Publications by authors named "S P Marelli"
Study Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of dopamine agonists (DA) and Clonazepam on Large Muscle Group Movements during sleep (LMM), a distinct motor phenomenon, in Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS).
Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 51 drug-free adult patients with RLS, divided into three groups: 33 received a DA (pramipexole or ropinirole), 15 received clonazepam, and 18 received a placebo. Each patient underwent two consecutive nocturnal polysomnographic (PSG) recordings: one baseline and one following treatment administration.
Osteochondroma (OC) is a common bone tumour that rarely affects the mandibular condylar process. This pathology can show typical clinical features, such as facial asymmetry, deviation of the chin and dental inferior midline, changes in condylar morphology and malocclusion with an increased posterior mandibular vertical height. The management of condylar OC is a debated topic among surgeons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors present two cases of mouth floor hemorrhage consequences of implant placement within the atrophic anterior mandible. In one patient, the implant placement was associated with the guided bone regeneration (GBR) technique. This serious complication has been widely described in the literature, especially in the anterior mandible area.
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- The Coma Recovery Scale-revised (CRS-r) is the main tool for assessing patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DoCs), but it has a misdiagnosis rate of about 40%.
- Recent guidelines recommend adding neurophysiological measures, such as surface electromyography (sEMG), to improve these assessments.
- The STRIVEfc system was tested on DoCs patients, highlighting that it can reveal subtle muscular activities invisible to clinicians and helps improve diagnostic accuracy by providing additional information through an instrumented version of the CRS-r (ICRS-r).
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- Researchers explored the differences between "brain-first" and "body-first" types of Parkinson's disease by studying patients with isolated REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) and their periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS).
- Out of the 191 patients examined, 48.2% had a high PLMS index (PLMSi > 15), which was linked to better performance in executive functions despite poorer sleep quality.
- The study suggests that higher PLMSi correlates with increased wakefulness and decreased overall sleep efficiency, indicating a potential connection between sleep disruptions and cognitive status in these patients.