Issue 6/2018
Content (30 Articles)
When in Rome, don’t do as the Romans do
Benedetta Tosi, Martina Rosselli, Gabriele Mascherini, Pietro Amedeo Modesti
Weight-loss supplementation and acute liver failure: the case of Garcinia Cambogia
Anna Licata, Maria Giovanna Minissale
Recurrent pericarditis: still idiopathic? The pros and cons of a well-honoured term
Antonio Brucato, Massimo Imazio, Paul C. Cremer, Yehuda Adler, Bernhard Maisch, George Lazaros, Marco Gattorno, Alida L. P. Caforio, Renzo Marcolongo, Giacomo Emmi, Alberto Martini, Allan L. Klein
Ideal cardiovascular health among Ghanaian populations in three European countries and rural and urban Ghana: the RODAM study
Benjamin van Nieuwenhuizen, Mohammad Hadi Zafarmand, Erik Beune, Karlijn Meeks, Ama de-Graft Aikins, Juliet Addo, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Frank P. Mockenhaupt, Silver Bahendeka, Matthias B. Schulze, Ina Danquah, Joachim Spranger, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Lambert Tetteh Appiah, Liam Smeeth, Karien Stronks, Charles Agyemang
Acute liver injury following Garcinia cambogia weight-loss supplementation: case series and literature review
Giada Crescioli, Niccolò Lombardi, Alessandra Bettiol, Ettore Marconi, Filippo Risaliti, Michele Bertoni, Francesca Menniti Ippolito, Valentina Maggini, Eugenia Gallo, Fabio Firenzuoli, Alfredo Vannacci
Epigallocatechin-3-gallate tolerability and impact on survival in a cohort of patients with transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis. A single-center retrospective study
Francesco Cappelli, Raffaele Martone, Giulia Taborchi, Sofia Morini, Simone Bartolini, Paola Angelotti, Silvia Farsetti, Carlo Di Mario, Federico Perfetto
Incidence, features, in-hospital outcomes and predictors of in-hospital mortality associated with toxic megacolon hospitalizations in the United States
Rajkumar Doshi, Jiten Desai, Yash Shah, Dean Decter, Shreyans Doshi
A mysterious abdominal pain during active psoriasis
Valentina Della Valle, Marco Maggioni, Carlo Carrera, Angelo Cattaneo, Angelo Valerio Marzano, Giovanni Damiani
Non-urgent use of emergency departments: populations most likely to overestimate illness severity
Hans Andrews, Lawrence Kass
Lactate determination in pleural and abdominal effusions: a quick diagnostic marker of exudate—a pilot study
Giovanni Porta, Fabio G. Numis, Valerio Rosato, Antonio Pagano, Mario Masarone, Giorgio Bosso, Claudia Serra, Luca Rinaldi, Maria C. Fascione, Annalisa Amelia, Fiorella Paladino, Fernando Schiraldi
Emergency department visits among patients with left ventricular assist devices
Christopher R. Tainter, Oscar Ö. Braun, Felipe Teran, Albert P. Nguyen, Kimberly Robbins, Edward O. O’Brien, Zeb M. McMillan, Ulrich Schmidt, Angela Meier, Mat Goebel, Victor Pretorius, Michela Brambatti, Eric D. Adler, Raghu Seethala
Screening and detection of delirium in older ED patients: performance of the modified Confusion Assessment Method for the Emergency Department (mCAM-ED). A two-step tool
Wolfgang Hasemann, Florian F. Grossmann, Rahel Stadler, Roland Bingisser, Dieter Breil, Martina Hafner, Reto W. Kressig, Christian H. Nickel
Emergency department throughput: an intervention
Nowreen Haq, Rona Stewart-Corral, Eric Hamrock, Jamie Perin, Waseem Khaliq
Assessing the safety of magnetic resonance imaging in cardiac device carriers
Elisa Gesu, Giorgio Colombo, Jane Victoria Moffat
Diagnostic accuracy of transthoracic echocardiography to identify native valve infective endocarditis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mattia Bonzi, Giulia Cernuschi, Monica Solbiati, Giuliano Giusti, Nicola Montano, Elisa Ceriani
A novel flash glucose monitoring system in patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2: which are the pieces of evidence for payer decision-makers?
Salvatore Corrao, Biagio Nativo, Giuseppe Natoli, Marika Lo Monaco, Francesco Perticone
Right-sided hemothorax from leaking saphenous vein right coronary artery bypass graft aneurysm due to incomplete coiling masquerading as right lower lobe pneumonia
Zubair Khan, Mohammad Saud Khan
Kissing spines: an underdiagnosed cause of low back pain
Paul Benvenuto, Armen Attarian
A rare and threatening complication in a cirrhotic patient
Joana Carvalho e Branco, Vera Anapaz, Liliana Santos, Jorge Reis
Esophago-pericardial fistula with development of hydro-pneumo-pericardium resulting in hemodynamic instability: an unusual complication of esophageal cancer
Toseef Javaid, Zubair Khan, Syed Hasan, Nauman Siddiqui, Ali Nawras
Pyocholethorax secondary to biliopleural fistula: a rare complication of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage
Zubair Khan, Mohammad Saud Khan, Khaled Srour, Shahnaz Ul Rehman, Jeffrey Hammersley
The diagnostic challenge: are we missing pulmonary embolism diagnosis in patients with syncope?
Elena Campello, Valeria Rossetto, Luca Spiezia, Stefania Vigolo, Sara Maggiolo, Paolo Simioni
Prognostic influence of prior chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients admitted for their first episode of acute heart failure: comment
Eftychios Siniorakis, Spyridon Arvanitakis, Vaia Derveni, Dimitrios Veldekis, Sotiria Limberi
Prognostic influence of prior chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients admitted for the first time because of acute heart failure: reply
Francesc Formiga, Karine Luz Londoño, David Chivite
Noninvasive auto-titrating ventilation (AVAPS-AE) versus average volume-assured pressure support (AVAPS) ventilation in hypercapnic respiratory failure patients: comment
Killen Harold Briones Claudett, Michelle Grunauer
Noninvasive auto-titrating ventilation (AVAPS-AE) versus average volume-assured pressure support (AVAPS) ventilation in hypercapnic respiratory failure patients: reply
Avsar Zerman, Muge Aydogdu, Gul Gursel
Noninvasive auto-titrating ventilation (AVAPS-AE) versus average volume-assured pressure support (AVAPS) ventilation in hypercapnic respiratory failure patients: comment
Fatma Yıldırım, Edoardo Piervincenzi, Güniz Meyancı Köksal, Antonio Esquinas
Noninvasive auto-titrating ventilation (AVAPS-AE) versus average volume-assured pressure support (AVAPS) ventilation in hypercapnic respiratory failure patients: reply
Avsar Zerman, Muge Aydogdu, Gul Gursel
Correction to: Prognostic influence of prior chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients admitted for their first episode of acute heart failure
Karine Luz Londoño, Francesc Formiga, David Chivite, Rafael Moreno-Gonzalez, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Xavier Corbella