Publications by authors named "R Tovo"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to investigate dermatological symptoms associated with COVID-19 in Brazil, as existing data on this topic in Latin America is limited.
- - Researchers analyzed 50 patients with new-onset skin symptoms, finding that maculopapular eruptions were the most common lesions, and many patients displayed these symptoms in conjunction with other COVID-19 indicators.
- - Despite the small sample size and being conducted in a single hospital, the findings suggest that the types and proportions of skin manifestations in Brazilian patients align with those observed in studies from Europe, highlighting the need for further research.
Angiography may play an important role in the understanding of the cause and treatment of Perthes' disease. Angiograms were performed in 30 patients, including 26 aortographies and six selective angiographies. The major angiographic alterations were: general decrease of blood flow in the affected hip, lack of a patent medial circumflex artery, an atrophic medial circumflex artery or obstruction of its branches, distended vessels in subluxations of the hip joint, and almost complete absence of the obturator artery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwenty five children with chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura followed from 6-96 months in 7 Italian paediatric departments were treated with high dose immunoglobulin according to a multicentre protocol. Positive responses were observed in 20 of 25 patients (80%) and negative responses in 5 of 25 (20%). On previous steroid treatment 7 of 10 positive responders were steroid resistant and 13 of 15 were steroid dependent.
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