Publications by authors named "L Ricotti"
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- Conventional radiography and MRI are standard for assessing knee osteoarthritis, but ultrasound is emerging as a useful complementary tool, despite ongoing debates about its efficacy.
- Ultrasound can help detect issues like cartilage degradation and synovitis, and it allows for real-time guidance in local diagnostic and minimally invasive treatments.
- Advances in ultrasound technology, such as tele-ultrasonography and raw data analysis, may improve therapy tracking and provide deeper insights into joint structures, highlighting its growing importance in both research and clinical applications.
Advanced tools for the in situ treatment of articular cartilage lesions are attracting a growing interest in both surgery and bioengineering communities. The interest is particularly high concerning the delivery of cell-laden hydrogels. The tools currently available in the state-of-the-art hardly find an effective compromise between treatment accuracy and invasiveness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a widespread and frustrating condition that affects millions of people worldwide, with severe consequences on patients' quality of life and health care systems' costs. Currently, the most severe cases of SUI are treated using implanted (and rather invasive) extraurethral artificial sphincters. The authors propose an innovative, minimally invasive endourethral device for the treatment of SUI.
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- - The study evaluated the usability of various technologies aimed at remotely assessing knee osteoarthritis by involving patients, caregivers, and clinicians in the evaluation process.
- - Eleven patients, caregivers, and clinicians tested devices like a wristband, an examination chair, a thermal camera, and a mobile app, filling out usability questionnaires.
- - All groups rated the technologies positively, with average usability scores around 8.5 to 8.8 out of 10, indicating high acceptability for these portable assessment tools.
Medical patches have garnered increasing attention in recent decades for several diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Advancements in material science, manufacturing technologies, and bioengineering have significantly widened their functionalities, rendering them highly versatile platforms for wearable and implantable applications. Of particular interest are triggerable patches designed for drug delivery and tissue regeneration purposes, whose action can be controlled by an external signal.
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