Publications by authors named "Storino C"

Background: Patient-provider communication through the patient portal has markedly increased in recent years. Some health care facilities implemented programs to enable providers to bill for responding to patient-initiated messages that require substantive medical decision making through an e-visit.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of billing eligible patient-initiated portal messages as e-visits using a mixed-methods approach.

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To evaluate the impacton sexuality of the mandatory social isolation linked tothe pandemic by SARS-CoV-2 in an open population ofadults in ArgentinaMATERIAL AND METHOD: An anonymous andvoluntary self-response online questionnaire wasdistributed to an open population of adults who werein mandatory social isolation as consequence of theSARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, between March 31 and June1, 2020. A total of 2214 surveys were collected. At the time the survey was answered, 54.

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of capecitabine in the management of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). STUDY DESIGN: The medical records of 155 patients with GTN were reviewed. All patients were treated and followed at our center.

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Type I mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS I) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder with neurological features. Humans and laboratory animals with MPS I exhibit various white matter abnormalities involving the corpus callosum and other regions. In this study, we first validated a novel MRI technique, entitled Relaxation Along a Fictitious Field in the rotating frame of rank n (RAFFn), as a measure of myelination and dysmyelination in mice.

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Purpose: MRI relaxation measurements are performed in the presence of a fictitious magnetic field in the recently described technique known as RAFF (Relaxation Along a Fictitious Field). This method operates in the 2(nd) rotating frame (rank n = 2) by using a nonadiabatic sweep of the radiofrequency effective field to generate the fictitious magnetic field. In the present study, the RAFF method is extended for generating MRI contrasts in rotating frames of ranks 1 ≤ n ≤ 5.

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Objective: To analyze the clinical trends of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) in a public hospital of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Study Design: A review of the clinical records of 358 patients with a diagnosis of GTD admitted to Durand Trophoblastic Disease Center between 1990 and February 2011 was performed. Features of diagnosis, treatment and follow-up were analyzed.

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Background: Although most patients at high risk of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia (GTN) respond to standard treatments, there is a group of patients that will die because of it. The use of new single or combination drugs in this population has become a priority.

Case Report: We present the case of a relapsed high risk choriocarcinoma patient who did not respond to several chemotherapy treatments nor to PET guided salvage surgery.

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