Issue 2/2020
Content (32 Articles)
WhatsApp and other messaging apps in medicine: opportunities and risks
Marco Masoni, Maria Renza Guelfi
Female sex and stroke in atrial fibrillation: an intriguing relationship
Giuseppe Boriani, Jacopo Colella, Jacopo Imberti, Elisa Fantecchi, Marco Vitolo
Cost-effectiveness analysis of different hypertension management strategies
Arrigo F. G. Cicero, Federica Fogacci, Claudio Borghi
Internists feel the rhythm
Federico Biscetti, Maria Anna Nicolazzi, Andrea Flex, Raffaele Landolfi
Hyperchloremia and acute kidney injury: a spurious association or a worrisome reality?
Giuseppe Regolisti, Umberto Maggiore, Giovanni Maria Rossi, Aderville Cabassi, Enrico Fiaccadori
The dangerous consequences of orthostatic hypotension
Claudio Ferri, Giovambattista Desideri
Management of peripheral arterial disease in the modern era: an internist “Cup of Tea”
Marco Proietti
Intravitreal anti-VEGF agents and cardiovascular risk
Massimo Porta, Elio Striglia
Stigmatisation and resilience in inflammatory bowel disease
Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Sara Cococcia, Jihane Ghorayeb, Antonio Di Sabatino, Christian P. Selinger
Defective spleen function in autoimmune gastrointestinal disorders
Paolo Giuffrida, Nicola Aronico, Matteo Rosselli, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Sara Cococcia, Davide Roccarina, Francesca Saffioti, Mariangela Delliponti, Douglas Thorburn, Emanuela Miceli, Gino Roberto Corazza, Massimo Pinzani, Antonio Di Sabatino
Sex-related differences in prevalence, treatment and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation
Irene Marzona, Marco Proietti, Tommaso Vannini, Mauro Tettamanti, Alessandro Nobili, Massimo Medaglia, Angela Bortolotti, Luca Merlino, Maria Carla Roncaglioni
Cost-effectiveness analysis of different hypertension management strategies in a community setting
Xin Zhang, Hang Liao, Di Shi, Xinran Li, Xiaoping Chen, Sen He
Risk factors and outcomes of new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients hospitalized in an internal medicine ward: a case–control study
Ombretta Para, Lorenzo Caruso, Lorenzo Corbo, Francesca Bacci, Niccolò Pasqui, Filippo Pieralli, Tiziana Ciarambino, Carlo Nozzoli
Procalcitonin in hemodialysis patients presenting with fever or chills to the emergency department
R. Schneider, M. J. Cohen, S. Benenson, O. Duchin, Y. S. Haviv, M. Elhalel-Darnitski, P. D. Levin
Direct-acting antivirals improve endothelial function in patients with chronic hepatitis: a prospective cohort study
Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno, Pasquale Ambrosino, Antonio Riccardo Buonomo, Biagio Pinchera, Ilenia Calcaterra, Manuel Crispo, Riccardo Scotto, Francesco Borgia, Consalvo Mattia, Ivan Gentile
Hyperchloremia and acute kidney injury: a retrospective observational cohort study on a general mixed medical-surgical not ICU-hospitalized population
Gianmarco Lombardi, Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Matteo Bargagli, Alessandro Naticchia, Silvia D’Alonzo, Giovanni Gambaro
Orthostatic hypotension among elderly patients in Italian internal medicine wards: an observational study
Luca Pasina, Monica Casati, Laura Cortesi, Mauro Tettamanti, Ramona Pellegrini, Ivan Oppedisano, Natale Dugnani, Androula Marinou, Gian Galeazzo Riario Sforza, Antonio Brucato
Changes in exercise capacity and risk of all-cause mortality in patients with peripheral artery disease: a 10-year retrospective cohort study
Nicola Lamberti, Pablo Jesùs López-Soto, Franco Guerzoni, Nicola Napoli, Vincenzo Gasbarro, Paolo Zamboni, Elpiniki Tsolaki, Maria Cristina Taddia, Maria Aurora Rodríguez-Borrego, Roberto Manfredini, Nino Basaglia, Fabio Manfredini
Ascites, abdominal pain, and acute renal failure in a middle-aged woman
Giorgio Colombo, Ludovico Furlan, Francesco Mucci, Stefania Zannoni, Maria Carmela Andrisani, Monica Solbiati
Two different techniques of ultrasound-guided peripheral venous catheter placement versus the traditional approach in the pre-hospital emergency setting: a randomized study
Roman Skulec, Jitka Callerova, Petr Vojtisek, Vladimir Cerny
Thirty-day mortality in atrial fibrillation patients with gastrointestinal bleeding in the emergency department: differences between direct oral anticoagulant and warfarin users
Gianni Turcato, Antonio Bonora, Elisabetta Zorzi, Arian Zaboli, Massimo Zannoni, Giorgio Ricci, Norbert Pfeifer, Antonio Maccagnani, Andrea Tenci
Risk stratification of patients with chest pain or anginal equivalents in the emergency department
Yo Sep Shin, Shin Ahn, Youn-Jung Kim, Seung Mok Ryoo, Chang Hwan Sohn, Won Young Kim
Acute kidney injury and vancomycin/piperacillin/tazobactam in adult patients: a systematic review
Tiziana Ciarambino, Orazio Valerio Giannico, Amalia Campanile, Paolo Tirelli, Ombretta Para, Giuseppe Signoriello, Mauro Giordano
Hydroxyapatite deposition disease: a common disease in an uncommon location
Paul Benvenuto, Stéphanie Locas
An unusual cause of intestinal obstruction: phlebosclerotic colitis
Yu-Chang Liu, Wei-Jing Lee
Liver alterations in anorexia nervosa are not caused by insulin resistance
Alice Fanin, Lucia Miele, Emanuela Bertolini, Alessia Giorgini, Antonio Ettore Pontiroli, Alberto Benetti
High-dose lormetazepam dependence: strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—comment
Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Marco Sforza, Andrea Galbiati
High-dose lormetazepam dependence: strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—reply
Stefano Tamburin, Fabio Lugoboni
Handling shock in idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome (Clarkson’s disease): less is more—comment
Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Alexis Mathian, Alain Combes, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Zahir Amoura
Handling shock in idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome (Clarkson's disease) less is more: reply
Maddalena Alessandra Wu, Riccardo Colombo, Gian Marco Podda, Marco Cicardi
An old, dear friend has left us: Peter Rosen (1935–2019)
Domenico Prisco