Risk factors for COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis and outcomes in patients with acute respiratory failure in a respiratory sub-intensive care unit.

Background: COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is burdened by high mortality. Data are lacking about non-ICU patients. Aims of this study were to: (i) assess the incidence and prevalence of CAPA in a respiratory sub-intensive care unit, (ii) evaluate its risk factors and (iii) impact on in-hospital mortality.

Conservative oxygen supplementation during helmet continuous positive airway pressure therapy in patients with COVID-19 and respiratory failure: a pilot study.

Background: Respiratory failure is a severe complication in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia that, in addition to oxygen therapy, may require continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) support. It has been postulated that COVID-19 lung injury may share some features with those observed in hyperoxic acute lung injury. Thus, a correct target arterial oxygen tension ( ) during oxygen supplementation may be crucial to protect the lung from further tissue damage.

Prevalence and clinical features of bile acid diarrhea in patients with chronic diarrhea.

Objective: Bile acid diarrhea is a form of chronic diarrhea caused by excessive bile reaching the colon. Conditions involving the terminal ileum and cholecystectomy are predisposing factors but an idiopathic form of bile acid diarrhea has also been described. In this study we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of bile acid diarrhea in patients consecutively evaluated for chronic diarrhea in an Outpatient Gastroenterology Clinic.

Prevalence, incidence and clinical features of SARS-CoV-2 infection in adult coeliac patients.

Objectives: Data on SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19) in adult coeliac disease (CD) are lacking. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the epidemiology and clinical features of COVID-19 in adult coeliac patients regularly followed-up at our centre since January 2015.

Methods: Data about general health status and clinical features of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were prospectively collected over the phone.

Determinants and Trends of Adherence to a Gluten-Free Diet in Adult Celiac Patients on a Long-term Follow-up (2000-2020).

Background & Aims: Data on factors governing long-term adherence to a gluten-free diet (GFD) in celiac disease (CD) are scarce. We aimed to determine trends and clinical predictors of long-term GFD adherence in adult CD.

Methods: Initial and long-term (>3 years) GFD adherence, clinical characteristics at baseline and follow-up were collected retrospectively from celiac patients followed-up over 20 years (2000-2020).

Long-term morbidity and mortality in Whipple's disease: a single-center experience over 20 years.

Little is known about long-term morbidity and mortality in Whipple's disease (WD). To describe morbidity and mortality in patients with WD on a long-term follow-up. Comorbidities, mortality and causes of death were retrospectively registered.