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Internal and Emergency Medicine

Issue 1/2018

Content (22 Articles)

Points of View

ESC position paper on cardiovascular toxicity of cancer treatments: challenges and expectations

Emanuel Raschi, Igor Diemberger, Benilde Cosmi, Fabrizio De Ponti

IM - Editorial

Acute kidney injury and stroke: unresolved issues

Enrico Fiaccadori, Marco Delsante, Filippo Fani, Giuseppe Regolisti

IM - ORIGINAL

Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in patients with stroke: a retrospective analysis from the neurology ICU

Dongxue Wang, Yidan Guo, Yin Zhang, Zhaoxia Li, Ang Li, Yang Luo

IM - ORIGINAL

Lung ultrasound in internal medicine efficiently drives the management of patients with heart failure and speeds up the discharge time

Chiara Mozzini, Marco Di Dio Perna, Giancarlo Pesce, Ulisse Garbin, Anna Maria Fratta Pasini, Andrea Ticinesi, Antonio Nouvenne, Tiziana Meschi, Alder Casadei, Maurizio Soresi, Luciano Cominacini

IM - CASE RECORD

Pulmonary hypertension nosography: are all patients classifiable?

Elena Torricelli, Mariaelena Occhipinti, Federico Lavorini, Chiara Cresci, Chiara Arcangeli, Edoardo Cavigli, Francesca Bigazzi, Massimo Pistolesi

EM - ORIGINAL

Risk factors for bacteremia in urinary tract infections attended in the emergency department

Antonio Lalueza, Leticia Sanz-Trepiana, Noé Bermejo, Beatriz Yaiza, Alejandra Morales-Cartagena, María Espinosa, Rita García-Jiménez, Olga Jiménez-Rodríguez, Beatriz Ponce, David Lora, María Ángeles Orellana, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Santiago Bermejo, José María Aguado

EM - ORIGINAL

SOFA score and left ventricular systolic function as predictors of short-term outcome in patients with sepsis

Francesca Innocenti, Vittorio Palmieri, Aurelia Guzzo, Valerio Teodoro Stefanone, Chiara Donnini, Riccardo Pini

EM - ORIGINAL

Mushroom poisoning: a retrospective study concerning 11-years of admissions in a Swiss Emergency Department

Maxime Schmutz, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Bertrand Yersin, Lionel Trueb

EM - ORIGINAL

Cost effectiveness of pneumococcal urinary antigen in Emergency Department: a pragmatic real-life study

Aurélien Dinh, Clara Duran, Benjamin Davido, Aurore Lagrange, Valérie Sivadon-Tardy, Frédérique Bouchand, Alain Beauchet, Jean-Louis Gaillard, Sébastien Beaune, Jérôme Salomon, Julie Grenet

EM - ORIGINAL

Using continuous quantitative capnography for emergency department procedural sedation: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis

Nicholas Matthew Mohr, Andrew Stoltze, Azeemuddin Ahmed, Elizabeth Kiscaden, Dan Shane

EM - ORIGINAL

Safety of cardioversion in atrial fibrillation lasting less than 48 h without post-procedural anticoagulation in patients at low cardioembolic risk

Andrea Tampieri, Valentina Cipriano, Fabrizio Mucci, Anna Maria Rusconi, Tiziano Lenzi, Patrizia Cenni

CE-Systematic review

Intensive versus standard lowering of blood pressure in the acute phase of intracranial haemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Tiziana Carandini, Viviana Bozzano, Elio Scarpini, Nicola Montano, Monica Solbiati

CE - Clinical Notes

Non-invasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema: how to do it

Tommaso Maraffi, Anna Maria Brambilla, Roberto Cosentini

CE - ORIGINAL

Italian intersociety consensus on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of delirium in hospitalized older persons

Giuseppe Bellelli, Alessandro Morandi, Marco Trabucchi, Guido Caironi, Daniele Coen, Carlo Fraticelli, Ciro Paolillo, Carolina Prevaldi, Angela Riccardi, Gianfranco Cervellin, Corrado Carabellese, Salvatore Putignano, Stefania Maggi, Antonio Cherubini, Paola Gnerre, Andrea Fontanella, Nicola Latronico, Concezione Tommasino, Antonio Corcione, Giovanni Ricevuti, Nicola Ferrara, Francesco De Filippi, Alberto Ferrari, Mario Guarino, Maria Pia Ruggieri, Pietro Amedeo Modesti, Carlo Locatelli, Patrizia Hrelia, Marco Otto Toscano, Emi Bondi, Antonio Tarasconi, Luca Ansaloni, Francesco Perticone

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Pyoderma gangrenosum near a cystostomy catheter

Michael Arthur Santos, Reza Manesh, Tonya Crook

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Xiphodynia: a rare cause of epigastric pain

Walberto Monteiro Neiva Eulálio Filho, Daniel José Martins Barbosa, Edilson Carvalho de Sousa Junior

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Utility of PET scan in diagnosis and monitoring descending necrotizing mediastinitis complicating Lemierre’s syndrome

Tiziana Carandini, Virgilio Longari, Paolo Mendogni, Michele Gaffuri, Elisa Ceriani

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Left hydropneumothorax in a patient with acute epigastric pain: an important clue!

Mercè Grau Pérez, Juan Mariano Aguilar Mulet, Cristina Santiago Poveda

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: an important non-aneurysmal cause of thunderclap headaches and subarachnoid hemorrhage

Mougnyan Cox, Neda Isabel Sedora-Román, Bryan Pukenas, David Kung, Robert Hurst

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

An “aubergine” in the heart: huge native mitral valve endocarditis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae

Salvatore Amico, Luigi Calvo, Salvatore Corrao

CE - LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A plea to respect medical mistakes

Fabrizio Elia, Alberto Milan, Francesco Vitale, Vincenzo Crupi, Luigi Fenoglio

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.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

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 discuss last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.