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ATERECTOMIA CON METODO DI SIMPSON NEL TRATTAMENTO DELLA STENOSI OPRIMITIVA E DELLA RESTENOSI DOPO LASER ANGIOPLASTICA
No full textExogenous Lipoid Pneumonia due to Chronic Inhalation of Oily Product Used as a Lubricant of Tracheotomy Cannula
No full textExogenous lipoid pneumonia (ELP) is caused by the inhalation of vaporized oily products. Long-term exposure can result in chronic disease, whereas acute form usually results from massive aspiration of fatty substances. It has an incidence of 1.0%-2.5%. In case of symptomatic patients, the clinical presentation mainly includes acute or chronic respiratory symptoms such as dyspnea, fever, cough and less frequently chest pain, hemoptysis, or weight loss. Radiological findings are often aspecific or misinterpreted, and ELP is sometimes misdiagnosed as a malignancy of the lungs. Patient history and radiological findings can lead to a suspicion of ELP, but histological microscopic findings of intra-alveolar lipid and lipid-laden macrophages are required to confirm the diagnosis The mainstay of treatment consists of avoiding ongoing exposure and providing supportive care as repeated whole-lung lavage, corticosteroids, and/or immunoglobulins. Surgery is reserved for cases of high suspicion of cancer or serious clinical impact (as recurrent infections). Prognosis is benign, even if it has been reported cases of progression to severe respiratory failure, cor pulmonale, superinfection, and association with lung cancer. Here, we describe a case of ELP due to chronic inhalation of oily product (Vaseline) used as a lubricant of tracheotomy cannula
Distribution of lipid and raised lesions in aortas of young people of different geographic origins (WHO-ISFC PBDAY study)
No full textAt the Morphometric Reference Center of the World Health Organization-International Society and Federation of Cardiology PBDAY (Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth) project, we studied left hemiaortas of 5- through 34-year-old male and female healthy subjects who died of traumatic injury. The subjects were either of European, American, Asian, or African origin. Three hundred fifty-five thoracic and 343 abdominal left hemiaortas, stained and photographed at the Malmö, Sweden, World Health Organization Reference Center, were studied. Lipid and raised lesion extent was evaluated by using computerized techniques. Probability-of-occurrence maps of lipid and raised lesion distribution were obtained by image processing. Our data have shown that the distributions of atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic intimal surface, which were similar in the different ethnic groups, also prevailed in branching regions, where low-blood flow shear stress and turbulence occur. The areas involved by raised lesions and by lipid lesions only partially overlapped. Lipid lesion extent, which was different among the ethnic groups, continuously increased with age in males but not in females, in whom the increase ceased at an age range from 15 through 24 years. This suggests that ethnic and dietary factors influence the extent but not the distribution of atherosclerotic lesions in the human aorta. Probability-of-occurrence maps also provided evidence that not every fatty streak will develop into a raised lesion, or will not develop quickly
Preliminary morphometric data on lipid lesion distribution in aortas of young people (WHO-ISFC PBDAY study)
No full textNatural history of Atherosclerosis. Results of the International Work on natural history of Atherosclerosis, PBDAY of the World Health Organization, using probability-of-occurrence maps on lipd lesions of abdominal and thoracic Aortas in youth from people that lived in many Countries of the world
Gli schwannomi retroperitoneali. Valore prognostico dei rilievi clinico-strumentali, istopatologici e dell'intervento chirurgico di exeresi.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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