Publications by authors named "C Lettieri"
Trigeminal neuralgia is a neuropathic pain syndrome responsive to botulinum toxin type A therapy. This review had the goal of analyzing the different studies published from 2002 to January 2024 to better define the techniques and the types of botulinum toxin type A used, the doses, the injection routes, and the different populations of trigeminal neuralgia patients treated. We considered only articles in which the therapy was administered to humans to treat trigeminal neuralgia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: The aim of this study is to assess the sleep quality and daytime sleepiness improvement in chronic migraineurs after 6 months of a 2:1 KD (ketogenic diet) and LGID (low-glycemic-index diet).
Methods: Twenty-six patients underwent 2:1 KD (11 patients) and LGID (15 patients). PSQI (Pittsburgh sleep quality index) and ESS (Epworth sleepiness scale) were administered at the baseline and the 3-month and 6-month follow-up.
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- Current guidelines recommend keeping LDL-C levels below 55 mg/100 ml for patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), but many patients struggle to reach this target due to poor medication adherence.
- A study analyzed 963 ACS patients, using the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale to categorize them into high adherence (HA) and low adherence (LA) groups, finding that 28.7% had low adherence.
- The results showed that HA patients were significantly more likely to achieve the LDL-C target compared to LA patients, indicating that adherence to lipid-lowering therapy plays a crucial role in reaching cholesterol goals.
Objective: We monitored cognition in 14 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery when the electrode was positioned at the target subthalamic nucleus (STN) (i.e., the STN motor area).
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- The study investigates the differences in clinical features and spread risk of oromandibular dystonia (OMD) between idiopathic and acquired subtypes, based on a retrospective analysis of 273 patients from the Italian Dystonia Registry.
- It was found that idiopathic cases mainly exhibited sensory tricks and a family history, with a notable 34% of focal OMD patients experiencing spread within the first five years.
- The research highlights a potential link between sensory tricks and OMD spread, suggesting estrogen's role in dystonia development and providing a basis for further studies on underlying mechanisms and treatment options.