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Proposte per stabilire la tortura nei giudizi criminali di Sicilia dopo le riforme del 1812 / per Giuseppe Cosentino Palermo : Stab. tip. Virzi, 1889
No full textProposte per stabilire la tortura nei giudizi criminali di Sicilia dopo le riforme del 1812 / per Giuseppe Cosentino
Palermo : Stab. tip. Virzi, 1889
22 p. ; 25 c
Impact of the genus Amphistegina on the benthic foraminiferal association of the Pelagian Islands, an example of invasion in the Central Mediterranean Sea
No full textIn recent years the Mediterranean Sea is increasingly subject to colonization by non-indigenous marine organisms, many of which migrate through the Suez Canal. Its opening, which took place in 1869, connected two different biogeographical provinces after millions of years, facilitating the migration of over 600 nonindigenous species, some of which are seriously threatening the native biodiversity. This study shows the results of benthic foraminiferal analyses carried out on algal and sediment samples collected in 2014 around the Pelagian Islands (Lampedusa and Linosa). These islands, starting from 2005 (the year of the first report), are undergoing the invasion of the non-native Indo-Pacific species Amphistegina lobifera Larsen. The obtained data have been compared with those of previous sampling carried out in 2005 and 2009 (Caruso & Cosentino, 2014). This comparison highlights how, in most cases, A. lobifera is increasing its abundance dominating the assemblages with percentages over 50% and causing the drastic decrease of the native species. Its carbonatic tests, accumulated on the Linosa seabed are progressively changing the composition of marine
sediments and for the first time are also giving rise to accumulations in the coastal environment, inside pools filled during storm surges, as happens in the Indo-Pacific atolls. These results show how, in just a few years, some non-indigenous foraminifera are capable of massively colonize new environments, modifying native biodiversity and influencing sedimentary processes.
Caruso A. & Cosentino C. (2014). The first colonization of the Genus Amphistegina and other exotic benthic foraminifera of the Pelagian Islands and south-eastern Sicily (central Mediterranean Sea). Mar. Micropal., 111, 38-52, https://doi. org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2014.05.002
A case of REM sleep behavior disorder, narcolepsy-cataplexy, parkinsonism, and rheumatoid arthritis
No full textA patient is reported in whom signs and symptoms of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and narcolepsy have been associated for almost two decades with a late development of parkinsonism and rheumatoid arthritis. A 78-year-old male patient in whom RBD was first diagnosed was followed-up by clinical examination, video-polysomnography, multiple sleep latency test, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, and dopamine transporter imaging by single-photon emission computerized tomography. The patient was found to present for almost two decades, in addition to RBD, also narcolepsy. Moreover, a late development of parkinsonism and the occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis were detected and clinically and instrumentally characterized. Patients predisposed to RBD and later parkinsonism might be susceptible to a variety of triggers that, in our patient, might have been represented by a possible latent autoimmune process leading to the development of narcolepsy with cataplexy and rheumatoid arthritis, later.Filomena I. I. Cosentino, Angela Distefano, Giuseppe Plazzi, Carlos H. Schenck and Raffaele Ferr
QUADERNI DELLA RIVISTA DI BIZANTINISTICA
No full textCOLLANA ATTIVA DA VENTI ANNI CON AUTORI COME V. NERI UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA), M. GALLINA, S. COSENTINO UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA, A. PAPADAKI, M. WALLRAFF, C. NEGRI DI MONTENEGRO, A. PARMEGGIANI UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA G. VESPIGNANI UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA , F. RONCONI A. AMICI T. CREAZZO R. BERNACCHIA A. NANETTI, E. MORINI UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA NEL CAMPO DEL TARDOANTICO E DEL MEDIOEVO VENEZIANO E ROMANO-ORIENTAL
ALLOPURINOL AND FEBUXOSTAT EFFECT ON TOTAL MORTALITY IN HYPERURICEMIC PATIENTS AFFECTED BY MILD-TO-MODERATE HEART FAILURE
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ALLOPURINOL AND FEBUXOSTAT EFFECT ON TOTAL MORTALITY IN HYPERURICEMIC PATIENTS AFFECTED BY MILD-TO-MODERATE HEART FAILURE
Cosentino, E.R.; Cicero, A.F.G.; Esposti, D. Degli; Bentivenga, C.; Magri, G.; Veronesi, M.; Borghi, C.
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Journal of Hypertension 36():p e239, June 2018. | DOI: 10.1097/01.hjh.0000539673.42228.0a
Abstract
Objective:
Hyperuricemia is an emerging risk factor for heart failure (HF) development and negative prognosis. Some data suggest that reducing serum uric acid by inhibiting xanthine oxidase (XO) could reverse the negative impact of uric acid on HF patient prognosis. Our aim is to evaluate if treatment with different XO inhibitors could have a different impact on the HF prognosis in a setting of clinical care.
Design and method:
We prospectively considered a cohort of 255 outpatients affected by chronic HF and pharmacologically treated with SUA lowering drugs, currently attending the HF clinic of the Internal Medicine Dept. at the S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital (Bologna, Italy). The sample included only non-previously hospitalized outpatients with mild-to-moderate HF secondary to chronic arterial hypertension or coronary artery disease, after exclusion of patients with HF related to congenital heart diseases, valvulopathies, or cardiomyopathies. We also excluded those patients with a diagnosis of gout, with severe kidney disease or malignancy in order to exclude SUA outliers. Subjects were treated with allopurinol or, if intolerant to allopurinol, with febuxostat.
Results:
Febuxostat (N. 120) and allopurinol (N. 135) patient groups were balanced for a large number of categorical and continuous variables. No statistically significant difference has been observed as it regards the distribution of CVD risk factors, echocardiographic parameters and cardiopreventive drug used. As it regards NYHA class, at the beginning of the observation febuxostat treated patients were respectively 19.2%, 46.7% and 34.2% in class I, II and III, while allopurinol treated patients 13.3%, 54.8% and 31.9% in class I, II and III, without significant difference between groups. This distribution did not significantly change over the observation period. After a mean follow-up period of 6.2 years, the cumulative survival of febuxostat treated patients was 0.96 (95%CI 0.93 to 0.99), while the one of allopurinol treated patients was 0.89 (95%CI 0.84 to 0.93). The between group difference was statistically significant (p = 0.04).
Conclusions:
In conclusion, from our data it appears that the use of febuxostat, a more selective XO inhibitor than allopurinol, is associated to a reduced risk of all cause death in HF patients
Il preannuncio meteorologico per la gestione delle reti viarie in condizioni di emergenza
No full textRagguaglio spaziale delle piogge intense e di breve durata sull'area metropolitana di Roma
No full textIntegrated methodology for design of polluted water control system of road infrastructures for environmental protection
No full textRoom-temperature efficient light detection by amorphous Ge quantum wells
No full textIn this work, ultrathin amorphous Ge films (2 to 30 nm in thickness) embedded in SiO2 layers were grown by magnetron sputtering and employed as proficient light sensitizer in photodetector devices. A noteworthy modification of the visible photon absorption is evidenced due to quantum confinement effects which cause both a blueshift (from 0.8 to 1.8 eV) in the bandgap and an enhancement (up to three times) in the optical oscillator strength of confined carriers. The reported quantum confinement effects have been exploited to enhance light detection by Ge quantum wells, as demonstrated by photodetectors with an internal quantum efficiency of 70%. © 2013 Cosentino et al
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