Giving Meaning to Non-Communicable Illness: Mixed-Method Research on Sense of Grip on Disease (SoGoD).

When people receive a diagnosis of chronic or non-communicable disease, they need to reorganize their lives to understand and accommodate the changes associated with the new health condition. This reorganization, which involves the activation of a process through which meaning is given to the illness, could be fostered by narrative methods also in the context of Primary Care. The Sense of Grip on Disease (SoGoD) model intends to focus on the role of sense-meaning-making processes in the psychological adjustment to non-communicable illness, emphasizing the patients' role in managing their own health condition.

Conical coupling angular stable plate fixation: a retrospective study.

Backgrounds: Conical coupling represents an alternative to screw coupling on angular stable plate fixation. Aims of the present study was to evaluate clinical effectiveness  and ease of plate removal of conical coupling locking plates into different scenario regarding quality of bone, type of fracture and operative technique.

Methods: From May 2013 to December 2017, 198 patients with 206 fractures underwent open reduction and internal fixation with conical locking plate.

Psychological processes in the experience of hereditary angioedema in adult patients: an observational study.

Background: Hereditary angioedema associated to C1 inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE) is a pathological condition characterized by episodes of subcutaneous swelling and it is frequently associated with discomfort and social impairment of the patients, due to the anxiety experienced for an unpreventable manifestation of an attack during daily life. In children increased level of stress and alexithymia have been associated to C1-INH-HAE, and the latter correlated also with the severity of the disease. We hypothesized that the involvement of psychological issues may impact on the severity of C1-INH-HAE in adult patients as well, interfering with their ability to engage with the management of the disease.

Psychology and hereditary angioedema: A systematic review.

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is caused by mutations in the C1 inhibitor (C1-INH) gene Serpin Family G Member 1(), which results in either the decreased synthesis of normal C1-INH (C1-INH-HAE type I) or expression of unfunctional C1-INH (C1-INH-HAE type II). In recent studies, emotional stress was reported by patients as the most common trigger factor for C1-INH-HAE attacks. Moreover, patients reported considerable distress over the significant variability and uncertainty with which the disease manifests, in addition to the impact of physical symptoms on their overall quality of life.

Tronco-conical locking plate in distal radius fractures.

Introduction: Volar locked plates represent the most popular fixation technique for distal radius fracture (DRF). However, threaded screw-hole angular stability mechanism has some issues. The purpose of our study is to evaluate clinical and radiological outcome of a tronco-conical locking mechanism for volar plating of DRF.