Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy for Misophonia: A Single-Case Study.

Background: Misophonia is a chronic condition in which the exposure to specific sounds increases the arousal and recurrence of specific intense negative emotions. We hypothesized that misophonia may be strongly related to maladaptive interpersonal schemas that create difficulties in interpersonal relationships. Subjects with maladaptive interpersonal schemas think that other people try to subjugate, criticize, dominate, exploit, deceive, disregard, and humiliate them.

Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Patients with Chronic Tinnitus-Preliminary Results.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures are both causes of psychological distress. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the psychological effects of lockdown measures on patients with subjective chronic tinnitus diagnosed before the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of n = 77 patients with chronic tinnitus was contacted by mail/phone for a survey between June 2021 and September 2021.

Tinnitus and Metacognitive Beliefs-Results of a Cross-Sectional Observational Study.

Recent research has highlighted the role of metacognitions as a moderator for psychological distress in patients with chronic diseases. The present study investigates the role of metacognitions and worry in the association between tinnitus distress, anxiety, and depression. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of tinnitus-outpatients who completed the Tinnitus-Handicap Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Metacognition Questionnaire-30, Penn-State-Worry-Questionnaire.

Gender Comparison of Psychological Comorbidities in Tinnitus Patients - Results of a Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: In the last decades, research focused on gender-related features in patients with tinnitus has often led to controversial results. The complex clinical picture of tinnitus patients often consists of an interdependent relationship between audiological symptoms and co-occurrent psychological disorders, which can complicate the diagnostic evaluation.

Methods: Therefore, we studied 107 patients with tinnitus, investigating their psychological comorbidities in the light of gender differences.

Validation of the Italian Tinnitus Questionnaire Short Form (TQ 12-I) as a Brief Test for the Assessment of Tinnitus-Related Distress: Results of a Cross-Sectional Multicenter-Study.

The use of reliable and valid psychometric tools to assess subjectively experienced distress due to tinnitus is broadly recommended. The purpose of the study was the validation of the Italian version of Tinnitus Questionnaire 12 item short form (TQ 12-I) as a brief test for the assessment of patient reported tinnitus-related distress. Cross-sectional multicenter questionnaire study.

Variability of the 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer in Pseudomonas avellanae strains.

The 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1) from 34 strains of Pseudomonas avellanae and some strains of Pseudomonas syringae pathovars was amplified and assessed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) using 10 restriction enzymes. In addition, the ITS1 region of four representative P. avellanae strains was sequenced and compared by the neighbour-joining algorithm with that of P.

[Traumatic lesions of the diaphragm].

The Authors studied 30 cases of diaphragmatic traumatisms from 1972 to 2003 to stress the difficulty to achieve an early diagnosis and the need of their immediate treatment: 26 of these patients were male and 4 female (6.5:1); the pathogenesis was in 50% of cases an open trauma and in 50% a closed trauma. The mean age was 36.

Clonal population structure of Pseudomonas avellanae strains of different origin based on multilocus enzyme electrophoresis.

To assess the genetic diversity and genetic relationships of Pseudomonas avellanae, the causative agent of hazelnut decline, a total of 102 strains, obtained from central Italy (provinces of Viterbo and Rome) and northern Greece, were studied using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE). Their allelic variation in 10 loci was determined. All loci were polymorphic and 53 electrophoretic types (ETs) were identified from the total sample.

[Surgical management of trauma: from the "golden hour" to the "Golden Day"].

The treatment of the "trauma" has individualized objective therapeutic to reach in the first phase of clinical management defined by Mattox in the concept of the Golden Hour, that consist to transport the patient to the fittest hospital and to recognize and to treat the priorities "ABCDE", identifies in ATLS Guideline. The evolution of the organization for the treatment of the trauma has developed the concept of Trauma System to whose apex there are of the structures devoted define Trauma Center, with specificity of structures and functions, personal devoted fully grown with a specific run. In the Trauma Center is possible to get a therapeutic planning according to the priorities of the case in few times so that to not only achieve the objective to treat in emergency the vital lesions, but to do the necessary treatments precociously to prevent the compliances of the patient, that is checked in environment then multidisciplinary intensive care.

[Use of adhesives in emergency surgery].

In a prospective study, the Authors present an analysis on the use of surgical adhesives in the wounds treatment. In sixteen months we have treated 157 patients exclusively with a surgical tissue adhesive 2-octylcianoacrylate to repair traumatic wounds and surgical ones. In the Emergency Department were treated 110 patients (70%) with 2-octylcianoacrylate for skin incisions, lacerations and the length of lesion.

[Inhaled foreign bodies: first aid].

In the last 30 years 1,484,576 patients with traumatic lesions of different kind of seriousness were observed and managed. By mean of retrospective investigation, the authors selected and statistically analysed a sample of 95 patients treated for accidental tracheobronchial foreign bodies inhalation: authors' aim was to punctually determinate--step by step--diagnosis and treatment procedure in a "time-saving" frame. Inhalation of foreign bodies is a very dangerous event, particularly in children.

[Spontaneous biliodigestive fistulae. The clinical considerations, surgical treatment and complications].

To reevaluate the current feature of spontaneous bilioenteric fistula we reviewed 81 cases who had been treated for biliary fistula between 1948 and 1998. After a review of the literature on this subject, the multiple problems relate to pathological anatomy, pathogenesis and physiopathology are discussed. Of 81 patients, 55 were women and 26 were men with the average age of 54.

[Deep venous thrombosis and neoplastic pathology: our experience in emergencies].

Deep vein thrombosis incidence is 1/1000 per year; it is associated with many risk factors which is considered as "thrombophilic states". Its pathogenesis is complex, caused by alterations of hemostasis system. Many studies have established the relation between cancer and subsequent venous thromboembolism, confirming the relationship of neoplastic cell interaction with coagulation system.

[Problems in emergency visceral reconstruction in colorectal pathology].

A diagnostic-therapeutic protocol for colorectal haemorrhage is suggested. The Authors underline the need to remove inflammatory foci when a perforation of the colon occurs; furthermore, in the acute obstruction due to colorectal carcinoma a resection followed, when possible, by an immediate anastomosis is recommended.

[Chronic splenic tuberculosis. Description of a case].

The authors report a case of chronic splenic tuberculosis. They underline the diagnostic difficulties, notwithstanding the remarkable progresses in radiological technics, essentially related to the rarity of this tubercular site and they outlined the exact surgical indication to the splenectomy.

[Indications for and comparisons between transduodenal papillostomy and choledochoduodenostomy].

Biliary lithiasis is still a subject of great interest. The aim of surgical treatment is removing common bile duct stones and assuring a good biliary outflow. In this study the authors report their experience in the surgical treatment of common bile duct stones and the indications for transduodenal papillostomy (PST) and latero-lateral choledochoduodenostomy (CDA).