May Measure Month 2022 in Italy: A Focus on Fixed-dose Combination, Therapeutic Adherence, and Medical Inertia in a Nationwide Survey.

Introduction: Hypertension is the main risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Notably, only about half of hypertensive patients manage to achieve the recommended blood pressure (BP) control. Main reasons for the persistence of uncontrolled BP during treatment are lack of compliance on the patients' side, and therapeutic inertia on physicians' side.

Untreated masked hypertension and carotid atherosclerosis: a meta-analysis.

Aim: Masked hypertension (MH) is recognized as a clinical entity with an unfavorable cardiovascular prognosis; a limited number of reports, however, investigated the impact of this condition on subclinical vascular damage. We performed a meta-analysis aimed at evaluating the association of MH with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in initially untreated subjects.

Design: Studies were identified by the following search terms: "masked hypertension", "isolated clinic normotension", "white coat normotension", "carotid artery", "carotid atherosclerosis", "carotid intima-media thickness", "carotid damage" and "carotid thickening".

Adult scoliosis: age-related deformity and surgery.

Purpose: We retrospectively analyzed our results in thoracolumbar and lumbar adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated during adulthood.

Methods: Fifty-two thoracolumbar and 30 lumbar idiopathic scoliosis surgically treated were reviewed. Mean follow-up was 9.

Vertebral body recollapse without trauma after kyphoplasty with calcium phosphate cement.

Traditionally, immobilization and external bracing has been recommended for patients with type A traumatic and non-osteoporotic fractures that do not present neurological deficits or significant instability. Nevertheless, several authors have recently suggested the possibility to treat thoraco-lumbar and lumbar vertebral compression post-traumatic fractures using standalone balloon kyphoplasty with osteoconductive filler materials, such as calcium phosphate (CPC). Maestretti and Huang have demonstrated the advantages of this technique showing an almost immediate return to daily activities without the inconvenience of wearing a brace, pain reduction, minimal operative risks and maintenance of stability, therefore proposing this as a first-choice technique in young patient needing rapid spine stability.

Cervicothoracic postarachnoiditic hydrosyringomyelia secondary to pedicular hook dislocation: case report.

Background: Pedicular hook dislocation is a rare complication of spinal instrumentation. We report on the first case of hydrosyringomyelia secondary to intracanalar hook displacement after scoliosis surgery.

Case Description: A 15-year-old girl presented to our institution with a 7-month history of persistent neck and occipital pain as well as numbness of the lower extremities and previous dorsolumbar instrumentation with dorsal pedicular hooks and lumbar screws.