Publications by authors named "S Di Tommaso"

Background: Transfer to a post-acute care facility or hospital readmission after total joint arthroplasty represent additional costs and increased surgical and health care resource utilization. Accurate prediction of post-acute care factors could help providers to plan the patient's discharge destination and have a positive impact on postoperative outcomes and readmission rates.

Objective: To develop a risk assessment model to predict discharge care after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

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Chromosomal structural rearrangements consist of anomalies in genomic architecture that may or may not be associated with genetic material gain and loss. Evaluating the precise breakpoint is crucial from a diagnostic point of view, highlighting possible gene disruption and addressing to appropriate genotype-phenotype association. Structural rearrangements can either occur randomly within the genome or present with a recurrence, mainly due to peculiar genomic features of the surrounding regions.

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  • Hepatocellular adenomas (HCAs) are rare benign liver tumors with different subtypes linked to various mutation risks for malignant transformation, particularly the β-catenin-activated subtypes.
  • * A study revealed that the tumor rim exhibits increased glutamine synthetase and distinct vascular features compared to the tumor center, potentially indicating tumor heterogeneity.
  • * Using advanced imaging and analysis techniques, researchers found that while both tumor regions share the same mutations, their protein expressions differ significantly, suggesting that factors other than mutational status contribute to their varied characteristics.
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Entosis is a process that leads to the formation of cell-in-cell structures commonly found in cancers. Here, we identified entosis in hepatocellular carcinoma and the loss of Rnd3 (also known as RhoE) as an efficient inducer of this mechanism. We characterized the different stages and the molecular regulators of entosis induced after Rnd3 silencing.

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Background: Distal chromosome 16 duplication syndrome (also known as 16q partial trisomy) is a very rare genetic disorder recently described in few clinical reports. 16q trisomy is generally associated with a multisystemic phenotype including intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), brain and cardiac defects, intellectual disability (ID) and an increased risk of both prenatal and postnatal lethality. Smaller copy number variants (CNV) within the 16q region create partial trisomies, which occur less frequently than full trisomy 16q.

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