Publications by authors named "F Loreti"
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- * Diagnosis requires various imaging techniques like echocardiography and CT scans, with definitive confirmation through histological analysis.
- * A case study is presented of a young male who experienced a syncopal event after using cocaine, leading to imaging that revealed a cardiac mass, ultimately diagnosed as a malignant tumor.
Purpose: This is a single arm phase 2 trial (Clinical trials.gov NCT05291780) to assess local control (LC) and safety of SAbR in patients with unresectable locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) unfit for concurrent chemo-radiation therapy (ChT-RT).
Methods: Neoadjuvant ChT was prescribed in fit patients.
In the last two decades, studies of lymphoscintigraphy imaging in lymphatic mapping reported an extreme heterogeneity of skin lymphatic drainage of some skin area, in contrast with the previous scientific literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of any correlations between the topographical location of cutaneous melanoma and the topographical location of sentinel lymph nodes. Data from 165 patients undergoing sentinel lymph node biopsy between January 2013 and May 2021 were analyzed, demonstrating that melanomas in the Lumbar region presented a significant more heterogeneous drainage by site than those in the Scapular region ( < 0.
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- The study aimed to evaluate incidental lung changes in asymptomatic cancer patients using [F]FDG PET/CT during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, where the virus was widespread.
- Researchers analyzed data from 59 centers, comparing rates of interstitial pneumonia during various periods: during COVID (March 2020), pre-COVID (January-February 2020), and a control year (2019).
- Results indicated a significant increase in interstitial pneumonia rates during the COVID period (7.1%) compared to pre-COVID (5.35%) and control (5.15%), particularly higher in Northern Italy, emphasizing the need to monitor such findings for early COVID-19 detection and management.
We propose an unobtrusive, wearable, and wireless system for the pre-screening and follow-up in the domestic environment of specific sleep-related breathing disorders. This group of diseases manifests with episodes of apnea and hypopnea of central or obstructive origin, and it can be disabling, with several drawbacks that interfere in the daily patient life. The gold standard for their diagnosis and grading is polysomnography, which is a time-consuming, scarcely available test with many wired electrodes disseminated on the body, requiring hospitalization and long waiting times.
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