Publications by authors named "C F Francisconi"
Intermediate and Transitory Inflammation Mediate Proper Alveolar Bone Healing Outcome in Contrast to Extreme Low/High Responses: Evidence from Mice Strains Selected for Distinct Inflammatory Phenotypes.
Biology (Basel)
November 2024
Alveolar bone healing is influenced by various local and systemic factors, including the local inflammatory response. This study aimed to evaluate the role of inflammatory responsiveness in alveolar bone healing using 8-week-old male and female mice (N = 5/time/group) strains selected for maximum (AIRmax) or minimum (AIRmin) acute inflammatory response carrying distinct homozygous RR/SS genotypes, namely AIRminRR, AIRminSS, AIRmaxRR, and AIRmaxSS mice. After upper right incisor extraction, bone healing was analyzed at 0, 3, 7, and 14 days using micro-computed tomography, histomorphometry, birefringence, immunohistochemistry, and PCRArray analysis.
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- The study aimed to find out what factors can predict how well a person's vision will be after surgery for a specific type of eye problem called rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
- Researchers tested patients' vision, focusing on problems like seeing things distorted (metamorphopsia) and differences in image size between both eyes (aniseikonia) three months after their surgery.
- They found that damage to certain parts of the retina seen in special eye images was linked to worse vision outcomes after the surgery.
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- This study compares the primary reattachment rate (PARR) of two treatments, pneumatic retinopexy (PnR) and pars plana vitrectomy (PPV), for patients with a specific type of retinal detachment.
- It included 162 patients, where PARR was shown to be similar: 88.2% for PnR and 90.9% for PPV, with PnR providing better visual acuity outcomes.
- The findings suggest that PnR can be considered a suitable first-line treatment for select patients, as it yields similar reattachment rates while enhancing visual recovery.
Purpose: To validate the quantitative assessment of metamorphopsia in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) using M-CHARTS by determining its correlation with subjective reporting of metamorphopsia with a validated metamorphopsia questionnaire (modified MeMoQ).
Methods: The Research Ethics Board approved a prospective observational study carried out at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Background And Aims: The Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Study (RFGES) assessed the prevalence, burden, and associated factors of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI) in 33 countries around the world. Achieving worldwide sampling necessitated use of two different surveying methods: In-person household interviews (9 countries) and Internet surveys (26 countries). Two countries, China and Turkey, were surveyed with both methods.
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