Publications by authors named "Maria Cristina Bonini"

Behçet disease (BD) is a systemic disorder caused by underlying vasculitis of unknown origin. In this paper we present a case of a 26-year-old male patient who was admitted at our Emergency Department with massive haemoptysis due to pulmonary arterial involvement in BD. The discussion of this case helps to remember that BD is the main cause of aneurysm of the pulmonary arteries and a cause of haemoptysis in young patients.

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The causes of diagnostic errors during daily medical practice can be several, mainly attributable to perceptual, interpretive and communication factors. The eventuality of radiological error is much more amplified in the emergency setting where a high number of complex multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) images must be evaluated quickly and critical time decisions need to be taken. In particular, in this context, the diagnosis of vascular intestinal diseases represents a crucial and difficult challenge in case of acute abdominal pain given the importance of being able to identify patient with high suspicious for intestinal ischemia and for a specific patient to judge if his ischemia is reversible or irreversible.

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