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Internal and Emergency Medicine

Issue 4/2015

Content (22 Articles)

IM - REVIEW

Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a clinical review

Fabrizio Luppi, Stefania Cerri, Sofia Taddei, Giovanni Ferrara, Vincent Cottin

IM - REVIEW

Fathoming the kynurenine pathway in migraine: why understanding the enzymatic cascades is still critically important

Martina Curto, Luana Lionetto, Francesco Fazio, Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas, Paolo Martelletti

IM - ORIGINAL

The perception of health-related quality of life in colon cancer patients during chemotherapy: differences between men and women

Federica Domati, Gabriele Luppi, Luca Reggiani-Bonetti, Sandra Zironi, Roberta Depenni, Annalisa Fontana, Fabio Gelsomino, Maurizio Ponz de Leon

IM - ORIGINAL

Mortality at 30 and 90 days in elderly patients with pulmonary embolism: a retrospective cohort study

Hernan Polo Friz, Mauro Molteni, Davide Del Sorbo, Lorenzo Pasciuti, Matteo Crippa, Giulia Villa, Dario Francesco Meloni, Laura Primitz, Andrea Galli, Magda Rognoni, Luca Cavalieri d’Oro, Guido Arpaia, Claudio Cimminiello

IM - ORIGINAL

FGF-23 levels in patients with critical carotid artery stenosis

Flavia Del Porto, Maria Proietta, Cira di Gioia, Noemi Cifani, Raffaele Dito, Cristiano Fantozzi, Livia Ferri, Lucrezia Fabriani, Michele Rossi, Luigi Tritapepe, Maurizio Taurino

IM - ORIGINAL

Advanced therapies in patients with congenital heart disease-related pulmonary arterial hypertension: results from a long-term, single center, real-world follow-up

Silvia Favilli, Gaia Spaziani, Piercarlo Ballo, Veronica Fibbi, Gennaro Santoro, Enrico Chiappa, Chiara Arcangeli

IM - ORIGINAL

Role of blood cells dynamism on hemostatic complications in low-risk patients with essential thrombocythemia

Andrea Piccin, Michael Steurer, Manfred Mitterer, Elisabeth Maria Blöchl, Luigi Marcheselli, Irene Pusceddu, Alessandra Marabese, Irene Bertozzi, Daisy Corvetta, Maria Luigia Randi, Elena Elli, Enrico Maria Pogliani, Dino Veneri, Omar Perbellini, Mauro Krampera, Enrica Pacquola, Michele Gottardi, Mario Tiribelli, Anna Guella, Barbara Innella, Paolo Vivaldi, Ercole De Biasi, Rosaria Sancetta, Roberta Rocconi, Renato Bassan, Filippo Gherlinzoni, Giovanni Pizzolo, Günther Gastl, Sergio Cortelazzo

IM - CASE RECORD

Severe non-traumatic bleeding, the answer is not in the blood

Marco Tana, Claudio Tana, Paolo Amerio, Gianfranco Vitullo, Paolo di Giosia, Concetta di Febbo, Giovanni Davì

EM - ORIGINAL

Mental disorders and HIV infection in the emergency department: epidemiology and gender differences

Giada Melis, Giorgio Pia, Ilenia Piras, Massimo Tusconi

EM - ORIGINAL

A retrospective cohort study examining the association between body mass index and mortality in severe sepsis

Timothy Glen Gaulton, C. Marshall MacNabb, Mark Evin Mikkelsen, Anish Kumar Agarwal, S. Cham Sante, Chirag Vinay Shah, David Foster Gaieski

EM - ORIGINAL

Use of a risk nomogram to predict emergency department reattendance in older people after discharge: a validation study

Glenn Arendts, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Roslyn Jones, Kate Bullow, Ellen MacDonald, Sandra Dumas, Daniel Parker, Marani Hutton, Sally Burrows, Simon G. A. Brown, Osvaldo P. Almeida

CE - COMMENTARY

Venous thromboembolism in patients with liver diseases

Valerio De Stefano, Elena Rossi

CE-ORIGINAL

Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in patients with pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

Francesco Dentali, Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno, Monica Gianni, Pasquale Ambrosino, Alessandro Squizzato, Walter Ageno

THE CUTTING EDGE: RESEARCH UPDATE

Ultrasonography versus computed tomography for suspected nephrolithiasis

Giulia Colombo, Monica Solbiati

CE - COCHRANE'S CORNER

Use of administrative data in healthcare research

Cristina Mazzali, Piergiorgio Duca

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Calciphylaxis presenting as digital ischemia

Noora Kazanji, John Falatko, Saroj Neupane, Gampala Reddy

CE - MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Hepatic vein thrombosis associated with segmental hypo-attenuation in the liver: an unusual complication of a haemodialysis catheter

Alexandra Lapeyre-Prost, Olivier Clément, Emad Lotfalizadeh, Véronique Boussaud, Jean-Luc Diehl

CE - LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Laboratory tests during direct oral anticoagulant treatment? Authors’ reply

Giovanni Di Minno, Elena Ricciardi, Antonella Scalera

CE - LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: an unusual case of dyspnea

Alessia Fabbri, Elisa Grifoni, Gabriele Ciuti, Federico Perfetto, Alberto Moggi Pignone

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