Published in European journal of internal medicine
Cough is a common respiratory symptom that is considered to be chronic when it lasts more than eight weeks. When severe, chronic cough may significantly impact an individual's quality of life, and such patients are frequently referred for specialist evaluation. Current international guidelines provide algorithms for the management of chronic cough:...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) has been described as a frequent and prognostically relevant complication of COVID-19 infection. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the in-hospital incidence of acute PE among COVID-19 patients based on studies published within four months of COVID-19 outbreak. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (P...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
The first two randomized control trials (RCTs) studying the role of MitraClip in patients with secondary mitral regurgitation (MR) had antagonizing results. We, therefore, performed an updated meta-analysis of RCTs and propensity score-matched observational studies investigating the role of MitraClips in patients with secondary MR. A novel method o...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
the association between renal function and delirium has not been investigated in older fracture patients. Creatinine is frequently low in these subjects, which may influence the association between delirium and renal function as estimated with creatinine-based formulas. Cystatin C could be a more reliable filtration marker in these patients. to con...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Published in European journal of internal medicine
The focus of this review was to elicit the mechanistic logic of the experimental and clinical study designs of natriuretic peptides (NP) in acute kidney injury (AKI) and to understand their respective outcomes. Online search of PubMed and manual review of articles. Randomized trials, observational and physiologic studies of NPs and AKI were extract...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Periodontitis has been associated with coronary artery disease, but the impact of a periodontal treatment on the endothelial function of patients with a recent ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) was not investigated. Randomized controlled trial (NCT02543502). Patients admitted between August 2012 and January 2015 were included. Pati...
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Published in European journal of internal medicine
Hypertensive emergencies (HE) and urgencies (HU) are frequent causes of patients referral to Emergency Department (ED) and the approach may be different according to local clinical practice. Our aim was to explore awareness, management, treatment and counselling after discharge of HE and HU in Italy, by mean of an on-line survey. The young investig...
