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Echo-Doppler assessment of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in mitral regurgitation before and after valve surgery.
No full textUsefulness of Doppler echocardiography and color flow imaging in the assessment of bioprosthetic dysfunction.
No full textComorbidità psichiatrica in disturbi da uso di sostanze: studio preliminare su profili di gravità e medicazioni psicofarmacologiche
No full textBackground. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in a group of patients with Substance Use Disorders focusing the psycho-tropic drugs and the severity scores carried out from the European adaptation of the Addiction Severity Index (Europ-ASI). It is a naturalistic analysis on the first data from wider study with a control group and a follow-up. Methods. The present study becomes within the Experimental Project Psychiatric comorbidity substance use disorders funded by the Region of Lombardy and managed by the Psychiatric Operative Unit and the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Pavia. Through cooperation between the Addicts outpatient centre, auxiliaries facilities for addicts and the Psychiatric ward of the General Hospital in Pavia a Psychiatric consultation service was arranged for patients with mental disorders and Substance Use Disorders. Every patient sent to this service, which gives multidimensional evaluation and psychiatric treatments, was recruited. In the sample there are 37 patients, almost all males, about thirty years old. For everyone a diagnostic clinic evaluation and a Global Functioning evaluation from the DSM IV criteria were carried out, as well as a semi-structured evaluation of substance abuse and the social and relations-related aspects through the Europ-ASI. Results. We report high opioids use and a low rate of abstinence during the last 30 days, a low prevalence of false positives reading psychiatric comorbidity, a homogeneous distribution of diagnostic subgroups and of Global Functioning scores, a high use of Methadone in the therapy in patients with Affective Disorders. The severity scores in every area of the Europ-ASI underline the importance of psychiatric and addiction-related problems, quite equally distributed within the diagnostic subgroups. Conclusions. We underline, as previous studies, the importance of symptom severity beyond the specific diagnosis
Comparative value of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and follow-up of congenital heart diseas in adolescents and adults.
No full textGoing 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
Quale psichiatria per le patologie HIV-correlate? Revisione della letteratura tra implicazioni cliniche e sociali, ad uso di servizi ancora resistenti
No full textVariations 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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