Issue 4/2018
Content (29 Articles)
Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in Internal Medicine Units: the RAMs issue
Antonella Tufano, Giovanni Di Minno
Hemoptysis in Behçet’s syndrome: from bedside to bench?
Giovanni Maria Rossi, Giacomo Emmi, Augusto Vaglio
Visceral adiposity index (VAI), a powerful predictor of incident hypertension in prehypertensives
Teresa Vanessa Fiorentino
Management of idiopathic recurrent pericarditis in adults and in children: a role for IL-1 receptor antagonism
Antonio Brucato, Giacomo Emmi, Luca Cantarini, Andrea Di Lenarda, Marco Gattorno, Giuseppe Lopalco, Renzo Marcolongo, Massimo Imazio, Alberto Martini, Domenico Prisco
Transcatheter embolotherapy of pulmonary artery aneurysms as emergency treatment of hemoptysis in Behcet patients: experience of a referral center and a review of the literature
Guillaume Voiriot, Antoine Parrot, Martine Antoine, Aude Gibelin, Samuel Haddad, Marie-France Carette, Muriel Fartoukh, Antoine Khalil
Performance status and in-hospital mortality of elderly patients with community acquired pneumonia
Filippo Pieralli, Vieri Vannucchi, Giulia De Marzi, Antonio Mancini, Francesca Bacci, Ombretta Para, Carlo Nozzoli, Marco Falcone
Visceral adiposity index (VAI), a powerful predictor of incident hypertension in prehypertensives
Zhipeng Zhang, Di Shi, Qiang Zhang, Si Wang, Kai Liu, Qingtao Meng, Xiaoping Chen
Changes in hemoglobin profile reflect autologous blood transfusion misuse in sports
Nicola Lamberti, Alessia Finotti, Jessica Gasparello, Ilaria Lampronti, Christel Zambon, Lucia Carmela Cosenza, Enrica Fabbri, Nicoletta Bianchi, Francesca Dalla Corte, Maurizio Govoni, Roberto Reverberi, Roberto Gambari, Fabio Manfredini
Clinical impact of application of risk assessment models (Padua Prediction Score and Improve Bleeding Score) on venous thromboembolism, major hemorrhage and health expenditure associated with pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis: a “real life” prospective and retrospective observational study on patients hospitalized in a Single Internal Medicine Unit (the STIME study)
Luca Depietri, Marco Marietta, Stefania Scarlini, Matteo Marcacci, Elena Corradini, Antonello Pietrangelo, Paolo Ventura
Abdominal infection reveals a rare disease
Clara Benedetta Conti, Mirella Fraquelli, Dario Conte
Clinical mimics: an emergency medicine focused review of pneumonia mimics
Drew Alan Long, Brit Long, Alex Koyfman
Role of out of hours primary care service in limiting inappropriate access to emergency department
Andrea Posocco, Maria Paola Scapinello, Irene De Ronch, Francesco Castrogiovanni, Gianluca Lollo, Guglielmo Sergi, Iginio Tomaselli, Loris Tonon, Marco Solmi, Daniele Pescador, Elena Battistuz, Stefano Traversa, Vincenzo Zambianco, Nicola Veronese
Timing of INR reversal using fresh-frozen plasma in warfarin-associated intracerebral hemorrhage
Murtaza Akhter, Andrea Morotti, Abigail Sara Cohen, Yuchiao Chang, Alison M. Ayres, Kristin Schwab, Anand Viswanathan, Mahmut Edip Gurol, Christopher David Anderson, Steven Mark Greenberg, Jonathan Rosand, Joshua Norkin Goldstein
Diagnostic accuracy of focused cardiac and venous ultrasound examinations in patients with shock and suspected pulmonary embolism
Peiman Nazerian, Giovanni Volpicelli, Chiara Gigli, Alessandro Lamorte, Stefano Grifoni, Simone Vanni
Mechanical restraint in an emergency department: a consecutive series of 593 cases
Nicolas Beysard, Bertrand Yersin, Pierre-Nicolas Carron
Is proton pump inhibitors’ prophylaxis indicated for patients on antiplatelet therapy?
Lorenzo Porta, Francesca Baorda, Alessandra Fusco
Outcomes in syncope research: it is time to standardize
Martin Huth Ruwald, Brian Olshansky
Outcomes in syncope research: a systematic review and critical appraisal
Monica Solbiati, Viviana Bozzano, Franca Barbic, Giovanni Casazza, Franca Dipaola, James V. Quinn, Matthew J. Reed, Robert S. Sheldon, Win-Kuang Shen, Benjamin C. Sun, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Raffaello Furlan, Giorgio Costantino
Prognostic role of neutrophils to lymphocytes ratio in patients with acute pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature
Silvia Galliazzo, Olga Nigro, Lorenza Bertù, Luigina Guasti, Anna Maria Grandi, Walter Ageno, Francesco Dentali
Recurrent pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in an immunocompromised host
Amrit K. Kamboj, Patrick Hoversten, Thomas G. Cotter, Subir Bhatia, Kannan Ramar
Unusual appearance of a cardiac mass
Wern Yew Ding, Mohammed Meah, Richard Hawkins, Paul Mann
Malignant Mönckeberg medial calcific sclerosis
Isabella Pisani, Alessandro De Troia, Landino Allegri, Domenico Corradi, Augusto Vaglio
Spontaneous rupture of urinary bladder diverticulum with pseudo-acute renal failure
Chih-Wei Sung, Chin-Chen Chang, Shey-Ying Chen, Wen-Pin Tseng
Hiding behind the veil: an ominous chest X-ray
Armen Attarian, Paul Benvenuto
Trying to prolong life no matter what, or to dignify it till the end: the dilemma of modern medicine—comment
Bartolomeo Lorenzati, Fabrizio Motta, Attilio Allione, Pietro La Ciura, Giuseppe Lauria
Trying to prolong life no matter what, or to dignify it till the end: the dilemma of modern medicine: reply
Paolo Cotogni, Anna De Luca, Andrea Saini, Luca Brazzi
Attempted suicide as a trigger of Takotsubo syndrome: a minireview of available case reports
Roberto Manfredini, Fabio Fabbian, Rosaria Cappadona, Beatrice Zucchi, Pablo Jesus Lopez-Soto, Maria Aurora Rodriguez-Borrego
ESC position paper on cardiovascular toxicity of cancer treatments: challenges and expectations—comment
Leonardo Campiotti, Matteo Basilio Sutter, Elena Bolzacchini, Alessandro Squizzato
ESC position paper on cardiovascular toxicity of cancer treatments: challenges and expectations—authors’ reply
Emanuel Raschi, Igor Diemberger, Benilde Cosmi, Fabrizio De Ponti