A proposal for a comprehensive approach to infections across the surgical pathway.

Despite evidence supporting the effectiveness of best practices in infection prevention and management, many healthcare workers fail to implement them and evidence-based practices tend to be underused in routine practice. Prevention and management of infections across the surgical pathway should always focus on collaboration among all healthcare workers sharing knowledge of best practices. To clarify key issues in the prevention and management of infections across the surgical pathway, a multidisciplinary task force of experts convened in Ancona, Italy, on May 31, 2019, for a national meeting.

Relationship between innate immunity, soluble markers and metabolic-clinical parameters in HIV+ patients ART treated with HIV-RNA<50 cp/mL.

Introduction: The persistence of immune activation and inflammation in HIV patients with HIV-RNA (VL) undetectable causes many co-morbidities [1-3]. The aim of this study is to correlate monocytes (m) and NK cell activation levels, soluble markers and oxidative stress with clinical, biochemical and metabolic data in HIV-1 infected patients with VL≤50 copies (cp)/mL on antiretroviral therapy.

Materials And Methods: Multicentre, cross-sectional study in patients with VL≤50 cp/mL and on antiretroviral therapy by at least six months.

Transvaginal bone-anchored sling procedure: 4 years of follow-up on more than 200 consecutive patients.

Objectives: To report intermediate-term results with reference to quality of life (QoL) and complications in 232 consecutive patients with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) treated with a transvaginal pubic bone-anchored sling (BAS).

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 232 consecutive patients affected by SUI who underwent BAS using biologic and synthetic materials, with a mean follow-up of 50 months. Stress urinary incontinence was due to a defect of anatomic support and to intrinsic sphincteric deficiency in 220 patients and 12 patients, respectively.