Publications by authors named "M Riganti"
Article Synopsis
- Lombardy faced a significant COVID-19 outbreak, prompting a regional law to reorganize healthcare resources from March 8 to May 8, 2020, to better manage COVID-19 patients alongside other time-sensitive medical cases.
- Key changes included reallocating ICU beds and supporting trauma, neurosurgical emergency, and stroke patients while maintaining transplant activities, with a focus on comparing patient outcomes from 2020 to 2019.
- The study found a doubling in admissions for time-dependent conditions and an increase in local organ procurement, with unchanged in-ICU mortality ratios, indicating effective management despite the pandemic's challenges.
The first reported case of autochthonous cutaneous leishmaniasis in Thailand.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
January 2012
Thailand is not an endemic area for leishmaniasis. Several cases of autochthonous visceral leishmaniasis have been reported from Thailand but cutaneous leishmaniasis has never been reported. We reported a three-year-old girl who presented with a chronic ulcer on her cheek which proved to be cutaneous leishmaniasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a rare case of human thelaziasis. A 31-year-old man from Nakhon Pathom, Thailand presented to the hospital with a foreign body sensation in and excessive lacrimation from the right eye for one week. His visual acuity was normal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of amebic brain abscess due to Entamoeba histolytica. The patient was a 31-year-old man who presented with amebic liver abscess. His clinical course deteriorated in spite of proper drainage and treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh prevalence of Microsporidium infection in HIV-infected patients.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
March 2009
Sixty-four patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) participated in a study to determine opportunistic enteric pathogens and compare them with the patients' clinical status. The most frequently found pathogens were microsporidium (81.2%), Cryptosporidium parvum (20.
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