Publications by authors named "F Cardin"
Shaping global water and carbon cycles, plants lift water from roots to leaves through xylem conduits. The importance of xylem water conduction makes it crucial to understand how natural selection deploys conduit diameters within and across plants. Wider conduits transport more water but are likely more vulnerable to conduction-blocking gas embolisms and cost more for a plant to build, a tension necessarily shaping xylem conduit diameters along plant stems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: New challenges in the medical field of the third millennium emphasise the "humanization of medicine" leading to a redefinition of doctors' values, limits and roles. The study aims to assess whether there are different personality dimensions of physicians in relation to their perception of professional values and public expectations.
Methods: A questionnaire on the perception of professional values and the opinion on work in the medical field, work relationships and public expectations was administered to 374 doctors attending Continuing Medical Education courses.
Article Synopsis
- A woman with a serious health problem called antiphospholipid syndrome experienced severe abdominal pain and shock, leading to a diagnosis of ischemic colitis.
- She developed other issues like lung and heart problems, which resulted in a serious condition called catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS).
- Doctors started treatment quickly, and it worked well; they suggest that a better understanding of how bacteria and antibodies interact could lead to better treatments for CAPS in the future.
Background: Chronic mesenteric ischaemia (CMI) has a long asymptomatic period, but little is known about the clinical implications of this phase of the disease, particularly in the elderly, who are most exposed to the condition.
Aims: The aim of the present observational study was to survey the in-hospital clinical course of elderly patients during the non-specific phase of the disease due to occlusion of at least one splanchnic artery.
Methods: For a median of 29 months, we followed up 85 patients aged 65 and over who, for various clinical reasons, had undergone computed tomographic and magnetic resonance angiography during 2010 at Padua Teaching Hospital, assessing economic impact and reasons for admission.
Background/aim: Increased demand for colon cancer screening procedures can significantly impact on routine colonoscopy management at dedicated facilities, prompting a review of the factors that can negatively affect workflow. Although potential adverse effects and impact on costs of deep sedation have been documented elsewhere, this study focuses on variables that can influence performance of colonoscopy in deep sedation and interfere with normal procedure scheduling in settings where the presence of an anesthesiologist is mandatory.
Patients And Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of the activities of a colonoscopy screening unit, applying Bayesian Network (BN) analysis, designed to assess interdependencies among variables that can affect a process in complex, multidimensional systems.