Publications by authors named "A L Picchioni"
Article Synopsis
- Fabry disease (FD) is a rare genetic disorder linked to strokes, and there's ongoing debate about when to test for it in stroke patients.
- This study, part of the Fabry-Stroke Italian Registry, screened nearly 1,906 stroke patients for FD by checking alpha-galactosidase A activity and conducting genetic tests, identifying a small number of affected individuals.
- The findings suggest that limiting FD screening only to cryptogenic strokes could miss a significant number of cases, highlighting the importance of recognizing clinical signs that may indicate the need for testing.
Objective: The leadership team invited surgical team members to participate in educational sessions that created self and other awareness as well as gathered baseline information about these topics: communication, conflict management, emotional intelligence, and teamwork.
Design: Each educational session included an inventory that was completed to help participants understand their own characteristics and the characteristics of their team members. The results from these inventories were aggregated, relationships were identified, and the intervention was evaluated.
Purpose: The anatomical proximity of the styloid process (SP) to the ipsilateral internal carotid artery (ICA) has been recently recognized as a possible risk factor for carotid artery dissection (CAD). We aimed to verify this hypothesis by comparing the minimum distance between SP and ICA in young adult patients (< 55 years) with and without CAD.
Methods: Thirty-one CAD patients (cases) were compared with 41 sex-matched patients without dissection, group one of control (G1), and with 16 sex-matched patients with vertebral artery dissection (VAD), group two of control (G2).
Purpose: We aimed to verify if vascular tortuosity (VT) may represent a risk factor for spontaneous epiaortic vessel dissection (sEVD) in young adult patients.
Methods: We identified 304 patients aged under 55 years consecutively admitted for acute cerebrovascular events to our Stroke Unit. After checking the possibility to perform a 3D reconstruction of epiaortic vessels on CT-angiography images, we selected and compared fifty patients with sEVD (cases) with fifty-one patients without dissection (controls).