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Internal and Emergency Medicine

Issue 3/2017

Content (23 Articles)

IM - COMMENTARY

FIT and M2-PK: a marriage of convenience!

Cesare Hassan, Alessandro Repici, Sameer Alawadhi, Carlo Senore

IM - COMMENTARY

Is there any role for thoracic ultrasound for interstitial lung disease underlying rheumatologic conditions?

Domenico Sambataro, Gianluca Sambataro, Ylenia Dal Bosco, Davide Campagna, Riccardo Polosa

IM - REVIEW

Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and its overlap with IgG4-related disease

Giovanni Maria Rossi, Rossana Rocco, Eugenia Accorsi Buttini, Chiara Marvisi, Augusto Vaglio

IM - ORIGINAL

Potential drug interactions with dietary and herbal supplements during hospitalization

Ilana Levy, Samuel Attias, Eran Ben-Arye, Lee Goldstein, Elad Schiff

IM - ORIGINAL

Hospital length-of-stay and costs among pulmonary embolism patients treated with rivaroxaban versus parenteral bridging to warfarin

Erin R. Weeda, Philip S. Wells, W. Frank Peacock, Gregory J. Fermann, Christopher W. Baugh, Veronica Ashton, Concetta Crivera, Peter Wildgoose, Jeff R. Schein, Craig I. Coleman

IM - ORIGINAL

Utility of FVC/DLCO ratio to stratify the risk of mortality in unselected subjects with pulmonary hypertension

Lacedonia Donato, Carpagnano Giovanna Elisiana, Galgano Giuseppe, Schino Pietro, Correale Michele, Natale Daniele Brunetti, Ventura Valentina, Di Biase Matteo, Foschino Barbaro Maria Pia

IM - ORIGINAL

Assessment of interstitial lung disease in Sjögren’s syndrome by lung ultrasound: a pilot study of correlation with high-resolution chest tomography

Pablo Guisado Vasco, Gonzalo de Luna Cardenal, Isabel Martín Garrido, José Manuel Luque Pinilla, Guadalupe Fraile Rodríguez, Juan José Nava Mateo, Daniel Carnevalli Ruiz

IM - ORIGINAL

Power of screening tests for colorectal cancer enhanced by high levels of M2-PK in addition to FOBT

Cristina Zaccaro, Ilaria Maria Saracino, Giulia Fiorini, Natale Figura, John Holton, Valentina Castelli, Valeria Pesci, Luigi Gatta, Dino Vaira

IM - CASE RECORD

A painful diagnosis

Paolo Fraticelli, Marco Cardinali, Lorenzo Biondi, Devis Benfaremo, Massimo Mattioli, Roberta Mazzucchelli, Rodolfo Montironi, Armando Gabrielli

EM - ORIGINAL

Clinically significant hemodynamic alterations after propacetamol injection in the emergency department: prevalence and risk factors

June-il Bae, Shin Ahn, Yoon-Seon Lee, Won Young Kim, Jae Ho Lee, Bum Jin Oh, Kyung Soo Lim

EM - ORIGINAL

The HEART score with high-sensitive troponin T at presentation: ruling out patients with chest pain in the emergency room

Luca Santi, Gabriele Farina, Annagiulia Gramenzi, Franco Trevisani, Margherita Baccini, Mauro Bernardi, Mario Cavazza

EM - ORIGINAL

“You can also save a life!”: children’s drawings as a non-verbal assessment of the impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training

Antoniu Octavian Petriş, Gabriel Tatu-Chiţoiu, Diana Cimpoeşu, Daniela Florentina Ionescu, Călin Pop, Nadia Oprea, Diana Ţînţ

EM - ORIGINAL

Accuracy of point of care ultrasound to identify the source of infection in septic patients: a prospective study

Francesca Cortellaro, Laura Ferrari, Francesco Molteni, Paolo Aseni, Marta Velati, Linda Guarnieri, Katia Barbara Cazzola, Silvia Colombo, Daniele Coen

THE CUTTING EDGE: RESEARCH UPDATE

Intensive lowering of blood pressure in the acute phase of intracranial haemorrhage

Viviana Bozzano, Tiziana Carandini

CE - Clinical Notes

Ultrasound-guided forearm nerve blocks in managing hand and finger injuries

Rebecca Milligan, Stephen Houmes, Lisa C. Goldberg, Arun Nagdev, Richard Amini

CE - ORIGINAL

Italian intersociety consensus on DOAC use in internal medicine

Domenico Prisco, Walter Ageno, Cecilia Becattini, Armando D’Angelo, Giovanni Davì, Raimondo De Cristofaro, Francesco Dentali, Giovanni Di Minno, Anna Falanga, Gualberto Gussoni, Luca Masotti, Gualtiero Palareti, Pasquale Pignatelli, Roberto M. Santi, Francesca Santilli, Mauro Silingardi, Antonella Tufano, Francesco Violi

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Early detection of recent onset achalasia from a chest radiograph

Deng-Wei Chou, Ming-Ho Wu

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Dupuytren’s contracture… or is it?

Arjun Gupta, Nivedita Arora, Samar Harris, Harris V. Naina

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Double sellar floor sign: a clue of pituitary tumor

Yu-Chieh Yang, Chih-Chien Sung

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Ultrasound to evaluate effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Meghan B. Spyres, Eleanor Oakley, Kimberlie A. Graeme

CE - LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We have to “think” before prescribing an opioid in Italian Emergency Department?

Bartolomeo Lorenzati, Attilio Allione, Elisa Pizzolato, Luca Dutto, Giuseppe Lauria

CE - LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Noninvasive ventilation in the emergency department: insights on implementation bias and evidence

Mohamad Farouk El-Khatib, Antonio Matias Esquinas, Salah Mahmoud Zeinelddine, Chakib Maurice Ayoub, Pierre Khalil Bou-Khalil

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Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

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Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.