Psychosocial treatment on psychological symptoms, adherence, and physiological function on transplanted patients: A systematic review and metanalysis.

Objective: Transplantation represents an important source of hope for the candidates and produces an intense emotional effect. Psychosocial interventions can be helpful in all transplantation stages to better manage this extraordinarily stressful situation. Aim of the work is to verify the effects of the psychosocial interventions on recipients on psychological symptoms, medical adherence and transplanted solid organ functioning.

Evidence-based design.

A brief on the principles of evidence-based design (EBD) led to a topical survey study designed coordinated by the author. The survey patient preferences with respect to hospital room features, namely the number of beds per room. the results are interesting as they show that the hospital building environment has a different impact on hospitalized with respect to citizens as potential hospital patients.

Assessment by bioimpedance of forearm cell mass: a new approach to calibration.

Objective: Changes in skeletal muscle mass are involved in several important clinical disorders including sarcopenia and obesity. Unlike body fat, skeletal muscle is difficult to quantify in vivo, particularly without highly specialized equipment. The present study had a two-fold aim: to develop a regional (40)K counter for non-invasively estimating cell mass in the arm, mainly skeletal muscle cell mass, without radiation exposure; and to test the hypothesis that cell mass in the arm is highly correlated with electrical impedance after adjusting for the arm's length.