Publications by authors named "R Garofoli"
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- - A 50-something man experienced chronic shoulder pain and reduced motion without any prior trauma, leading to imaging that showed osteophytosis but no severe joint issues.
- - A second consultation revealed swelling in his hands and feet, raising suspicion of acromegaly, which was confirmed by further tests and an MRI showing a sellar tumor.
- - The shoulder pain was linked to undiagnosed acromegalic arthropathy, prompting treatment through surgery and medication, emphasizing the importance of early acromegaly diagnosis to prevent complications.
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- The study aimed to compare machine learning (ML) techniques with traditional models for predicting radiographic progression in early axial spondyloarthritis patients.
- A multi-center cohort study in France followed 295 patients with chronic back pain, using methods like logistic regression for traditional models and various ML algorithms, assessing their performance through accuracy metrics.
- Results indicated that traditional models performed comparably to the ML approaches, with the best traditional model achieving a higher accuracy than the top ML models.
Background: The major risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), MUC5B rs35705950, was found to be associated with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). Whilst the MUC5B rs35705950 T risk allele has been associated with better survival in IPF, its impact on RA-ILD prognosis remains to be determined. Our objective was to explore the influence of MUC5B rs35705950 on survival and progression in RA-ILD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) represents the main cause of enterically transmitted hepatitis worldwide. It is known that neuralgic amyotrophy (NA) is one of the most frequent neurological manifestations of HEV. However, clinical, electrodiagnostic (EDX) and MRI characteristics, as well as long-term follow-up of HEV-related NA have not been fully described yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a series of 10 patients with unilateral, dynamic, winged scapula (WS), without cause, that was diagnosed as voluntary winging of the scapula (VWS). We compared clinical, electrodiagnostic, and other examination data for 10 patients with VWS and 146 with dynamic WS-related neuromuscular disorders, to establish a detailed pattern of the VWS subtype. In VWS, electrodiagnostic and other examinations did not reveal any neuromuscular or orthopedic cause.
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