[Variability of the clinical and laboratory aspects in the presentation of chronic liver diseases in relation to their etiology. Analysis of a case study and review of the literature].

PubMed (1985)

G Cozzolino Giampiero Francica Amedeo Lonardo Raimondo Cerini L Cacciatore

247 cases of patients suffering from chronic liver diseases were reviewed. These cases were divided according to "risk areas" (viral, alcoholic, viral and alcoholic, cryptogenic) and diagnosis (CAH, compensated cirrhosis, decompensated cirrhosis). Differences found in clinical and laboratory aspects of liver diseases from different risk areas are described but it is concluded that no single aetiology affects the liver functional reserve more than the others. Laboratory tests give more information in the early stages of chronic liver diseases while clinical analysis is more varied in the terminal ones. Literature on the subject is reviewed. Our data neither confirm nor disprove that HBsAg+ Alcohol+ patients display a characteristic clinical picture and this hypothesis should be further investigated.

Etiology

Chronic alcoholic

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Iatrogenic haemobilia: ultrasound appearance of intragallbladder haemorrhage. A report of two cases.

PubMed (1991)

G. Francica G Cozzolino R. Morante Vittorio Romano Andrea Di Giorgio

Ultrasound appearance of intragallbladder haemorrhage in two patients with haemobilia is presented. Gallbladder lumina were occupied by non-shadowing, firm masses of mixed echogenicity representing blood clots. In both cases iatrogenic trauma following percutaneous transcholecystic cholangiography and blind hepatic biopsy caused bleeding in the biliary tree.

Echogenicity

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography

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[Tryptophan-pyrrolase activity in patients with neoplasms of various types].

PubMed (1969)

G Cozzolino L Scianaro G Dominici U Milia

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Lack of correlation between the laboratory findings and a series of steps in the clinical severity of chronic liver disease

La Ricerca in Clinica e in Laboratorio (1984)

G Cozzolino Ciampiero Francica Amedeo Lonardo S. Cigolari L Cacciatore

Hematology

Liver disease

Chronic liver disease

10.1007/bf02906304

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[Changes induced by the parenteral introduction of normal human gastric juice in the urinary excretion of various tryptophan metabolites in pellagra patients].

PubMed (1967)

G Cozzolino G Dominici Paolo Latini

Pellagra

Xanthurenic acid

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Differential diagnosis between hepatic cirrhosis and chronic active hepatitis: specificity and sensitivity of physical and laboratory findings in a series from the Mediterranean area.

PubMed (1983)

G Cozzolino Amedeo Lonardo Giampiero Francica F. Amendola L Cacciatore

Sensitivity and specificity of physical and laboratory findings have been evaluated for the purpose of establishing a differential diagnosis between cirrhosis and chronic active hepatitis on clinicolaboratory grounds. Data from 213 patients from southern Italy with biopsy-proven chronic active hepatitis or cirrhosis have been studied retrospectively. Splenomegaly, hypocholesterolemia, and decreased sulfobromophthalein-Ki were among the most sensitive individual findings in cirrhosis, whereas decreased platelet count, jaundice, and hypoprothrombinemia were the most specific ones. The presence in the same patient of both one of the former and one of the latter findings yields a correct diagnosis of cirrhosis with at least 90% likelihood. Advantages of the proposed diagnostic technique and comparison with data from an American series are discussed.

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Liver cirrhosis as A diabetogenic condition

Digestive Diseases and Sciences (1986)

L Cacciatore G Cozzolino Maria Grazia Giardina Francesco De Marco Giampiero Francica

Transplant surgery

10.1007/bf01347922

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[Atransferrinemic nephrotic syndrome. Clinical contribution and etiopathogenetic evaluation].

PubMed (1968)