Publications by authors named "F Romani"
Objective: To determine the prevalence of spinal segmental sensitization (SSS) syndrome, a regional pain disorder, among patients visiting physical medicine and rehabilitation centers (PM&RCs) for chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSP).
Design: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted from March to July 2023.
Setting: Seven PM&RCs from 5 cities, representing 3 care systems: Social Security (SS), Ministry of Health (MH), and private practice (PP).
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in patients with hematological malignancies in the Omicron era: Respiratory failure, need for mechanical ventilation and mortality in seronegative and seropositive patients.
EJHaem
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- Patients with hematological malignancies are at a higher risk for severe COVID-19 during the Omicron variant's prevalence, with significant health impacts observed in those with negative SARS-CoV2 serology.
- A study of 112 patients revealed that seronegative individuals were older, more likely to have certain types of cancer, and faced worse health outcomes, including higher rates of respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, and COVID-related death.
- The findings suggest that negative SARS-CoV2 serology can serve as a useful indicator to identify patients at increased risk for severe complications from COVID-19, highlighting the importance of serology testing in managing these patients.
Marchantia polymorpha has become an important model system for comparative studies and synthetic biology. The systematic characterization of genetic elements would make heterologous gene expression more predictable in this test bed for gene circuit assembly and bioproduction. Yet, the toolbox of genetic parts for Marchantia includes only a few constitutive promoters that need benchmarking to assess their utility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To estimate the prevalence of chronic neck pain (CNP) among the adult population in Peru during the post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) restriction period compared with that during the pre-pandemic period and evaluate its association with prolonged digital devices connected to the internet (DDCI) screen viewing.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using a representative sample of adults living in Peru in November 2022. A structured survey was employed to identify CNP, and the exposure variable was set as the duration of DDCI screen viewing.
This is a case of primary hyperparathyroidism in a female teenager with multiple fractures and severe bone manifestations. The histopathology revealed atypical parathyroid adenoma, an exceedingly rare form of hyperparathyroidism; its main differential diagnosis is parathyroid carcinoma, as it shares both clinical and histological characteristics with it, in addition to its still uncertain malignant potential.
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