Publications by authors named "I Martini"
Progressive hemifacial atrophy (PHA) and linear scleroderma (LS) are both rare conditions and defined by atrophy and/or sclerosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The ideal timing of reconstructive intervention in these patients is controversial. We compared the outcome and satisfaction of autologous lipofilling performed during active and stable phases of the diseases in adults.
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- Oysters are bivalve molluscs crucial for fisheries and aquaculture, but their genetic diversity and distribution are still not well understood.
- The variability in their shell shapes makes it hard to classify different species, despite molecular research identifying about 100 existing species.
- This study focused on small flat oysters in the Mediterranean regions of Liguria and Sardinia, using 16S rRNA sequencing to reveal new species and enhance knowledge about oyster diversity and evolution.
The process by which Palaeolithic Europe was transformed from a Neanderthal-dominated region to one occupied exclusively by Homo sapiens has proven challenging to diagnose. A blurred chronology has made it difficult to determine when Neanderthals disappeared and whether modern humans overlapped with them. Italy is a crucial region because here we can identify not only Late Mousterian industries, assumed to be associated with Neanderthals, but also early Upper Palaeolithic industries linked with the appearance of early H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWildlife may represent an important source of infectious diseases for humans and other wild and domestic animals. Wild ruminants can harbour and transmit Shiga toxin-producing (STEC) to humans, and some strains even carry important antimicrobial resistance. In this study, 289 livers of wild roe deer, fallow deer, red deer and chamois collected in Liguria, north-west Italy, from 2019 to 2023 were analysed.
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- - Sepsis is a complicated and serious condition, and this study aimed to improve prognosis and patient grouping by examining specific immune response biomarkers known as regulatory immune checkpoints.
- - Researchers analyzed 12 immune response biomarkers in 113 patients with bacterial sepsis, finding that two biomarkers, IRAK-M and Galectin-1, were strong indicators of short-term (7-day and 30-day) mortality and could help categorize patients based on immune response.
- - The study concluded that IRAK-M and Galectin-1 could serve as prognostic tools to identify different sepsis phenotypes, which may assist in treatment decisions and future clinical trials aimed at targeted therapies.