Publications by authors named "Daniele Paganelli"

Background: Over the past decade, the range of surgical options to benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) has expanded significantly with the advent of minimally invasive surgical therapies (MISTs). Nevertheless, the available evidence in the field is heterogeneous. Efficacy and safety thresholds are yet to be determined.

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Introduction: Benefits and harms of avoid the sent placement during IntraCorporeal Neobladder configuration are still debated. Our objective was to describe the step-by-step technique of Florence intracorporeal neobladder (FloRIN) configuration performed with stentless procedure focusing on perioperative and mid-term functional outcomes.

Materials And Methods: In this single institution prospective randomized 1:1 series all consecutive patients underwent Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC) and FloRIN reconfiguration from January 2021 to March 2021 were enrolled.

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  • The study aimed to determine if delays in surgery for prostate cancer patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) are linked to a higher likelihood of cancer progression (pathological upstaging).
  • A total of 2017 patients with various risk categories for prostate cancer were analyzed, finding that the average time from diagnosis to treatment varied by risk level, with localized high-risk patients experiencing delays.
  • Results indicated that delays in surgery, particularly for localized high-risk cases, could increase the risk of worse pathological outcomes, suggesting timely intervention is important.
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  • Non-native species pose a significant threat to ecosystems, creating a need for effective decision support tools to identify those likely to become invasive.
  • The Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) has inspired the creation of Invasiveness Screening Kits (ISK), with the Terrestrial Plant Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TPS-ISK) representing the latest advancements, offering more comprehensive and effective screening capabilities.
  • The TPS-ISK provides numerous benefits over the WRA, including improved protocol standards, comprehensive questionnaires, climate change considerations, and user-friendly design, allowing for reliable risk assessments of various plant species.
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Riverine wetlands are stepping-stone environments for the protection of local biodiversity, but they are particularly vulnerable to biological invasions. In order to take action against biological invasions, it is crucial to assess the impacts of alien species. However, it is also important to assess the potential benefits on ecosystem services that alien species could have.

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Background: The role of redo partial nephrectomy (PN) for recurrent renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is still overlooked.

Objective: To report our experience of salvage PN for local recurrence after previous nephron-sparing surgery (NSS).

Design Setting And Participants: We prospectively gathered data from patients treated with robotic redo PN for locally recurrent RCC after previous NSS from January 2017 to January 2023.

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Introduction: The aim of the study was to investigate clinical and surgical factors associated with early catheter replacement in patients treated with Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP).

Materials And Methods: Data of patients treated with HoLEP at our Institution by a single surgeon from March 2017 to January 2021 were collected. Preoperative variables, including non-invasive uroflowmetry and abdominal ultrasonography (US), were recorded.

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The threat posed by invasive non-native species worldwide requires a global approach to identify which introduced species are likely to pose an elevated risk of impact to native species and ecosystems. To inform policy, stakeholders and management decisions on global threats to aquatic ecosystems, 195 assessors representing 120 risk assessment areas across all six inhabited continents screened 819 non-native species from 15 groups of aquatic organisms (freshwater, brackish, marine plants and animals) using the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit. This multi-lingual decision-support tool for the risk screening of aquatic organisms provides assessors with risk scores for a species under current and future climate change conditions that, following a statistically based calibration, permits the accurate classification of species into high-, medium- and low-risk categories under current and predicted climate conditions.

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As regards the incineration process of the urban solid waste, the composition correct management allows not only the valorization of precise civil and industrial groups of waste as alternative fuels but also a considerable increase of the furnace work temperature leading to a remarkable improvement of the related energy efficiency. In this sense, the study of the melting behavior of ashes deriving from several kinds of fuels that have to be processed to heat treatment is really important. This approach, indeed, ensures to know in depth the features defining the melting behavior of these analyzed samples, and as a consequence, gives us the necessary data in order to identify the best mixture of components to be incinerated as a function of the specific working temperatures of the power plant.

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  • The European Water Framework Directive determines the ecological status of water bodies by comparing observed data with undisturbed Reference Conditions (RCs), which are essential for accurate evaluation.
  • Due to challenges in identifying RCs in certain marine environments, like the Emilia-Romagna coast in Italy, researchers employed a statistical method on a large dataset to derive these conditions.
  • Using the benthic index M-AMBI, the study found that 14.8% of samples had a "High" ecological status, 60.2% "Good," 23.0% "Moderate," and 2.0% "Poor," indicating a gradient of water quality that aligns with existing ecological data for the area.
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