Publications by authors named "A Milanese"
Background: Heart failure (HF), affecting 1-4% of adults in industrialized countries, is a major public health priority. Several algorithms based on administrative health data (HAD) have been developed to detect patients with HF in a timely and inexpensive manner, in order to perform real-world studies at the population level. However, their reported diagnostic accuracy is highly variable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: after the recent reform of territorial healthcare, districts have been designated within the Lombardy Regional Health System to coordinate and deliver territorial care. This entails the need of readily available information to measure the quality of provided healthcare, identify critical areas for improvement, monitor the balance between demand and supply of healthcare services.
Objectives: to present the development of a dynamic evaluation system of processes and outcomes resulting from the integration of territorial and hospital care, based on a set of composite indicators, called 'health profiles', and their visualization and release through a dedicated web platform.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the retinal morpho-functional characteristics of patients with neovascular wet age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) treated with intravitreal injection (IV) of aflibercept (AFL).
Methods: The study was conducted on 35 patients previously diagnosed with type 1 nAMD who received a fixed-dosing regimen of aflibercept injections over 12 months. The goal was to assess trends in visual abilities over time by measuring visual acuity (VA), contrast sensitivity (CS), visual evoked potentials (VEPs), and spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).
Article Synopsis
- Lipoid proteinosis (LP), also known as Urbach-Wiethe disease, is a rare condition marked by hoarseness and involvement of multiple organs, often going unrecognized, especially by otolaryngologists.
- The study systematically reviewed literature, analyzing 154 cases to highlight that hoarseness was a common early symptom, typically identified around 19 months but was often diagnosed much later, around 15 years of age, resulting in significant diagnostic delays.
- The findings indicate that while hoarseness is crucial for diagnosing LP, it is frequently missed, with genetic testing of the ECM1 gene being relevant for confirming the diagnosis in many cases.
Aims: The multi-systemic effects of heart failure (HF) resemble the spread observed during cancer. We propose a new score, named HLM, analogous to the TNM classification used in oncology, to assess the prognosis of HF. HLM refers to H: heart damage, L: lung involvement, and M: systemic multiorgan involvement.
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