Relationship between pancreatic iron overload, glucose metabolism and cardiac complications in sickle cell disease: An Italian multicentre study.

Objectives: Evidence about the cross-talk between iron, glucose metabolism, and cardiac disease is increasing. We aimed to explore the link of pancreatic iron by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with glucose metabolism and cardiac complications (CC) in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients.

Methods: We considered 70 SCD patients consecutively enrolled in the Extension-Myocardial Iron Overload in Thalassemia Network.

Correction: Exposure to 1.8 GHz electromagnetic fields affects morphology, DNA-related Raman spectra and mitochondrial functions in human lympho-monocytes.

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Exposure to 1.8 GHz electromagnetic fields affects morphology, DNA-related Raman spectra and mitochondrial functions in human lympho-monocytes.

Blood is a fluid connective tissue of human body, where it plays vital functions for the nutrition, defense and well-being of the organism. When circulating in peripheral districts, it is exposed to some physical stresses coming from outside the human body, as electromagnetic fields (EMFs) which can cross the skin. Such fields may interact with biomolecules possibly inducing non thermal-mediated biological effects at the cellular level.

Development of MGUS in psoriatic patients: a possible undiagnosed event during anti-TNF-α-treatment.

Background: Monoclonal gammopathies are haematological conditions characterized by the clonal proliferation of plasma cells which produce a monoclonal immunoglobulin that accumulates in the blood. They have already been reported during treatment with a range of drugs but never before during treatment with the anti-TNF-α treatments: adalimumab, etanercept and infliximab currently used in the therapy of moderate-severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Objective: This is a case series describing the development of MGUS in psoriatic patients treated with anti-TNF-α.