Publications by authors named "A J Rossomando"
Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate how long hospitalized patients stayed positive to the nasopharyngeal swab, and what demographic and clinical factors influence the time-to-negative swab.
Methods: We enrolled in a multicenter, observational, retrospective study involving 17 COVID-19 units in eight cities of the Campania, southern Italy all patients hospitalized from March 2020 to May 2021 diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection for whom time-to-negative swab was available.
Results: 963 patients were enrolled.
Background And Aim: The nature of the association between obesity and poor prognosis of COVID-19 without the evaluation of other co-pathologies associated has not yet been clearly evaluated. The aim of the present pair-matched case-control study was to investigate the outcome of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection in obese and non-obese patients matched considering gender, age, number of comorbidities, and Charlson Comorbidity Index.
Methods: All the adults hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 infection and with BMI ≥ 30 kg/m were included (Cases).
Unlabelled: Consumptive hypothyroidism (CH) is a rare and potentially overlooked complication of hepatic hemangiomas (HH) overexpressing the enzyme deiodinase, which converts thyroxine (T4) to reverse triiodothyronine (rT3).
Materials And Methods: Here, we report a case series of 3 patients and a systematic review of the literature.
Results: Hypothyroidism (mean serum TSH 52.
Introduction: Since the beginning of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic an important tool for patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the computed tomography (CT) scan, but not always available in some settings The aim was to find a cut-off that can predict worsening in patients with COVID-19 assessed with a computed tomography (CT) scan and to find laboratory, clinical or demographic parameters that may correlate with a higher CT score.
Methods: We performed a multi-center, observational, retrospective study involving seventeen COVID-19 Units in southern Italy, including all 321 adult patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19 who underwent at admission a CT evaluated using Pan score.
Results: Considering the clinical outcome and Pan score, the best cut-off point to discriminate a severe outcome was 12.
Aims: To characterize patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the three waves in Southern Italy.
Methods: We conducted a multicenter observational cohort study involving seventeen COVID-19 Units in Campania, southern Italy: All adult (≥18 years) patients, hospitalized with a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection from 28 February 2020 to 31 May 2021, were enrolled.
Results: Two thousand and fifteen COVID-19 hospitalized patients were enrolled; 392 (19%) in the first wave, 917 (45%) in the second and 706 (35%) in the third wave.