Minerva medicaPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-05-25DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.23.08628-7
Lan Hu, Yan Mi, Jing Wang, Jun Shi, Wen Jiang, Mengxiao Song
{"title":"The impact of extended nursing and home care on the disease of diabetic patients.","authors":"Lan Hu, Yan Mi, Jing Wang, Jun Shi, Wen Jiang, Mengxiao Song","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4806.23.08628-7","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S0026-4806.23.08628-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18671,"journal":{"name":"Minerva medica","volume":" ","pages":"897-900"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9522544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva medicaPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-04-06DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.22.08397-5
Moreno Tresoldi, Alberto Zangrillo, Alessandro Belletti, Giuseppe A Ramirez, Enrica Bozzolo, Francesca Guzzo, Alessandro Marinosci, Evgeny V Fominskiy, Valentina DA Prat, Marilena Marmiere, Diego Palumbo, Lidia Del Prete, Filippo D'Amico, Chiara Bellino, Deodata Morando, Marco Saracino, Alessandro Ortalda, Elena Castelli, Margherita Rocchi, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Raffaella Scotti, Gaetano DI Terlizzi, Maria L Azzolini, Giulia Guaschino, Emma Avitabile, Giovanni Borghi, Daniele Soddu, Lorenzo Dagna, Giovanni Landoni, Francesco DE Cobelli
{"title":"Two-year multidisciplinary follow-up of COVID-19 patients requiring invasive and noninvasive respiratory support.","authors":"Moreno Tresoldi, Alberto Zangrillo, Alessandro Belletti, Giuseppe A Ramirez, Enrica Bozzolo, Francesca Guzzo, Alessandro Marinosci, Evgeny V Fominskiy, Valentina DA Prat, Marilena Marmiere, Diego Palumbo, Lidia Del Prete, Filippo D'Amico, Chiara Bellino, Deodata Morando, Marco Saracino, Alessandro Ortalda, Elena Castelli, Margherita Rocchi, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Raffaella Scotti, Gaetano DI Terlizzi, Maria L Azzolini, Giulia Guaschino, Emma Avitabile, Giovanni Borghi, Daniele Soddu, Lorenzo Dagna, Giovanni Landoni, Francesco DE Cobelli","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4806.22.08397-5","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S0026-4806.22.08397-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>COVID-19 patients frequently develop respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Data on long-term survival of patients who had severe COVID-19 are insufficient. We assessed and compared two-year survival, CT imaging, quality of life, and functional recovery of COVID-19 ARDS patients requiring respiratory support with invasive (IMV) versus noninvasive ventilation (NIV).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients with COVID-19 pneumonia admitted up to May 28<sup>th</sup>, 2020, who required IMV or NIV, and survived to hospital discharge were enrolled. Patients were contacted two years after discharge to assess vital status, functional, psychological, and cognitive outcomes using validated scales. Patients with persistent respiratory symptoms or high burden of residual lung damage at previous CT scan received a two-year chest CT scan.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of 61 IMV survivors, 98% were alive at two-year follow-up, and 52 completed the questionnaire. Out of 82 survivors receiving NIV only, 94% were alive at two years, and 47 completed the questionnaire. We found no major differences between invasively and noninvasively ventilated patients, with overall acceptable functional recovery. Among the 99 patients completing the questionnaire, 23 have more than moderate exertional dyspnea. Chest CT scans showed that 4 patients (all received IMV) had fibrotic-like changes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients who received mechanical ventilation due to COVID-19 and were discharged from hospital had a 96% survival rate at the two-year follow-up. There was no difference in overall recovery and quality of life between patients who did and did not require IMV, although respiratory morbidity remains high.</p>","PeriodicalId":18671,"journal":{"name":"Minerva medica","volume":" ","pages":"773-784"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9607452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva medicaPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2021-02-08DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.21.07342-0
Huanv He, Ping Jin
{"title":"Analysis of nursing practice of indirect inguinal hernia in children under the concept of rapid rehabilitation surgery.","authors":"Huanv He, Ping Jin","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4806.21.07342-0","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S0026-4806.21.07342-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18671,"journal":{"name":"Minerva medica","volume":" ","pages":"916-918"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25346158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva medicaPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2020-04-01DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.20.06536-2
Xu Zheng, Jiandong Yin
{"title":"Efficacy of texture analysis in determining the gene amplification status of HER2 2+ for invasive ductal carcinoma cases.","authors":"Xu Zheng, Jiandong Yin","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4806.20.06536-2","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S0026-4806.20.06536-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Gene amplification of human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2) 2+ is essential to be determined for treatment planning. A search of the PubMed database indicates that the correlation between texture features from dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE)-MRI and HER2 2+ status has not been investigated extensively in invasive ductal carcinoma cases.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Seventy-one DCE-MRI cases of HER2 2+ status verified using fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) were selected, including 36 positive and 35 negative cases. Overall, 279 texture features were derived from lesion regions of interest manually drawn onto the subtraction images between pre- and post-contrast agent. Fisher coefficient, mutual information, minimization of both classification error probability and average correlation coefficients as well as a combination of all three methods (MPF) were independently used to reduce the dimensionality of texture parameters. A popular machine learning algorithm, the Support Vector Machine, was further applied to determine HER2 2+ status. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was conducted to evaluate the classification performance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Diagnostic accuracy was optimal when the most significant discriminatory features were selected using MPF. The area under ROC curve reached 0.863 with corresponding accuracy, sensitivity and specificity rates of 81.80%, 85.71% and 77.78%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Texture analysis based on breast MRI delivered consistently high performance with FISH detection and may serve as a useful supplementary tool for determining the gene amplification status of HER2 2+ for cases with invasive ductal carcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":18671,"journal":{"name":"Minerva medica","volume":" ","pages":"832-838"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37794926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva medicaPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2021-09-20DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.21.07736-3
Dengsong Zhu, Fanghai Luan, Xiaoye Lv, Jing Li, Bo Huang
{"title":"Correlation analysis of TGF-β1 gene polymorphism and expression with incidence and severity of lumbar disc herniation.","authors":"Dengsong Zhu, Fanghai Luan, Xiaoye Lv, Jing Li, Bo Huang","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4806.21.07736-3","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S0026-4806.21.07736-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18671,"journal":{"name":"Minerva medica","volume":" ","pages":"915-916"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39432794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minerva medicaPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2022-03-10DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.22.08013-2
Ruixun Sun, Hui Dong, Linkun Li
{"title":"Clinical comparative analysis of midazolam and dexmedetomidine for sedation and analgesia in neurosurgery patients with severe mechanical ventilation.","authors":"Ruixun Sun, Hui Dong, Linkun Li","doi":"10.23736/S0026-4806.22.08013-2","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S0026-4806.22.08013-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18671,"journal":{"name":"Minerva medica","volume":" ","pages":"909-911"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42566834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}