Supplementation with Bio-Calcium from Shells Pinctada Maxima in Postmenopausal Women with Decreased Mineral Bone Density – Pilot Study

Introduction Treatment of osteoporosis, in addition to a specific antiresorptive or anabolic treatment, requires supplementation with calcium and vitamin D. Widespread cultivation of pearl shells has made pearls available for commercial use for a very reasonable price. The main chemical compound of pearls from shells Pinctada maxima is calcium-carbonate (CaCO 3). Recently developed technologies applied in a micronisation process have provided increased gastrointestinal resorption of calcium, estimated at over 90 % of calcium intake

Effects of Electrotherapy in Treatment of Neurogenic Bladder in Children with Occult Spinal Dysraphism

Introduction Neurogenic bladder can develop as a result of various degrees of neurogenic lesion in spina bifida. The degree of bladder dysfunction depends on the level and type of spina bifida. Due to results upon complete diagnostic protocols, treatment options are applied. Objective Comparison of therapy results of patients with occult spinal dysraphism with neurogenic bladder that underwent medicamentous therapy and medicamentous with electrotherapy treatment

Nutritional problems in the surgical patients with head and neck tumours. Literature review and personal experience

During the last years the importance of the correct nutritional assessment as a part of the therapeutic process of the human pathologies has a greatly increased relevance. Still more in oncology, such relationship among nutritional assessment and good result of the therapeutic treatment have a fundamental importance. Among the neoplastic diseases those of the head and the neck result to be particularly aggressive, both for their nature and for the particular anatomical organization of such body areas, and the affected patients also need a precise evaluation of the nutritional assessment to obtain an optimal therapeutic result. On the basis of such premises and to their own clinical experience, the authors describe the main nutritional problems of the patients with tumours of the head and the neck and the possible therapeutic solutions