Publications by authors named "I Simoncello"
Background And Aims: Diabetes mellitus is a prevalent chronic disease in patients who die of COVID-19. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical and metabolic characteristics of diabetic patients with COVID-19 during the pre-vaccination phase.
Methods And Results: A retrospective cohort study was conducted from February 2020 to February 2021 to examine the clinical and metabolic profiles of unvaccinated diabetic patients affected by COVID-19.
Ketamine (KT) is used to induce and maintain general anaesthesia in combination with sedative drugs in human and animals. Because of its dissociative and hallucinogenic effects, KT has become a recreational drug in a variety of social settings and may be included in the panel of drugs of abuse that are controlled in driving under the influence (DUI) ascertainment. In a local driving license re-granting protocol, a case where a veterinary physician was found positive to KT and nor-ketamine (NK) in hair suggested the possibility of a professional exposure in a veterinary setting and prompted an experimental study.
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- This study investigates the causes of domestic accidents in children under 15 in the Local Social Sanitary Unit of Padua, Italy, focusing on the nature of accidents and family socioeconomic status.
- 392 cases were collected through the Emergency Department over two months in 2004, with a follow-up interview conducted with parents yielding a 74% response rate.
- The findings revealed a higher incidence of domestic accidents in Padua (7.74%) compared to the national average, especially among preschool boys, with falls being the most common cause, highlighting the potential for preventive measures through adult behavior.
The efficacy of a 10 or 20 micrograms antigen load of HB recombinant vaccines is still being debated. A comparison of anti-HBs titres in two groups of healthy subjects vaccinated by the same schedule (0, 1 and 6 months) employing recombinant HB vaccines with different antigen loads, 20 micrograms (group A, 251 subjects) and 10 micrograms (group B, 256 subjects) was carried out. A seroprotection rate of 99.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong-term persistence of specific antibodies after primary immunization against HBV infection has been reported. In this study, we evaluated the persistence of anti-HBs in vaccinees 6 years after primary immunization and the response to a booster dose using a recombinant DNA yeast-derived HB vaccine. An 85.
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