Issue 2/2022
Content (49 Articles)
Message from the New Editor-in-Chief of Internal and Emergency Medicine
Piero Portincasa
Type 2 myocardial infarction: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in contemporary cardiology
Andrea Carlo Merlo, Roberta Della Bona, Pietro Ameri, Italo Porto
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine safety, immunogenicity, and effectiveness in a hospital setting: confronting the challenge
Janet Sultana, Grazia Caci, Giulia Hyeraci, Luciana Albano, Vincenza Gianfredi
Possible harm from glucocorticoid drugs misuse in the early phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a narrative review of the evidence
Riccardo Sarzani, Francesco Spannella, Federico Giulietti, Chiara Di Pentima, Piero Giordano, Andrea Giacometti
Internal medicine physician embedded in an orthopedic service in a level 1 hospital: clinical impact
Sagi Shashar, Vera Polischuk, Tai Friesem
Diagnostic yield of small bowel capsule endoscopy in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: a real-world prospective study
Samanta Romeo, Benedetto Neri, Michelangela Mossa, Maria Elena Riccioni, Ludovica Scucchi, Giorgia Sena, Saverio Potenza, Carmelina Petruzziello, Livia Biancone
Viral load and disease severity in COVID-19
Rahul Dnyaneshwar Pawar, Lakshman Balaji, Shivani Mehta, Andrew Cole, Xiaowen Liu, Natia Peradze, Anne Victoria Grossestreuer, Mahmoud Salah Issa, Parth Patel, James Edward Kirby, Christopher Francis Rowley, Katherine Margaret Berg, Ari Moskowitz, Michael William Donnino
Impact of body mass index on the outcome of elderly patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Fabio Alfredo Sgura, Salvatore Arrotti, Daniel Monopoli, Anna Chiara Valenti, Marco Vitolo, Paolo Magnavacchi, Stefano Tondi, Davide Gabbieri, Vincenzo Guiducci, Giorgio Benatti, Luigi Vignali, Rosario Rossi, Giuseppe Boriani
Evaluation of medication reconciliation process in internal medicine wards of an academic medical center by a pharmacist: errors and risk factors
Shadi Ziaie, Gholamhossein Mehralian, Zahra Talebi
ALERT-LDL: adherence to guidelines in the treatment of patients with dyslipidemia
Giorgio Bosso, Mariarosaria De Luca, Giovanni Alma, Vincenzo Carbone, Ferdinando Ferrara, Biagio Fimiani, Franco Guarnaccia, Alessandro Iandolo, Sabato Murolo, Maurizio Olivares, Emanuele Romeo, Giosuè Santoro, Antonio Valvano, Giovanni Zito, Ugo Oliviero
Reductions in biomarkers of exposure to selected harmful and potentially harmful constituents following exclusive and partial switching from combustible cigarettes to myblu™ electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)
Paul Morris, Simon McDermott, Fiona Chapman, Thomas Verron, Xavier Cahours, Matthew Stevenson, Joseph Thompson, Nveed Chaudhary, Grant O’Connell
Daily estimates of individual discharge likelihood with deep learning natural language processing in general medicine: a prospective and external validation study
Stephen Bacchi, Toby Gilbert, Samuel Gluck, Joy Cheng, Yiran Tan, Ivana Chim, Jim Jannes, Timothy Kleinig, Simon Koblar
The visceral adiposity index predicts the severity of hyperlipidaemic acute pancreatitis
Weizhi Xia, Huajun Yu, Yingbao Huang, Yunjun Yang, Liuzhi Shi
A novel scoring system to predict therapeutic intervention for non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Nobuhito Ito, Kohei Funasaka, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Naomi Kakushima, Takashi Hirose, Koichi Muroi, Tomohiko Suzuki, Takahiro Suzuki, Emiko Hida, Takuya Ishikawa, Takeshi Yamamura, Eizaburo Ohno, Masanao Nakamura, Hiroki Kawashima, Ryoji Miyahara, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro
Bacterial infections in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Víctor Moreno-Torres, Carmen de Mendoza, Sara de la Fuente, Enrique Sánchez, María Martínez-Urbistondo, Jesús Herráiz, Andrea Gutiérrez, Ángela Gutiérrez, Carlos Hernández, Alejandro Callejas, Carmen Maínez, Ana Royuela, Valentín Cuervas-Mons, A. Fernández-Cruz, E. Múñez, R. Malo de Molina, I. Pintos, A. Díaz de Santiago, A. Ramos, P. Mills, P. Laguna, G. Vázquez, M. Valle, A. Muñoz, B. Cantos, J. Calderón, A Ángel-Moreno, I. Baños, E Montero, M. C. Carreño, Y. Romero, R. Muñoz, P. Durán, S. Mellor-Pita, P. Tutor, M. Aguilar, G. Díaz, C. García, B. Jara, R. Laporta, M. T. Lázaro, C. López, P. Mínguez, A. Trisán, R. Carabias, M. Erro, B. Agudo, J. Aller, R. Benlloch, M. R. Blasco, M. A. Brito, V. Calvo, M. Calvo, J. Campos, R. Cazorla, M. Cea, H. Cembrero, E. Colino, S. Córda, S. Cruz, G. Del Pozo, C. Del Pozo, M. Elosua, M. Espinosa, C. Fernández, C. Ferre, M. García-Espantaleón, E. A. García-Izquierdo, B. Gil, P. Gómez-Porro, S. González, I. González, G. Escalera, A. I. López, A. Losa, M. E. Marín, I. Martínez, M. E. Martínez, C. Maximiano, M. Méndez, S. Mingo, C. Mitroi, B. Núñez, P. Ortega, J. F. Oteo, N. Pérez, L. Prieto, L. Relea, G. Rodríguez, J. Sabín, J. Sáenz, A. Sánchez, A. Sánchez, J. Sanz, J. Segovia, L. Silva, J. Toquero, M. E. Velasco, S. Villaverde, A. Andrés, S. Blanco, I. Diego, I. Donate, G. Escudero, E. Expósito, A. Galán, S. García, J. Gómez, A. Gutiérrez, V. Edith, I Gutiérrez, F. Martínez, A. Mora, I. Morrás, A. Muñoz, A. Valencia, J. M. Vázquez, A. Arias, J. Bilbao, A. M. Duca, M. A. García-Viejo, J. M. Palau, A. Roldán, R. Castejón, M. J. Citores, S. Rosado, J. A. Vargas, P Ussetti
Structured pain-free exercise progressively improves ankle-brachial index and walking ability in patients with claudication and compressible arteries: an observational study
Fabio Manfredini, Luca Traina, Vincenzo Gasbarro, Sofia Straudi, Lorenzo Caruso, Fabio Fabbian, Paolo Zamboni, Roberto Manfredini, Nicola Lamberti
Prevalence of low skeletal muscle quantity and quality and their associated factors in patients before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Shinya Yoshida, Goro Sakurai, Tetsutaro Yahata
Lung cancer and interstitial lung diseases: the lack of prognostic impact of lung cancer in IPF
Loredana Carobene, Donatella Spina, Maria Giulia Disanto, Claudio Micheletto, Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Piero Paladini, Claudia Ghiribelli, Elena Bargagli, Paola Rottoli
Correction to: Lung cancer and interstitial lung diseases: the lack of prognostic impact of lung cancer in IPF
Loredana Carobene, Donatella Spina, Maria Giulia Disanto, Claudio Micheletto, Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Piero Paladini, Claudia Ghiribelli, Elena Bargagli, Paola Rottoli
Association between air pollution and COVID-19 mortality and morbidity
Karolina Semczuk-Kaczmarek, Anna Rys-Czaporowska, Janusz Sierdzinski, Lukasz Dominik Kaczmarek, Filip Marcin Szymanski, Anna Edyta Platek
Long-term safety of rituximab in rheumatic patients with previously resolved hepatitis B virus infection
Michele Barone, Vincenzo Venerito, Rosa Paolillo, Giacomo Emmi, Marco Fornaro, Fabio Cacciapaglia, Luca Cantarini, Alfredo Di Leo, Florenzo Iannone, Giuseppe Lopalco
Response to BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare workers in Italy: a 3-month follow-up
Domenico Ponticelli, Fabiana Madotto, Sara Conti, Ippazio C. Antonazzo, Andrea Vitale, Giovanni Della Ragione, Maria L. Romano, Mario Borrelli, Beniamino Schiavone, Riccardo Polosa, Pietro Ferrara, Lorenzo G. Mantovani
A patient with severe anemia and body weight loss: unveiling what was behind
Alessio Molfino, Emanuele Possente, Giovanni Imbimbo, Antonella Giorgi, Maurizio Muscaritoli
Urgent need of novel biomarkers of acute dyspnea
Bianca Beghé, Enrico Clini, Leonardo M. Fabbri
Elevation of the d-dimer cut-off level might be applicable to rule out pulmonary embolism for active cancer patients in the emergency department
Hyojeong Kwon, Youn-Jung Kim, Eun-Ju Her, Bora Chae, Yoon-Seon Lee
How the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic changed the patterns of healthcare utilization by geriatric patients and the crowding: a call to action for effective solutions to the access block
Gabriele Savioli, Iride Francesca Ceresa, Viola Novelli, Giovanni Ricevuti, Maria Antonietta Bressan, Enrico Oddone
A predictive score at admission for respiratory failure among hospitalized patients with confirmed 2019 Coronavirus Disease: a simple tool for a complex problem
Antonio Lalueza, Jaime Lora-Tamayo, Guillermo Maestro-de la Calle, Dolores Folgueira, Estíbaliz Arrieta, Borja de Miguel-Campo, Raquel Díaz-Simón, David Lora, Cristina de la Calle, Mikel Mancheño-Losa, Álvaro Marchán-López, Ana García-Reyne, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Javier Sayas-Catalán, Antonio Serrano, Cecilia Cueto-Felgueroso, Rafael San Juan, Rocío García-García, Mercedes Catalán, Victoria Villena, José María Aguado, Carlos Lumbreras, José Bascuñana, Ana Colás, Laura Corbella, Carmen Díaz-Pedroche, María Teresa García, Covadonda Gómez-Cuervo, Pilar Hernández-Jiménez, Manuel Lizasoain, Francisco López-Medrano, Elena Medina-García, Asunción Pérez-Jacoiste, Mar Ripoll, María Ruiz Ruigómez, Jose Tiago SilvaSilva, María José Zamorro-Lorenci
l-arginine, asymmetric and symmetric dimethylarginine for early outcome prediction in unselected cardiac arrest victims: a prospective cohort study
Beata Csiszar, Zsolt Marton, Janos Riba, Peter Csecsei, Lajos Nagy, Kalman Toth, Robert Halmosi, Barbara Sandor, Peter Kenyeres, Tihamer Molnar
Exposures and suspected intoxications during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: preliminary results from an Italian poison control centre
Giada Crescioli, Cecilia Lanzi, Francesco Gambassi, Alessandra Ieri, Anita Ercolini, Giulia Borgioli, Alessandra Bettiol, Alfredo Vannacci, Guido Mannaioni, Niccolò Lombardi
Bioactive adrenomedullin a prognostic biomarker in patients with mild to moderate dyspnea at the emergency department: an observational study
Kevin Bronton, Torgny Wessman, Klas Gränsbo, Janin Schulte, Oliver Hartmann, Olle Melander
Characteristics and retention of emergency department patients who left without being seen (LWBS)
Nathan Roby, Hayden Smith, Jonathan Hurdelbrink, Steven Craig, Clint Hawthorne, Samuel DuMontier, Nicholas Kluesner
Associations between biomarkers of multimorbidity burden and mortality risk among patients with acute dyspnea
Torgny Wessman, Rafid Tofik, Thoralph Ruge, Olle Melander
Type II minocycline-induced cutaneous and scleral hyperpigmentation
Zaw Min, Vikram Saini, Charles E. Mount, Nitin Bhanot
Twiddler’s syndrome with abdominal pulsations
Hung-Lin Hsu, Wei-Jing Lee, Yu-Chang Liu
Identifying individual-specific baseline anion gap is of little benefit to acid–base assessment
Masayuki Tanemoto
Interstitial pneumonia associated with autoimmune diseases: a possible mimicker of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia
Maria Rosa Pozzi, Paola Faverio, Valentina Varisco, Gabriele D’Andrea, Angela Concetta Giuffrida, Fabrizio Luppi
Gastrointestinal symptoms at the acute COVID-19 phase are risk factors for developing gastrointestinal post-COVID symptoms: a multicenter study
César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, José Martín-Guerrero, Esperanza Navarro-Pardo, Juan Torres-Macho, Mª Gabriela Canto-Diez, Oscar Pellicer-Valero
Safety of antithrombotic therapy in East Asian patients: comment
Lizzy Maritza Brewster
Oxygen–ozone treatment and COVID-19: antioxidants targeting endothelia lead the scenery
Angelica Varesi, Salvatore Chirumbolo, Giovanni Ricevuti
Monitoring COVID-19 patients in an internal medical ward: chest radiography, chest CT or POCUS?
Nicola Flor, Chiara Cogliati
Cryptococcal meningitis: a review for emergency clinicians—comment
Spinello Antinori, Giacomo Casalini, Andrea Giacomelli
Vaccination as a nativity scene
Antonio Perciaccante, Victor Asensi, Philippe Charlier, Simon T. Donell, Andreas G. Nerlich, Raffaella Bianucci
Surveillance of COVID-19 using a keyword search for symptoms in reports from emergency medical communication centers in Gironde, France: a 15 year retrospective cross-sectional study
Cédric Gil-Jardiné, Gabrielle Chenais, Catherine Pradeau, Eric Tentillier, Phillipe Revel, Xavier Combes, Michel Galinski, Eric Tellier, Emmanuel Lagarde
Correction to: Surveillance of COVID-19 using a keyword search for symptoms in reports from emergency medical communication centers in Gironde, France: a 15 year retrospective cross-sectional study
Cédric Gil-Jardiné, Gabrielle Chenais, Catherine Pradeau, Eric Tentillier, Phillipe Revel, Xavier Combes, Michel Galinski, Eric Tellier, Emmanuel Lagarde
Incidence and factors associated with out-of-hospital peri-intubation cardiac arrest: a secondary analysis of the CURASMUR trial
Cédric Gil-Jardiné, Patricia Jabre, Frederic Adnet, Thomas Nicol, Patrick Ecollan, Bertrand Guihard, Cyril Ferdynus, Valery Bocquet, Xavier Combes
Correction to: Incidence and factors associated with out-of-hospital peri-intubation cardiac arrest: a secondary analysis of the CURASMUR trial
Cédric Gil-Jardiné, Patricia Jabre, Frederic Adnet, Thomas Nicol, Patrick Ecollan, Bertrand Guihard, Cyril Ferdynus, Valery Bocquet, Xavier Combes
Acknowledgements to reviewers 2021
Correction to: Management of patients with cervical spine trauma in the emergency department: a systematic critical appraisal of guidelines with a view to developing standardized strategies for clinical practice
Elisa Gesu, Pietro Bellone, Mattia Bonzi, Giulio Andrea Bertani, Barbara Brignolo Ottolini, Paola Bosco, Giorgio Conte, Matteo Ferrari, Elisa Maria Fiorelli, Hayato Kurihara, Monica Solbiati, Luigi Piero Solimeno, Giorgio Costantino