Author Correction: Toxic alcohol diagnosis and management: an emergency medicine review.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Current guidelines for evaluation of syncope recommend that in the absence of objective focal neurologic findings, head computed tomography (HCT) may not be necessary. Compliance with this recommendation is highly variable, which may be due in part to the lack of currently available evidence. We undertook the...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Goyal N,Donnino MW,Vachhani R,Bajwa R,Ahmad T,Otero R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective is to describe the characteristics of mechanically restrained patients in the emergency department (ED) of a university hospital and to evaluate the quality of restraint documentation that was filled out according to the dedicated protocol with respect to the law on restraint. All adult patients (≥16 yea...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Beysard N,Yersin B,Carron PN

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct thrombin inhibitors (DTIs) are a class of anticoagulants that bind selectively to thrombin and block its interaction with its substrates. Dabigatran etexilate and AZD0837, the new generation of DTIs, are now under intense development, and are potentially of great interest for internists. Dabigatran etexilate is...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Squizzato A,Dentali F,Steidl L,Ageno W

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high incidence of isolated left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) has been reported in previous studies on smaller cohorts of patients with thalassemia by cardiac MRI but the clinical impact of the finding is unknown. This prospective cohort study evaluates the prevalence and clinical implication of the finding. Pro...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Bonamini R,Imazio M,Faletti R,Gatti M,Xhyheri B,Limone M,Longo F,Piga A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The reasons for the high prevalence of CVD in ethnic minority groups are not fully understood. Recently, the importance of early-life developmental factors and their impact on CVDs in adulthood is increasingly being recognised, b...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Bijker R,Agyemang C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this systematic review was to assess AKI (acute kidney injury) in adult patients, treated with vancomycin (V) + piperacillin/tazobactam (PT) compared to V monotherapy. Studies were found in Pubmed, Web of Science and Scopus databases. Articles not in English, pediatric studies and case reports were excluded...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Ciarambino T,Giannico OV,Campanile A,Tirelli P,Para O,Signoriello G,Giordano M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, between 1990 and 2017, Italy experienced a more attenuate reduction in cardiovascular deaths than Western Europe. When considering risk factors, our Country experienced a reduction in the prevalence of hypertension in the last few decades, especially in women. On t...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Modesti PA,Jarraya F,Mascherini G,Perticone F

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of polycythemia vera in young adults is challenging, requiring one to run a balance between the increased risk of vascular complications, if left untreated, versus the potential of promoting secondary leukemia/myelodysplasia or cancer, if actively managed with chemotherapy. We report the results of a 20-...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Ruggeri M,Finotto S,Fortuna S,Rodeghiero F

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial therapy has been the main stay of therapy of community-acquired aspiration pneumonia (CAAP), but the duration of treatment has not been established. The objective of this study was to describe the time to reach clinical stability in patients with aspiration pneumonia compared to community-acquired pneumo...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Jaoude P,Badlam J,Anandam A,El-Solh AA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, thanks to the development of miniaturized ultrasound devices, comparable to personal computers, tablets and even to smart phones, we have seen an increasing use of bedside ultrasound in internal medicine departments as a novel kind of ultrasound stethoscope. The clinical ultrasound-assisted approach h...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Arienti V,Di Giulio R,Cogliati C,Accogli E,Aluigi L,Corazza GR,Ultrasound SIMI Study Group.

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a pivotal role in all stages of atherosclerosis from endothelial dysfunction and plaque formation to plaque destabilization and disruption. Inflammatory biomarkers, originally studied to better understand the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, have generated increasing interest among clinicians, be...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Biasillo G,Leo M,Della Bona R,Biasucci LM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Postprandial lipemia is generally studied after a test meal that provides most of the calories as fat and that does not reflect the common food intake. We investigated postprandial changes in serum triglycerides (TG) and in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) concentration and composition after a regular meal poor...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Branchi A,Torri A,Berra C,Colombo E,Sommariva D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (cHP) is a fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD) resulting from inhalation of different organic substances and chemical compounds determining an inflammatory and immunological response in sensitized individuals. KL-6, a human mucin protein expressed by type 2 pneumocytes, has be...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Lanzarone N,Gentili F,Alonzi V,Bergantini L,d'Alessandro M,Rottoli P,Refini RM,Pieroni M,Vietri L,Bianchi F,Mazzei MA,Volterrani L,Perrone A,Cameli P,Bargagli E,Sestini P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ulcerative colitis, one of the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease, is characterized by inflammation of the large bowel with constant involvement of the rectum, and a possible continuous retrograde distribution up to the cecum. Typical macroscopic lesions are mucosal ulcerations, with immune cell infiltration...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Di Sabatino A,Biancheri P,Rovedatti L,Macdonald TT,Corazza GR

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predisposition, infection/insult, response, and organ dysfunction (PIRO) staging system for septic patients allows grouping of heterogeneous patients into homogeneous subgroups. The purposes of this single-center, prospective, observational cohort study were to create a PIRO system for patients with community-acqu...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Chen YX,Li CS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiota is known to have a relevant role in our health, and is also related to both gastrointestinal and extradigestive diseases. Therefore, restoring the alteration of gut microbiota represents an outstanding clinical target for the treatment of gut microbiota-related diseases. The modulation of gut microbiota...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Cammarota G,Ianiro G,Bibbò S,Gasbarrini A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although ketamine has been used for procedural sedation and analgesia, some researchers have assessed ketamine-propofol as a better alternative because of its reduced adverse events. The goal of this review was to compare adverse events between ketamine-propofol and ketamine for procedural sedation and analgesia in ch...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Hu Y,Xu W,Cao F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In heart failure survival is closely related to functional capacity. Peak O2 consumption at cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) is considered the gold standard for the evaluation of exercise tolerance. Since >70% of patients with heart failure, usually elderly or with significant comorbidities, are referred to Depart...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Rostagno C,Gensini GF

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease and cancer incidence and prevalence have risen over the past few decades to become the leading causes of death. On the one hand, cancer patients will be treated with cardiotoxic chemotherapies; on the other, cardiovascular patients will receive a new diagnosis of cancer and will have to face tre...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Prisco D,D'Elios MM,Cenci C,Ciucciarelli L,Tamburini C

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly patients are under-represented in trials assessing strategies of early coronary revascularization in acute myocardial infarction, though they are the fastest growing segment of our population. The aims of the present investigation, performed in 357 elderly (≥75 years) patients with ST elevation myocardial infa...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Lazzeri C,Valente S,Chiostri M,Picariello C,Gensini GF

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2016, biosimilar enoxaparin (Inhixa®, Techdow) was introduced in European markets with the same indications as branded enoxaparin (Clexane®, Sanofi). Its use is constantly increasing in clinical practice, however, little information from post-marketing clinical trials is available on its safety and effectiveness. W...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Fantoni C,Bertù L,Faioni EM,Froiio C,Mariani N,Ageno W

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective measurement of simulation performance requires a validated and reliable tool. However, no published Italian language assessment tool is available. Translation of a published English language tool, the Ottawa Crisis Resource Management Global Rating Scale (GRS), may lead to a validated and reliable tool. Afte...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Franc JM,Verde M,Gallardo AR,Carenzo L,Ingrassia PL

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical therapy in patients with more than one pathology means using more pharmaceuticals, which results in a higher risk of drug interactions which are modifications in the action of one drug when it is administered in the presence of another. The consequences can be diminished therapeutic effect or increased adverse...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Mazzei T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to evaluate potential drug-drug interactions (pDDIs) and risk factors for pDDIs in three phases of an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) treatment: from the point of first medical contact to the coronary angiography (first phase), after coronary angiography to the last day of hospitalization ...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Pejčić AV,Janković SM,Davidović G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the study were to investigate the relationship between religion and hypertension, as well as the theoretical mechanism through which religion exerts effect on hypertension. A MEDLINE literature search was performed on articles describing religion and hypertension (N = 543) excluding unqualified ones ...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Meng Q,Zhang X,Shi R,Liao H,Chen X

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers may possess antioxidant properties, and might improve micro and macrovascular structure and function. Combination treatment with an ACE inhibitor may have additional advantages, compared with a thiazide diuretic. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a s...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： De Ciuceis C,Salvetti M,Paini A,Rossini C,Muiesan ML,Duse S,Caletti S,Coschignano MA,Semeraro F,Trapletti V,Bertacchini F,Brami V,Petelca A,Agabiti Rosei E,Rizzoni D,Agabiti Rosei C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The current therapeutic options for patients at high thromboembolic risk include the vitamin K antagonists and the direct oral anticoagulants. These novel agents have been evaluated in more than 40,000 patient...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Riva N,Ageno W

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right ventricular (RV) function impacts the outcome in cardiac and pulmonary diseases such as heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, myocardial infarction, valvular, and congenital heart diseases. To our knowledge, simultaneous evaluation of left ventricular (LV) and RV systolic and diastolic echocardiographic indices...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Giovanardi P,Tincani E,Rossi R,Agnoletto V,Bondi M,Modena MG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Oral anticoagulants (OAs) are significantly more effective than Aspirin in the prevention of cerebrovascular accidents among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Several studies, however, showed OAs to be widely underused in these patients. OBJECTIVE:To assess the appropriateness of antithrombotic ther...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Ferro D,Loffredo L,Polimeni L,Violi F

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryoablation (CA) emerged as an alternative procedure to radiofrequency (RF). The aim of this study was to compare haemostatic system alterations in patients undergoing RF or CA for atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia ablation. von Willebrand factor (vWF), spontaneous whole blood platelet aggregation, prothro...

journal_title：Internal and emergency medicine

authors： Pieragnoli P,Gori AM,Ricciardi G,Carrassa G,Checchi L,Michelucci A,Priora R,Cellai AP,Marcucci R,Padeletti L,Abbate R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00