Publications by authors named "S Scurria"
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- Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) is a cardiology procedure that helps restore blood flow in heart muscle, significantly lowering heart attack mortality rates, but it comes with potential complications like radiodermatitis due to radiation exposure.
- * The authors reviewed literature on radiation effects in fluoroscope-guided procedures, noting the challenge in determining a specific radiation dose linked to radiodermatitis.
- * The study emphasizes the medical-legal implications of radiodermatitis in PTCA, as it could lead to compensation claims against healthcare professionals, and offers guidelines for assessing healthcare responsibility and potential damages.
Background: In recent years, due to the increase of complaints for medical malpractice, the Sicilian Regional Health System has adopted proceedings for the direct management of claims by each healthcare facility with the aim of reducing costs of insurance premiums and their relative taxes. Thus this management has led to increased awareness and management of clinical risk through the introduction of mandatory sentinel event monitoring.
Case Report: A 55-year-old man with acute ischemic heart disease, due to three-vasal coronary diasease, underwent angioplasty perfomed on the second diagonal branch of the anterior descending artery.
In the management of prostate cancer (PCa), correct staging is crucial in order to assess the right therapeutic approach. [F]Choline PET/CT has been shown to provide more accurate staging information than conventional imaging approaches. The aim of this paper is to provide a real practice demonstration of the impact of [F]Choline PET/CT on low-risk prostate cancer staging and clinical management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Age estimation of living or dead individuals has a strategic importance in medicine, anthropology, and forensic science, in the context of mass disasters and in civil or criminal matters such as adoption or asylum. Teeth play a major role in this context in particular, the third molars are useful for determining whether an individual has reached the legal age of 18 years because they are still in development from the age of 14.
Materials And Methods: In this study, a sample of 307 panoramic radiographs performed on healthy subjects aged between 13 and 23 was analyzed to consider the correlation between the maturity index of the third molar (I3M) and age to verify the reliability of the cutoff 0.
The trend for medical malpractice claims has increased in recent years, both in the USA and in Europe. Although diagnostic radiology is not considered a high-risk field, malpractice claims in this area follow this general trend. The most common legal action taken against radiologists includes failure to diagnose, poor communication between physicians, failure to supervise technologists properly and improper procedures.
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