Publications by authors named "M Scarpignato"
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- - A 34-year-old man was diagnosed with complete AV block linked to systemic sarcoidosis affecting his heart, identified through an FDG-PET scan despite a normal cardiac MRI.
- - Treatment began with corticosteroids and monitoring with an implantable loop recorder (ILR), which initially showed improvement in his condition.
- - After 8 months, the ILR detected recurring AV block and new issues in heart function, leading to the initiation of infliximab therapy and the implantation of a dual chamber ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator).
A previously healthy 32-year-old female hailing from Mexico presented to the emergency department with rectorrhagia. Caseating granulomas were detected on histopathological analysis from cecum ulcerative lesions. A purified protein derivative skin test resulted positive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterventional radiology and hemodynamic procedures have rapidly grown in number in the past decade, increasing the importance of personnel dosimetry not only for patients but also for medical staff. The optimization of the absorbed dose during operations is one of the goals that fostered the development of real-time dosimetric systems. Indeed, introducing proper procedure optimization, like correlating dose rate measurements with medical staff position inside the operating room, the absorbed dose could be reduced.
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