Risk factors associated with the occurrence of avulsion in the primary incisors: A case-control study.

Background: Identifying factors associated with the occurrence of primary tooth avulsion is essential to promote prevention strategies.

Aim: To investigate the risk factors associated with primary incisor avulsion and variables associated with post-avulsion sequelae in the permanent successor.

Design: This case-control study comprised 407 children (cases) with primary incisor avulsion and 407 children (controls) with other traumatic dental injuries (TDI).

Lichen planus of the esophagus: a case report.

Esophageal lichen planus (ELP) is an inflammatory disorder that affects the skin, cutaneous appendages and mucous membranes. The esophageal involvement is rare. We present the case of a 70-year-old woman with years of dysphagia and a history of erosive lichen planus involving the vulva, vagina, gingiva, and skin, who was eventually diagnosed with esophageal lichen planus.

Traumatic dental injuries in the primary lower incisors.

Background: Primary lower incisors are susceptible to traumatic dental injury (TDI), which may affect both primary and permanent dentitions.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of TDIs in the primary lower incisors and the factors associated with their occurrence and with the incidence of sequelae in the permanent successor teeth.

Design: Dental files (n = 2926) from patients who attended a reference center for dental trauma in the primary teeth, from 1998 to 2020, were screened.

Immunohistochemistry subtyping of urothelial carcinoma is feasible in the daily practice.

The preferred treatment of choice in muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is usually transurethral resection followed by cystectomy, with neoadjuvant chemotherapy being a second option. As the treatment is associated with relevant side effects, a great effort is being made to improve the selection of patients, with molecular subtyping being one of the main strategies. Our aim was to develop an immunohistochemical algorithm for subtyping MIBCs.

Impact of avulsion of the primary incisors on the occurrence of sequelae in the permanent teeth: A retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate the occurrence of sequelae in the permanent teeth after avulsion of their primary antecessors and to evaluate the factors associated with this occurrence.

Methods: We screened 2922 records of patients with photographic and radiographic images who attended a reference centre for dental trauma in the primary teeth from 1998 to 2019. Among them, 240 were eligible records of children who had suffered avulsion of the primary incisors and were followed up until complete eruption of the permanent successors.

Safety of ergotamine-ergic pharmacologic stress echocardiography for vasospasm testing in the echo lab: 14 year experience on 478 tests in 464 patients.

Background: The safety of ergonovine/ergometrine stress testing for coronary vasospasm when performed outside the cath lab has vigorously been questioned. The aim of this study was to assess the value of ergonovine/ergometrine stress testing performed in the echo lab.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the data prospectively collected in the echo lab of the Institute of Clinical Physiology of Pisa (Italy) from January 1, 1985, to October 1, 1998, on 478 tests performed on 464 patients with either ergonovine or ergometrine stress echo testing.

ECG in stress testing: child of a lesser diagnostic god?

When new technologies are added to the previously existing ones, the latter can be prematurely discarded and judged obsolete not only on the basis of rational scientific facts, but also on irrational trends. Old techniques, like electrocardiography, suffer from diagnostic ambiguities that can be solved by combination with a cardiac imaging technique, like stress echocardiography. ECG monitoring during all forms of stress testing can still offer surprising dividends for a better understanding of the complex physiology of coronary artery disease, a better clinical characterization of patients with microvascular angina, and may serve as an important adjunct marker to cardiac imaging techniques.

The relative value of exercise-electrocardiography and dipyridamole stress echocardiography for risk stratification early after uncomplicated myocardial infarction. The EPIC (Echo Persantine International Cooperative) Study Group.

Background: Rational prognostic algorithm should be developed considering the logical progression of the information as it becomes available to the physician, with clinical data first, ECG data second and stress imaging data last. The aim of the present study was to assess in a clinically realistic fashion the relative prognostic value of exercise electrocardiography test (EET) and dipyridamole-echocardiography test (DET) early after first acute uncomplicated myocardial infarction.

Methods And Results: Five hundred and forty-seven in-hospital patients (age = 56 +/- 9 years) with recent clinically uncomplicated first myocardial infarction, baseline echocardiographic findings of satisfactory quality, interpretable ECG and capability to exercise underwent a resting 2D echocardiogram, a DET and an EET at a mean of 10 days from the infarction and were followed up for 16.