Publications by authors named "Simoni Federica"
The role of prehabilitation in HNSCC patients treated with chemoradiotherapy.
Support Care Cancer
September 2024
Background: Radiotherapy (RT) is used in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) with excellent effectiveness, but it is burdened by important side effects, which may negatively impact patients' quality of life (QoL). In particular when associated with chemotherapy (CT), that has a radiosensitising effect (and its own toxicities), it is responsible for several adverse events, causing social discomfort and lower QoL, in patients who are already experiencing several tumor-related discomforts. Prehabilitation is a healthcare intervention consisting of several specialist visits prior to the start of treatment, with the aim of improving the patient's health status, resolving symptoms that interfere with treatment and impact QoL, and finally to better avoid or overcome complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study proposes a revised version of the Reflux Symptom Index (R-RSI), a seventeen-item questionnaire that was revised to increase the suspicion of laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD).
Methods: Internal validation involved 213 participants, comprising 160 subjects without a previous LPRD diagnosis and 53 subjects with a self-reported previous diagnosis of LPRD with or without gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Test-retest reliability and internal consistency were calculated.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focuses on comparing the post-treatment quality of life for patients with laryngeal and oro-hypopharyngeal cancers treated with VITOM 3D (an exoscope-assisted surgical method) against traditional treatments like transoral microsurgery and radio-chemotherapy.
- - A total of 122 patients participated, with evaluations done using specific questionnaires to measure quality of life aspects such as dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) and dysphonia (difficulty speaking).
- - The results showed no significant differences in quality of life outcomes between patients who underwent exoscope-assisted surgeries and those who received traditional treatments, indicating that both methods may offer similar benefits post-treatment.
Objective: Dysphagia is a common symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) and it represents a negative prognostic factor because of its complications. This study is to evaluate pharyngeal dysphagia for boluses of various consistencies with Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) and Pharyngeal High-Resolution Manometry (PHRM) in a group of PD patients, making a comparison between the information provided by the two exams.
Methods: Group of 20 patients affected by PD was selected and initially subjected to a qualitative evaluation of the swallowing performing FEES.
Objective: To evaluate retrospectively the incidence of complications during fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) in 5,680 examinations.
Patients And Methods: 5,680 patients were evaluated at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Audiology and Phoniatrics of Pisa University Hospital between January 2014 and December 2018, involving both inpatients and outpatients. Most common comorbidities included neurological pathologies such as stroke (11.
Objective: To correlate, RSI with SVHI, in a group of singing students, by means of a specific anamnestic questionnaire which analyzes the physical, social, emotional, and economic impacts of voice problems on their lives. This study is a cross-sectional single-center observational study.
Methods: Forty-two modern singing students (26F/16M; average age: 24.