Mortality Rate in Breast Implant Surgery: Is an Additional Procedure Worthwhile to Mitigate BIA-ALCL Risk?

Background: Because of poor knowledge of risks and benefits, prophylactic explantation of high BIA-ALCL risk breast implant (BI) is not indicated. Several surgical risks have been associated with BI surgery, with mortality being the most frightening. Primary aim of this study is to assess mortality rate in patients undergoing breast implant surgery for aesthetic or reconstructive indication.

[Relationship between hospital volumes and health outcomes: epidemiological evidence supporting the revision process of the Ministry of Health Decree no. 70 of 2 April 2015.].

Unlabelled: Since its enactment on 2 April 2015, the Decree of the Ministry of Health no.70 has provided a key framework for the reorganization of services to enhance the quality and safety of care. This decree presents the volume thresholds for a series of nosological areas and diagnostic-therapeutic procedures, aiming to improve healthcare outcomes.

Impact of age, gender and heart failure on mortality trends after acute myocardial infarction in Italy.

Background: The outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may vary substantially based on baseline risk. We aimed at analyzing the impact of gender, age and heart failure (HF) on mortality trends, based on a nationwide, comprehensive and universal administrative database of AMI.

Methods: This is a nationwide cohort study of patients admitted with AMI from 2009 to 2018 in all Italian hospitals.

One-Year Outcomes after Surgical versus Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement with Newer Generation Devices.

The superiority of transcatheter (TAVR) over surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for severe aortic stenosis (AS) has not been fully demonstrated in a real-world setting. This prospective study included 5706 AS patients who underwent SAVR from 2010 to 2012 and 2989 AS patients who underwent TAVR from 2017 to 2018 from the prospective multicenter observational studies OBSERVANT I and II. Early adverse events as well as all-cause mortality, major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs), and hospital readmission due to heart failure at 1-year were investigated.

Long-term outcomes of self-expanding versus balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valves: Insights from the OBSERVANT study.

Objectives: To compare clinical outcomes of balloon-expandable (BE) and self-expanding (SE) transcatheter aortic valves (TAVs) up to 5 years.

Background: To date, no robust, comparative data of BE and SE TAVs at long-term are available.

Methods: We considered a total of 1,440 patients enrolled in the multicenter OBSERVANT study and undergoing transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TF-TAVI) with either supra-annular SE (n = 830, 57.

Fever of unknown origin (FUO): which are the factors influencing the final diagnosis? A 2005-2015 systematic review.

Background: The differential diagnosis of Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) is very extensive, and includes infectious diseases (ID), neoplasms and noninfectious inflammatory diseases (NIID). Many FUO remain undiagnosed. Factors influencing the final diagnosis of FUO are unclear.

ABO system is not associated with proximal femoral fracture pattern in Southern Italy.

Introduction:: The mechanism that leads to a given fracture pattern is not understood. Heredity could act in this field through the ABO system. We investigated the relationship between ABO blood system and hip fracture pattern in a population from Southern Italy.