Publications by authors named "V Pedace"

Introduction: Bowel and bladder symptoms are frequent in people with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and early diagnosis and treatment become crucial to improve their quality of life (QoL). The study aims to design a multidisciplinary questionnaire for screening bladder and bowel symptoms in PwMS.

Materials And Methods: The Bowel and Bladder Symptoms Screening in Multiple Sclerosis (BBSS-MS) questionnaire for screening bowel and bladder symptoms was designed in Italian following a three-steps process.

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Background: Peristomal skin complications are frequent in ostomy patients, mostly occurring as a result of effluent leaking from the system. Accurate selection of ostomy products prevents complication onset, but still largely relies on the subjective evaluation of professionals.

Purpose: To evaluate the functionality of a tool conceived to help practitioners objectively identify the most appropriate ostomy system based on patient characteristics.

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We have identified a new neutral hemoglobin variant in a pregnant Italian woman, that resulted from a GTG-->CTG replacement at codon 126 of the beta chain, corresponding to a Val-->Leu amino acid change at position beta126(H4). Thermal and isopropanol stability tests were normal and there were no abnormal clinical features. Routine electrophoretic and ion exchange chromatographic methods for hemoglobin separation failed to show this variant, but reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography revealed an abnormal peak eluting near the normal beta chain.

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A child of Italian origin with a congenital haemolytic anaemia had spectrophotometrically undetectable erythrocyte adenylate kinase (AK) activity. Her parents and brother had approximately 50% normal AK activity, and AK electrophoresis of red blood cell (RBC) crude extract on cellulose acetate strips showed the presence of the normal allele AK1-1. No AK band was detected in the AK electrophoresis of the proband, in whom the erythrocyte 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3DPG) and glutathione (GSH) concentrations were normal whereas adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration, pyruvate kinase (PK) and glucose-6P-dehydrogenase (G6PD) activities were increased, reflecting the high reticulocyte count (6.

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