Publications by authors named "G Furlanis"
Article Synopsis
- - This study explores long-COVID as a complex disease with symptoms, focusing on fatigue, cognitive impairment (brain fog), and depression, as well as their connections to autonomic dysfunction.
- - A total of 141 patients were assessed using various questionnaires to determine levels of fatigue and other symptoms, with a division between fatigued and non-fatigued groups based on fatigue scores.
- - Results indicated that fatigued patients displayed higher symptoms of autonomic dysfunction, cognitive issues, and depression, while certain predictors like symptom burden and specific questionnaire scores were identified as significant for fatigue in long-COVID.
Background: Cardiac involvement following an acute stroke (Stroke Heart Syndrome-SHS) is an established complication and it is linked to the involvement of sympathetic activation, inflammation, and neuro-endocrine response. Troponin "rise and fall pattern" > 30% is one marker of SHS. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of reperfusion treatments in the prevention/pathogenesis of SHS with different stroke sizes and locations (OCSP classification).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTroponin levels in transient ischemic attack and ischemic stroke: does "transient" in your brain mean "better" for your heart?
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis
September 2024
Purpose: Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is defined as a transient episode of neurological dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord, or retinal ischemia, with clinical symptoms typically lasting less than one hour, and without evidence of acute infarction. In this type of ischemic event, there are no data about a possible cardiac injury tested with troponin. After a stroke, it is well established the cardiac involvement due to a neuro-inflammatory response (recently defined as Stroke Heart Syndrome).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Wake-up Stroke (WUS) accounts for about 25% of all ischemic strokes. Differences according to sex in the WUS subgroup has been poorly investigated so far, so we aimed to assess these differences by differentiating the enrolled population based on treatment administered.
Materials & Methods: We retrospectively analysed clinical and imaging data of WUS patients admitted to our hospital between November 2013 and December 2018 dividing them in two groups: rTPA-treated and non-rTPA treated group.
Background: Convulsive (CSE) and non-convulsive (NCSE) Status Epilepticus are a complication in 0.2-0.3% ischemic strokes.
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