Publications by authors named "P Ravelli"

Aims: Evaluate effectiveness and safety of multiple HyperArc courses and patterns of progression in patients affected by BMs with intracranial progression.

Methods: 56 patients were treated for 702 BMs with 197 (range 2-8) HyperArc courses in case of exclusive intracranial progression. Primary end-point was the overall survival (OS), secondary end-points were intracranial progression-free survival (iPFS), toxicity, local control (LC), neurological death (ND), and whole-brain RT (WBRT)-free survival.

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Introduction: To evaluate prostate volume change during daily-adaptive prostate SBRT on 1.5 T MR-linac and to correlate it with treatment toxicity.

Methods: a series of patients affected by low-to-intermediate risk prostate cancer was treated by 5-fraction SBRT within a prospective study (Prot.

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Background And Purpose: Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has a consolidated role in the treatment of bone oligometastases from prostate cancer (PCa). While the evidence for spinal oligometastases SBRT was robust, its role in non-spinal-bone metastases (NSBM) is not standardized. In fact, there was no clear consensus about dose and target definition in this setting.

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  • The study looked at a new treatment called cSEMS for patients who had issues after liver transplants, specifically with narrow connections (anastomotic strictures).
  • Researchers examined 91 patients over ten years and found that the treatment worked without serious problems, but some stents moved out of place.
  • The main issue was that when the stents migrated, many patients needed more treatments, suggesting that better designs of stents could help prevent this problem.
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Because dental caries is one of the most preventable diseases in the world, poor oral health and inequitable outcomes are not just a failing of our current system of care and financing, but the result of decades of unjust and oppressive systems that were not designed to serve all patients equitably. Reducing these disparities will take deep and intentional work to focus on value, outcomes, and each patient as a whole person. In this article, we describe some of the unique opportunities funders have to listen, learn, and leverage strategies to redesign the oral health system in a way that prioritizes historically marginalized people and communities and transforms the way oral health care is accessed, delivered, and received.

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