Publications by authors named "Piero Rapazzini"
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- * They recruited 3,017 mostly older female patients (median age 86), with significant variability in practices such as surgery timing, cognitive assessments, and rehabilitation discharge.
- * Results highlighted a need for a national discussion in Italy to standardize and improve orthogeriatric care, as the approaches differed significantly from international standards.
Theories on the development of delirium are complementary rather than competing and they may relate to each other. Here, we highlight that similar alterations in functional brain connectivity underlie both the observed age-related deficits and episodes of delirium. The default mode network (DMN) is a group of brain regions showing a greater level of activity at rest than during attention-based tasks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe an immunocompromised patient, aged 78 y, with urinary tract infection caused by Kluyvera ascorbata. Complete recovery was achieved on antibiotic therapy with ceftriaxone. Review of the literature clearly indicates that K.
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