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Lumachi F, Marino F, Chiara G, Basso S. P-151 The expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and Ki-67 in patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma and lymph node metastases. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw199.145] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lumachi F, Chiara G, Tozzoli R, Lo Re G, Basso S. P-035 Simultaneous carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carcinoma antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) and 125 (CA-125) measurement in patients with gastric cancer (stage IA-IB): a case-control study. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw199.33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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: 11/14/2022] Open
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Lumachi F, Marino F, Chiara G, Del Conte A, Basso S. P-249 Short-term results of surgery in elderly (>65 years) versus younger patients with Stage I-II colonic adenocarcinoma: a case-control study. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw199.241] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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Lumachi F, Chiara G, Tozzoli R, Lo Re G, Basso S. P-024 Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and the carcinoma antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) together in early diagnosis of Stage I-II colorectal adenocarcinoma. A case-control study. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw199.23] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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Lumachi F, Di Gennaro L, Chiara G, Basso S. P-189 Evaluation of short-term quality of life changes after surgery in elderly patients with colorectal cancer using the Medical Outcomes Study short form (MOS-SF-36) questionnaire. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw199.181] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Iussich G, Guzzetta M, Russo F, Regge D. Abstract No. 188: Peek endovertebral implant assisted vertebroplasty in painful ostelytic metastases with vertebral wall involvement: clinical experience on 30 patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2011.12.235] [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: 11/28/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Iussich G, Liotti M, Regge D. Abstract No. 194: Peek endovertebral implant assisted vertebroplasty: Early clinical experience on 25 patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2011.01.214] [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: 11/29/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Iussich G, Isaia G, Regge D. Abstract No. 16: Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) in the osteporotic patients: Optimal indications and patient selection to improve clinical outcome. Personal experience in 1542 patients over 7 years experience. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.12.158] [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: 10/19/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Liotti M, Petracchini M, Regge D. Abstract No. 36: Percutaneous Osteoplasty Performed in Painful Extraspinal Osteolytic Lesions. Personal Experience in 81 Patients Treated for Benign Diseases and Metastases. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.12.040] [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: 10/21/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Liotti M, Martincich L, Regge D. Abstract No. 250: Metallic Stents in the Klatskin's Tumor: “T” and “Y” Stenting Technique with Right Monolateral Percutaneous Approach. Personal Experience in 51 Patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.12.245] [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: 11/26/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Liotti M, Russo F, Regge D. Abstract No. 5: Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PV)in the Cervical Spine from C1 to C7: Results and Complications in Benign and Malignant Lesions. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.12.006] [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: 10/21/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Chiara G, Petracchini M, Liotti M, Regge D. Abstract No. 17: Percutaneous Radiofrequency Thermal Ablation (RFA) of Lung Cancer Performed in the Angiography Suite. Usefulness of Combined Fluoroscopic and CT-Like Guidance of a New Generation Rotational Flat Panel C-Arm. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.12.019] [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: 10/21/2022] Open
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Anselmetti G, Manca A, Russo F, Chiara G, Regge D. Abstract No. 182: Percutaneous Vertebroplasty in the Osteoporotic Patients: 5 Years Prospective Follow-Up in 884 Consecutive Patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.12.202] [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: 10/22/2022] Open
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Pelosi P, D'Onofrio D, Chiumello D, Paolo S, Chiara G, Capelozzi VL, Barbas CSV, Chiaranda M, Gattinoni L. Pulmonary and extrapulmonary acute respiratory distress syndrome are different. Eur Respir J 2003; 42:48s-56s. [PMID: 12946001 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.03.00420803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can be derived from two pathogenetic pathways: a direct insult on lung cells (pulmonary ARDS (ARDSp)) or indirectly (extrapulmonary ARDS (ARDSexp)). This review reports and discusses differences in biochemical activation, histology, morphological aspects, respiratory mechanics and response to different ventilatory strategies between ARDSp and ARDSexp. In ARDSp the direct insult primarily affects the alveolar epithelium with a local alveolar inflammatory response while in ARDSexp the indirect insult affects the vascular endothelium by inflammatory mediators through the bloodstream. Radiological pattern in ARDSp is characterised by a prevalent alveolar consolidation while the ARDSexp by a prevalent ground-glass opacification. In ARDSp the lung elastance, while in ARDSexp the chest wall and intra-abdominal chest elastance are increased. The effects of positive end-expiratory pressure, recruitment manoeuvres and prone position are clearly greater in ARDSexp. Although these two types of acute respiratory distress syndrome have different pathogenic pathways, morphological aspects, respiratory mechanics, and different response to ventilatory strategies, at the present, is still not clear, if this distinction can really ameliorate the outcome.
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- P Pelosi
- Dept of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese-Circolo and Fondazione Macchi Hospital, Varese, Italy
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Voglino G, Poso F, Privitera S, Parisio F, Ghiringhello B, Gordini G, Chiara G, Massobrio M, Fessia L. [The role of human papillomavirus in cyto-histological practice: distribution and prevalenceof hig-risk strains (16, 18, 31, 33, and 35) in intraepithelial lesions and neoplasia of the uterine cervix]. Pathologica 2000; 92:516-23. [PMID: 11234302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Many studies have already shown the association of persistent infection of human high risk papillomavirus (HPV) with the development of pre-invasive and invasive cervical disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated the use of high risk HPV testing in a study of about 1908 women, aged 29-78, who attending, from 1996 to 1998, the Sant'Anna Hospital in Turin for routine, second level smears and histopathological diagnosis. We considered all cervical lesions: ASCUS, LSIL, HSIL, squamous and adeno invasive cancers. HPV testing was performed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using L1 consensus primers which can detect almost all infections (high and low risk types). The most important high risk HPV types (16, 18, 31, 33 and 35) were tested using specific primers. RESULTS The prevalence of high risk HPV was: ASCUS 42.2%, LSIL 39%, HSIL 73.5%, squamous invasive cancers 98.3% and adeno 100%. In addition HPV 16 is the most represented type in all lesions: ASCUS 40%, LSIL 62%, HSIL 71.2% squamous invasive cancers 73.3% and adeno 50.6%. In addition we study the mean age of cervical cancer onset compared with the different high risk HPV types. We found that HPV 18 related cancer occurs in younger women (mean age 41 years; range 39-42). CONCLUSIONS The addition of high risk HPV testing to cytology may improve early identification of women at risk for cervical cancer.
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- G Voglino
- Servizio di Anatomia ed Istologia Patologica e Citodiagnostica, Laboratorio di Patologia Molecolare, Ospedale Sant'Anna, Torino
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Chiara G, Piccioni V, Perino M, Ohlmeier U, Fassino S, Leombruni P. Psychological investigation in female patients suffering from urinary incontinence. Int Urogynecol J 1998; 9:73-7. [PMID: 9694134 DOI: 10.1007/bf01982211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The available data about the hypothesis that psychological conditions cause urinary incontinence are contradictory. This study was based on a group of patients undergoing urodynamic investigation to define the type of incontinence. Patients were submitted to a battery of psychological tests, including STAXI, CES-D and IBQ (in their Italian version). Patients suffering from urge incontinence showed higher degrees of inner anger and anger trait than those suffering from stress or mixed incontinence. Neither group showed signs of depression. The conviction of illness was greatest in patients suffering from stress or mixed incontinence, whereas irritability and general hypochondria prevailed in patients suffering from urge incontinence. Such patients tend to develop psychosomatic reactions that may contribute to the severity of their symptoms.
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De Vita S, Zagonel V, Russo A, Rupolo M, Cannizzaro R, Chiara G, Boiocchi M, Carbone A, Franceschi S. Hepatitis C virus, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and hepatocellular carcinoma. Br J Cancer 1998; 77:2032-5. [PMID: 9667688 PMCID: PMC2150369 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1998.338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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In a case-control study in northeastern Italy hepatitis C virus infection seemed to increase by about 50-fold the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma involving the liver and major salivary glands (i.e. larger than that for hepatocellular carcinoma) and by about fourfold the risk of lymphomas at other sites.
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- S De Vita
- Oncologia Sperimentale 1, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (PN), Italy
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Trivelli MR, Biglia C, Chiara G. [Genital lichen in girls. General aspects and clinical course]. Minerva Pediatr 1997; 49:513-20. [PMID: 9549294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND The authors re-examine the clinical aspects of infantile vulvar Lichen sclerosus in the light of the latest reports in the literature. METHODS A group of 40 girls was studied with a mean age of 8 years old suffering from this pathology; 8 of the subjects had reached a prepuberal age. The group received different types of therapy and maintenance during a six-month and then annual follow-up. The results are reported correlated to the type of treatment. The results obtained were also evaluated depending on the age of the subject, the onset of puberty in some during the course of the study, the age at onset of disease. RESULTS It was seen that recovery was mainly linked to aging and hence the evolution of puberty rather than the type of treatment, given that every drug has a predominantly symptomatic effect. The mean recovery time was 2.5 years (namely the average interval between diagnosis and puberty). CONCLUSIONS Contrary to the findings reported in the literature, lesions with an early onset (prior to adrenarche) recovered more slowly and later.
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- M R Trivelli
- Dipartimento di Scienze Ginecologiche ed Ostetriche, Università degli Studi, Torino
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Barbero M, Enria R, Pagliano M, Canni M, Nicolaci P, Bertini U, Bocci F, Bocci C, Chiara G. [Comparative study of diagnostic hysteroscopy and transvaginal ultrasonography in patients with abnormal uterine hemorrhage during the peri- and post-menopausal period]. Minerva Ginecol 1997; 49:491-497. [PMID: 9489347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of hysteroscopy and transvaginal ultrasonography in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in the peri and postmenopausal period. METHODS 302 patients with AUB, underwent hysteroscopy and in 86 cases, also a transvaginal ultrasonography before hysteroscopy was performed. Results were compared with the histological diagnosis. RESULTS The diagnostic accuracy of hysteroscopy was very high in the cases of endometrial carcinoma (sensibility 100%, specificity 99%), and lower in the cases of endometrial hyperplasia (sensibility 69%, specificity 72%) and endometrial atrophy (sensibility 29% and specificity 97%). Sonography proved to be less reliable in the diagnosis of endometrial pathology (carcinoma: sensibility 57%, specificity 100%, hyperplasia: sensibility 62.5% specificity 63%). The results of this study show that sonography may be used as a first choice diagnostic test in the investigation of women with AUB. CONCLUSIONS Hysteroscopy represent a second diagnostic step for achieving a proper histologic diagnosis.
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- M Barbero
- Dipartimento di Discipline Ginecologiche ed Ostetriche, Università degli Studi, Torino
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Aldwin CM, Sutton KJ, Chiara G, Spiro A. Age differences in stress, coping, and appraisal: findings from the Normative Aging Study. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 1996; 51:P179-88. [PMID: 8673639 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/51b.4.p179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Controversies exist concerning the influence of age on the stress and coping process, in part due to differences in methods across studies. We examined age differences in stress, appraisal, and coping, using both semistructured interview questions and a coping checklist in middle-aged, young-old, and old-old men. Despite extensive probing, nearly a quarter of the old-old reported having had no problems and they expended less coping effort even when they did have problems. The types of problems reported varied systematically with age. Middle-aged men were more likely to appraise their problems both as challenges and as annoyances than the older men. Different age patterns emerged from the coping interviews vs the checklists, but controlling for type of problem significantly attenuated age differences. However, there were no age differences in perceived stressfulness of the problem, appraisals of harm/loss, or helpless appraisals, number of emotions reported, or coping efficacy. One interpretation of these results is that the nature of stress changes with age, from episodic to chronic, which in turn affects appraisal and coping processes.
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- C M Aldwin
- Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, USA.
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Vianello A, Padoan MV, Calconi G, Chiara G, D'Annibale A, Maresca MC. Influence of length of time on dialysis before grafting on kidney transplant results. Ren Fail 1996; 18:279-92. [PMID: 8723366 DOI: 10.3109/08860229609052798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The outcome of kidney transplantation was evaluated in 246 nondiabetic, CsA-treated recipients of primary cadaver transplant, divided into 4 groups according to length of time on dialysis: group < or = 2, 0-24 months; group 2-5, 25-60 months; group 5-15, 61-180 months; group > 15, over 180 months. The 4 groups did not differ in graft survival, proteinuria (g/die), or estimated GFR values at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years after grafting. They did not differ in the frequency of cataract, hip osteonecrosis, tumors, or posttransplant diabetes mellitus at 3 years after grafting. Ocular hypertone (p < 0.02), tendon ruptures (p < 0.001), arterial occlusive disease of lower limbs (p < 0.01), cholelithiasis (p < 0.05), and chronic hepatitis--which occurred only in anti-HCV and/or HBs Ag-positive patients--(p < 0.001), were more frequent in group > 15, and in all these cases but ocular hypertone a linear trend of increasing frequencies with increasing dialytic age was statistically significant. Group 5-15 had the lowest patient survival (p < 0.02). Moreover, a progressive decline of patient survival with increasing dialytic age was noted in groups < or = 2, 2-5, and 5-15. Unexpectedly, group > 15 had remarkably good survival, and this finding denies the hypothesis of a purely linear decline of patient survival after transplantation with increasing dialytic age.
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- A Vianello
- Transplant Center, Ospedale Regionale, Treviso, Italy
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Vianello A, Calconi G, Amici G, Chiara G, Pignata G, Maresca MC. Importance of donor/recipient body weight ratio as a cause of kidney graft loss in the short to medium term. Nephron Clin Pract 1996; 72:205-11. [PMID: 8684528 DOI: 10.1159/000188843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The importance of the donor/recipient body weight ratio (DRBWR) as a cause of kidney graft loss was evaluated in 112 non-diabetic, ciclosporin-treated, first cadaver kidney transplant recipients. According to the DRBWR, the patients were divided into three groups: 'low' (< or = 0.80), 'medium' (0.81-1.20), and 'high' (> 1.20). The three groups did not differ in patient or graft survival, and the DRBWR was not a predictor of graft failure at multivariate analysis (Cox models), even after only patients with graft survivals > 1 year were considered. The three groups did not differ in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and proteinuria 6-60 months after renal transplantation. When the 55 patients with a follow-up period > 4 years were considered, no differences between groups were found in GFR or GFR evolution over time. Hypertension was significantly less frequent in group 'high' (Mantel-Cox p = 0.04), but very likely as a consequence of uneven recipient gender (an independent predictor of hypertension at multivariate analysis) distribution between groups, the significance being lost when survival curves were rebuilt by stratifying for recipient gender. DRBWR never resulted as a significant predictor of GFR at multivariate analysis when GFR values 6-60 months after transplantation were analyzed. We conclude that the DRBWR has no major effects on kidney graft function and survival in the short to medium term.
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- A Vianello
- Transplant Center, Treviso General Hospital, Italy
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Trivelli MR, Biglia C, Castagno A, Chiara G. [Sports and adolescence: the effect of competitive athletics on menstrual function]. Minerva Ginecol 1995; 47:133-41. [PMID: 7644094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A group of 381 girls, 12 up to 19-years-old, engaging in competitive sports (athletics, basketball, dancing, gymnastics, swimming, ski-ing, tennis, volley-ball) was examined. Age at menarche and menstrual characteristics were correlated with the body weight, the competitive practice start age, the kind of the sport and the amount of training hours/week. Collected data were compared with the ones from a pool of 387 girls of equivalent mean age, not playing any sport. Delay of menarche and larger frequency of menstrual disorders, found among athletes, turned out to be directly proportional to the amount of time devoted to training and to the kind of performed sports. Irregular cycles are more frequent in athletes having a normal or lower body weight and do not normalise proceeding in sporting activities.
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- M R Trivelli
- Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica A, Università, Torino
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Mastrosimone S, Pignata G, Maresca MC, Calconi G, Rabassini A, Butini R, Fandella A, Di Falco G, Chiara G, Caldato C. Clinical significance of vesicoureteral reflux after kidney transplantation. Clin Nephrol 1993; 40:38-45. [PMID: 8358874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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In this study 103 out of our 125 CsA-treated patients who received between January 1985 and December 1989 a first cadaver kidney transplant that functioned for at least one year were studied with voiding cystography (VC) for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). All patients had an external uretero-neo-cystostomy. VUR occurred in 89 (86.4%) patients. Patients were grouped according to VUR: absence of VUR (group 0), VUR grade I-II (group 1-2), and VUR grade III (group 3). The 3 groups were comparable for male/female ratio, cause of renal failure, cause of donor death, recipient and dialytic age, immunosuppressive therapy, follow-up, time of VC performance after transplantation. At 6 months and 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years after transplantation graft function, number of rejection episodes, and number of urinary tract infections (UTIs) were similar in the 3 groups. In groups 1-2 and 3 hypertension was more frequent than in group 0 and occurred even after the 6th month (whereas this did not happen in group 0), but the differences between the 3 groups were not significant. However, when only the 13 patients who were followed for 5 years were considered, the prevalence of hypertension after 5 years was significantly higher in groups 1-2 and 3 (both 100.0%) than in group 0 (33.3%) (chi-square = 7.88; p < 0.02). Finally, 4.5% of patients with VUR and no patients without VUR had septic episodes linked to UTIs, but the difference was not significant.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Calconi G, Maresca MC, Amici G, Bertolone G, Mordacchini M, Arrigoni G, D'Annibale A, Chiara G, Vianello A. Core biopsy of the transplanted kidney using 1.1-mm needles: results and comparison with the Tru-Cut technique. Nephron Clin Pract 1992; 61:487-8. [PMID: 1501755 DOI: 10.1159/000186981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Maresca MC, Risica G, Calconi G, Vianello A, Guccione C, Chiara G, Mordacchini M, Bocci C. [Cardiac rhythm disorder in infection caused by cytomegalovirus in patients with kidney transplant]. Medicina (Firenze) 1989; 9:301-4. [PMID: 2559284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A higher incidence of arrhythmias was observed in 16 renal allograft recipients infected with Cytomegalovirus (CMV), as compared to 26 patients who were transplanted during the same period and did not contract the infection (43.7% vs. 3.8%; p less than 0.01). There was a highly significant difference in the incidence of sinus tachycardia (37.5% infected vs. 0% not infected; p less than 0.005), while the incidences of atrial fibrillation and ventricular ectopic beats were not significantly different. The arrhythmias always appeared in the early phases of the infection and disappeared after a certain period, lasting from one week to months. It is proposed that arrhythmias arising during CMV infection may be due to a myocardial CMV involvement.
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Palermo F, Boccaletto F, Magalini M, Chiara G, Tommaseo T, Dapporto L. Radioisotope evidence of varying transit of solid food in gastrectomized patients with and without dumping syndrome. Nuklearmedizin 1988; 27:195-9. [PMID: 3194231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Of 29 Billroth II gastrojejunostomy patients studied by scintigraphy, 11 were dumpers and 18 were non-dumpers; of 20 controls, 11 were patients with different gastric complaints and 9 volunteers with no history of gastrointestinal pathology. The tracer used was human albumin microspheres labelled with 99mTc, mixed thoroughly with a fresh scrambled egg, cooked as an omelet and eaten as a sandwich with white toasted bread. The transit and emptying of the radiolabelled meal in the gastric and derivative loop areas were followed with gamma camera 90-120 min. In the dumpers half-emptying times were significantly shorter than in the controls; in the non-dumpers they were even shorter. Dynamic selective analysis of the radiolabelled food transit through derivative afferent and efferent loops showed, on the other hand, different patterns for the two groups of gastroresected patients: the progression of propulsive waves was very irregular and constantly hyperperistaltic only in the dumpers.
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- F Palermo
- Servizio di Medicina Nucleare, Ospedale Regionale, Treviso, Italy
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Ciarmiello G, Sartori C, Di Falco G, Chiara G. [Intraoperative fine-needle biopsy of the pancreas. Analysis of 72 cases]. MINERVA CHIR 1988; 43:825-8. [PMID: 3045694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Palermo F, Boccaletto F, Allegri F, Tommaseo T, Chiara G. [Dynamics of food transit in gastrectomized patients with and without dumping syndrome studied with the gamma camera and a marked meal]. Radiol Med 1988; 75:56-60. [PMID: 3347784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Scintigraphy was performed on a group of patients following the administration of a solid radiolabelled meal. As a tracer, human albumin microspheres were used with 99mTc, mixed with fresh scrambled eggs, eaten as a sandwich in two slices of white bread. The analysis of transit and emptying-rate of the radiolabelled meal in the gastric or derivative loop areas was performed by means of a medium field (300 mm) gamma camera interfaced with a digital computer; the data were collected at 15" frames for 90'-120'. Twenty-nine patients were examined who had undergone sub-total gastrectomy: 11 of them were "dumpers" and 18 "non-dumpers"; moreover, 9 volunteers without any history of gastrointestinal diseases and 11 patients with different gastric disorders were checked. In the first group of gastrectomized patients the half-emptying time (T50) was significantly shorter than in the 11 people being checked (Md = 27.5 +/- 10.8 versus 69.6 +/- 19 minutes); in "non-dumpers" T50 was even shorter (Md = 24.2 +/- 13 min). There was no significant statistical difference between the two classes of gastroresected patients in both T50 and emptying-rate of the radioactive solid food, which excludes the accelerated transit as a factor in the functional post-prandial symptoms of the dumping syndrome. On the contrary, the dynamic selective analysis of the radiolabelled food transit through derivative afferent and efferent loops showed different patterns in the two groups of gastroresected patients: the progression of the propulsive wave was very irregular and constantly hyperperistaltic only in the dumpers.
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- F Palermo
- Servizio di Medicina Nucleare, Ospedale Regionale-Treviso
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Borgno G, Micheletti L, Barbero M, Chiara G, Bersani R, Trivelli MR. [Colposcopy in young girls and in puberty]. Minerva Ginecol 1986; 38:983-6. [PMID: 3808449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Borgno G, Barbero M, Chiara G, Trivelli MR, Cavanna L, Micheletti L. [Diagnosis of vulvar dystrophy]. Minerva Ginecol 1986; 38:1027-32. [PMID: 3808439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Micheletti L, Barbero M, Chiara G, Trivelli MR, Cavanna L, Borgno G. [Colposcopic investigation of 62,258 subjects. Clinico-statistical considerations]. Minerva Ginecol 1986; 38:947-51. [PMID: 3808429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Foscolo GC, Legovini P, Chiara G, Conte N. [Undifferentiated pulmonary carcinoma secreting beta-HCG]. MINERVA ENDOCRINOL 1985; 10:32. [PMID: 2414639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Carone R, Frea B, Borono G, Chiara G, Tizzani A. L'Instabilità Uretrale Causa Rara Di Incontinenza Urinaria Femminile. Urologia 1984. [DOI: 10.1177/039156038405100213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Istituto di Ginecologia e Ostetricia
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- Istituto di Ginecologia e Ostetricia
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Borgno G, Micheletti L, Barbero M, Ghiringhello B, Chiara G. [Vulvar dystrophies]. Minerva Ginecol 1983; 35:725-8. [PMID: 6669310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Chiara G, Leidi L, Garrone P, Massobrio M. [Cortisol in umbilical cord blood in relation to the various methods of delivery]. Minerva Ginecol 1981; 33:49-55. [PMID: 7243063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Campagnoli C, Chiara G, Gilli V. [The effect of estrogens in the etiopathogenesis of endometrial adenocarcinoma]. Minerva Med 1979; 70:97-111. [PMID: 219394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Recent data suggesting that oestrogens also encourage the onset of adenocarcinoma of the endometrium in man are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that this is most likely to occur when prolonged oestrogeni stimulation is not suitably opposed by progesterone. It is felt that the latter, or its synthetic homologues, should be employed in all long-standing cases of exogenous or endogenous hyperoestrogenism.
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Massobrio M, Chiara G, Ottone P. [Some aspects of hypothalamo-hypophyseal-gonadal axis function in the testicular feminization syndrome]. Minerva Ginecol 1978; 30:125-9. [PMID: 662189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Chiara G, Rappelli F. [Studies on the in vitro spermicide activity and therapeutic use of a benzalkonium chloride base preparation (Agena)]. Minerva Ginecol 1975; 27:895-9. [PMID: 1242527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Molino G, Cavanna A, Chiara G, Avagnina P, Giordano O. [Circadian changes in the urinary excretion of the principal free corticosteroids and glucuronoconjugates]. Folia Endocrinol 1973; 26:110-7. [PMID: 4740869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Molino G, Cavanna A, Giordano O, Avagnina P, Chiara G. [Modifications of the gas chromatographic pattern of urinary corticosteroids induced by various doses of beta 1-24 corticotropin]. Folia Endocrinol 1973; 26:118-25. [PMID: 4353859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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