Acute Kidney Injury and Sepsis after Cardiac Surgery: The Roles of Tissue Inhibitor Metalloproteinase-2, Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein-7, and Mid-Regional Pro-Adrenomedullin.

Background: Identifying a panel of markers detecting kidney injury before the glomerular filtration rate reduction is a challenge to improving the diagnosis and management of acute kidney injury (AKI) in septic patients. This study evaluated the roles of tissue inhibitor metal proteinase-2, insulin growth factor binding protein-7 (TIMP2*IGFBP7), and mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proADM) in patients with AKI.

Patients And Methods: This study was prospectively conducted in an intensive care unit (ICU) enrolling 230 patients who underwent cardiac surgery.

Protocol Implementation for Normothermia in Surgery Settings in Italy: Budget-Impact Analysis.

Introduction: Hypothermia is a well-known risk of the perioperative period and considered a preventable effect of anesthesia care. Nevertheless, it is not fully controlled, causing a number of adverse outcomes following surgical operations and thus increasing length of stay in hospital and treatment costs. The aim of this study was to assess the budget impact (BI) of the implementation of proactive strategies to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) in surgical patients in Italy, as recommended by international guidelines and by a good clinical practice (GCP) guideline of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Reanimation, and Intensive Care.

Effectiveness End Points in Real-World Studies on Biological Therapies in Psoriasis: Systematic Review with Focus on Drug Survival.

Psoriasis is a complex and chronic disease, and, in most cases, therapies are required during all patients' lifetime. The efficacy and safety profiles of biological therapies are well established, but their effectiveness is still open to discussion. We performed a systematic review to summarize how the effectiveness of biological therapies for psoriasis is measured in real-world studies and to understand whether drug survival, a recent alternative outcome to clinical ones, is a recurrent and valid outcome of effectiveness.

Crohn's disease in Italy: A critical review of the literature using different data sources.

Background: Incidence and prevalence of Crohn's disease (CD) have increased during the last decades in several world areas. Italian data on CD are scattered between various administrative, educational and scientific sources, and findings are poorly summarized.

Aims: We conducted a review focusing not only on prevalence and incidence of CD in Italy, but also on mortality, treatments, delayed diagnosis and hospitalization.