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Effect of Detector and Electronics Fault on PET Reconstructed Image Acquired with the Full Ring HR+
No full textCOVID-19 : high-resolution computed tomography findings in the first 64 patients admitted to the Hospital of Cremona, the epicentre of the pandemic in Europe
No full textPurpose: In December 2019, a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as being responsible for the pulmonary infection called COVID-19. On 21 February 2020, the first autochthonous case of COVID-19 was detected in Italy. Our goal is to report the most common chest computed tomography (CT) findings identified in 64 patients, in the initial phase of COVID-19. Methods: Sixty-four chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) examinations performed at the Radiology Unit of the Hospital of Cremona, from 22 to 29 February 2020, of 64 patients during first week of hospitalization for COVID-19 were retrospectively evaluated. All cases were confirmed by real-time RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2. Image analysis was independently conducted by 2 radiologists with 10 years and 1 year of experience in chest imaging. The inter-observer agreement was obtained by applying a Cohen’s κ test. Results: The average age of patients was 67.1 years (± 12.2); men 42 (66%). HRCT was performed on the 5th (± 1.5) day of hospitalization. More frequently, the initial CT changes of the lung show more or less extensive areas of ground-glass, as single pattern or with parenchymal consolidations. Coronavirus lung involvement appears very frequently multi-lobar, bilateral, and it concerns both subpleural and central regions. An excellent agreement (κ: 0.88-1, CI: 0.79-1.01, p < 0.05) concerning CT findings between the 2 operators was reached. Conclusions: Our data suggest that detection of the most frequent pulmonary CT-scan changes, in the early stages of COVID-19, can be performed, with excellent agreement, among readers with different experience, and consequently attribute their exact diagnostic value, in an appropriate clinical and environmental exposure setting
Baudelaire: Sensations d'un homme sensible
No full textAnalyse de l'importance de la sensorialité à l'intérieur de l'esthétique symboliste
Ultrasound measurements of carotid intima-media thickness and plaque in HIV-infected patients on the Mediterranean diet
No full textAim To evaluate the influence of food habits, specifically
adherence to the Mediterranean diet, on carotid intimamedia
thickness (CIMT) and the presence of plaques in
HIV-infected patients taking antiretroviral therapy (ART)
and non-HIV-infected participants and to determine if HIV
infection contributes independently to subclinical atherosclerosis.
Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of 110
HIV-infected patients on ART and 131 non-HIV-infected
participants at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases
in Zagreb, Croatia, from 2009-2011. CIMT measurement
and determination of carotid plaque presence was
detected by ultrasound. Adherence to the Mediterranean
diet was assessed by a 14-point food-item questionnaire.
Subclinical atherosclerosis was defined by CIMT≥0.9 mm
or ≥1 carotid plaque.
Results In HIV-infected patients, subclinical atherosclerosis
was associated with older age (P < 0.001; Mann-Whitney
test), higher body mass index (P = 0.051; Mann-Whitney
test), hypertension (P < 0.001; χ2 test), and a lower Mediterranean
diet score (P = 0.035; Mann-Whitney test), and
in non-HIV-infected participants with older age (P < 0.001;
Mann-Whitney test) and hypertension (P = 0.006; χ2 test).
Multivariate analysis showed that decreased adherence to
the Mediterranean diet was associated with higher odds
of subclinical atherosclerosis (odds ratio [OR] 2.28, 95%
confidence interval [CI] 1.10-4.72, P = 0.027) as was current
smoking (OR 2.86, 95% CI 1.28-6.40), hypertension (OR
3.04, 95% CI 1.41-6.57), and male sex (OR 2.35, 95% CI 0.97-
5.70). There was a significant interaction of age and HIV status,
suggesting that older HIV-infected patients had higher
odds of subclinical atherosclerosis than controls (OR 3.28,
95% CI 1.24-8.71, P = 0.017 at the age of 60 years).
Conclusion We confirmed the association between lower
adherence to the Mediterranean diet and increased risk of
subclinical atherosclerosis and found that treated HIV infection
was a risk factor for subclinical atherosclerosis in
older individuals
Moretto and Romanino: religious painting in Brescia 1510-1550: identity in the shadow of La serenissima
No full textThis thesis examines several works of religious content produced by the Brescian painters Gerolamo Romano, 11 Romanino (148487-15'59) and Alessandro Bonvicino, 11 Moretto (1498-1554), produced for patrons and locations in Brescia between 15 10 and 1550. This enquiry has drawn on little used historical material in order to integrate the discussion of the images into a wider social and historical context.
The key aim of this study is to establish how Romanino and Moretto defined a Brescian identity in art. This will be argued by using two different approaches in order to examine the existence, and the manifestations, of such a local identity One approach taken in this study is to look at groups of corporate patrons and to consider the works executed for them in terms of similarities of content. Chapters 2 and 3 in turn consider the works executed by Romanino and Moretto for the Congregations of Santa Giustina of Padua, and of San Giorgio in Alga. The second approach adopted for the purposes of examination of strategies for the establishment of a Brescian visual identity employed in this study is to focus on representations of the Eucharist. It will be shown that Moretto developed a new visual motif of the 'Eucharistic Christ' in response to the growing popularity of the Forty Hours devotion in Brescia
Antiretroviral therapy and the lipodystrophy syndrome
No full textLipodystrophy syndrome’ in the setting of HIV infection has come to encompass a collection of morphological and metabolic abnormalities linked with the use of antiretroviral therapy and other risk factors. We review the clinical literature on this subject as it has evolved historically, taking pertinent methodological issues into account
