Physiological plasticity and life history traits affect Chamelea gallina acclimatory responses during a marine heatwave.

The striped venus clam (Chamelea gallina) is a relevant economic resource in the Adriatic Sea. This study explored the physiological status of C. gallina at four sites selected along a gradient from high to low incidence of recorded historical mortality events and low to high productivity in the Northwestern Adriatic Sea.

Exploring the role of calf circumference as a predisposing factor for intra-hospital delirium: investigating potential gender differences: revealing potential gender variances.

Background: Malnutrition and sarcopenia significantly increase the risk of intra-hospital delirium, particularly among older adults. Given the potential correlation between calf circumference (CC) and these conditions, CC emerges as a promising predisposing factor for delirium. This study aims to investigate the independent association between delirium and anthropometric parameters, focusing on evaluating CC's predictive capacity for intra-hospital delirium risk.

New Perspectives in the Association between Anthropometry and Mortality: The Role of Calf Circumference.

Aims: Considering the impact of sarcopenia on mortality, and the difficulty to assessment of body composition, the hypothesis of the study is that calf circumference (CC) is closely related to mortality in older patients. The aim of the study was to analyze the potential role of CC to predict mortality in old individuals at 3, 6 and 12 months after discharge from hospital.

Methods: Patients aged >65 years were recruited for this retrospective study from September 2021 to March 2022.

Sarcopenic patients "get even": The impact of COVID-19 vaccination on mortality.

Background: Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19), driven by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has disproportionately affected the elderly, with comorbidities like sarcopenia worsening prognosis. Considering the significant impact of RNA vaccines on survival rates in this population, our objective is to investigate the impact of vaccination on the survival of hospitalized elderly patients with COVID-19, considering the presence or absence of sarcopenia.

Methods: Prospective study conducted on 159 patients aged>65 years from September 2021 to March 2022.

Microbiome variation at the clam-sediment interface may explain changes in local productivity of Chamelea gallina in the North Adriatic sea.

Background: The clam Chamelea gallina is an ecologically and economically important marine species in the Northwestern Adriatic Sea, which currently suffers from occasional, and still unexplained, widespread mortality events. In order to provide some glimpses in this direction, this study explores the connections between microbiome variations at the clam-sediment interface and the nutritional status of clams collected at four Italian production sites along the Emilia Romagna coast, with different mortality incidence, higher in the Northern sites and lower in the Southern sites.

Results: According to our findings, each production site showed a peculiar microbiome arrangement at the clam-sediment interface, with features that clearly differentiate the Northern and Southern sites, with the latter also being associated with a better nutritional status of the animal.

Composition and biodiversity of soil and root-associated microbiome in cultivar Lambrusco distinguish the microbial of the Lambrusco DOC protected designation of origin area on a local scale.

Introduction: Wines produced from the same grape cultivars but in different locations possess distinctive qualities leading to different consumer's appreciation, preferences, and thus purchase choices. Here, we explore the possible importance of microbiomes at the soil-plant interface as a determinant of the terroir properties in grapevine production, which confer specific growth performances and wine chemo-sensory properties at the local scale.

Methods: In particular, we investigated the variation in microbial communities associated with the roots of cultivar Lambrusco, as well as with surrounding bulk soils, in different vineyards across the "Consorzio Tutela Lambrusco DOC" protected designation of origin area (PDO, Emilia Romagna, Italy), considering viticultural sites located both inside and outside the consortium in two different seasons (June and November 2021).

Unilateral Thoracoscopic Thymectomy for Thymoma: Does Side Matter? A Single Institutional Experience.

Background: Thoracoscopic thymectomy is increasingly performed for the treatment of early stage thymoma. It is characterized by shorter postoperative hospital stay, decreased intraoperative blood loss, and fewer complications compared with transsternal thymectomy. Unilateral video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) thymectomy can be easily performed from either side of the thorax, because thymus is located in the middle of mediastinum.

JEDI (jugular entrapment, dilated ventricles, intracranial hypertension) syndrome: a new clinical entity? A case report.

Patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension are frequently obese women with normal/slit ventricles. Patients with high-pressure hydrocephalus, instead, present enlarged ventricles. We describe a 63-year-old woman with signs and symptoms of intracranial hypertension.

Functional Outcome After Odontoid Fractures in the Elderly.

While several papers on mortality and the fusion rate in elderly patients treated surgically or non-surgically for odontoid fractures exist, little information is available on quality of life after treatment. The aim of treatment in these patients should not be fracture healing alone but also quality of life improvement.A literature search using PubMed identified seven papers including information on functional evaluation of 402 patients.

Grisel's Syndrome: Non-traumatic Atlantoaxial Rotatory Subluxation-Report of Five Cases and Review of the Literature.

Background: In children, when unresponsive neck rigidity and distress are observed after ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgical treatment or nasopharyngeal inflammation, Grisel's syndrome should be suspected. This is a rare syndrome involving non-traumatic rotatory subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint. Conservative management with external cervical orthoses and empirical antibiotic, muscle relaxant and analgesic therapy should be the first choice of treatment.

Standard of care, controversies, and innovations in the medical treatment of severe traumatic brain injury.

Severe traumatic brain injury (STBI) is characterized by a primary injury which cannot be reversed and a secondary injury that can be prevented or reversed. Management of STBI patients in intensive care mainly aims at preventing the secondary injury. Treatment aims to: reducing ICP pressure (that can result in an ischemic insult); avoiding hypotension, hyperthermia, or hypoxemia; maintaining a normal electrolytes homeostasis; treating the autonomic dysfunction syndrome, coagulopathies, acute kidney injury and maintaining an adequate nutrition.

Applications of biomaterials for bone augmentation of jaws: clinical outcomes and studies.

Partially or totally edentulous jaws frequently undergoes from moderate to severe bone atrophy with problems of prosthetic rehabilitation. The inability to make a prosthetic rehabilitation on implants may led to the use of a partial or total removable denture with difficulties in eating and speech, ulcerations of the oral mucosa and loss of facial vertical dimension. These problems may be solved performing bone augmentation procedures.

Surgical treatment of intraforaminal/extraforaminal lumbar disc herniations: Many approaches for few surgical routes.

Background: Several disc disease nomenclatures and approaches for LDH exist. The traditional midline bone-destructive procedures together with approaches requiring extreme muscular retraction are being replaced by muscle sparing, targeted, stability-preserving surgical routes. The increasing speculation on LDHs and the innovative corridors described to treat them have lead to an extensive production of papers frequently treating the same topic but adopting different terminologies and reporting contradictory results.

Transpars Microscopic Approach for the Treatment of Purely Foraminal Herniated Lumbar Disc: A Clinical, Radiological, Two-center Study.

Study Design: This is a prospective two-center study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy of treating patients with lumbar foraminal disc herniations via a microscopic transpars approach, with a clinical and radiological follow-up evaluation.

Summary Of Background Data: Purely foraminal lumbar disc herniations comprise about 5% of all lumbar herniated intervertebral discs.

An overview on bone reconstruction of atrophic maxilla: success parameters and critical issues.

Long-term success rate of implants inserted in atrophic maxilla is ensured through sufficient bone volume in edentulous sites. Reconstructive surgery is necessary before implant placement to regenerate bone defects caused by atrophy, dental trauma, extractions or periodontal disease. Success rate of implants is related to the correct position and angulation of implants in residual crest, so that height and thickness of bone augmentation can allow predictable results.

Effects of glucosamine and nucleotide association on fibroblast: extracellular matrix gene expression.

Glucosamine (Gluc) is a drug used as an anti-inflammatory in moderate forms of knee arthrosis. A further off label use of Gluc is in the anti-aging treatments associated with Polideoxirybonucleotide (PDRN) through intra-dermal injection for a procedure called bio-stimulation. An unexpected effect on cultured dermal fibroblasts, during an experimental study on the gene activation in aesthetic bio-stimulation, was observed.

Histomorphometric evaluation of an immediately loaded implant retrieved from human mandible after 2 years.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the interplay between microstructure and function of the bone around an immediately loaded implant retrieved from human maxilla after 23 months due to fracture. A spiral implant of 3.3 mm x 15 mm was placed in a male 53 years old in the anterior region of the mandible bone (4.

Histomorphic-metric evaluation of an implant retrieved from human maxilla after 13 years.

Fixture fracture is the most catastrophic failure of implant components because it usually causes the loss of the implant. Nevertheless, the osseointegrated fractured implants represent a very useful opportunity to study in humans the effects of loading to the peri-implant bone microstructure. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the interplay between microstructure and function of the bone around an implant retrieved from human maxilla after 13 years.

Awake surgery in low-grade gliomas harboring eloquent areas: 3-year mean follow-up.

Low-grade gliomas are slow-growing tumors invading eloquent areas and white matter pathways. For many decades these tumors were considered inoperable because of their high tropism for eloquent areas. However, the young age of the patients and the inescapable anaplastic transformation have recently suggested more aggressive treatments.

Isolated hemangioblastoma of the filum terminale. Case report.

The filum terminale is an exceptional location for isolated hemangioblastoma. Only five cases are reported in literature, prior to the magnetic resonance imaging era. A 57-year-old man was referred to our Department with a prolonged history of progressive back pain, particularly severe when recumbent, and recurrent unilateral sciatalgia.

Circadian and circannual rhythmicity in the occurrence of subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Background And Purpose: Inconsistent data are available on the temporal pattern of onset of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). We investigated the possible influence of vascular risk factors.

Methods: Of a consecutive series of 217 cases of SAH, precise determination (within 30 minutes) of the time of symptom onset was possible in 199 (91.

Intracranial gliomas in Ferrara, Italy, 1976 to 1991.

Introduction: We planned a descriptive study on the incidence of intracranial gliomas spanning a 16-year period (1976-1991) in the Local Health Service 31 of Ferrara, Northern Italy.

Material And Methods: We used a complete enumeration approach by reviewing all the possible sources of case collection available in the study area.

Results: The mean annual incidence rate was 5.

Metastatic carcinoma to artero-venous haemangioma. Case report.

A case of metastasis of primary lung-carcinoma to a cerebral artero-venous haemangioma is presented. Although the phenomenon of metastasis to primary brain neoplasm is being recognised with increasing frequency, we've found only two cases into vascular tumours reported. The authors emphasize the rarity of this occurrence and discuss the possible pathogenetic mechanisms, which are at present incompletely understood.

A neurophysiological study on the P300 component of event-related potentials in Hakim-Adams syndrome.

We have explored the variability of P300 event-related potentials in patients affected by Hakim-Adams syndrome, with raised or intermittent intracranial pressure, treated with surgical cerebrospinal fluid shunting. The clinical utility of P300 is confirmed in the light of the improvement of neurophysiological data after the surgical procedure, parallel with amelioration of neuropsychological performances.

Primary central nervous system lymphoma: a case of long survival.

Despite combined treatment (surgery, radio--and chemotherapy) primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) has generally a poor prognosis. Long surviving cases (more than 5 years) are exceptional. We report a case of a patient completely symptom-free 79 months after craniotomy.