Publications by authors named "P Pistolesi"
Sudden and persistent dysphonia within the framework of COVID-19: The case report of a nurse.
Brain Behav Immun Health
December 2020
In December 2019, clusters of atypical pneumonia with unknown etiology emerged in the city of Wuhan in China. In early January 2020, the Center for Disease Control in China announced that it was identified a new coronavirus, first tentatively named 2019-nCoV and officially named SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. On February 11, 2020 the WHO identified the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 as COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease-19 based on the year of appearance).
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- The study took place in a "cotto" manufacturing facility in Chianti Fiorentino, employing around 400 workers and revealing silica exposure levels exceeding occupational limits.
- An investigation assessed the health of 227 workers, finding a high prevalence of smoking and some cases of airway obstruction and interstitial lung diseases linked to silica exposure.
- The findings underscore the necessity for improved collaboration between occupational health professionals to standardize health surveillance and enhance disease prevention strategies related to silica exposure.
Quality management (QM) is a key issue for the Italian National Health System (NHS). Regione Toscana is currently undertaking a pilot programme to promote QM in Prevention Departments (PD). An introductory training to such programme was devised in the PD of the Local Health Unit no.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Polyfunctional aziridine (PFA) hardener is increasingly used in water-based paints and inks as a replacement for organic solvents. Allergic contact dermatitis, contact urticaria, respiratory allergy in occupationally exposed patients with hypersensitivity to PFA are reported.
Objectives: The aim was to study a population of adhesive tape printers for occupational respiratory and skin sensitisation to PFA hardener.
Evaluation of the biocompatibility of four different types of oxygenator (bubble, membrane, hollow fibre and 'hybrid') was performed on 26 patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass during elective coronary surgery. More platelet derangement and an increased degree of hemolysis, revealed by higher plasmatic concentration of beta-thromboglobulin, platelet factor 4 and plasmatic free hemoglobin (p less than 0.05), was seen when using the bubble oxygenator.
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