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Goker F, Bonaso M, Grecchi E, Grivetto F, Stefanelli LV, Brucoli M, Donati G, Kisnisci R, Del Fabbro M, Grecchi F. Quality of life in oncologic patients after maxillectomy operations: clinical case series on different rehabilitation protocols. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2024; 28:2710-2723. [PMID: 38639511 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202404_35900] [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: 04/20/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The study's purpose was to compare the quality of life (QoL) in oncologic patients treated with different rehabilitation protocols following maxillary tumor resections. PATIENTS AND METHODS The patients were divided into three groups. Group A: 18 Patients with maxillary obturator prosthesis. Group B: 17 Patients with simultaneous autologous tissue reconstruction. Group C: 12 Patients with prosthesis on zygomatic implants. The post-operative QoL was compared using standard questionnaires, investigating items like pain, mood, social relations, and specific functions that could potentially compromise the post-operative QoL. A secondary analysis compared reconstructed vs. non-reconstructed patients. RESULTS Most questionnaire items did not show significant differences among groups. Statistically significant outcomes were found in two parameters (social contact and sexuality), in which patients treated with zygomatic implants had the best satisfaction, and patients with obturator prostheses showed the lowest satisfaction. Patients belonging to the non-reconstructed group showed better moods than those in the reconstructed group, while taste problem complaints and pain were lower in the reconstructed group. CONCLUSIONS Although the type of reconstruction procedure depends on the type of maxillectomy to be performed and on the general health situation of each patient, the impact of the rehabilitation protocol on the patients' QoL should be accounted for when planning the treatment.
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- F Goker
- Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milano, Milan, Italy.
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Lazzerini PE, Cupelli M, Cartocci A, Bertolozzi I, Salvini V, Accioli R, Salvadori F, Marzotti T, Verrengia D, Cevenini G, Bisogno S, Bicchi M, Donati G, Bernardini S, Laghi‐Pasini F, Acampa M, Capecchi PL, El‐Sherif N, Boutjdir M. Elevated Interleukin-6 Levels Are Associated With an Increased Risk of QTc Interval Prolongation in a Large Cohort of US Veterans. J Am Heart Assoc 2024; 13:e032071. [PMID: 38348789 PMCID: PMC11010073 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.123.032071] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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BACKGROUND Although accumulating data indicate that IL-6 (interleukin-6) can promote heart rate-corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation via direct and indirect effects on cardiac electrophysiology, current evidence comes from basic investigations and small clinical studies only. Therefore, IL-6 is still largely ignored in the clinical management of long-QT syndrome and related arrhythmias. The aim of this study was to estimate the risk of QTc prolongation associated with elevated IL-6 levels in a large population of unselected subjects. METHODS AND RESULTS An observational study using the Veterans Affairs Informatics and Computing Infrastructure was performed. Participants were US veterans who had an ECG and were tested for IL-6. Descriptive statistics and univariate and multivariate regression analyses were performed to study the relationship between IL-6 and QTc prolongation risk. Study population comprised 1085 individuals, 306 showing normal (<5 pg/mL), 376 moderately high (5-25 pg/mL), and 403 high (>25 pg/mL) IL-6 levels. Subjects with elevated IL-6 showed a concentration-dependent increase in the prevalence of QTc prolongation, and those presenting with QTc prolongation exhibited higher circulating IL-6 levels. Stepwise multivariate regression analyses demonstrated that increased IL-6 level was significantly associated with a risk of QTc prolongation up to 2 times the odds of the reference category of QTc (e.g. QTc >470 ms men/480 ms women ms: odds ratio, 2.28 [95% CI, 1.12-4.50] for IL-6 >25 pg/mL) regardless of the underlying cause. Specifically, the mean QTc increase observed in the presence of elevated IL-6 was quantitatively comparable (IL-6 >25 pg/mL:+6.7 ms) to that of major recognized QT-prolonging risk factors, such as hypokalemia and history of myocardial infarction. CONCLUSIONS Our data provide evidence that a high circulating IL-6 level is a robust risk factor for QTc prolongation in a large cohort of US veterans, supporting a potentially important arrhythmogenic role for this cytokine in the general population.
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- VA New York Harbor Healthcare SystemNew YorkNYUSA
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityNew YorkNYUSA
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- Cardiology Intensive Therapy Unit, Department of Internal MedicineNuovo Ospedale San Giovanni di Dio (former Cardiology Intensive Therapy Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Carrara, Carrara, Italy)FlorenceItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and NeurosciencesUniversity of SienaItaly
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- VA New York Harbor Healthcare SystemNew YorkNYUSA
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityNew YorkNYUSA
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- VA New York Harbor Healthcare SystemNew YorkNYUSA
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityNew YorkNYUSA
- NYU Grossman School of MedicineNew YorkNYUSA
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Donati G, Basso M, Manduzio GA, Mugnaini M, Pecorella T, Camerota C. A Convolutional Neural Network for Electrical Fault Recognition in Active Magnetic Bearing Systems. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:7023. [PMID: 37631560 PMCID: PMC10458593 DOI: 10.3390/s23167023] [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: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
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Active magnetic bearings are complex mechatronic systems that consist of mechanical, electrical, and software parts, unlike classical rolling bearings. Given the complexity of this type of system, fault detection is a critical process. This paper presents a new and easy way to detect faults based on the use of a fault dictionary and machine learning. The dictionary was built starting from fault signatures consisting of images obtained from the signals available in the system. Subsequently, a convolutional neural network was trained to recognize such fault signature images. The objective of this study was to develop a fault dictionary and a classifier to recognize the most frequent soft electrical faults that affect position sensors and actuators. The proposed method permits, in a computationally convenient way that can be implemented in real time, the determination of which component has failed and what kind of failure has occurred. Therefore, this fault identification system allows determining which countermeasure to adopt in order to enhance the reliability of the system. The performance of this method was assessed by means of a case study concerning a real turbomachine supported by two active magnetic bearings for the oil and gas field. Seventeen fault classes were considered, and the neural network fault classifier reached an accuracy of 93% on the test dataset.
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- Giovanni Donati
- Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy; (M.B.); (T.P.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy; (M.B.); (T.P.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy;
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy; (M.B.); (T.P.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy; (M.B.); (T.P.); (C.C.)
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Fabbian F, De Giorgi A, Ferrara F, Alfano G, Mori G, Di Maria A, Frisina M, Veronesi M, Storari A, Donati G. Comorbidity and in-hospital mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients: data of the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2023; 27:6867-6875. [PMID: 37522699 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202307_33158] [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: 08/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Kidney failure increases in-hospital mortality (IHM); however, comorbidity is crucial for predicting mortality in dialysis patients. Our aim was to evaluate the impact of comorbidity, assessed by modified Elixhauser index (mEI), Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), and age-adjusted CCI, on IHM in a cohort of peritoneal dialysis patients admitted to hospitals of the Emilia Romagna region (ERR) of Italy. PATIENTS AND METHODS All hospital admissions of peritoneal dialysis patients recorded between 2007 and 2021 in the ERR database were analyzed. The International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) was used for detecting diagnoses and procedures, and the inclusion criterion was code 5498. Comorbidity burden was evaluated by three different scores, and hemodialysis (HD) treatment need was considered. IHM was our outcome. RESULTS During the 15 years of the study, 3,242 hospitalized peritoneal dialysis patients (62.7% males) were evaluated. Mean age was 62.8±20.6 years, 9.6% underwent HD, and IHM was 5.9% (n=192). IHM mortality was stable throughout the study period. Deceased subjects were older, were hospitalized longer, had a higher comorbidity burden, and had a higher percentage of HD treatment needs than survivors. Age, male sex, comorbidity burden, and HD treatment were predictors of IHM. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis confirmed the impact of comorbidity burden on IHM, especially when age was considered. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that in male, elderly hospitalized peritoneal dialysis patients with failing dialysis technique, comorbidity burden should be considered being a predictor of IHM.
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- F Fabbian
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
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Bonetti L, Brattico E, Bruzzone SEP, Donati G, Deco G, Pantazis D, Vuust P, Kringelbach ML. Brain recognition of previously learned versus novel temporal sequences: a differential simultaneous processing. Cereb Cortex 2022; 33:5524-5537. [PMID: 36346308 PMCID: PMC10152090 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac439] [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] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Memory for sequences is a central topic in neuroscience, and decades of studies have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the coding of a wide array of sequences extended over time. Yet, little is known on the brain mechanisms underlying the recognition of previously memorized versus novel temporal sequences. Moreover, the differential brain processing of single items in an auditory temporal sequence compared to the whole superordinate sequence is not fully understood. In this magnetoencephalography (MEG) study, the items of the temporal sequence were independently linked to local and rapid (2–8 Hz) brain processing, while the whole sequence was associated with concurrent global and slower (0.1–1 Hz) processing involving a widespread network of sequentially active brain regions. Notably, the recognition of previously memorized temporal sequences was associated to stronger activity in the slow brain processing, while the novel sequences required a greater involvement of the faster brain processing. Overall, the results expand on well-known information flow from lower- to higher order brain regions. In fact, they reveal the differential involvement of slow and faster whole brain processing to recognize previously learned versus novel temporal information.
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- L Bonetti
- Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg , Universitetsbyen 3, 8000, Aarhus C , Denmark
- Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford , Stoke place 7, OX39BX, Oxford , UK
- University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, , Oxford, UK
- University of Bologna Department of Psychology, , Italy
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- Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg , Universitetsbyen 3, 8000, Aarhus C , Denmark
- University of Bari Aldo Moro Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, , Italy
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- Center for Music in the Brain (MIB) , Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Universitetsbyen 3, 8000, Aarhus C , Denmark
- Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet Neurobiology Research Unit (NRU), , Inge Lehmanns Vej 6, 2100, Copenhagen , Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen , Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen , Denmark
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- University of Bologna Department of Psychology, , Italy
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Group, , Edifici Merce Rodereda, C/ de Ramon Trias Fargas, 25, 08018 Barcelona , Spain
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 , USA
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- Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg , Universitetsbyen 3, 8000, Aarhus C , Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg , Universitetsbyen 3, 8000, Aarhus C , Denmark
- Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford , Stoke place 7, OX39BX, Oxford , UK
- University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, , Oxford, UK
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Donati G, Mirasso CR, Mancinelli M, Pavesi L, Argyris A. Microring resonators with external optical feedback for time delay reservoir computing. Opt Express 2022; 30:522-537. [PMID: 35201228 DOI: 10.1364/oe.444063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Microring resonators (MRRs) are a key photonic component in integrated devices, due to their small size, low insertion losses, and passive operation. While the MRRs have been established for optical filtering in wavelength-multiplexed systems, the nonlinear properties that they can exhibit give rise to new perspectives on their use. For instance, they have been recently considered for introducing optical nonlinearity in photonic reservoir computing systems. In this work, we present a detailed numerical investigation of a silicon MRR operation, in the presence of external optical feedback, in a time delay reservoir computing scheme. We demonstrate the versatility of this compact, passive device, by exploiting different operating regimes and solving computing tasks with diverse memory requirements. We show that when large memory is required, as it occurs in the Narma 10 task, the MRR nonlinearity does not play a significant role when the photodetection nonlinearity is involved, while the contribution of the external feedback is significant. On the contrary, for computing tasks such as the Mackey-Glass and the Santa Fe chaotic timeseries prediction, the MRR and the photodetection nonlinearities contribute both to efficient computation. The presence of optical feedback improves the prediction of the Mackey-Glass timeseries while it plays a minor role in the Santa Fe timeseries case.
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Bonetti L, Brattico E, Carlomagno F, Donati G, Cabral J, Haumann NT, Deco G, Vuust P, Kringelbach ML. Rapid encoding of musical tones discovered in whole-brain connectivity. Neuroimage 2021; 245:118735. [PMID: 34813972 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Information encoding has received a wide neuroscientific attention, but the underlying rapid spatiotemporal brain dynamics remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the rapid brain mechanisms for encoding of sounds forming a complex temporal sequence. Specifically, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to record the brain activity of 68 participants while they listened to a highly structured musical prelude. Functional connectivity analyses performed using phase synchronisation and graph theoretical measures showed a large network of brain areas recruited during encoding of sounds, comprising primary and secondary auditory cortices, frontal operculum, insula, hippocampus and basal ganglia. Moreover, our results highlighted the rapid transition of brain activity from primary auditory cortex to higher order association areas including insula and superior temporal pole within a whole-brain network, occurring during the first 220 ms of the encoding process. Further, we discovered that individual differences along cognitive abilities and musicianship modulated the degree centrality of the brain areas implicated in the encoding process. Indeed, participants with higher musical expertise presented a stronger centrality of superior temporal gyrus and insula, while individuals with high working memory abilities showed a stronger centrality of frontal operculum. In conclusion, our study revealed the rapid unfolding of brain network dynamics responsible for the encoding of sounds and their relationship with individual differences, showing a complex picture which extends beyond the well-known involvement of auditory areas. Indeed, our results expanded our understanding of the general mechanisms underlying auditory pattern encoding in the human brain.
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- L Bonetti
- Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy.
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark; Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, 08010, Spain; Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Group, Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ratti M, Procopio G, Guadalupi V, Grizzi G, Bonomi M, Saleri J, Gobbi A, Marchi R, Pogliacomi G, Donati G, Nazzari M, Bacciocchini N, Brighenti M, Perrucci B, Giganti M, Panni S, Donini M, Curti A, Gregorc V, Passalacqua R. 1610P Delivery of ONCOlogic care at HOME: Ready for “ONCOHOME”. Ann Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.08.1603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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: 11/16/2022] Open
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Passalacqua R, Ratti M, Pan A, Testa S, Molteni A, Tonoli S, Faliva A, Mainardi E, Saleri J, Gobbi A, Nanni N, Bacciocchini N, Donati G, Marchi R, Cattaneo M, Gnocchi N, Grizzi G, Brighenti M, Maglietta G, Caminiti C. 1646TiP Efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in cancer patients during treatment: A prospective observational study (ANTICOV trial). Ann Oncol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8454316 DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.08.1639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Goker F, Donati G, Grecchi F, Sparaco A, Ghezzi M, Rania V, Rossi CA, Del Fabbro M. Treatment of BRONJ with ozone/oxygen therapy and debridement with piezoelectric surgery. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2021; 24:9094-9103. [PMID: 32964999 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202009_22855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ) is progressive bone destruction in the maxillofacial region of patients under current or previous treatment with Bisphosphonates. The present case series study aimed to evaluate if ozone/oxygen therapy and debridement with piezoelectric surgery may improve the treatment of BRONJ. PATIENTS AND METHODS The treatment modality of the patients included ozone/oxygen mixture from medical oxygen. The protocol for ozone/oxygen mixture therapy appointments was set as twice a week for 10 weeks, for a total of 20 applications for each patient. The evaluation of the lesions was based on the clinical and radiologic parameters. The primary outcome was the necrotic lesion reduction during ozone/oxygen therapy sessions and up to the end of follow up periods. The healing of the lesion was taken as a positive result. The level of significance was taken as p <0.05. RESULTS A total of 14 patients affected by osteonecrosis were included. The mean follow-up of the patients was 14.3 months. The overall success rate after treatment was 64.2%. CONCLUSIONS According to the results, ozone/oxygen therapy and debridement with Piezoelectric surgery for BRONJ treatment is a safe procedure with successful outcomes.
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- F Goker
- Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milano, Milan, Italy.
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Di Federico A, De Giglio A, Nuvola G, Deiana C, Conci N, Bonucci C, Donati G, Parisi C, Gelsomino F, Ardizzoni A. 113P Comparative efficacy and safety of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor monotherapy or in addition to chemotherapy for advanced, PD-L1 high non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): A meta-analysis of randomized trials. J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1556-0864(21)01955-9] [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: 11/15/2022]
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Sciaccaluga C, Mandoli GE, Sisti N, Natali MB, Ibrahim A, Menci D, D'Errico A, Donati G, Benfari G, Valente S, Bernazzali S, Maccherini M, Mondillo S, Cameli M, Focardi M. Detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by multi-layer left ventricular longitudinal strain in heart transplant recipients. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2021; 37:1621-1628. [PMID: 33442856 DOI: 10.1007/s10554-020-02147-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is an obliterative and diffuse type of coronaropathy that develops in the transplanted human heart, representing a major cause of graft failure and mortality. Nowadays the gold standard for the diagnosis of CAV is coronary angiography (CA). Non-invasive CAV detection, especially in the early stages of the disease, is still challenging. Our study aimed to investigate the role of speckle tracking echocardiography (STE), in particular three-layer STE, in predicting CAV at early stages, and if other traditional echocardiographic, clinical or biochemical parameters could relate to CAV. The study population was composed of a total of 33 heart transplanted patients, divided accordingly to the presence or absence of CAV (12 CAV+ , 22 CAV-). All subjects underwent a complete transthoracic echocardiographic examination on the same day of the CA, and all conventional parameters of myocardial function were obtained, including strain values assessed by STE. Strain values were significantly reduced in presence of CAV, at each myocardial layer but in particular the endocardial-epicardial gradient (- 4.15 ± 1.6 vs - 1.7 ± 0.4% < .0001) that was also highly predictive of CAV (AUC at ROC curve 0.97). Among diastolic parameters, the E wave deceleration time (DT) and the mean E/e' ratio were strongly positively associated with CAV. In our population, left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS), layer-specific GLS and the endocardial-epicardial LS gradient, E wave DT and E/e' ratio were the best independent non-invasive predictors of CAV.
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- C Sciaccaluga
- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Sandri A, Donati G, Blanc CD, Nigra VA, Gagliasso M, Barmasse R. Anterior chest wall resection and sternal body wedge for primary chest wall tumour: reconstruction technique with biological meshes and titanium plates. J Thorac Dis 2020; 12:17-21. [PMID: 32055419 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2019.06.45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chest wall tumours are heterogeneous neoplasms, either primary or metastatic, with a malignancy rate of 50%. Surgical resection is one of the mainstays of the treatment, however, chest wall resections can be particularly challenging depending onto the resection size, site and patient habitus. The surgical strategy should be carefully analysed preoperatively, keeping in mind the need of an oncological radical resection (R0) in accordance to the reconstruction principles elicited by le Roux and Sherma since 1983, which include restoring the chest wall rigidity, preserving pulmonary mechanics, protect the intrathoracic organs, avoiding paradox movements of the chest cavity and, possibly, to reduce the thoracic deformity. In this context, we herewith report our surgical reconstruction technique following an anterior chest wall resection and sternal body wedge for a primary chest wall tumour (chondrosarcoma).
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- Alberto Sandri
- Unit of Thoracic Surgery, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, University of Turin, Orbassano, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
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- Unit of Thoracic Surgery, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, University of Turin, Orbassano, Turin, Italy
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Oules B, Philippeos C, Tihy M, Segal J, Grange P, Quist S, Natsuga K, Dupin N, Donati G, Watt F. 589 Loss of GATA6 contributes to acne pathogenesis in human skin. J Invest Dermatol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2019.07.593] [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: 10/26/2022]
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Fujimura Y, Natsuga K, Watanabe M, Iwata H, Nishie W, Nakamura H, Nagayama M, Donati G, Shimizu H. 583 Selective epidermal removal is a robust platform for understanding context-dependent epithelial cell activation. J Invest Dermatol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2019.07.587] [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: 10/26/2022]
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Cangini G, Rusolo D, Cappuccilli M, Donati G, La Manna G. Evolution of the concept of quality of life in the population in end stage renal disease. A systematic review of the literature. Clin Ter 2019; 170:e301-e320. [PMID: 31304520 DOI: 10.7417/ct.2019.2152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Given the rising prevalence of end-stage renal disease and subsequent progressive increase of patients starting renal replacement therapy, a great attention is given by scientific community to the assessment of life perception and Quality of Life (QoL) in dialysis patients. A broad literature review was conducted on PubMed and PsyInfo databases for articles published between January 2000 and July 2016 in order to understand the biological and psychosocial variables potentially affecting the QoL of the patients under artificial substitution of kidney function. METHODS Five domains related to the concepts of physical functions, mood, sleep, spirituality, and social support have been identified. RESULTS The findings in this review suggest that the variables related to physical activity and depression seem to have a direct impact on QoL and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Others, such as anxiety, awareness, empowerment, the presence of sleep disorders, satisfaction, support from the staff, social support, spirituality and religion have a clear correlation with the QoL dimensions. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest the primary importance of the assessment biological and psychosocial variables by specific tools and the inclusion of effective interventions targeted to patients and their caregivers.
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- G Cangini
- Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, St. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, St. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, St. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, St. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant Unit, St. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Oules B, Philippeos C, Ghahramani A, Goodacre A, Donati G, Watt F. 1351 Investigation of the molecular identity of the junctional zone in human. J Invest Dermatol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.03.1368] [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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The purpose of this study was to realize a computer system for cancer data automatic processing. A clinical research in oncological practice is usually time consuming and often not reliable or deceiving because of a number of various errors. Until now, only a few information systems have been specifically designed for cancer data processing, and these have a limited capacity of autonomous data elaboration. Our system, based on an original computer program, can compile, store and process essential data on cancer diseases, with a high degree of reliability and high speed of elaboration. Input and output of this system are simplified and user oriented, without limitations for the subject at study on clinical research, and no particular training of the physicians involved is necessary.
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Colì L, Donati G, Galaverni M, Golfieri R, Raimondi C, Cianciolo G, Comai G, Piccari M, Rossi C, Stefoni S. Jugular Vein-Mammary Artery Fistula after Catheterism for Hemodialysis: Case Report. J Vasc Access 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/112972980700800209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The demographic characteristics of hemodialysis (HD) patients increase the need for the tunneled cuffed permanent catheter (TCC) as a definitive vascular access (VA) for HD. The internal jugular vein is increasingly being used as a route for TCC or temporary catheter placement and can be associated with serious complications. Among them other authors have described arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation between the common carotid artery and the right jugular vein. We describe a case of an AVF between the right internal jugular vein and the right internal mammary artery. The fistula was detected during the TCC placement in a patient who underwent several jugular and subclavian catheterisms for HD in her clinical history.
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- L. Colì
- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Radiology Unit, Malpighi Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Radiology, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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Liepsch D, Pallotti G, Pettazzoni P, Colì L, Donati G, Rossi C, Losinno F, Freyrie A, Stefoni S. Fluidodynamic Evaluation of Arteriovenous Fistulae for Hemodialysis. J Vasc Access 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/112972980300400303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) are commonly used in dialysis treatment of uremic patients. However, many AVF create problems and have to be re-examined. Problems arise in the cannulation site and must be treated with antibiotics, and stenosis, both in the arterial and in the venous side of the AVF. In the worst case, the AVF must be replaced for treatment to continue. However, this can only be repeated once before the AVF site is no longer viable. This increases the discomfort, the morbidity and the mortality of the dialysis patient. Several kinds of AVF were studied to determine whether flow disturbances give rise to these complications. Many studies have already demonstrated the importance of hemodynamic factors in vascular disease pathogenesis. These factors include: the pulsatility of flow, the elasticity of the vessel, the non-Newtonian blood, flow behavior and, very importantly for AVF, the vessel geometry. In model studies, intimal changes have been observed in bends and bifurcations, regions of vessel construction and vessel stenosis. In these regions, blood flow changes abruptly and this contributes to arterial disease. We prepared several one-to-one, true-to-scale elastic silicon rubber models of different AVF. The AVF models were based on angiographic studies of chronic dialysis patients and on AVF from the arms of cadavers. The models had a similar compliance to that of the human blood vessel. Flow was visualized using photoelasticity apparatus and a birefringent blood-like fluid. This method is suitable to analyze the spatial configuration of flow profiles, to differentiate laminar flow from disturbed flow, and to visualize flow separation, vortex formation and secondary flow. It was found that AVF create disturbances that are not found under normal physiological flow conditions. The X-formed AVF was very unsatisfactory, creating significant flow disturbances. The AVF had high velocity fluctuations. These could lead, for example, to aneurysm formation. A better configuration would be an end-to-end AVF. However, this formation creates other complications. For example, there is not enough blood to the hand and parts of the hand lose feeling. The recommended AVF would be an end-to-side anastomosis. In this case, attention is needed for placement geometry, to minimize additional flow disturbances. Several models as well as patient angiographic studies are discussed.
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- D. Liepsch
- Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics and Institute for Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences, Munich - Germany
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Bologna, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Radiology, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Radiology, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Vascular Surgery Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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Colì L, Ursino M, Donati G, Cianciolo G, Soverini ML, Baraldi O, La Manna G, Feliciangeli G, Scolari MP, Stefoni S. Clinical Application of Sodium Profiling in the Treatment of Intradialytic Hypotension. Int J Artif Organs 2018; 26:715-22. [PMID: 14521168 DOI: 10.1177/039139880302600803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 11/16/2022]
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Background Intradialytic hypotension is mainly induced by the removal of extracellular sodium during dialysis, which impairs intravascular fluid refilling and reduces blood volume. To counter this complication we tested a new kind of profiled hemodialysis (PHD) consisting of the intradialytic modulation of dialysate sodium concentration according to individual profiles set up using a new mathematical model for intradialytic solutes and water kinetics. The clinical aim of this PHD is to stabilize blood pressure maintaining higher blood volume values than standard dialysis treatments. We clinically validated PHD in comparison with constant dialysate sodium dialysis (CHD). Methods Twenty hypotensive dialysis patients underwent one PHD and one CHD session maintaining the same dialysis length, sodium mass removal and body weight decrease. A new mathematical model was used to define both the dialysate sodium profiles for PHD and the constant dialysate sodium for CHD. Percent blood volume variation (Crit-line), mean blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output (Doppler-echocardiography) were monitored intradialitically. Results Cardiovascular stability improved on PHD as compared with CHD sessions; blood volume and cardiac output during PHD showed a lower decrease than on CHD, the differences statistically significant (from 30' and 60' respectively). Mean blood pressure was, at all time intervals, more stable on PHD than on CHD and was accompanied, on PHD, by a lower heart rate increase (differences statistically significant). Conclusions This study shows that PHD performed using dialysate sodium profiles elaborated by our mathematical model obtains, in hypotensive patients, a higher hemodynamic intradialytic stability than CHD, probably due to a higher stabilization of blood volume.
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- L Colì
- Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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Battistelli S, Stefanoni M, Petrioli R, Genovese A, Dell'Avanzato R, Donati G, Vittoria A, Roviello F. Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Acute-Phase Response in Non-Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients. Int J Biol Markers 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/172460080802300105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Aim To investigate the plasma levels and prevalence of the most common antiphospholipid antibodies, as well as their relationships with several plasma markers of inflammation, in order to characterize some aspects of cancer thrombophilia. Materials and methods Eighty-three cancer patients with non-metastatic colorectal solid tumors and 94 control subjects were tested for the presence of IgG/IgM/IgA anti-cardiolipin and anti-β2-glycoprotein I antibodies and of several acute-phase reactants, i.e., fibrinogen, factor VIII:C and C4b-binding protein. Results In cancer patients the plasma levels of the acute-phase reactants and the IgA/IgG anti-cardiolipin and IgA anti-β2-glycoprotein I antibodies were significantly higher; the acute-phase reactants were significantly correlated with anti-cardiolipin antibodies; the prevalence of antiphospholipid antibodies was not significantly higher. Conclusions In patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer the acute-phase response is associated with antiphospholipid generation. This could represent a further pathogenetic mechanism for the short-term post-surgery thrombotic complications of patients with colorectal cancer.
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- S. Battistelli
- Department of General Surgery, Policlinico Le Scotte, Siena
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Ospedale Civile, Gorizia
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- Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, Policlinico Le Scotte, Siena
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- Department of General Surgery, Policlinico Le Scotte, Siena
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Policlinico Le Scotte, Siena
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Immunology, Policlinico Le Scotte, Siena - Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, Policlinico Le Scotte, Siena
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Cianciolo G, Colì L, La Manna G, Donati G, D'addio F, Comai G, Ricci D, Dormi A, Wratten M, Feliciangeli G, Stefoni S. Is β2-Microglobulin-Related Amyloidosis of Hemodialysis Patients a Multifactorial Disease? a New Pathogenetic Approach. Int J Artif Organs 2018; 30:864-78. [DOI: 10.1177/039139880703001003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Purpose β2-microglobulin amyloidosis (Aβ2M) is one of the main long-term complications of dialysis treatment. The incidence and the onset of Aβ2M has been related to membrane composition and/or dialysis technique, with non-homogeneous results. This study was carried out to detect: i) the incidence of bone cysts and CTS from Aβ2M; ii) the difference in Aβ2M onset between cellulosic and synthetic membranes; iii) other risk factors besides the membrane. Methods 480 HD patients were selected between 1986 to 2005 and grouped according to the 4 types of membranes used (cellulose, synthetically modified cellulose, synthetic low-flux, synthetic high-flux). The patients were analyzed before and after 1995, when the reverse osmosis treatment for dialysis water was started at our center, and the incidence of Aβ2M was compared between the two periods. Routine plain radiography, computer tomography (CT) and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as electromyography were used to investigate the clinical symptoms. Results Bone cysts occurred in 29.2% of patients before 1995 vs. 12.2% after 1995 (p<0.0001). CTS occurred in 24% of patients before 1995 vs. 7.1% after 1995 (p<0.0001). Bone cysts and CTS occurred in older patients, who began dialysis at a late age, with high CRP, low albumin, low residual GFR, and low Hb. Cox regression analysis showed that the risk factor for bone cysts was high CRP (RR 1.3, p<0.01), while albumin (RR 0.14, p<0.0001) and residual GFR (RR 0.81, p<0.0001) were revealed to be protective factors. Cox analysis for CTS confirmed CRP as a risk factor (RR 1.2, p<0.01), and albumin (RR 0.59, p<0.0001) and residual GFR (RR 0.75, p<0.0001) as protective factors. The comparison obtained between membranes did not suggest any protective effect on Aβ2M. Conclusions The findings that the inflammatory status as well as low albumin and the residual GFR of the uremic patient are predictive of Aβ2M lesions suggests that Aβ2M has a multifactorial origin rather than being solely a membrane- or technique-related side effect.
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- G. Cianciolo
- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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- Sorin Group, Medical Division, Mirandola - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna - Italy
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Applied Biotechnology, University of Bologna - Italy
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Cerruti F, Jocollè G, Salio C, Oliva L, Paglietti L, Alessandria B, Mioletti S, Donati G, Numico G, Cenci S, Cascio P. Proteasome stress sensitizes malignant pleural mesothelioma cells to bortezomib-induced apoptosis. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17626. [PMID: 29247244 PMCID: PMC5732203 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17977-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Based on promising results in preclinical models, clinical trials have been performed to evaluate the efficacy of the first-in-class proteasome inhibitor bortezomib towards malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), an aggressive cancer arising from the mesothelium of the serous cavities following exposure to asbestos. Unexpectedly, only minimal therapeutic benefits were observed, thus implicating that MPM harbors inherent resistance mechanisms. Identifying the molecular bases of this primary resistance is crucial to develop novel pharmacologic strategies aimed at increasing the vulnerability of MPM to bortezomib. Therefore, we assessed a panel of four human MPM lines with different sensitivity to bortezomib, for functional proteasome activity and levels of free and polymerized ubiquitin. We found that highly sensitive MPM lines display lower proteasome activity than more bortezomib-resistant clones, suggesting that reduced proteasomal capacity might contribute to the intrinsic susceptibility of mesothelioma cells to proteasome inhibitors-induced apoptosis. Moreover, MPM equipped with fewer active proteasomes accumulated polyubiquitinated proteins, at the expense of free ubiquitin, a condition known as proteasome stress, which lowers the cellular apoptotic threshold and sensitizes mesothelioma cells to bortezomib-induced toxicity as shown herein. Taken together, our data suggest that an unfavorable load-versus-capacity balance represents a critical determinant of primary apoptotic sensitivity to bortezomib in MPM.
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- Fulvia Cerruti
- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Ospedale U. Parini, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100, Aosta, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, Via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- Thoracic Surgery Unit, Ospedale U. Parini, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100, Aosta, Italy
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- Medical Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera SS Antonio e Biagio e C Arrigo, Via Venezia 16, 15121, Alessandria, Italy
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- San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, Via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Largo P. Braccini 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy.
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Carassai P, Jocollé G, Donati G, Spinazzé S, Baiocco C, Baderna P, Martinet A, Lococo F, Migliaccio F, Rossi G. Does V600E BRAF mutation predict vinorelbine efficacy? A proof-of-concept from a lung micropapillary adenocarcinoma metastatic to the breast. Pathologica 2017; 109:426-428. [PMID: 29449740] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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BRAF mutations occur in about 3% of all lung adenocarcinomas and V600E missense mutation characterizes about half of BRAF-mutated lung adenocarcinomas and is significantly associated with micropapillary pattern and shorter disease-free and overall survival rates. In this report, we report a challenging case of a patient with a metastatic micropapillary adenocarcinoma of the lung harbouring V600E BRAF mutation who experienced a surprising protracted clinical response to metronomic vinorelbine. The possible association between the V600E BRAF mutation pathway and the effective use of vinca alkaloid is discussed.
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- P Carassai
- Pathology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Oncology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Unit of Thoracic and Senology Surgery, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Oncology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Unit of Nuclear Medicine, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Pulmonology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Pulmonology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Radiotherapy Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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- Pathology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d'Aosta, Regional Hospital "Parini", Aosta
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Watanabe M, Natsuga K, Nishie W, Donati G, Fujimura Y, Tsukiyama T, Ujiie H, Ozaki M, Watt F, Shimizu H. 085 Type XVII collagen suppresses interfollicular epidermal proliferation in neonatal and aged skin, and helps rejuvenate epidermis. J Invest Dermatol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2017.07.395] [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]
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Rossi G, Jocollé G, Conti A, Tiseo M, Zito Marino F, Donati G, Franco R, Bono F, Barbisan F, Facchinetti F. Detection of ROS1 rearrangement in non-small cell lung cancer: current and future perspectives. Lung Cancer (Auckl) 2017; 8:45-55. [PMID: 28740441 PMCID: PMC5508815 DOI: 10.2147/lctt.s120172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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ROS1 rearrangement characterizes a small subset (1%-2%) of non-small cell lung cancer and is associated with slight/never smoking patients and adenocarcinoma histology. Identification of ROS1 rearrangement is mandatory to permit targeted therapy with specific inhibitors, demonstrating a significantly better survival when compared with conventional chemotherapy. Detection of ROS1 rearrangement is based on in situ (immunohistochemistry, fluorescence in situ hybridization) and extractive non-in situ assays. While fluorescence in situ hybridization still represents the gold standard in clinical trials, this technique may fail to recognize rearrangements of ROS1 with some gene fusion partner. On the other hand, immunohistochemistry is the most cost-effective screening technique, but it seems to be characterized by low specificity. Extractive molecular assays are expensive and laborious methods, but they specifically recognize almost all ROS1 fusions using a limited amount of mRNA even from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor tissues. This review is a discussion on the present and futuristic diagnostic scenario of ROS1 identification in lung cancer.
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- Oncology Unit, Azienda USL Valle d’Aosta, Regional Hospital “Parini”, Aosta
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- Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma
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- Pathology Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione G. Pascale
- Pathology Unit, Luigi Vanvitelli University of Campania, Naples
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- Unit of Thoracic and Senology Surgery, Azienda USL Valle d’Aosta, Regional Hospital “Parini”, Aosta
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- Pathology Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione G. Pascale
- Pathology Unit, Luigi Vanvitelli University of Campania, Naples
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- Unit of Pathologic Anatomy, San Gerardo Hospital, IRCCS, Monza
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- Pathology Unit, University Hospital, Azienda Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma
- INSERM, U981, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France
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Cabana F, Dierenfeld E, Wirdateti W, Donati G, Nekaris KAI. Trialling nutrient recommendations for slow lorises (Nycticebusspp.) based on wild feeding ecology. J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl) 2017; 102:e1-e10. [DOI: 10.1111/jpn.12694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- F. Cabana
- Nocturnal Primate Research Group; Oxford Brookes University; Oxford UK
- Wildlife Nutrition Centre; Wildlife Reserves Singapore; Singapore Singapore
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- Ellen Dierenfeld Consultancy LLC; Saint Louis MO USA
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- Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia; Bogor Indonesia
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- Nocturnal Primate Research Group; Oxford Brookes University; Oxford UK
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- Nocturnal Primate Research Group; Oxford Brookes University; Oxford UK
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Sperling J, Bartley TJ, Donati G, Barbieri M, Jin XM, Datta A, Vogel W, Walmsley IA. Quantum Correlations from the Conditional Statistics of Incomplete Data. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:083601. [PMID: 27588857 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.083601] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We study, in theory and experiment, the quantum properties of correlated light fields measured with click-counting detectors providing incomplete information on the photon statistics. We establish a correlation parameter for the conditional statistics, and we derive the corresponding nonclassicality criteria for detecting conditional quantum correlations. Classical bounds for Pearson's correlation parameter are formulated that allow us, once they are violated, to determine nonclassical correlations via the joint statistics. On the one hand, we demonstrate nonclassical correlations in terms of the joint click statistics of light produced by a parametric down-conversion source. On the other hand, we verify quantum correlations of a heralded, split single-photon state via the conditional click statistics together with a generalization to higher-order moments. We discuss the performance of the presented nonclassicality criteria to successfully discern joint and conditional quantum correlations. Remarkably, our results are obtained without making any assumptions on the response function, quantum efficiency, and dark-count rate of photodetectors.
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- J Sperling
- Arbeitsgruppe Theoretische Quantenoptik, Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- Universität Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Institute of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Arbeitsgruppe Theoretische Quantenoptik, Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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PURPOSE To determine the long-term surgical findings and outcomes after vitrectomy for symptomatic lamellar macular holes. METHODS We studied 28 patients with lamellar macular holes and central visual loss or distortion. All interventions were standard 25 G vitrectomy with membranectomy of the internal limiting membrane (ILM), peeling and gas tamponade with SF6 20 %. Operations were performed by a single experienced surgeon within the last 3 years. Best corrected visual acuity and optical coherence tomography appearance were determined preoperatively and postoperatively. RESULTS Following the surgical procedure, all macular holes were closed; however, in 3 eyes, significant foveal thinning was associated with changes in the retinal pigment epithelium changes. The mean best-corrected visual acuity improved postoperatively in the majority of the patients (n: 21, mean 0.3 logMAR), stabilised in 4 patients and decreased in 3 patients (mean 0.4 logMAR). Spectral Domain-Optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) showed resolution of the lamellar lesion and improved macular contour in all cases. CONCLUSION We demonstrated improvement in postoperative vision and the anatomical reconstruction of the anatomical contour of the fovea in most eyes with symptomatic lamellar holes. These findings indicate that vitrectomy, membranectomy and ILM peeling with gas tamponade is a beneficial treatment of symptomatic lamellar macular holes.
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- D Papadopoulou
- Ophthalmology Center, Hirslanden, Clinique La Colline, Genève, Switzerland
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- Ophthalmology Center, Hirslanden, Clinique La Colline, Genève, Switzerland
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- Ophthalmology Center, Hirslanden, Clinique La Colline, Genève, Switzerland
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- Ophthalmology Center, Hirslanden, Clinique La Colline, Genève, Switzerland
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Eppley TM, Donati G, Ganzhorn JU. Possible asynchronous parturition in a multifetal strepsirrhine: Hapalemur meridionalis. Anim Reprod 2016. [DOI: 10.21451/1984-3143-ar785] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Pournaras C, Frountzou E, Donati G. OCT angiography for the evaluation of macular ischemic micro-angiopathies. Acta Ophthalmol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2015.0714] [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: 11/28/2022]
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- C.J. Pournaras
- La Colline; Ophthalmology Center; Geneva Switzerland
- Memorial Rothschild; Clinical Research Group; Geneva Switzerland
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- La Colline; Ophthalmology Center; Geneva Switzerland
- Memorial Rothschild; Clinical Research Group; Geneva Switzerland
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- La Colline; Ophthalmology Center; Geneva Switzerland
- Memorial Rothschild; Clinical Research Group; Geneva Switzerland
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Ponti A, Mano MP, Tomatis M, Baiocchi D, Barca A, Berti R, Casella D, D'Ambrosio E, Delos E, Donati G, Falcini F, Frammartino B, Frigerio A, Giudici F, Mantellini P, Naldoni C, Olla Atzeni C, Orzalesi L, Pagano G, Pietribiasi F, Pitarella S, Ravaioli A, Silvestri A, Taffurelli M, Tidone E, Zanconati F, Segnan N. Audit system on Quality of breast cancer diagnosis and Treatment (QT): results of quality indicators on screen-detected lesions in Italy, 2011-2012. Epidemiol Prev 2015; 39:40-47. [PMID: 26405775] [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: 06/05/2023]
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This annual survey, conducted by the Italian group for mammography screening (GISMa), collects individual data on diagnosis and treatment of about 50% of screen-detected, operated lesions in Italy. The 2011-2012 results show good overall quality and an improving trend over time. A number of critical issues have been identified, including waiting times (which have had a worsening trend over the years) and compliance with the recommendation of not performing frozen section examination on small lesions. Pre-operative diagnosis improved constantly over time, but there is still a large variation between Regions and programmes. For almost 90% of screen-detected invasive cancers a sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy was performed on the axilla, avoiding a large number of potentially harmful dissections. On the other hand, potential overuse of SLN dissection for ductal carcinoma in situ, although apparently starting to decline, deserves further investigation. The detailed results have been distributed, among other ways by means of a web-based data-warehouse, to regional and local screening programmes, in order to allow multidisciplinary discussion and identification of the appropriate solutions to any issues documented by the data. The problem of waiting times should be assigned priority. Specialist Breast Units with adequate case volume and enough resources would provide the best setting for making monitoring effective in producing quality improvements with shorter waiting times.
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- Antonio Ponti
- CPO Piemonte, AOU Città della salute e della scienza, Torino.
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Donati G, Pournaras C. Ranibizumab Treatment for Retinal Angiomatous Proliferation Lesions: A Case Report with Life-Long Expectancy (Seven Years) Follow-Up. Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 2015; 232:570-2. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1396332] [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: 10/23/2022]
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- G. Donati
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centre Ophtalmologique de Rive, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lazdane K, Broll A, Theisinger O, Bearder SK, Donati G. A preliminary assessment of nematode infections inEulemur collaris(Geoffroy, 1812) (Mammalia: Lemuridae) in remnant fragments of Malagasy littoral forest. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/11250003.2014.915993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 10/25/2022]
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Schwitzer C, Mittermeier RA, Johnson SE, Donati G, Irwin M, Peacock H, Ratsimbazafy J, Razafindramanana J, Louis EE, Chikhi L, Colquhoun IC, Tinsman J, Dolch R, LaFleur M, Nash S, Patel E, Randrianambinina B, Rasolofoharivelo T, Wright PC. Conservation. Averting lemur extinctions amid Madagascar's political crisis. Science 2014; 343:842-3. [PMID: 24558147 DOI: 10.1126/science.1245783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- C Schwitzer
- Bristol Zoological Society, Bristol BS8 3HA, UK
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Jocolle' G, Numico G, Cerutti F, Laura O, Cenci S, Donati G, Cascio P. Effect of the load versus capacity unbalance on the sensitivity of malignant pleural mesothelioma cells to proteasome inhibitors. J Clin Oncol 2013. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2013.31.15_suppl.e18522] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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e18522 Background: Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive cancer that originates from the mesothelium of the pleural cavities. Due to its resistance to all chemotherapies available, news therapies against MPM are urgently needed. Bortezomib is a potent Proteasome Inhibitors (PI) that induces apoptosis in different cancers and it was recently approved for treatment of Multiple Myeloma (MM). Since in MM an unbalance between a reduced proteasomal activity (capacity) and an increased proteins degradation (load) was shown to determine apoptotic sensitivity to PI, we challenged this paradigm also in MPM. Methods: Four different MPM (MM98, REN, MMB, MSTO) and a normal (TERT) pleural lines were treated with increasing doses (from 1 to 1000 nM) of Bortezomib and after 24h apoptosis was assessed by flow cytometric analysis of AnnexinV and propidium iodide positive cells. Levels of polyubiquitinated proteins were evaluated by immunofluorescence microscopy and western blotting with the specific monoclonal Ab Fk2 (BIOMOL International). The three main proteasome activities were measured in continuoin cellular extracts at 37°C with a Carry Eclipse spectrofluorometer (Varian, Palo Alto) by means of specific fluorogenic substrates (Suc-LLVY-amc, Bz-VGR-amc, Suc-YVAD-amc). Results: The sensitivity towards Bortezomib greatly differs between the 5 pleural lines analyzed. Specifically the EC50value was higher for the TERT line (130 nM) while for MPM lines ranged between 17 nM (MM98) and 71 nM (MSTO). Importantly, for all the 5 lines analyzed enhanced sensitivity to Bortezomib perfectly correlates with increased levels of ubiquitinated proteins and reduced proteasome specific activity. Conclusions: Our results prove that MPM lines are significantly more sensitive towards the pro-apoptotic effect of Bortezomib than normal pleural cells. Moreover, as in MM, also in MPM PI-sensitivity stems from an unbalance of the load/capacity ratio. Our data, therefore, establish a rationale for the use of Bortezomib (and new second generation PI) in MPM and indicate that combinatorial therapies with other drugs active on the proteostasis network (like HSP inhibitors) might be highly effective against this cancer.
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- Department of Veterinary Science, Turin University, Turin, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, DiBiT- San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Genetic and Cell Biology, DiBiT- San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Science, Turin University, Turin, Italy
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McCullough KP, Lok CE, Fluck RJ, Spergel LM, Andreucci VE, Fort J, Krishnan M, Fissell RB, Kawanishi H, Saran R, Port FK, Robinson BM, Pisoni RL, Shinzato T, Shionoya Y, Fukui H, Sasaki M, Miwa M, Toma S, Lin CC, Yang WC, Simone S, Loverre A, Cariello M, Divella C, Castellano G, Gesualdo L, Grandaliano G, Pertosa G, Mattei S, Pignatelli G, Corradini M, Stefani A, Bovino A, Iannuzzella F, Vaglio A, Manari A, Pasquali S, Chan JS, Wu TC, Roy-Chaudhury P, Shih CC, Chen JW, Ponce P, Scholz C, Goncalves P, Grassmann A, Canaud B, Marcelli D, Suzuki S, Shibata K, Kuji T, Kawata S, Koguchi N, Nishihara M, Satta H, Toya Y, Umemura S, Corbett R, Demicheli N, Iori F, Grechy L, Khiroya R, Ellis D, Crane J, Hamady M, Gedroyc W, Duncan N, Vincent P, Caro C, Sarween N, Price A, Powers S, Allen C, Holland M, Gupta I, Baharani J, Parisotto MT, Schoder V, Kaufmann P, Miriunis C, Grassmann A, Marcelli D, Moura A, Madureira J, Alija P, Fernandes J, Oliveira JG, Lopez M, Felgueiras M, Amado L, Sameiro-Faria M, Miranda V, Vieira M, Santos-Silva A, Costa E, David P, Capurro F, Brustia M, De Mauri A, Ruva C, Chiarinotti D, Gravellone L, De Leo M, Turkvatan A, Kirkpantur A, Mandiroglu S, Afsar B, Seloglu B, Alkis M, Erkula S, GURBUZ HG, Serin M, CALIK Y, Mandiroglu F, Balci M, Rikker C, Juhasz E, Tornoci L, Tovarosi S, Greguschik J, Rosivall L, Ibeas J, Valeriano J, Vallespin J, Fortuno J, Rodriguez-Jornet A, Cabre C, Merino J, Vinuesa X, Bolos M, Branera J, Mateos A, Jimeno V, Grau C, Criado E, Moya C, Ramirez J, Gimenez A, Garcia M, Kirmizis D, Kougioumtzidou O, Vakianis P, Bandera A, Veniero P, Brunori G, Dimitrijevic Z, Cvetkovic T, Paunovic K, Stojanovic M, Ljubenovic S, Mitic B, Djordjevic V, Aicha Henriette S, Farideh A, Daniela B, Zafer T, Francois C, Ibeas J, Vallespin J, Fortuno J, Merino J, Vinuesa X, Branera J, Mateos A, Jimeno V, Bolos M, Rodriguez-Jornet A, Gimenez A, Garcia M, Donati G, Scrivo A, Cianciolo G, La Manna G, Panicali L, Rucci P, Marchetti A, Giampalma E, Galaverni M, Golfieri R, Stefoni S, Skornyakov I, Kiselev N, Rozhdestvenskaya A, Stolyar A, Ancarani PPA, Devoto E, Dardano GGD, Coskun yavuz Y, Selcuk NY, Guney I, Altintepe L, Gerasimovska V, Gerasimovska-Kitanovska B, Persic V, Buturovic-Ponikvar J, Arnol M, Ponikvar R, Brustia M, De Mauri A, Conti N, Chiarinotti D, De Leo M, Capurro F, David P, Scrivano J, Pettorini L, Giuliani A, Punzo G, Mene P, Pirozzi N, Balci M, Turkvatan A, Mandiroglu S, Afsar B, Mandiroglu F, Kirkpantur A, Kocyigit I, Unal A, Guney A, Mavili E, Deniz K, Sipahioglu M, Eroglu E, Tokgoz B, Oymak O, Gunal A, Boubaker K, Kaaroud H, Kheder A, Ibeas J, Vidal M, Vallespin J, Amengual MJ, Merino J, Orellana R, Sanfeliu I, Rodriguez-Jornet A, Vinuesa X, Marquina D, Xirinachs M, Sanchez E, Moya C, Ramirez J, Rey M, Gimenez A, Garcia M, Strozecki P, Flisinski M, Kapala A, Manitius J, Gerasimovska V, Gerasimovska-Kitanovska BD, Sikole A, Weber E, Adrych D, Wolyniec W, Liberek T, Rutkowski B, Afsar B, Oguchi K, Nakahara T, Okamoto M, Iwabuchi H, Asano M, Rap O, Ruiz-Valverde M, Rodriguez-Murillo JA, Mallafre-Anduig JM, Zeid MM, Deghady AA, Elshair HS, Elkholy NA, Panagoutsos S, Devetzis V, Roumeliotis A, Kantartzi K, Mourvati E, Vargemezis V, Passadakis P, Kang SH, Jung SY, Lee SH, Cho KH, Park JW, Yoon KW, Do JY. Vascular access. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft118] [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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Ponti A, Mano MP, Tomatis M, Baiocchi D, Barca A, Berti R, Bisanti L, Casella D, Deandrea S, Delrio D, Donati G, Falcini F, Frammartino B, Frigerio A, Mantellini P, Naldoni C, Orzalesi L, Pagano G, Pietribiasi F, Ravaioli A, Sedda ML, Taffurelli M, Cataliotti L, Segnan N. [Audit system on quality of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment: results of quality indicators on screen-detected lesions in Italy, 2010]. Epidemiol Prev 2012; 36:87-95. [PMID: 23293273] [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: 06/01/2023]
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This survey, conducted by the Italian breast screening network (GISMa), collects yearly individual data on diagnosis and treatment on about 50% of all screen-detected, operated lesions in Italy. The 2010 results show good overall quality and an improving trend over time. Critical issues were identified, including waiting times and compliance with the recommendations on not performing frozen section examination on small lesions. Preoperative diagnosis improved constantly over the years, but there is still a large variation between regions and programmes. For almost 90% of screen-detected invasive cancers the sentinel lymph node technique (SLN) was performed on the axilla, avoiding a large number of potentially harmful dissections. On the other hand, potential overuse of SLN for ductal carcinoma in situ deserves further investigation. The detailed results have been distributed, also by means of a web data warehouse, to regional and local screening programmes in order to allow multidisciplinary discussion and identification of the appropriate solutions to any issues documented by the data. It should be assigned priority to the problem of waiting times. Specialist Breast Units with adequate case volume and enough resources would provide the best setting for making monitoring effective in producing quality improvements with shorter waiting times.
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- Aged
- Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis
- Breast Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging
- Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology
- Breast Neoplasms/pathology
- Breast Neoplasms/therapy
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/diagnosis
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/diagnostic imaging
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/epidemiology
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/pathology
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/therapy
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/diagnosis
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/diagnostic imaging
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/epidemiology
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/pathology
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/therapy
- Early Detection of Cancer/standards
- Female
- Humans
- Italy/epidemiology
- Mammography
- Mass Screening/standards
- Medical Audit
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Grading
- Neoplasm Staging
- Quality Indicators, Health Care
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
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Sparaco A, Ghezzi M, Donati G, Andriella K, Montebello A, Luraghi C, Romanoni G, Rania V. Surgical dental implants in people living with HIV-AIDS. Retrovirology 2012. [PMCID: PMC3360299 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-9-s1-p85] [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] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Walter* S, Dong J, Alexander S, Hunter T, Yin K, Maclean D, Tomlinson J, Karim F, Johnson R, Stevens K, Patel R, Clancy M, Graham D, Delles C, Jardine A, Behets G, Viaene L, Meijers B, D'haese P, Evenepoel P, Seiler S, Herath E, Flugge F, Weihrauch A, Fliser D, Heine GH, Brandenburg V, Kruger T, Wagstaff R, Floege J, Specht P, Ketteler M, Angelini ML, Angelini ML, Cianciolo G, La Manna G, Cappuccilli ML, Della Bella E, Rum I, Conte D, Cuna V, Dormi A, Todeschini P, Donati G, Costa R, Bagnara GP, Stefoni S. Bone and mineral diseases - 1. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs193] [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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Ponti A, Tomatis M, Baiocchi D, Barca A, Berti R, Bisanti L, Bordon R, Casella D, Cogo C, Deandrea S, Delrio D, Donati G, Falcini F, Frigerio A, Leonardo N, Mancini S, Mantellini P, Naldoni C, Pagano G, Ravaioli A, Pietribiasi F, Sedda ML, Taffurelli M, Zorzi M, Cataliotti L, Segnan N, Mano MP. Audit on quality of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in Italy, 2008-2009. Epidemiol Prev 2011; 35:87-95. [PMID: 22166352] [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: 05/31/2023]
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This survey, conducted by the Italian breast screening network (GISMa), collects individual data yearly on about 50% of all screen-detected, operated lesions in Italy. The 2008-2009 results show good overall quality of diagnosis and treatment and an improving trend over time. Critical issues were identified, including waiting times and compliance with the recommendations on not performing frozen section examination on small lesions. Pre-operative diagnosis reached the acceptable target, but there is a large variation between regions and programmes. For almost 90% of screen-detected invasive cancers the sentinel lymph node technique (SLN) was performed on the axilla, avoiding a large number of potentially harmful dissections. On the other hand, potential overuse of SLN deserves further investigation. The detailed results have been distributed, also by means of a web-based data warehouse, to regional and local screening programmes in order to allow multidisciplinary discussion and identification of the appropriate solutions to any problem documented by the data. Specialist breast units with adequate case volume and enough resources would provide the best setting for making audits effective in producing quality improvements with shorter waiting times.
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Nijman V, Nekaris KAI, Donati G, Bruford M, Fa J. Primate conservation: measuring and mitigating trade in primates. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2011. [DOI: 10.3354/esr00336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Sparaco A, Donati G, Ghezzi M, Ranìa V, Luraghi C, Liverani A, Quattrone G, Alivia M. Clinical patterns in odontoiatric surgery patients: Comparison between antibiotics plus antalgics versus Arnica planta tota D3 plus Silicea compositum. Eur J Integr Med 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eujim.2010.09.088] [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: 11/16/2022]
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Mano MP, Ponti A, Tomatis M, Baiocchi D, Barca A, Berti R, Bordon R, Casella D, Delrio D, Donati G, Falcini F, Frigerio A, Furini A, Mantellini P, Naldoni C, Pagano G, Piccini P, Ravaioli A, Rodella D, Sapino A, Sedda ML, Taffurelli M, Vettorazzi M, Zorzi M, Cataliotti L, Segnan N. Audit system on Quality of breast cancer diagnosis and Treatment (QT): results of quality indicators on screen-detected lesions in Italy, 2007. Epidemiol Prev 2010; 34:81-88. [PMID: 21220839] [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: 05/30/2023]
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This survey, conducted by the Italian Breast Screening Network (GISMa), collects individual data yearly on about 50% of all screen-detected, operated lesions in Italy. The 2007 results show good overall quality of diagnosis and treatment and an improving trend over time. Critical issues were identified concerning waiting times, compliance with the recommendations on not performing frozen section examination on small lesions and on performing specimen X-rays. Preoperative diagnosis reached the acceptable target, but there is a large variation between Regions and programmes. For more than 80%of screen-detected invasive cancers the sentinel lymph node technique (SLN) was performed on the axilla, avoiding a large number of potentially harmful dissections. On the other hand, potential overuse of SLN deserves further investigation. The detailed results have been distributed, also by means of a web data-warehouse, to regional and local screening programmes in order to allow multidisciplinary discussion and identification of the appropriate solutions to any problem documented by the data. Specialist Breast Units with adequate case volume and enough resources would provide the best setting for making audits effective in producing quality improvements with a shorter waiting times.
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Cianciolo G, La Manna G, Donati G, Dormi A, Cappuccilli ML, Cuna V, Legnani C, Palareti G, Coli L, Stefoni S. Effects of unfractioned heparin and low-molecular-weight heparin on osteoprotegerin and RANKL plasma levels in haemodialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010; 26:646-52. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Donati G, Mavrakanas N, Pournaras CJ. [Isovolumic hemodilution in the management of the acute phase of central retinal vein occlusion: a pilot study]. J Fr Ophtalmol 2010; 32:750-6. [PMID: 19944480 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfo.2009.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Accepted: 07/10/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Cases series and randomized studies support the use of isovolumic hemodilution at the acute phase of the central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). However, a recent meta-analysis showed the difficulty of interpreting the long-term effect of isovolumic hemodilution because of the late complications and the concomitant use of other treatments. We present here a pilot case-series study aiming to demonstrate the effect of isovolumic hemodilution at the acute phase of the disease, before any other treatment was applied. PATIENTS AND METHOD Twenty-two consecutive cases of CRVO were prospectively treated with isovolumic hemodilution within 15 days of disease onset (substitution of 10 ml/kg of blood by a macromolecular solution (Voluven), aiming at a hematocrit of 35%). The treatment was performed in ambulatory conditions after excluding common contraindications (cardiac, respiratory and renal insufficiency, angina pectoris, history of heart attack or stroke during the last 6 months). The patients were followed prospectively with respect to visual acuity, fluorescein angiography and visual acuity at one week, one month, three months and twelve months. RESULTS Visual acuity improved of at least one ETDRS line (5 letters) in 59% of the patients one week after the treatment. Improvement in the haemodynamic was observed in all these cases on fluorescein angiography. The vision remained stable at 1 month and 3 months before any other treatment was applied. After the 3rd month, additional intravitreous injection of triamcinolone was applied in 32% of eyes for persistent macular edema. At 12 months after hemodilution, visual acuity improved in 64% of cases and only 5% of the eyes converted into an ischemic CRVO. DISCUSSION Isovolumic hemodilution at the acute phase of the CRVO is followed by an improvement in both vision and angiographic characteristics in more than 60% of our patients and the conversion into an ischemic form was limited to 5% of eyes. Further randomized studies are needed to evaluate the specific effect of hemodilution in the long term.
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- G Donati
- Clinique d'ophtalmologie, Hôpitaux universitaires genevois, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Cianciolo G, Donati G, La Manna G, Ferri A, Cuna V, Ubaldi G, Corsini S, Lanci N, Colì L, Stefoni S. The cardiovascular burden of end-stage renal disease patients. MINERVA UROL NEFROL 2010; 62:51-66. [PMID: 20424570] [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: 05/29/2023]
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Patients with end-stage renal disease are 10 to 20 times more at risk of cardiovascular death than the general population. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors are not able to explain the increase in the onset of cardiovascular diseases in dialysis patients. Some of the most important non traditional risk factors in uremic patients are: the inflammatory state of the patients, cytokines and growth factors, hyperhomocysteinemia, the presence of alterations of the calcium phosphorous product which can already be in progress when the glomerular filtration rate decreases to less than 60 mL/min. Clinically, these alterations cause vascular calcifications, calcifications of the heart valves and calcific uremic arteriolopathy or calciphylaxis. The pathogenesis of vascular calcification is complex and cannot be assigned to a simple, passive process: in fact, it includes factors which promote or inhibit calcification. In turn, these pathologic conditions have been found to be highly predictive of general and cardiovascular death. Given the serious clinical consequences that vascular calcifications can cause, it is necessary to carry out an early mapping of the traditional and non traditional risk factors of uremic patients as it seems that therapeutic interventions aimed at reducing or inverting the calcification process can improve the outcome of patients, above all when they are started quickly.
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- G Cianciolo
- Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation Unit, S. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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Scolari MP, La Manna G, Cianciolo G, Cappuccilli ML, Lanci N, Donati G, Persici E, Cuna V, Feliciangeli G, Liviano D'Arcangelo G, Mosconi G, Stefoni S. [Factors determining cardiovascular disease progression after kidney transplant]. G Ital Nefrol 2009; 26 Suppl 46:30-43. [PMID: 19644816] [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: 05/28/2023]
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in renal transplant recipients as well as the leading cause of death with a functioning graft. The high cardiovascular risk is attributable to the prolonged exposure to multiple traditional and nontraditional risk factors in the pretransplant and posttransplant period. Particular attention must be paid to cardiovascular screening of candidates for kidney transplantation. After a transplant, treatment and prevention strategies should be focused on the modifiable risk factors including smoking, dietary habits, physical activity, weight control, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Further studies on these factors are needed to better define the pharmacological approaches (hypotensive or hypolipemic drugs) and therapeutic targets. In view of the role of immunosuppressive therapy in the onset or worsening of several risk factors, it is important to tailor the treatment approach and dosage to the cardiovascular risk profile of the individual patient.
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- M P Scolari
- U.O. di Nefrologia, Dialisi e Trapianto, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, dell'Invecchiamento e Malattie Nefrologiche, Policlinico S. Orsola, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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