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Invecchiare fuori dalla coppia: abitare futuri im/possibili
Full text linkThe article reports the results of a participatory research conducted with women facing mature and elderly age while living outside of a couple (aged 55-80 years), aiming to highlight the specificity of their experiences, needs, and imaginaries, also in relation to their cohort characteristics. Building on the contributions of queer perspectives on caregiving relationships, intimacy, support, and the development of new perspectives on representations and experiences of aging, the relationship between past and present practices of sharing and the place assigned to them in aging, particularly in the perspective of a possible loss of autonomy, is investigated. In future visions, when neither the family solution is accessible nor desired, there remains an empty space between feared futures, especially institutionalization, and desired ones, where shared living, socialization, mutual care, and support are imagined. In these utopian visions, an excess is outlined compared to known co-housing solutions, indicating possibilities for the construction of broader imaginaries of aging in relation
Queerying Families of Origin
No full textThis book provides an original insight into how families of origin of Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) people are involved in negotiating meanings and
experiences of sexuality and intimacy, an underexplored dimension of queer family
life. Delving into the perspectives of families of origin and showing the complexity
and heterogeneity of the ways people with their different gender and sexual identities
“do” families across generations, it contributes to querying the very distinction
between families of origin and families of choice, and questions the (hetero)normative
assumptions about forms and boundaries of family this distinction rests upon.
A focus on marginal contexts, such as Southern Europe, and on marginal subjects,
like bisexuals or black lesbians, is proposed as a way to challenge the universality of
privileged narratives within heteronormativity, homonormativity and anglocentrism,
and to reveal unexpected resources families of origin mobilise to make sense of
GLBT identities and lived experiences. The book poses a crucial question: how can
alliances along family ties develop on the basis of shared stories of family diversity
and marginalised identities, rather than of loving (and normative) support to GLBT
people in need and an advocacy in their name from a position of heterosexual
privilege?
This book was originally published in Journal of GLBT Family Studies
Preliminary experience with a new osteosynthesis device for intertrochanteric fractures
No full textFrom 1999, at the Orthopaedic Clinic of the University of Siena, 56 patients were treated with the compression hip nail-plate system, a new synthesis device for the treatment of peritrochanteric fractures. The system consists in a new dynamic cephalic screw that could be combined with a plate or a femoral nail. The dynamic cephalic screw of the BCM system has a limited sliding method, impeding excursion greater than 10 mm and preventing excessive collapse of the fracture fragments that can evolve into a shortening of the limb. The canulated nail has a diameter of only 9 mm, which permits insertion into the shaft canal without reaming. The possibility of the double combination of the screw with a plate or with an intramedullary nail permits the surgeon to have a double solution with a single instrument at hand, and offers the opportunity of changing the choice of synthesis method to implant even during surgery
Titanium anchors for the repair of distal achilles tendon ruptures: preliminary report of a surgical technique
No full textA new method of repair for quadriceps tendon ruptures. A case report
No full textRupture of the quadriceps tendon is an uncommon injury observed predominantly in subjects over 40 years old. Multiple surgical techniques have been employed to repair fresh and neglected ruptures; methods that make use of allograft and augmentation with tissues harvested from around the knee have been reported. We describe a case of surgical repair of a tendon-bone junction rupture in a 61-year-old patient by use of suture anchors to attach the tendon to bone and improve fixation of the soft tissue elements, Clinical diagnosis of rupture was confirmed radiographically and echographically. Surgical repair was performed within 24 hours of injury. Active movement of the knee started after 3 weeks and the patient was permitted to walk without weight-bearing with a knee cage. Three weeks later, he was permitted to walk with full weight-bearing unassisted by crutches; the knee cage was removed 6 weeks after surgery. At his most recent follow-up 24 months postoperative, quadriceps strength was equal to that of the controlateral knee and the patient has returned to sports and daily activities. The surgical method presented here provides a suture of the tendon ends without putting excess stress on the suture line during the period of early knee mobilization. Advantages over other techniques include reduced operative time, easy access to the implantation site, and better resistance of the suture material: the patient is thus able to initiate physical therapy earlier and more aggressively
The close relation between border and Pommaret marked bases
Full text linkGiven a finite order ideal O in the polynomial ring K[x1, ... , xn] over a field K, let ∂O be the border of O and PO the Pommaret basis of the ideal generated by the terms outside O. In the framework of reduction structures introduced by Ceria, Mora, Roggero in 2019, we investigate relations among ∂O-marked sets (resp. bases) and PO-marked sets (resp. bases). We prove that a ∂O-marked set B is a marked basis if and only if the PO-marked set P contained in B is a marked basis and generates the same ideal as B. Using a functorial description of these marked bases, as a byproduct we obtain that the affine schemes respectively parameterizing ∂O-marked bases and PO-marked bases are isomorphic. We are able to describe this isomorphism as a projection that can be explicitly constructed without the use of Gröbner elimination techniques. In particular, we obtain a straightforward embedding of border schemes in affine spaces of lower dimension. Furthermore, we observe that Pommaret marked schemes give an open covering of Hilbert schemes parameterizing 0-dimensional schemes without any group actions. Several examples are given throughout the paper
Osteochondroma. Report of a case with atypical localization and symptomatology [Osteocondroma. Presentazione di un caso a localizzazione e sintomatologia atipica]
No full textOsteochondroma, the most common benign bone tumor, represents 10-15% of all bone tumors. It can occur frequently as solitary osteocartilagineous exostosis or rarely as hereditary multiple lesions. The most common sites of occurrence are long bones of the lower arm (50%), usually the lower end of the femur and upper end of the tibia. However, involvement of the small hand and foot bones occurs in 10% of cases, pelvis in 5%, scapulae in 4%, and spine in 2%. Symptoms are not very specific. The authors present an atypical case of osteochondroma
Pneumococcal septic arthritis of the shoulder. Case report and literature review
No full textSeptic arthritis due to Streptococcus Pneumoniae appears to be relatively uncommon. Single- or clustered-case histories constitute the majority of reports on pneumococcal septic arthritis. A 70-year-old man presented with a 7-day history of pain, erythema and swelling of the left shoulder. Physical examination of the left shoulder revealed a warm, swollen, erythematous, and markedly tender to light palpation. The patient was unable to elevate his arm more than 30° without pain. Arthrocentesis performed on admission produced 30 cc of grossly purulent fluid whose culture demonstrated S. Pneumoniae. The septic arthritis was treated with intravenous vancomycin and imipenem. The antibiotics were substituted when the sensitivities were known with oral ciprofloxacin and rifampycin to complete 8 weeks' total treatment. On follow-up examination 1 year later, the patient has remained afebrile and asymptomatic without evidence of increasing joint effusion or acute joint inflammation. Pneumococcal arthritis is classically described as a painful monoarticular arthritis complicating an active pneumococcal infection, generally a primary pulmonary infection. Pneumococcal arthritis appears to be predominately a disease affecting the elderly. Clinical presentation ranges from septicemia to indolent infection with few systemic symptoms. With adequate antibiotic therapy and aspiration or drainage of the joint, the prognosis for return of normal joint function appears to be excellent. Although pneumococcal organisms are not likely causes, this bacteria should certainly be considered as a possible cause of arthritis or prosthetic infection
The CLOS MB intramedullary nail for the treatment of pathological femoral shaft lesions
No full textAdvances in systemic and radiation therapy have led to considerable improvement in the prognosis of patients with metastatic disease. As a result, orthopedic surgeons are being asked with increasing frequency to evaluate and treat the manifestations of skeletal metastases. Intramedullary nailing is a valuable technique for stabilizing (impending) pathological femoral fractures or osteolytic lesions. From January 1999 to January 2001 we treated 5 patients for skeletal metastases in the diaphyseal region of the femur. One month after surgical stabilization of the pathological lesion involving the femur, we observed significant improvement in quality of life, including pain relief and early ambulation
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