Publications by authors named "Federico Desideri"

Background And Aims: The purpose of this study was to present data on the safety of anti- severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination in a cohort of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients of an ongoing multicenter study (ESCAPE-IBD) sponsored by the Italian Group for the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04769258).

Methods: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was administrated to 809 IBD patients.

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Background: Patients on immunosuppressive drugs have been excluded from COVID-19 vaccines trials, creating concerns regarding their efficacy.

Aims: To explore the humoral response to COVID-19 vaccines in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) METHODS: Effectiveness and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Treated with Immunomodulatory or Biological Drugs (ESCAPE-IBD) is a prospective, multicentre study promoted by the Italian Group for the study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. We present data on serological response eight weeks after the second dose of COVID-19 vaccination in IBD patients and healthy controls (HCs).

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Background & Aims: Nonpedunculated colorectal polyps are normally endoscopically removed to prevent neoplastic progression. Delayed bleeding is the most common major adverse event. Clipping the resection defect has been suggested to reduce delayed bleedings.

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Recent-years technological innovation has achieved two important objectives: 1) to develop advanced diagnostic tools able to determine with a fair degree of accuracy the nature of a lesion by means of the simple endoscopic observation; 2) to improve the therapeutic approach to lesions, by extending the least-invasive endoscopic treatment also to lesions that in the past were referred to surgery. Advanced diagnostic methodologies have been achieved thanks to the introduction of high definition endoscopes and virtual chromo-endoscopy. Therapeutic innovation is represented by endoscopic sub-mucosal dissection (ESD) that enables the "en bloc" resection of the lesions, thus ensuring a more accurate histological evaluation of their level of infiltration and of the radicality of the resection.

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The importance of the endoscopic evaluation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management has been recognized for many years. However, the modalities for reporting endoscopic activity represent an ongoing challenge. To address this, several endoscopic scores have been proposed.

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In Wilson's disease, liver transplantation can constitute the only option for patients presenting with fulminant hepatic failure or decompensated liver disease unresponsive to drug therapy. We report the case of a 29-year-old woman receiving a liver transplant for end-stage Wilson's disease who developed neurological complications after transplantation. After an accurate evaluation of possible differential causes of neurological complications developing as the result of liver transplantation, moyamoya disease was diagnosed.

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New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is a frequent complication after liver transplantation and has a negative impact on both patient and graft survival. In analogy with the previous finding of an association between posttransplant hypomagnesemia and NODAT in renal transplant recipients, the relation between both pretransplant and posttransplant hypomagnesemia and NODAT was studied in liver transplant recipients (LTRs). One hundred sixty-nine adult LTRs (>18 years old) without diabetes who underwent transplantation between 2004 and 2009 were studied (mean age = 52.

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