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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a case of post-total body irradiation colitis.
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Ptsd and burnout are related to lifetime mood spectrum in emergency healthcare operator
No full textBackground: PTSD and burnout are frequent conditions among emergency healthcare personnel because exposed to repeated traumatic working experiences. Increasing evidence suggests high comorbidity between PTSD and mood symptoms, particularly depression, although the real nature of this relationship still remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between PTSD, burnout and lifetime mood spectrum, assessed by a specific scale, among health-care professionals of a major University Hospital in Italy. Methods: N=110 Emergency Unit workers of the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana (Pisa, Italy) were assessed by the TALS-SR, MOODS-SR lifetime version and the ProQOL R-IV. Results: Approximately 60% of participants met at least one PTSD symptom criterion (criterion B, 63.4%; criterion C, 40.2%; criterion D 29.3%; criterion E, 26.8%), according to DSM-5 diagnosis. Almost sixteen percent of the sample reported a full symptomatic DSM-5 PTSD (work-related) diagnosis, and these showed significantly higher scores in all MOODS-SR depressive domains, as well as in the rhythmicity domain, compared with workers without PTSD. Further, mood-depressive and cognition-depressive MOODS-SR domains resulted to be predictive for PTSD. Significant correlations emerged between either PTSD diagnosis and criteria or ProQOL subscales and all the MOOD-SR domains. Conclusion: A significant association emerged among PTSD, burnout and lifetime MOOD Spectrum, particularly the depressive component, in emergency health care operators, suggesting this population should be considered at-risk and undergo regular screenings for depression and PTSD
Muscle thickness in infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
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Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is the most common abdominal abnormality requiring surgery in infants. It occurs due to the hypertrophic and hyperplasia of the muscular layers of the pyloric. The usual age of clinical presentation is about three weeks of life. The most important symptom is non bilious emesis, intermittent or after each feeding. From march 1996 to June 2001, 21 infants, 20 males and 1 female, were subjected to ultrasonographic, radiographic exams and after diagnosis to the pyloromyotomy extramucosa. Ultrasonography was the study of choice used to identify hypertrophic pyloric stenosis; the markers to analyse were the length and the overall diameter of the pyloric canal and the muscle thickness of the wall. The results showed that a length of the pyloric canal 20 +/- 6 mm, a diameter 13.6 +/- 2.5 mm and a muscle thickness 4.1 +/- 1 mm are diagnostics for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
Rumination, posttraumatic stress disorder, and mood symptoms in borderline personality disorder
No full textLiliana Dell’Osso,1 Ivan M Cremone,1 Barbara Carpita,1 Valerio Dell’Oste,1 Dario Muti,1 Gabriele Massimetti,1 Stefano Barlati,2 Antonio Vita,2 Andrea Fagiolini,3,4 Claudia Carmassi,1 Camilla Gesi11Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 3Department of Mental Health, University of Siena, Siena, Italy; 4Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, ItalyBackground: The interrelationship between mood disorders and borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been long debated in the literature. Increasing attention has also been paid to the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and BPD, as well as to the role of rumination in the development and severity of BPD. This study aims to evaluate the association of rumination, PTSD, and mood spectrum among patients with BPD with or without comorbid mood disorders.Methods: Fifty patients with BPD and 69 healthy controls were assessed with the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5, MoodSpectrum Self-Report (MOODS-SR), and Ruminative Response Scale (RRS).Results: The BPD group was split into subjects with BPD+ mood disorder (MD) or BPD only) . PTSD-criteria fulfillment, MOODS, and RRS scores were significantly higher in both BPD subgroups than in controls, while BPD+MD patients scored significantly higher than the BPD-only group. RRS scores and PTSD-criteria fulfillment were significantly related to the presence of both BPD and BPD+MD, with no effect of MOODS-SR scores.Conclusion: Our findings confirm the presence of a relationship between BPD and the PTSD spectrum, highlighting also a possible role of rumination in BPD psychopathology. Rumination and PTSD symptoms seem to prevail in the effect of mood spectrum in predicting BPD.Keywords: ruminative thinking, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorder
REM Latency in psychiatric disorders, polygraphic study on major depression, bipolar disorder manic and schizophrenic disorder
No full textCorrelazioni tra spettro maniacale lifetime e comportamenti maladattivi nei sopravvissuti al terremoto dell’Aquila 2009 con disturbo post-traumatico da stress. 11° Congresso società Italiana di Psichiatria Biologica (SIPB) Neuroscienze Sociali in Psichiatria. Napoli 19-21 settembre 2013.
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