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Ferrari V, Galluzzo F, van Kaam JBCHM, Penasa M, Marusi M, Finocchiaro R, Visentin G, Cassandro M. Genetic and genomic evaluation of age at first calving in Italian Holsteins. J Dairy Sci 2024; 107:3104-3113. [PMID: 38135051 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2023-23493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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Age at first calving (AFC) represents the nonproductive period of ∼2 yr in Holstein cows, and thus, it has a relevant effect on the cost of rearing replacements in the dairy herd. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate genetic and genomic aspects of AFC in the Italian Holstein population. Data of 4,206,218 heifers with first calving between 1996 and 2020 were used. Age at first calving averaged 26.09 ± 3.07 mo and decreased across years. Heritability was estimated using a linear animal model which included the fixed effects of herd-year-season of birth and classes of gestation length, and the random animal additive genetic effect fitted to a pedigree-based relationship matrix. The EBV and genomically EBV (GEBV) were obtained, and they were standardized to mean 100 and standard deviation 5, where animals above the mean are those contributing to reduce AFC. Heritability estimates of AFC ranged from 0.031 to 0.045. The trend of sires' GEBV was favorable and indicated a reduced AFC across years. Approximate genetic correlations between GEBV of AFC and GEBV of other economically important traits were calculated on a subset of genotyped females born after 2015. Moderate favorable associations of AFC with production traits (0.39-0.51), udder depth (0.40), interval from first to last insemination in heifer (-0.43), and longevity (0.34) were assessed. Overall, the greatest lifetime productive performances and most favorable days open in first lactation were observed when heifers calved at 22 to 23 mo. In contrast, progeny of sires with GEBV of AFC above the mean yielded more milk, fat, and protein in first lactation, and had shorter days open than progeny of sires with GEBV of AFC below the mean. Results suggested that breeding strategies to improve AFC should be pursued, also considering genetic correlations between AFC and traits which are already part of the Italian Holstein breeding objective. The inclusion of AFC in an aggregate index is expected to contribute to enhance farm income.
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- V Ferrari
- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, 26100 Cremona (CR), Italy; Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy.
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, 26100 Cremona (CR), Italy; Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, 26100 Cremona (CR), Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, 26100 Cremona (CR), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, 26100 Cremona (CR), Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, 26100 Cremona (CR), Italy; Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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Boggi U, Kauffmann E, Napoli N, Barreto SG, Besselink MG, Fusai GK, Hackert T, Abu Hilal M, Marchegiani G, Salvia R, Shrikhande S, Truty M, Werner J, Wolfgang C, Bannone E, Capretti G, Cattelani A, Coppola A, Cucchetti A, De Sio D, Di Dato A, Di Meo G, Fiorillo C, Gianfaldoni C, Ginesini M, Hidalgo Salinas C, Lai Q, Miccoli M, Montorsi R, Pagnanelli M, Poli A, Ricci C, Sucameli F, Tamburrino D, Viti V, Addeo PF, Alfieri S, Bachellier P, Baiocchi G, Balzano G, Barbarello L, Brolese A, Busquets J, Butturini G, Caniglia F, Caputo D, Casadei R, Chunhua X, Colangelo E, Coratti A, Costa F, Crafa F, Dalla Valle R, De Carlis L, de Wilde RF, Del Chiaro M, Di Benedetto F, Di Sebastiano P, Domak S, Hogg M, Egorov VI, Ercolani G, Ettorre GM, Falconi M, Ferrari G, Ferrero A, Filauro M, Giardino A, Grazi GL, Gruttaduaria S, Izbicki JR, Jovine E, Katz M, Keck T, Khatkov I, Kiguchi G, Kooby D, Lang H, Lombardo C, Malleo G, Massani M, Mazzaferro V, Memeo R, Miao Y, Mishima K, Molino C, Nagakawa Y, Nakamura M, Nardo B, Panaro F, Pasquali C, Perrone V, Rangelova E, Riu L, Romagnoli R, Romito R, Rosso E, Schulick R, Siriwardena A, Spampinato M, Strobel O, Testini M, Troisi R, Uzunoglo FG, Valente R, Veneroni L, Zerbi A, Vicente E, Vistoli F, Vivarelli M, Wakabayashi G, Zanus G, Zureikat A, Zyromski NJ, Coppola R, D'Andrea V, Davide J, Dervenis C, Frigerio I, Konlon KC, Michelassi F, Montorsi M, Nealon W, Portolani N, Sousa Silva D, Bozzi G, Ferrari V, Trivella MG, Cameron J, Clavien PA, Asbun HJ. REDISCOVER International Guidelines on the Perioperative Care of Surgical Patients With Borderline-resectable and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer. Ann Surg 2024:00000658-990000000-00795. [PMID: 38407228 DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000006248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The REDISCOVER consensus conference aimed at developing and validate guidelines on the perioperative care of patients with borderline resectable (BR-) and locally advanced (LA) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Coupled with improvements in chemotherapy and radiation, the contemporary approach to pancreatic surgery supports resection of BR-PDAC and, to a lesser extent, LA-PDAC. Guidelines outlining the selection and perioperative care for these patients are lacking. METHODS The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) methodology was used to develop the REDISCOVER guidelines and create recommendations. The Delphi approach was used to reach consensus (agreement ≥80%) among experts. Recommendations were approved after a debate and vote among international experts in pancreatic surgery and pancreatic cancer management. A Validation Committee used the AGREE II-GRS tool to assess the methodological quality of the guidelines. Moreover, an independent multidisciplinary advisory group revised the statements to ensure adherence to non-surgical guidelines. RESULTS Overall, 34 recommendations were created targeting centralization, training, staging, patient selection for surgery, possibility of surgery in uncommon scenarios, timing of surgery, avoidance of vascular reconstruction, details of vascular resection/reconstruction, arterial divestment, frozen section histology of perivascular tissue, extent of lymphadenectomy, anticoagulation prophylaxis and role of minimally invasive surgery. The level of evidence was however low for 29 of 34 clinical questions. Participants agreed that the most conducive mean to promptly advance our understanding in this field is to establish an international registry addressing this patient population ( https://rediscover.unipi.it/ ). CONCLUSIONS The REDISCOVER guidelines provide clinical recommendations pertaining to pancreatectomy with vascular resection for patients with BR- and LA-PDAC, and serve as the basis of a new international registry for this patient population.
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- Ugo Boggi
- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia, Division of Surgery and Perioperative Medicine, Flinders Medical Center, Beadfor Park, Australia
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- Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Department of Surgery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Cancer Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy
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- Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, DiSCOG, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Pancreas Institute, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Tata Memorial Hospital, Gastrointestinal and HPB Service, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreas Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, LMU, University of Munich, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, The NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy
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- General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Pancreas Institute, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences - DIMEC; Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna; Bologna, Italy
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- Gemelli Pancreatic Center, CRMPG (Advanced Pancreatic Research Center), Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePre-J) University of Bari, Italy
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- Gemelli Pancreatic Center, CRMPG (Advanced Pancreatic Research Center), Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of General and Specialty Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, AOU Policlinico Umberto I of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam, Department of Surgery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Cancer Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Surgery (DIMEC), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy, Division of Pancreatic Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna (IRCCS AOUBO)
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- Department of Surgery, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy
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- Division of Pancreatic Surgery, Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Hôpital de Hautepierre-Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Gemelli Pancreatic Center, CRMPG (Advanced Pancreatic Research Center), Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Division of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Hôpital de Hautepierre-Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia and UOC General Surgery, ASST Cremona, Italy
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- Division of Pancreatic Surgery, Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of General Surgery & HPB Unit, APSS, Trento, Italy
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- Division of Pancreatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Bellvitge University Hospital, IDIBELL, L´Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Pederzoli Hospital, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Research Unit of General Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Alvaro del Portillo 200,00128 Rome, Italy
- Operative Research Unit of General Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Surgery (DIMEC), Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy, Division of Pancreatic Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna (IRCCS AOUBO)
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- Pancreas Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
- Pancreas Institute, Nanjing Medical University
- Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
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- Department of General Surgery, "G. Mazzini" Hospital, Teramo, Italy
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- Department of General and Emergency Surgery, AUSL Toscana Sud Est, Misericordia Hospital of Grosseto, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of General, Oncological and Robotic Surgery, San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital, Avellino Italy
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- Division of HPB Surgery and Transplantation, Niguarda Hospital , University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine. Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Surgical Oncology, Pierangeli Clinic, Department of Innovative Technology in Medicine & Dentistry, G. D'Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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- department of HPB surgery and liver transplantation, Beaujon hospital, Clichy, France. University Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Division of HPB Surgery, Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department for Surgical Oncology and HPB Surgery, Ilyinskaya Hospital, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences - DIMEC; Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna; Bologna, Italy
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- Department of General Surgery and Transplantation. San Camillo Forlanini Hospital-POIT. Rome, Italy
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- Division of Pancreatic Surgery, Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Minimally-invasive Surgical Oncology, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Department of General and Oncological Surgery, "Umberto I" Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Surgery Galliera Hospital, Genova, Italy
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- Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Pederzoli Hospital, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
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- Division of HepatoBiliaryPancreatic Surgery, AOU Careggi, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department for the Treatment and Study of Abdominal Diseases and Abdominal Transplantation, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Italy (UPMC Italy), Palermo, Italy
- Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Department of general visceral and thoracic surgery, University Hospital Eppendorf University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Bologna
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of High Technology Surgery, Moscow Clinical Scientific Center. Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Surgery, Hirakata Kohsai Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Pancreas Institute, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Regional Hospital of Treviso, Treviso, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy
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- Pancreas Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
- Pancreas Institute, Nanjing Medical University
- Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
- Pancreas Center, The Affiliated BenQ Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD), Strasbourg, France
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- Department of General and Speciality Surgery, General and Pancreatic Surgery Team 1, AORN A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery and Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery and Robotic, Annunziata Hub Hospital, School of Medicine Surgery and TD, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Division of HBP Surgery & Transplantation. Montpellier University Hospital School of Medicine, Montpellier, France
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- Pancreatic & Digestive Endocrine Surgery Research Group - Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, DiSCOG, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Section for Upper Abdominal Surgery at the Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Surgery at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Second Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Division of General Surgery 2U - Liver Transplant Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Division of General Surgery II and HPB Unit, A.O.U. Maggiore della Carità di Novara, Novara, Italy
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- Service de Chirurgie Générale, Mini-Invasive et Robotique, Centre Hôspitalier de
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- Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine. Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Regional Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
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- Department of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, "Vito Fazzi" Hospital, Lecce, Italy Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Department of General Surgery, Division of Visceral Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DiMePre-J) University of Bari, Italy
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- Division of HBP, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Transplantation Service Federico II University Hospital - Naples, Italy
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- Department of general visceral and thoracic surgery, University Hospital Eppendorf University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Chirurgia Generale, Infermi Hospital Rimini, AUSL Romagna, Rimini, Italy
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- Sanchinarro University Hospital, General Surgery Department, San Pablo University, CEU, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of General Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Division of Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and Transplantation Surgery, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ospedali Riuniti delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Center for Advanced Treatment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases, Ageo Central General Hospital, Saitama, Japan
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- Second Division of Surgery-Treviso-Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, DiSCOG, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Research Unit of General Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Alvaro del Portillo 200,00128 Rome, Italy
- Operative Research Unit of General Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, HEBIPA - Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Unit, Hospital de Santo António, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Pederzoli Hospital, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy
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- School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell, New Yourk, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Italy
- Division of General and Digestive Surgery, Department of General Surgery, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, USA; Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra, New Hyde Park, NY, USA
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Surgical Clinic, University of Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, HEBIPA - Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Unit, Hospital de Santo António, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, USA
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Ferrari V, Visentin G, van Kaam J, Penasa M, Marusi M, Finocchiaro R, Cassandro M. Genetic and nongenetic variation of heifer fertility in Italian Holstein cattle. JDS Commun 2022; 4:35-39. [PMID: 36713130 PMCID: PMC9873663 DOI: 10.3168/jdsc.2022-0270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Excellent fertility performance is important to maximize farmers' profit and to reduce the number of culled animals. Although female fertility of adult cows has been included in Italian Holstein breeding objectives since 2009, little has been done to quantify genetic variation of heifer fertility characteristics so far. The aim of the present study was to estimate genetic parameters of 4 fertility traits in nulliparous Italian Holstein heifers and to develop an aggregate selection index to improve heifer fertility. Data were retrieved from the national fertility database and included information on insemination, calving, and pregnancy diagnosis dates. The investigated phenotypes (mean ± standard deviation) were age at first insemination (AFI, mo; 17.25 ± 2.89), nonreturn rate at 56 d from the first insemination (NRR56, binary; 0.78 ± 0.41), conception rate at first insemination (CR, binary; 0.61 ± 0.49), and interval from first to last insemination (IFL, d; 26.09 ± 51.85). Genetic parameters were estimated using a 4-trait animal model that included the following fixed effects: herd-year of birth and month of birth for AFI, and herd-year-season of birth and month-year of insemination for IFL, NRR56, and CR; the animal additive genetic effect (fitted to the pedigree-based relationship matrix) was considered as a random term. An aggregate index was developed from the estimated additive genetic (co)variance matrix by considering CR as the breeding goal and AFI, NRR56, and IFL as selection criteria. Heritability estimates from average covariance matrices ranged from 0.012 (CR) to 0.015 (IFL), with the exception of AFI (0.071). Conception rate at first insemination was strongly correlated with both IFL (-0.730) and NRR56 (0.668), and weakly to AFI (-0.065), and the relative emphasis placed on each selection criteria in the aggregate index was 10%, 47%, and 43% for AFI, IFL, and NRR56, respectively. The results of the present study suggest that heifer fertility should be considered as an additional trait in the breeding objectives of Italian Holstein.
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- V. Ferrari
- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, Via Bergamo 292, 26100, Cremona (CR), Italy,Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra 50, 40064, Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, Via Bergamo 292, 26100, Cremona (CR), Italy
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- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, Via Bergamo 292, 26100, Cremona (CR), Italy
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, Via Bergamo 292, 26100, Cremona (CR), Italy,Corresponding author
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- Associazione Nazionale Allevatori della Razza Frisona, Bruna e Jersey Italiana, Via Bergamo 292, 26100, Cremona (CR), Italy,Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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Benziane-Ouaritini N, Zilli T, Ingrosso G, di Staso M, Trippa F, Francolini G, Meyer E, Achard V, Schick U, Cosset J, Martin E, Penna RR, Ferrari V, Giraud N, Pasquier C, Magne N, Anger E, Aristei C, Perrenec T, Gnep K, Pasquier D, Supiot S, Sargos P, Latorzeff I. Salvage Radiotherapy Guided by Functional Imaging for Macroscopic Local Recurrence Following Radical Prostatectomy: A Multicentric Retrospective Study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Condino S, Sannino S, Cutolo F, Giannini A, Simoncini T, Ferrari V. Single feature constrained manual registration method for Augmented Reality applications in gynecological laparoscopic interventions. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2022; 2022:566-571. [PMID: 36086356 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Augmented Reality (AR) can avoid some of the drawbacks of Minimally Invasive Surgery and may provide opportunities for developing innovative tools to assist surgeons. In laparoscopic surgery, the achievement of easy and sufficiently accurate registration is an open challenge. This is particularly true in procedures, such as laparoscopic abdominal Sacro-Colpopexy, where there is a lack of a sufficient number of visible anatomical landmarks to be used as a reference for registration. In an attempt to address the above limitations, we developed and preliminarily testes a constrained manual procedure based on the identification of a single anatomical landmark in the laparoscopic images, and the intraoperative measurement of the laparoscope orientation. Tests in a rigid in-vitro environment show good accuracy (median error 2.4 mm obtained in about 4 min) and good preliminary feedback from the technical staff who tested the system. Further experimentation in a more realistic environment is needed to validate these positive results. Clinical Relevance - This paper provides a new registration method for the development of AR educational videos and AR-based navigation systems for laparoscopic interventions.
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Domeneghetti D, Carbone M, Cutolo F, Ferrari V. A Rendering Engine for Integral Imaging in Augmented Reality Guided Surgery . Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2022; 2022:2693-2696. [PMID: 36086410 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In the field of image-guided surgery, Augmented Reality wearable displays are a widely studied and documented technology for their ability to provide egocentric vision together with the overlap between real and virtual content. In particular, optical see-through (OST) displays have the advantage of maintaining visual perception of the real world. However, OST displays suffer from vergeance-accomodation conflict when virtual content is superimposed on real world. Furthermore, the calibration methods required to achieve geometric consistency between real and virtual are inherently error-prone. One of the solutions, already studied, to these problems is to use of integral imaging displays. In this paper we present an easy and straightforward real-time rendering strategy implemented in modern OpenGL to show the 3D image of a virtual object on a wearable OST display deploying the integral imaging approach. Clinical Relevance- The algorithm proposed open the way towards more effective AR surgical navigation in terms of comfort of the AR experience and accuracy of the AR guidance.
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Mendicino AR, Condino S, Carbone M, Cutolo F, Cattari N, Andreani L, Parchi PD, Capanna R, Ferrari V. Augmented Reality as a Tool to Guide Patient-Specific Templates Placement in Pelvic Resections. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2022; 2022:3481-3484. [PMID: 36086331 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Patient-specific templates (PST) have become a useful tool for guiding osteotomy in complex surgical scenarios such as pelvic resections. The design of the surgical template results in sharper, less jagged resection margins than freehand cuts. However, their correct placement can become difficult in some anatomical regions and cannot be verified during surgery. Conventionally, pelvic resections are performed using Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS), and in recent years Augmented Reality (AR) has been proposed in the literature as an additional tool to support PST placement. This work presents an AR task to simplify and improve the accuracy of the positioning of the template by displaying virtual content. The focus of the work is the creation of the virtual guides displayed during the AR task. The system was validated on a patient-specific phantom designed to provide a realistic setup. Encouraging results have been achieved. The use of the AR simplifies the surgical task and optimizes the correct positioning of the cutting template: an average error of 2.19 mm has been obtained, lower than obtained with state-of-the-art solutions. In addition, supporting PST placement through AR guidance is less time-consuming than the standard procedure that solely relies on anatomical landmarks as reference.
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Curnes N, Hung M, DePietro D, Ferrari V, Drivas T, Chittams J, Quinn R, Trerotola S. Abstract No. 390 Comparison of graded transthoracic contrast echocardiography and high resolution chest CT for pulmonary arteriovenous malformation follow-up in the early post-embolization period. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.03.471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Benziane N, Sargos P, Zilli T, Giraud A, Ingrosso G, Di Staso M, Trippa F, Meyer E, Francolini G, Schick U, Cosset J, Martin E, Ferrari V, Achard V, Giraud N, Pasquier C, Magné N, Pasquier D, Supiot S, Latorzeff I, Gnep K, Pommier P, Perennec T, Zaine H. OC-0607 Radiotherapy guided by functional imaging for macroscopic local recurrence following prostatectomy. Radiother Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(22)02629-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Tedesco B, Cristofani R, Ferrari V, Cozzi M, Rusmini P, Casarotto E, Chierichetti M, Mina F, Galbiati M, Piccolella M, Crippa V, Poletti A. Insights on Human Small Heat Shock Proteins and Their Alterations in Diseases. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:842149. [PMID: 35281256 PMCID: PMC8913478 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.842149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The family of the human small Heat Shock Proteins (HSPBs) consists of ten members of chaperones (HSPB1-HSPB10), characterized by a low molecular weight and capable of dimerization and oligomerization forming large homo- or hetero-complexes. All HSPBs possess a highly conserved centrally located α-crystallin domain and poorly conserved N- and C-terminal domains. The main feature of HSPBs is to exert cytoprotective functions by preserving proteostasis, assuring the structural maintenance of the cytoskeleton and acting in response to cellular stresses and apoptosis. HSPBs take part in cell homeostasis by acting as holdases, which is the ability to interact with a substrate preventing its aggregation. In addition, HSPBs cooperate in substrates refolding driven by other chaperones or, alternatively, promote substrate routing to degradation. Notably, while some HSPBs are ubiquitously expressed, others show peculiar tissue-specific expression. Cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle and neurons show high expression levels for a wide variety of HSPBs. Indeed, most of the mutations identified in HSPBs are associated to cardiomyopathies, myopathies, and motor neuropathies. Instead, mutations in HSPB4 and HSPB5, which are also expressed in lens, have been associated with cataract. Mutations of HSPBs family members encompass base substitutions, insertions, and deletions, resulting in single amino acid substitutions or in the generation of truncated or elongated proteins. This review will provide an updated overview of disease-related mutations in HSPBs focusing on the structural and biochemical effects of mutations and their functional consequences.
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- B. Tedesco
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Unit of Medical Genetics and Neurogenetics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
- *Correspondence: A. Poletti,
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Piastra M, Ferrari V, Picconi E, Morena TC, Pezza L, De Rosa G, Fedele MC, Genovese O, Onesimo R, Tempera A, Valentini P, Buonsenso D, Visconti F, Zito G, Benassi C, Conti G. Life-threatening complications of streptococcal sepsis: a PICU contemporary series. J Anesth Analg Crit Care 2021. [PMCID: PMC8669399 DOI: 10.1186/s44158-021-00028-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background
Life-threatening streptococcal sepsis nowadays represents an uncommon event in previously healthy infants and children. Critically ill patients suffering from severe streptococcal sepsis complications may present with pre-antibiotic era clinical pictures and require a timely clinical approach to achieve restitutio ad integrum.
Results
We report a series of four patient groups affected by an uncommon life-threatening streptococcal sepsis, each of them exhibiting some distinct features. Streptococcus Agalactiae sepsis was associated with cerebral thrombotic/ischaemic lesions, whereas severe cardiogenic shock was prominent in the Streptococcus Viridans group; Streptococcus Faecalis and β-hemolytic group A Streptococcus patients mostly reported lung complications.
Conclusions
Previous antibiotic treatments should not delay aggressive treatment in the intensive care setting. Early diagnostic suspicion, as well as appropriate and aggressive treatment provided within an intensive care setting are crucial for the clinical outcome.
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Piazza R, Carbone M, Berchiolli RN, Ferrari V, Ferrari M, Condino S. A Systematic Review on Methods and Tools for the In Situ Fenestration of Aortic Stent-Graft. IEEE Rev Biomed Eng 2021; 16:348-356. [PMID: 34061751 DOI: 10.1109/rbme.2021.3085484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In situ fenestration of stent-graft represents a potential option for the treatment of aortic diseases in patients unsuitable for standard endovascular repair. The best fenestration strategy to restore perfusion of collateral vessels after their coverage by an endograft depends mainly on the anatomical area. Several tools are employed as fenestration devices, including needles, radiofrequency probes, and laser systems, used in conjunction with other instrumentation to provide enough support and stability during the procedure. In this systematic review, the approaches to reach the correct fenestration site both in human, animal, and in in vitro environments are described and discussed, highlighting advantages and limitations. Both commercial and dedicated solutions for the intraoperative modification of the fabric material are reported as well. The clinical interest in this procedure has so far encouraged researchers to develop and refine both methods and tools to solve the current limitations of this technique, intending to extend the indications for endovascular treatment to a broader range of patients.
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Simonaggio A, Elaidi R, Fournier L, Fabre E, Ferrari V, Borchiellini D, Thouvenin J, Barthelemy P, Thibault C, Tartour E, Oudard S, Vano YA. Variation in neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as predictor of outcomes in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) patients treated with nivolumab. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2020; 69:2513-2522. [PMID: 32561968 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-020-02637-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND An elevated pre-treatment neutrophil to lymphocytes ratio (NLR) is associated with poor prognosis in various malignancies. Optimal cut-off is highly variable across studies and could not be determined individually for a patient to inform his prognosis. We hypothesize that NLR variations could be more useful than baseline NLR to predict progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients (pts) receiving anti-PD1 treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS All pts with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) who received anti-PD1 nivolumab monotherapy in second-line setting or later were included in this French multicentric retrospective study. NLR values were prospectively collected prior to each nivolumab administration. Clinical characteristics were recorded. Associations between baseline NLR, NLR variations and survival outcomes were determined using Kaplan-Meier's method and multivariable Cox regression models. RESULTS 161 pts (86 mRCC and 75 mNSCLC) were included with a median follow-up of 18 months. On the whole cohort, any NLR increase at week 6 was significantly associated with worse outcomes compared to NLR decrease, with a median PFS of 11 months vs 3.7 months (p < 0.0001), and a median OS of 28.5 months vs. 18 months (p = 0.013), respectively. In multivariate analysis, NLR increase was significantly associated with worse PFS (HR 2.2; p = 6.10-5) and OS (HR 2.1; p = 0.005). Consistent results were observed in each cohort when analyzed separately. CONCLUSION Any NLR increase at week 6 was associated with worse PFS and OS outcomes. NLR variation is an inexpensive and dynamic marker easily obtained to monitor anti-PD1 efficacy.
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- A Simonaggio
- Medical Oncology Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Department of Radiology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Medical Thoracic Oncology Department, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- U970, Université Paris Descartes Sorbonne Paris-Cité, 75006, Paris, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Department of Immunology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 75015, Paris, France
- U970, Université Paris Descartes Sorbonne Paris-Cité, 75006, Paris, France
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
- INSERM, UMR-S 1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Team "Cancer, Immune Control and Escape", University Paris Descartes Sorbonne, 75006, Paris, France.
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Bau M, Ferrari M, Ferrari V. Quartz Crystal Resonator Sensor With Printed-on-Crystal Coil for Dual-Harmonic Electromagnetic Contactless Interrogation. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2020; 67:883-886. [PMID: 31796397 DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2019.2956814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A novel quartz crystal resonator (QCR) sensor with a printed-on-crystal conductive coil, named sensor coil, is presented. The sensor coil electromagnetically coupled to an external readout coil allow to perform contactless interrogation of the QCR working as a stand-alone sensor unit. A frequency-domain readout technique is adopted that allows dual-harmonic operation by detecting the QCR frequencies of the fundamental and third harmonic, and offers first-order independence from the stand-off distance between the sensor and the readout unit. The QCR electrodes and sensor coil have been printed on a 330- [Formula: see text]-thick bare AT-cut quartz crystal exploiting the aerosol jet printing technology. The fabricated QCR sensor has reference values of the fundamental and third harmonic frequencies at 4.77 and 14.22 MHz, respectively. Distance-independent contactless operation has been demonstrated for distances up to 12 mm. The readout frequencies deviate from reference values less than 10 and 90 ppm for the fundamental and third harmonic, respectively, thus validating the proposed principle.
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Condino S, Piazza R, Viglialoro RM, Mocellin DM, Turini G, Berchiolli RN, Micheletti F, Rossi F, Pini R, Ferrari V, Ferrari M. Novel EM Guided Endovascular Instrumentation for In Situ Endograft Fenestration. IEEE J Transl Eng Health Med 2020; 8:1900208. [PMID: 32219042 PMCID: PMC7082146 DOI: 10.1109/jtehm.2020.2973973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Objective: This work aims at providing novel endovascular instrumentation to overcome current technical limitations of in situ endograft fenestration including challenges in targeting the fenestration site under fluoroscopic control and supplying mechanical support during endograft perforation. Technology: Novel electromagnetically trackable instruments were developed to facilitate the navigation of the fenestration device and its stabilization at the target site. In vitro trials were performed to preliminary evaluate the proposed instrumentation for the antegrade in situ fenestration of an aortic endograft, using a laser guidewire designed ad hoc and the sharp end of a commercial endovascular guidewire. Results: In situ fenestration was successfully performed in 22 trials. A total of two laser tools were employed since an over bending of laser guidewire tip, due to its manufacturing, caused the damage of the sensor in the first device used. Conclusions: Preliminary in vitro trials demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed instrumentation which could widespread the procedure for in situ fenestration. The results obtained should be validated performing animal studies. Clinical Impact: The proposed instrumentation has the potential to expand indications for standard endovascular aneurysm repair to cases of acute syndromes.
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- S Condino
- 1Information Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Pisa56122PisaItaly.,2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly
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- 1Information Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Pisa56122PisaItaly.,2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly
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- 2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly
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- 3Vascular Surgery UnitCisanello University Hospital AOUP56126PisaItaly
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- 2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly.,4Computer Science DepartmentKettering UniversityFlintMI48504USA
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- 2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly.,3Vascular Surgery UnitCisanello University Hospital AOUP56126PisaItaly
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- 5Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara," National Research Council50019Sesto FiorentinoItaly
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- 5Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara," National Research Council50019Sesto FiorentinoItaly
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- 5Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara," National Research Council50019Sesto FiorentinoItaly
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- 1Information Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Pisa56122PisaItaly.,2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly
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- 2EndoCAS CenterDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and SurgeryUniversity of Pisa56126PisaItaly.,3Vascular Surgery UnitCisanello University Hospital AOUP56126PisaItaly
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Limón A, Escribá FJ, Ferrari V, Monzó-Fabuel S, Argente P. The inaccuracy of LaFarge equations estimating the oxygen consumption in children under 3 years age. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed) 2019; 66:467-473. [PMID: 31564449 DOI: 10.1016/j.redar.2019.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Revised: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Accurate oxygen consumption measurement (VO2), is essential to obtain a reliable hemodynamic assessment, particularly in patients with congenital heart diseases undergoing cardiac catheterization. LaFarge equations can be unreliable in predicting VO2, particularly in the pediatric population. In a clinical setting, these inaccurate estimates can lead to important hemodynamic parameter miscalculations, with possible therapeutic or diagnostic consequences. Our aim is to validate LaFarge equations (the most widely used for estimating VO2) and compare them with direct measurement in children during cardiac catheterization in the cath lab. We performed a prospective observational study in 21 patients (0-3 years of age) with different congenital cardiac diseases, scheduled for diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Under general anesthesia and mechanical ventilation, VO2 was measured directly with a metabolic module in our cath lab, and also estimated using LaFarge equations. Statistical analysis included Bland-Altman plots, Pearson coefficient and percentage error, among others. LaFarge equations overestimated VO2 values in all study patients. Therefore, in pediatric patients under 3 years of age, the use of direct VO2 measurement methods are more accurate and acceptable than LaFarge equations.
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- A Limón
- Departamento de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, España.
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- Departamento de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, España
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- Dipartimento di Anestesiologia, Ospedale Sant'Orsola-Malpighi, Bolonia, Emilia-Romaña, Italia
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, Ginecología y Reproducción Humana, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, España
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- Departamento de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, España
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Badiali G, Cutolo F, Cercenelli L, Carbone M, D’Amato R, Ferrari V, Marchetti C. The vostars project: a new wearable hybrid video and optical see-through augmented reality surgical system for maxillofacial surgery. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2019.03.472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Klein C, Ferrari V, Deroussen F, Juvet-Segarra M, Gouron R. Forearm lengthening and prosthetic management in children with transverse congenital forearm deficiency. Hand Surg Rehabil 2019; 38:129-134. [PMID: 30641152 DOI: 10.1016/j.hansur.2018.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 12/07/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
In cases of transverse congenital forearm deficiency, achieving a good prosthesis fit during childhood remains a challenge. Ulnar lengthening is a treatment option for improving the prosthesis fit. The objective of this study was to evaluate surgical ulnar lengthening and the subsequent prosthesis fit. We reviewed four cases of ulnar lengthening in children with transverse congenital forearm deficiency. The procedure was evaluated in terms of the duration of lengthening, increase in ulnar length and healing index. The elbow range of motion, functional outcome (Prosthetic Upper Extremity Functional Index, PUFI) and time spent using the prosthesis per day were evaluated. The mean age at the time of the lengthening procedure was 3.5 years, the mean duration of lengthening was 58.3 days, the mean length gain was 21 mm, and the mean healing index was 70.1 days/cm. Elbow range of motion was restricted in one patient (100°-140°) and full in the other three patients. Based on the PUFI, 88.4% of activities were performed without the prosthesis. Children only used their prosthesis to perform specific tasks. Given the high complication rate and the lack of prosthesis use during daily activities, the main indication for forearm lengthening is a very short forearm that prevents prosthesis fitting. This procedure should be performed later in life - in adolescence.
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- C Klein
- Department of pediatric orthopedic surgery, Amiens university hospital, Jules-Verne university of Picardy, CHU de Amiens, groupe hospitalier Sud, 80054 Amiens, cedex 1, France.
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- Department of pediatric orthopedic surgery, Amiens university hospital, Jules-Verne university of Picardy, CHU de Amiens, groupe hospitalier Sud, 80054 Amiens, cedex 1, France
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- Department of pediatric orthopedic surgery, Amiens university hospital, Jules-Verne university of Picardy, CHU de Amiens, groupe hospitalier Sud, 80054 Amiens, cedex 1, France
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- Department of pediatric orthopedic surgery, Amiens university hospital, Jules-Verne university of Picardy, CHU de Amiens, groupe hospitalier Sud, 80054 Amiens, cedex 1, France
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- Department of pediatric orthopedic surgery, Amiens university hospital, Jules-Verne university of Picardy, CHU de Amiens, groupe hospitalier Sud, 80054 Amiens, cedex 1, France
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Todde S, Peitl PK, Elsinga P, Koziorowski J, Ferrari V, Ocak EM, Hjelstuen O, Patt M, Mindt TL, Behe M. Guidance on validation and qualification of processes and operations involving radiopharmaceuticals. EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem 2017; 2:8. [PMID: 29503849 PMCID: PMC5824699 DOI: 10.1186/s41181-017-0025-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Validation and qualification activities are nowadays an integral part of the day by day routine work in a radiopharmacy. This document is meant as an Appendix of Part B of the EANM "Guidelines on Good Radiopharmacy Practice (GRPP)" issued by the Radiopharmacy Committee of the EANM, covering the qualification and validation aspects related to the small-scale "in house" preparation of radiopharmaceuticals. The aim is to provide more detailed and practice-oriented guidance to those who are involved in the small-scale preparation of radiopharmaceuticals which are not intended for commercial purposes or distribution. RESULTS The present guideline covers the validation and qualification activities following the well-known "validation chain", that begins with editing the general Validation Master Plan document, includes all the required documentation (e.g. User Requirement Specification, Qualification protocols, etc.), and leads to the qualification of the equipment used in the preparation and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals, until the final step of Process Validation. CONCLUSIONS A specific guidance to the qualification and validation activities specifically addressed to small-scale hospital/academia radiopharmacies is here provided. Additional information, including practical examples, are also available.
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- S. Todde
- University of Milano-Bicocca, Tecnomed Foundation, 20900 Monza, Italy
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Istanbul University, 34116 Beyazit, Istanbul Turkey
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- Institute for Energy Technology, Instituttveien 18, PO Box 40, 2027 Kjeller, Norway
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- Department for Nuclear Medicine, Radiochemistry, Liebigstrasse 18, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics, General Hospital Vienna, Nuklearmedizin, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image Guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences ETH-PSI-USZ Paul-Scherrer-Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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Ferrari V, Gritti S, Concorreggi C, Bianchi S, Meriggi F, Terragnoli P, Lazzari B, Berruti A. Symptoms leading advanced cancer patients to ask the emergency department for assistance: findings from a Hospital survey. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw345.20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Parrini S, Zhang L, Condino S, Ferrari V, Caramella D, Ferrari M. Automatic carotid centerline extraction from three-dimensional ultrasound Doppler images. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2016; 2014:5089-92. [PMID: 25571137 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6944769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Vessel lumen centerline extraction is an important issue for the intra-operative guidance of endovascular instruments; furthermore, vessel centerline is often used as a reference position in many hemodynamic studies, especially in carotid arteries. In this work we propose an innovative method for the extraction of carotid vessels centerline from three-dimensional Color Doppler ultrasound images. The method was tested on carotid Color Doppler images of eighteen healthy subjects and validated by calculating the Euclidean distances between the centerlines detected by the algorithm and those manually annotated by two experts in the corresponding original US volumes. The results show that the proposed approach can accurately estimate the actual centerline with an average error of 1.08 ± 0.54 mm. Furthermore, the method is completely automatic and therefore suitable for the aforementioned purposes.
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Parrini S, Cutolo F, Freschi C, Ferrari M, Ferrari V. Augmented reality system for freehand guide of magnetic endovascular devices. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2016; 2014:490-3. [PMID: 25570003 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6943635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Magnetic guide of endovascular devices or magnetized therapeutic microparticles to the specific target in the arterial tree is increasingly studied, since it could improve treatment efficacy and reduce side effects. Most proposed systems use external permanent magnets attached to robotic manipulators or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems to guide internal carriers to the region of treatment. We aim to simplify this type of procedures, avoiding or reducing the need of robotic arms and MRI systems in the surgical scenario. On account of this we investigated the use of a wearable stereoscopic video see-through augmented reality system to show the hidden vessel to the surgeon; in this way, the surgeon is able to freely move the external magnet, following the showed path, to lead the endovascular magnetic device towards the desired position. In this preliminary study, we investigated the feasibility of such an approach trying to guide a magnetic capsule inside a vascular mannequin. The high rate of success and the positive evaluation provided by the operators represent a good starting point for further developments of the system.
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Koziorowski J, Behe M, Decristoforo C, Ballinger J, Elsinga P, Ferrari V, Kolenc Peitl P, Todde S, Mindt TL. Position paper on requirements for toxicological studies in the specific case of radiopharmaceuticals. EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem 2016; 1:1. [PMID: 29564378 PMCID: PMC5843800 DOI: 10.1186/s41181-016-0004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2015] [Accepted: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This is a position paper of the Radiopharmacy Committee of the EANM
(European Association of Nuclear Medicine) addressing toxicology studies for
application of new diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals (RP) that are not
approved (i.e., not having a marketing authorization or a monograph in the European
Pharmacopoeia), excluding endogenous and ubiquitous substances in humans. This paper
discusses the requirements for clinical trials with radiopharmaceuticals for
clinical research applications, not necessarily intended to aim at a marketing
authorization. If marketing authorization is intended, scientific advice of the
competent authorities is mandatory and cannot be replaced by this position paper.
The position paper reflects the view of the Radiopharmacy Committee of the EANM and
can be used as a basis for discussions with the responsible authorities.
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- J Koziorowski
- Department of Radiation Physics and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences ETH-PSI-USZ Paul-Scherrer-Institute, 5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, SE1 9RT UK
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- University Medical Center, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, Netherlands
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- University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Università di Milano-Bicocca, Tecnomed Foundation, 20090 Monza, Italy
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- University of Basel Hospital, Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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Sinceri S, Carbone M, Marconi M, Moglia A, Ferrari M, Ferrari V. Basic Endovascular Skills Trainer: A surgical simulator for the training of novice practitioners of endovascular procedures. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2016; 2015:5102-5. [PMID: 26737439 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In recent years the clinical interest for structured training in endovascular procedures has increased. Such procedures respect the physical integrity of the patient and at the same time ensure good therapeutic results. This study describes the development and testing of the B.E.S.T. (Basic Endovascular Skills Trainer) simulator. The B.E.S.T is an innovative physical endovascular simulator to learn basic skills of endovascular surgery. The simulator was tested by 25 clinicians with different levels of experience: novices, intermediates, and experts. All clinicians agree on affirming the importance of training in endovascular surgery; in particular they consider the B.E.S.T a valid simulator to learn specific basic skills of vascular surgery.
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Francesconi M, Freschi C, Sinceri S, Carbone M, Cappelli C, Morelli L, Ferrari V, Ferrari M. New training methods based on mixed reality for interventional ultrasound: Design and validation. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2016; 2015:5098-101. [PMID: 26737438 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Currently the learning model for ultrasound imaging diagnosis and intervention follows a traditional approach based on learning by doing but this model exposes the patient to the whole learning curve of the novice. In order to enable training in a safe environment without compromising patient's health we have developed and demonstrated face, content and construct validity of a hybrid simulator for ultrasound-guided biopsy. This hybrid simulator is able to provide a support to acquire skills in term of 3D perception and hand-eye coordination thanks to a mixed reality visualization that allows accurate and easy planning of probe position/orientation and needle trajectory to reach the target.
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Turini G, Condino S, Stecco A, Ferrari V, Ferrari M, Gesi M. A 3D sparse motion field filtering for quantitative analysis of fascial layers mobility based on 3D ultrasound scans. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2015; 2015:775-780. [PMID: 26736377 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7318477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of deep fascia mobility in musculoskeletal dynamics and chronic pain mechanisms. In a previous paper we presented an innovative semiautomatic approach to evaluate the 3D motion of the fascia using ultrasound (US) imaging, generating a sparse deformation vector field. This paper presents an improvement of our original method, focusing on the filtering of the sparse vector field and its validation. Moreover, in order to evaluate the performance of the algorithm, a method is proposed to generate synthetic deformation vector fields, including: expansion, rotation, horizontal shear, and oblique shear components. Preliminary tests on the final synthetic deformation vector fields showed promising results. Further experiments are required in order to optimize the tuning of the algorithm.
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Freschi C, Parrini S, Dinelli N, Ferrari M, Ferrari V. Hybrid simulation using mixed reality for interventional ultrasound imaging training. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 2014; 10:1109-15. [PMID: 25213270 DOI: 10.1007/s11548-014-1113-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE Ultrasound (US) imaging offers advantages over other imaging modalities and has become the most widespread modality for many diagnostic and interventional procedures. However, traditional 2D US requires a long training period, especially to learn how to manipulate the probe. A hybrid interactive system based on mixed reality was designed, implemented and tested for hand-eye coordination training in diagnostic and interventional US. METHODS A hybrid simulator was developed integrating a physical US phantom and a software application with a 3D virtual scene. In this scene, a 3D model of the probe with its relative scan plane is coherently displayed with a 3D representation of the phantom internal structures. An evaluation study of the diagnostic module was performed by recruiting thirty-six novices and four experts. The performances of the hybrid (HG) versus physical (PG) simulator were compared. After the training session, each novice was required to visualize a particular target structure. The four experts completed a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. RESULTS Seventy-eight percentage of the HG novices successfully visualized the target structure, whereas only 45% of the PG reached this goal. The mean scores from the questionnaires were 5.00 for usefulness, 4.25 for ease of use, 4.75 for 3D perception, and 3.25 for phantom realism. CONCLUSIONS The hybrid US training simulator provides ease of use and is effective as a hand-eye coordination teaching tool. Mixed reality can improve US probe manipulation training.
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- C Freschi
- EndoCAS Center, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Papadopoulous D, Clarke A, Keller F, Ferrari V. Learning to Detect Objects from Eye-Tracking Data. Iperception 2014. [DOI: 10.1068/ii57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Condino S, Calabrò E, Alberti A, Parrini S, Cioni R, Berchiolli R, Gesi M, Ferrari V, Ferrari M. Simultaneous Tracking of Catheters and Guidewires: Comparison to Standard Fluoroscopic Guidance for Arterial Cannulation. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2014; 47:53-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2013.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2013] [Accepted: 10/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Mongiardi C, Maresca AM, Marchesi C, Ferrari V, Merletti L, Vacirca V, Gadaleta C, Bertolini A, Guasti AM, Grandi AM. Right ventricular morpho-functional remodelling in never treated hypertensives: role of aortic pressure and bi-ventricular parameters. Eur Heart J 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht309.p4132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Zhang L, Parrini S, Freschi C, Ferrari V, Condino S, Ferrari M, Caramella D. 3D ultrasound centerline tracking of abdominal vessels for endovascular navigation. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 2013; 9:127-35. [DOI: 10.1007/s11548-013-0917-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Divisi D, Ferrari V, De Vico A, Imbriglio G, Di Francescantonio W, Vaccarili M, Crisci R. P-173ELECTROCAUTERY VERSUS ULTRACISION VERSUS LIGASURE IN SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF HYPERHIDROSIS. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivt288.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Freschi C, Ferrari V, Melfi F, Ferrari M, Mosca F, Cuschieri A. Technical review of the da Vinci surgical telemanipulator. Int J Med Robot 2012; 9:396-406. [DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- C. Freschi
- EndoCAS Centre; Università di Pisa; Italy
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- EndoCAS Centre; Università di Pisa; Italy
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- Dipartimento Cardio Toracico e Vascolare; Università di Pisa; Italy
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- EndoCAS Centre; Università di Pisa; Italy
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- EndoCAS Centre; Università di Pisa; Italy
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Ferrari V, Parchi P, Condino S, Carbone M, Baluganti A, Ferrari M, Mosca F, Lisanti M. An optimal design for patient-specific templates for pedicle spine screws placement. Int J Med Robot 2012; 9:298-304. [PMID: 22585638 DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND Currently, pedicle screws are positioned using a free-hand technique or under fluoroscopic guidance, with error in the range 10-40%, depending on the skill of the surgeon. METHODS After spine CT acquisition, each vertebra is segmented and the surgeon plans screw positioning in a virtual environment, then the template is designed around the chosen trajectories. This design is based on surgical and mechanical considerations to obtain an optimal solution to guarantee template stability, simple positioning and minimized intervention invasiveness. In vitro evaluation on synthetic spine models and ex vivo animal tests on porcine specimens were performed, with the insertion of 28 Kirschner wires. RESULTS During the in vitro tests, all the surgeons rendered positive evaluations regarding the device and considered template placement to be easy. Ex vivo tests were evaluated by CT examination, which showed that 96.5% of the Kirschner wires had been correctly inserted. CONCLUSIONS The proposed solution is a promising, simple, highly precise, low-cost solution to safely performing posterior stabilization. Such a solution would be of interest even in hospitals in which a few spine interventions are performed per year, and for which it is not reasonable to purchase the equipment required for robotic or navigated approaches.
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- V Ferrari
- EndoCAS Centre, University of Pisa, Italy
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Condino S, Ferrari V, Freschi C, Alberti A, Berchiolli R, Mosca F, Ferrari M. Electromagnetic navigation platform for endovascular surgery: how to develop sensorized catheters and guidewires. Int J Med Robot 2012; 8:300-10. [PMID: 22368145 DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Endovascular procedures are nowadays limited by difficulties arising from the use of 2D images and are associated with dangerous X-ray exposure and the injection of nephrotoxic contrast medium. METHODS An electromagnetic navigator is proposed to guide endovascular procedures with reduced radiation dose and contrast medium injection. Five DOF electromagnetic sensors are calibrated and used to track in real time the positions and orientation of endovascular catheters and guidewires, while intraoperative 3D rotational angiography is used to acquire 3D models of patient anatomy. A preliminary prototype is developed to prove the feasibility of the system using an anthropomorphic phantom. RESULTS The spatial accuracy of the system was evaluated during 70 targeting trials obtaining an overall accuracy of 1.2 ± 0.3 mm; system usability was positively evaluated by three surgeons. CONCLUSIONS The strategy proposed to sensorize endovascular instruments paves the way for the development of surgical strategies with reduced radiation dose and contrast medium injection. Further in vitro, animal and clinical experiments are necessary for complete surgical validation.
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- S Condino
- EndoCAS Center, Department of Oncology, Transplantation and New Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
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Demori M, Ferrari V, Farisè S, Poesio P, Pedrazzani R, Steimberg N, Boniotti J, Mazzoleni G. Microfluidic Sensor for Noncontact Detection of Cell Flow in a Microchannel. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.09.379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ferrari M, Baù M, Cerini F, Ferrari V. Impact-Enhanced Multi-Beam Piezoelectric Converter for Energy Harvesting in Autonomous Sensors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.09.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Andò B, Baglio S, Baù M, Bulsara A, Ferrari V, Ferrari M, L’Episcopo G. A Nonlinear Energy Harvester by Direct Printing Technology. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.09.299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Condino S, Carbone M, Ferrari V, Faggioni L, Peri A, Ferrari M, Mosca F. How to build patient-specific synthetic abdominal anatomies. An innovative approach from physical toward hybrid surgical simulators. Int J Med Robot 2011; 7:202-13. [DOI: 10.1002/rcs.390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/17/2011] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Alghisi D, Ferrari M, Ferrari V. Active rectifier circuits with sequential charging of storage capacitors (SCSC) for energy harvesting in autonomous sensors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.12.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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We perform an electronic structure study for cerium oxide homogeneously doped with cobalt impurities, focusing on the role played by oxygen vacancies and structural relaxation. By means of full-potential ab initio methods, we explore the possibility of ferromagnetism as observed in recent experiments. Our results indicate that oxygen vacancies seem to be crucial for the appearance of a ferromagnetic alignment among Co impurities, obtaining an increasing tendency towards ferromagnetism with growing vacancy concentration. However, the estimated couplings cannot explain the experimentally observed room-temperature ferromagnetism. In this systematic study, we draw relevant conclusions regarding the location of the oxygen vacancies and the magnetic couplings involved. In particular, we find that oxygen vacancies tend to nucleate in the neighborhood of Co impurities and we get a remarkably strong ferromagnetic coupling between Co atoms and the Ce(3+) neighboring ions. The calculated magnetic moments per cell depend on the degree of reduction, which could explain the wide spread in the magnetization values observed in the experiments.
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- V Ferrari
- Departamento de Física and INN, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Gral. Paz 1499, 1650 San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Freschi C, Troia E, Ferrari V, Megali G, Pietrabissa A, Mosca F. Ultrasound guided robotic biopsy using augmented reality and human-robot cooperative control. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010; 2009:5110-3. [PMID: 19963882 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2009.5332720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Ultrasound-guided biopsy is a proficient mininvasive approach for tumors staging but requires very long training and particular manual and 3D space perception abilities of the physician, for the planning of the needle trajectory and the execution of the procedure. In order to simplify this difficult task, we have developed an integrated system that provides the clinician two types of assistance: an augmented reality visualization allows accurate and easy planning of needle trajectory and target reaching verification; a robot arm with a six-degree-of-freedom force sensor allows the precise positioning of the needle holder and allows the clinician to adjust the planned trajectory (cooperative control) to overcome needle deflection and target motion. Preliminary tests have been executed on an ultrasound phantom showing high precision of the system in static conditions and the utility and usability of the cooperative control in simulated no-rigid conditions.
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Arnau A, García JV, Jimenez Y, Ferrari V, Ferrari M. Improved electronic interfaces for AT-cut quartz crystal microbalance sensors under variable damping and parallel capacitance conditions. Rev Sci Instrum 2008; 79:075110. [PMID: 18681737 DOI: 10.1063/1.2960571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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A new configuration of automatic capacitance compensation (ACC) technique based on an oscillatorlike working interface, which permits the tracking of the series resonant frequency and the monitoring of the motional resistance and the parallel capacitance of a thickness-shear mode quartz crystal microbalance sensor, is introduced. The new configuration permits an easier calibration of the system which, in principle, improves the accuracy. Experimental results are reported with 9 and 10 MHz crystals in liquids with different parallel capacitances which demonstrate the effectiveness of the capacitance compensation. Some frequency deviations from the exact series resonant frequency, measured by an impedance analyzer, are explained by the specific nonideal behavior of the circuit components. A tentative approach is proposed to solve this problem that is also common to previous ACC systems.
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- A Arnau
- Grupo de Fenómenos Ondulatorios, Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, CP Valencia, Spain
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Walsh JP, Attewell R, Stuckey BGA, Hooper MJ, Wark JD, Fletcher S, Ferrari V, Eisman JA. Treatment of Paget's disease of bone: a survey of clinical practice in Australia. Bone 2008; 42:1219-25. [PMID: 18353737 DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2007] [Revised: 01/14/2008] [Accepted: 01/31/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Consensus guidelines for the treatment of Paget's disease of bone have been published, but it is not known how closely these reflect clinical practice. We conducted a multi-centre, stratified, retrospective review of case notes of 531 subjects treated for Paget's disease of bone between 2000 and 2005 in 29 Australian centres. The subjects received 1072 courses of bisphosphonate treatment (pamidronate 363, alendronate 324, risedronate 208, tiludronate 103, zoledronic acid 69, and etidronate 5). The most recent treatment received was oral therapy in 57% of patients (alendronate 29%, risedronate 24%, and tiludronate 4%) and intravenous in 43% (pamidronate 33%, and zoledronic acid 10%). For oral bisphosphonates, the percentages of courses which were at the recommended dosage and duration were: alendronate 33%, risedronate 60% and tiludronate 29%. Pamidronate was administered in a wide range of dosing schedules, most commonly 60 mg every 3 months (18%), 6 months (17%) or annually (12%), whereas zoledronic acid was mainly given as a 4 mg infusion (98%) as a single dose (52%) or annually (19%). Most clinicians reported taking into account symptoms, plasma alkaline phosphatase activity and anatomical location of disease in determining the need for treatment. Patient preference, intolerance of oral therapy and compliance were ranked highest in determining the choice between oral and intravenous therapy. We conclude that oral and intravenous bisphosphonate dosing regimens are both commonly used to treat Paget's disease of bone in Australia. Only a minority of courses of oral bisphosphonate treatment are at the recommended dosage and duration, and there is a lack of consensus on regimens for intravenous treatment.
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- J P Walsh
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
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We present a family of scale-invariant local shape features formed by chains of k connected, roughly straight contour segments (kAS), and their use for object class detection. kAS are able to cleanly encode pure fragments of an object boundary, without including nearby clutter. Moreover, they offer an attractive compromise between information content and repeatability, and encompass a wide variety of local shape structures. We also define a translation and scale invariant descriptor encoding the geometric configuration of the segments within a kAS, making kAS easy to reuse in other frameworks, for example as a replacement or addition to interest points. Software for detecting and describing kAS is released on lear.inrialpes.fr/software. We demonstrate the high performance of kAS within a simple but powerful sliding-window object detection scheme. Through extensive evaluations, involving eight diverse object classes and more than 1400 images, we 1) study the evolution of performance as the degree of feature complexity k varies and determine the best degree; 2) show that kAS substantially outperform interest points for detecting shape-based classes; 3) compare our object detector to the recent, state-of-the-art system by Dalal and Triggs [4].
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- V Ferrari
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Pruneda JM, Ferrari V, Rurali R, Littlewood PB, Spaldin NA, Artacho E. Ferrodistortive instability at the (001) surface of half-metallic manganites. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 99:226101. [PMID: 18233299 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.226101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We present the structure of the fully relaxed (001) surface of the half-metallic manganite La0.7Sr0.3MnO3, calculated using density functional theory. Two relevant ferroelastic order parameters are identified and characterized. The known tilting of the oxygen octahedra, which is present in the bulk phase, decreases towards the surface. A ferrodistortive Mn off-centering, triggered by the surface and not reported before, decays monotonically into the bulk. This distortion affects neither the half-metallicity nor the zero-temperature magnetization, but does change the effective spin-spin interactions, and thus the temperature dependence of the magnetic properties.
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- J M Pruneda
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Zulli R, De Vecchi M, Nicosia F, Ferrari V, Grassi V. Singular coexistence of anti-Hu syndrome, finger clubbing and pseudoscleroderma in small cell lung cancer. Intern Emerg Med 2007; 2:149-51. [PMID: 17634824 DOI: 10.1007/s11739-007-0046-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2006] [Accepted: 10/04/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ferrari M, Ferrari V, Guizzetti M, Marioli D, Taroni A. Characterization of Thermoelectric Modules for Powering Autonomous Sensors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ferrari M, Ferrari V, Marioli D, Taroni A. Autonomous Sensor Module with Piezoelectric Power Harvesting and RF Transmission of Measurement Signals. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2006.328192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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