Beyond the heart: The role of psychological factors and coping strategies in cardiovascular rehabilitation.

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is associated with several risk and protective factors, including psychological variables, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms, stress and coping strategies. These factors may be either a cause or a consequence of CVD and are thought to influence the cardiac rehabilitation (CR) process after acute cardiac event, a multifaceted intervention that is crucial for reducing rehospitalisation and mortality. The main aim of this study was to correlate such psychological components with cardiac outcomes in a sample of 315 CVD referred to an in-hospital CR program.

A human centred innovative approach based on persona in hereditary angioedema.

Background: Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) due to C1-inhibitor deficiency (C1INH) is a rare condition, clinically characterised by recurrent swelling. The unpredictability of attacks affects the patients' quality of life (QoL). HAE patients and their families have vast unmet physical, psychological, and social needs.

Integrating Genetic and Cytogenetic Data: A Diversity Study of and (Characidae) Species from the Paraná River Basin.

is one of the most specious fish groups in the Neotropical region, with many cryptic species, which represents a challenge for correct identification through traditional taxonomic methods. is a recently resurrected genus group of species previously belonging to , specifically those with extensive chromosomal variation of the and s complexes. In the present study, the mitochondrial genes cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI), mitochondrial ATP synthase 6 and 8 (ATPase 6/8), and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2) were used in conjunction with chromosomal data to characterize molecularly and cytogenetically populations of and from rivers and streams of the Ivaí River Basin (Paraná Basin).

Neurocognitive function in procedures correcting severe aortic valve stenosis: patterns and determinants.

Background: Neurocognitive changes occurring after a surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedure for the correction of severe aortic stenosis (AS) have not been widely addressed and, if addressed, have produced conflicting results. The purpose of this study is to identify the pre-procedural neurocognitive pattern and its determinants in a setting of elderly (>65 years) patients with severe AS undergoing SAVR or TAVI and the changes occurring at a 2-3 month follow-up.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study included in the Italian Registry on Outcomes in Aortic Stenosis Treatment in Elderly Patients.

Executive functions in preschool and school-age cochlear implant users: do they differ from their hearing peers? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: Executive functions (EF) play a fundamental role in planning and executing goal-driven behaviours. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to investigate EF skills mastered by preschool/school-age cochlear implanted children (CIC) without morpho-functional abnormalities and to compare their outcomes with typically hearing children (THC).

Methods: Bibliographic search for observational studies of any language/date up to 16 December 2022 was performed with the following electronic databases: PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science.

The Very Long COVID: Persistence of Symptoms after 12-18 Months from the Onset of Infection and Hospitalization.

According to the World Health Organization's definition, long COVID is the persistence or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial infection. Various conditions have been explored in studies with up to one-year follow-up but very few looked further. This prospective cohort study addresses the presence of a wide spectrum of symptoms in 121 patients hospitalized during the acute phase of COVID-19 infection, and the association between factors related to the acute phase of the disease and the presence of residual symptoms after one year or longer from hospitalization.

Gestational diabetes: A link between OGTT, maternal-fetal outcomes and maternal glucose tolerance after childbirth.

Background And Aim: The relationship among distribution of pathological values at the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT), metabolic risk factors and pregnancy outcomes in women with Gestational Diabetes (GDM), has not been clearly identified. We retrospectively compared metabolic and therapeutic parameters, maternal-fetal outcomes and post-partum OGTTs, with respect to the number and distribution of altered values of diagnostic OGTT in pregnancy. Secondly, we assessed whether insulin therapy predictive factors were identifiable.

Cloning of the entire COWP gene of Cryptosporidium parvum and ultrastructural localization of the protein during sexual parasite development.

Molecular cloning and immunoelectron microscopy have been used to clone the full-length gene encoding Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst wall protein (COWP) and to analyse at the ultrastructural level the expression and localization of COWP during development in the gut. COWP is 1622 amino acids long, has a typical leader peptide and consists of 2 amino acidic domains each containing distinct repeated elements possibly originating from a common ancestral precursor. Electron microscopy localized COWP in a large cytoplasmic inclusion and in the wall-forming bodies of early and late macrogametes, respectively.

Molecular cloning and expression of a 70-kilodalton heat shock protein of Candida albicans.

By screening an expression library of the yeast form of Candida albicans with a serum directed against whole fungal cells, a cDNA (2,325 bp) encoding a stress protein of C. albicans was cloned and sequenced. The cloned sequence (CaRLV130) identified a single open reading frame with a length of 1,968 bp coding for a protein containing 656 amino acid residues (70 kDa).

A method for collecting large quantities of Cryptosporidium parasites.

The intestinal mucoso may be regarded as a potential and abundant source of Cryptosporidium parvurn parasites from which all developmental stages might be collected. If intracellular stages could be recovered from the brush border, many of the limitations concerned with the use of oocysts and in vitro cultures may be overcome. Hans-Michael Muller, Lorella Ranucci, Edoordo Pozio and Andrea Crisonti discuss here how this can be done.

Characterization and immunolocalization of a Cryptosporidium protein containing repeated amino acid motifs.

The oocyst wall is one of the components that permits cryptosporidia both to survive in the environment and to retain infectivity. With the aim of identifying Cryptosporidium proteins specifically expressed at the oocyst stage, we screened lambda gt11 genomic libraries of Cryptosporidium parvum with both an oocyst antiserum and a specific genetic probe. We isolated, from distinct libraries, two overlapping clones containing an open reading frame encoding a 1,252-amino-acid polypeptide.

Organization of aerobactin, hemolysin, and antibacterial resistance genes in lactose-negative Escherichia coli strains of serotype O4 isolated from children with diarrhea.

Epidemiologically related, non-lactose-fermenting (NLF) Escherichia coli strains of serotype O4 have been isolated at a high frequency from children with diarrhea in Somalia (M. Nicoletti, F. Superti, C.