Publications by authors named "A Fico"

Article Synopsis
  • - A 37-year-old woman with a balanced reciprocal translocation was found to have a high-risk non-invasive prenatal screening test indicating potential chromosome 18 abnormalities during her 13th week of pregnancy.
  • - Advanced techniques including cytogenetic analysis, FISH, and SNP-array were used to analyze her amniotic cells, revealing duplications on chromosome 18 and chromosome 9, suggesting aneuploidies.
  • - The study emphasizes the importance of using a combination of NIPT and detailed cytogenetic approaches to accurately detect and confirm chromosomal anomalies in high-risk pregnancies.
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The term "super responder" identifies a group of patients who exhibit a rapid and optimal response to biological treatment compared to the overall treated population. The primary objective of our study is to characterize this subgroup of patients to enable the early identification of those who will respond most effectively to the proposed treatment while also evaluating clinical efficacy. This retrospective study evaluated 232 patients treated with guselkumab in monotherapy for at least 20 weeks between November 2018 and November 2023.

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Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy affecting bone marrow, most frequently in elderly men. Imaging has a crucial role in this disease. Recently, whole-body MRI has been introduced and it has gained growing interest due to is high sensitivity and specificity in evaluating bone marrow involvement in MM.

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This article describes the May Measurement Month (MMM) 2021 campaign, which was the fourth time this annual hypertension screening campaign was conducted in Albania, a Mediterranean country in southeastern Europe. The MMM21 was conducted during the period of 28 September-30 November 2021, in 32 sites across several districts of Albania. Overall, 11 788 participants aged ≥18 years were included (63% women), with a mean age of 49.

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