Publications by authors named "M Scozzafava"

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  • This study investigated the relationship between different types of respiratory support and the risk of barotrauma in COVID-19 patients during hospital stays from March 2020 to February 2021.
  • It found that invasive mechanical ventilation and non-invasive ventilation (C-PAP/PSV) significantly increased the risk of barotrauma compared to conventional oxygen therapy, while High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO) did not.
  • The occurrence of barotrauma was low (1.00%) but was associated with older age, immunosuppression, and a higher risk of in-hospital death.
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Anxiety and depression symptoms may leave children at risk for lower academic scores, though this unique linkage to academic achievement in underserved youth is less well established. This study aimed to examine how anxiety and depression are uniquely related to spelling and math achievement beyond attention and hyperactivity deficits in children in underserved schools. Children aged 8 to 11 ( = 1085, 47.

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A developmental understanding of the expression of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms following trauma in childhood requires identifying continuity and change in not just overall symptoms but in the individual symptoms as well. Such models of change also require understanding multiple dimensions of time. That is, longitudinal change-the passage of time-may have different effects on symptom expression depending on when in time an individual entered the study - such as what age they were when first assessed.

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European SARS-CoV-2 pandemic epicenter was detected in Northern Italy, in a little Italian town of Lodi province, the Lodi Hospital was therefore rapidly saturated, and in particularly the departments of respiratory diseases and Intensive Care Unit had been largely involved. In this paper, we describe how the first Sub-intensive Respiratory Unit in Europe completely dedicated to COVID-19 patients was organized and managed in our hospital. From February 25 to April 30 2020, 156 patients were admitted to our Respiratory Sub-intensive Unit.

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Ectopic mammary gland tissue in the vulva is an uncommon clinical or pathologic finding. Such ectopic tissue can be the site of the same physiologic and pathologic processes found in the normal breast. However, the occurrence of adenocarcinoma is very rare, the first case being reported by Greene in 1935.

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