Publications by authors named "M Lanotte"
Parasellar region meningiomas with optic canal (OC) invasion: Correlation between the degree of decompression of the OC and the improvement of visual acuity.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
December 2024
Purpose: To evaluate the correlation between the degrees of circumferential decompression of the optic canal (OC) and the improvement of visual acuity in patients with parasellar meningiomas (PMs) with optic canal invasion.
Methods: This is a monocentric retrospective study conducted at author's institution. The visual acuity was evaluated preoperative and at 3-months after surgery with Snellen acuity test.
Digital gait monitoring is increasingly used to assess locomotion and fall risk. The aim of this work is to analyze the changes in the foot-floor contact sequences of Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients in the year following the implantation of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). During their best-ON condition, 30 PD patients underwent gait analysis at baseline (T0), at 3 months after subthalamic nucleus DBS neurosurgery (T1), and at 12 months (T2) after subthalamic nucleus DBS neurosurgery.
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- Cranial CT scans are commonly used to detect brain injuries in children after trauma, but they pose risks due to radiation exposure, leading to a search for safer alternatives like serum biomarkers, specifically S100B.
- A systematic review of pediatric studies found that S100B measurements combined with CT have a high sensitivity (98%) and a very high negative predictive value (99%), indicating that low-risk patients may avoid unnecessary CT scans.
- Although S100B shows potential in managing mild traumatic brain injuries in emergency settings, high variability among studies suggests more research is needed before it can be consistently implemented in clinical practice.
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- Hydrocephalus is a medical condition that requires surgical solutions to manage excess cerebrospinal fluid, with the ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) being the most common method used today.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to compare the effectiveness and safety of VPS and ventriculoatrial shunt (VAS) techniques, analyzing data from nine studies involving 3,197 patients.
- The analysis found that the VAS had a significantly lower risk of shunt dysfunction, while risks of infection, revision, and death were statistically similar between the two methods but showed high variability across studies.
Application of the NSE score (Neurology-Stability-Epidural compression assessment) to establish the need for surgery in spinal metastases of elderly patients: a multicenter investigation.
Eur Spine J
November 2024
Purpose: This retropective multicentric study aims to investigate the clinical applicability of the NSE score in the elderly, to verify the role of this tool as an easy help for decision making also for this class of patients.
Methods: All elderly patients (> 65 years) suffering from spinal metastases undergoing surgical or non-surgical treatment at the authors' Institutions between 2015 and 2022 were recruited. An agreement group (AG) and non-agreement group (NAG) were identified accordingly to the agreement between the NSE score indication and the performed treatment.