Novelties and Perspectives of Intestinal Ultrasound in the Personalised Management of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases-A Systematic Review.

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) affect over 4.9 million individuals worldwide. Colonoscopy (CS) is the gold-standard technique for diagnosis.

Evaluation of Disease Activity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnostic Tools in the Assessment of Histological Healing.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises two types of chronic intestinal disorders: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In long-standing ulcerative colitis disease activity, histological persistent inflammation has been linked to an increased risk of relapse, and long-term corticosteroid use, even when endoscopic remission is reached. In Crohn's disease, the discontinuous nature of lesions and transmural inflammation have limited the standardized histological assessment.

Surgical management of urachal tumors: Can the umbilicus be sparred in localized disease?

Urachal adenocarcinoma represents the third most common histological type of non-urotelial bladder cancer. A very low incidence of this disease and the lack of prospective studies have led to a rich and heterogeneous treatment history. Currently, the standard of care for these patients is represented by partial cystectomy en bloc with resection of the urachal ligament and total omphalectomy.

[Effect of cpap therapy on sleep quality in patients with OSAS].

Unlabelled: For an adequate analysis of sleep quality was assessed a new composed index wich objectively approached variate polisomnographic parameters. We used this new concept--sleep disturbances index-SDI in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS), before and after the beginning of CPAP therapy.

Material And Method: 41 patients were evaluated and for each one we calculated SDI score.

[Demographic, clinical and polysomnographic differences between men and women].

Unlabelled: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is still an undiagnosed disease in women, possibly due to differences in clinical presentation or a higher tolerance to symptoms. There are no studies to assess these differences in Romanian population.

Aim: we conducted this study to assess these differences (demographics, clinical presentation, and polysomnographic findings) between men and women.