Publications by authors named "G B Fogazzi"
Examination of the urinary sediment (U-sed) is an important non-invasive, rapid, and inexpensive tool for the diagnosis and surveillance over time of renal diseases. In this Educational Review, we describe first how to collect, prepare, and examine urine samples in order to obtain reliable results. Then, we describe the U-sed findings in isolated microscopic hematuria, glomerular diseases, acute interstitial nephritis, acute kidney injury, reactivation of the BK virus in kidney transplant recipients, and crystalluric genetic diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article, written by several authors, describes the birth and early development of the nephrology at Molinette Hospital in Torino, Italy. In particular, it supplies important information on Antonio Vercellone, very motivated and innovative clinician and one of the fathers of Italian nephrology, and on Giuseppe Piccoli, his right-hand man and then his successor. This article also shows the strong professional and human engagement that was requested to the young doctors who, in the early Sixties and Seventies of the past century, had chosen to devote their professional lives to the patients with kidney diseases: from endless workdays without schedules to the anguish caused by the shortage of artificial kidneys to the cure of very fragile and unfortunate patients, and much more.
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- - The article discusses a case of acute kidney injury resulting from ethylene glycol poisoning that showed partial recovery after temporary hemodialysis.
- - Diagnosis was made through evaluating the patient's clinical history and detecting ethylene glycol in the blood.
- - Renal biopsy revealed numerous intratubular crystals, and the urine analysis showed many unusual calcium oxalate crystals that were spindle-like and needle-like in shape.
Purpose: This study examined the effects of Fil-Rouge Integrated Psycho-Oncological Support (FRIPOS) in a group of women with breast cancer compared with a group receiving treatment as usual (TAU).
Methods: The research design was a randomized, monocentric, prospective study with three time points of data collection: after the preoperative phase (T0), in the initial phase of treatments (T1), and 3 months after the start of treatments (T2). The FRIPOS group (N = 103) and the TAU group (N = 79) completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) at T0; the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ) C30 and EORTC QLQ-BR23 at T1; and SCL-90-R, EORTC QLQ-C30, and EORTC QLQ-BR23 at T2.