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A rare case of maternal foetal death caused by uterine rupture in the placenta accreta. 胎盘早剥导致子宫破裂造成产妇胎儿死亡的罕见病例。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5109
S Gualtieri, M A Sacco, P Tarzia, L Calanna, L Tarda, I Aquila
{"title":"A rare case of maternal foetal death caused by uterine rupture in the placenta accreta.","authors":"S Gualtieri, M A Sacco, P Tarzia, L Calanna, L Tarda, I Aquila","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Fetal death has various causes, among the most common are problems relating to the placenta, such as placental abruption or placental malformations such as placenta accreta. From the literature, it emerges that placental analysis at autopsy can allow for greater resolution of cases compared to clinical history and external examination of the fetus alone.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>We report the case of a woman at the eleventh week of pregnancy who died in hospital. The medical history revealed two further previous pregnancies, both with births by cesarean section. The autopsy identified the cause of maternal death as acute cardiorespiratory arrest secondary to hemorrhagic shock from spontaneous uterine rupture. Hemorrhagic infiltrate was found in the intervillous placental spaces with rupture of the uterus due to placenta previa and accreta.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Placenta accreta is a condition in which a pathological adherence and/or invasion of the myometrium by the placenta is observed. This condition poses a problem during recovery with potential for severe bleeding. Therefore, we emphasize the macroscopic and histological analysis of the placenta, uterus and the ovaries in all cases of maternal-fetal death, suggesting however that the organs be analyzed both by gross analysis and after permanence in formaldehyde. Furthermore, in these cases, it is important to evaluate the clinical history and data, especially ultrasound scans performed in life, or insertion anomalies during instrumental investigations. For this reason, we recommend to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in these cases, including the gynecologist and the forensic pathologist.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Asphyxia with a blunt instrument: which forensic evidence to use in complex cases of murder. 钝器窒息:在复杂的谋杀案中使用何种法医证据。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5115
M A Sacco, P Tarzia, A P Tarallo, S Lombardo, A Princi, I Aquila
{"title":"Asphyxia with a blunt instrument: which forensic evidence to use in complex cases of murder.","authors":"M A Sacco, P Tarzia, A P Tarallo, S Lombardo, A Princi, I Aquila","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The blunt injuries may be heterogeneous. Due to the diversity, it is often difficult to establish the type of weapon used. Particular attention must be paid to the circumstantial data and previous diseases because the injuries often could not correspond to the presumed instruments used.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>A man was found dead in his bedroom wearing pajamas. On the bed there was a blanket with visible traces of blood, which had dried. There were around 10 dogs in the house, poor hygienic and sanitary conditions, widespread excrements and unbreathable air. Testimonies from general practitioner, neighbors and the partner were collected. An autopsy, histological and toxicological examination was performed. On external examination the face showed blood smearing down the nose, subconjunctival hemorrhages, and labial cyanosis. Mo-reover, a hypochromic skin area was present on the right lateral region of the neck. The inguinal region showed large de-epithelized areas with multiple purplish red ecchymoses which were histologically analyzed. These areas showed hemorrhagic infiltration in the superficial and deep dermis up to the adipose tissue due to traumatic action.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The reconstruction of the case allowed us to state a strangulation probably attributable to a belt. The discovery of intradermal hemorrhagic infiltrations, supported by histopathological investigations, confirmed the diagnosis of blunt force injuries, excluding other type of non-violent causes of lesions. Therefore, we recommended the use of experimental methods and procedures to evaluate the harmful suitability on biological matrices.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diagnostic performance of 3.0 Tesla diffusion tensor imaging in the assessment of brain stem glioma grading. 3.0 特斯拉弥散张量成像在脑干胶质瘤分级评估中的诊断性能。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5070
D Viet Anh, N Thanh Van Anh, N Ha Khuong, D V He, N Duy Hung
{"title":"Diagnostic performance of 3.0 Tesla diffusion tensor imaging in the assessment of brain stem glioma grading.","authors":"D Viet Anh, N Thanh Van Anh, N Ha Khuong, D V He, N Duy Hung","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5070","DOIUrl":"10.7417/CT.2024.5070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the role of 3 Tesla Dif-fusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the assessment of brainstem glioma (BSG) grading.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>The study comprised 22 patients, including pathology-proven 6 brainstem low-grade gliomas (BS-LGG) and 16 brainstem high-grade gliomas (BS-HGG). Characteristics including age, gender, fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD) of the tumor, peritumoral region, and the ratio of tumor FA to parenchymal FA, as well as tumor MD to parenchymal MD (rFA and rMD), were compared using Mann-Whitney U test, Shapiro-Wilk test, and Chi-square test. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used in the study to determine cut-off values and diagnostic values for grading brainstem gliomas (BSG) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our study revealed no significant difference in age and gender between the BS-LGG and BS-HGG groups (p>0.05). Fractional anisotropy (FA) indices on DTI MRI were found to be highly valuable in grading BSG, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.958 - 0.979 when using cut-off values of tFA, pFA, rtFA, and rpFA at 0.318, 0.378, 0.424, and 0.517, respectively. Particularly, rtFA demonstrated the hi-ghest diagnostic value with a sensitivity (Se) of 100%, specificity (Sp) of 93.8%, and AUC of 0.079. Conversely, the indices of tumor mean diffusivity (tMD), peritumoral edema region mean diffusivity (pMD), rtMD, and rpMD showed no diagnostic value in grading BSG.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The fractional anisotropy (FA) value on DTI between the tumor region and normal brain parenchyma holds significant value in diagnosing brainstem gliomas (BSG) grading, thereby playing a crucial role in treatment planning and predicting outcomes for patients with brainstem gliomas.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Parents' 'fault' must not weigh on their children. Surrogacy as a universal crime in Italy: Is it compatible with bioethical principles? 父母的 "过错 "不应由子女承担。在意大利,代孕是一种普遍犯罪:它符合生物伦理原则吗?
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5071
S Medenica, S Marinelli, N Radojevic, L De Paola, A Lopez, G Montanari Vergallo
{"title":"Parents' 'fault' must not weigh on their children. Surrogacy as a universal crime in Italy: Is it compatible with bioethical principles?","authors":"S Medenica, S Marinelli, N Radojevic, L De Paola, A Lopez, G Montanari Vergallo","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5071","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs) have given rise to novel, non-traditional family models. Still, among the various applications and approaches of 'medically assisted procreation' (MAP), the most divisive one undoubtedly is 'gestational surrogacy' (GS), also in light of the rising number of couples who have chosen it over the past twenty years. Another major implication of ARTs is the creation of intentional (or intended) parenthood in addition to genetic one: the genetic parent's partner is thus defined as the intentional (or second) parent, who by free choice, shares the family project with the genetic parent, even without any biological tie with the child. Hence, the intended parent takes on the same rights and responsibilities towards the child as the biological one. Several countries, including Italy, have enacted norms to discourage cross-border surrogacy, deeming it harmful to the dignity of women and children. Recently, however, the Italian government has decided intensify the fight against this practice: the Chamber of Deputies (Italy's lower chamber of parliament) has passed a law which punishes couples that resort to surrogacy even if the agreement and the birth take place abroad. Therefore, surrogacy would become a so-called universal crime. In light of the fact that criminalization is a serious and highly consequential step, which may have life-changing consequences for the intended parents, the aim of this paper is to assess whether this may be an effective instrument for regulating the interests at stake and, therefore, whether it would be desirable for other countries to follow such a model. Ultimately, it is worth remarking that for those who seek to achieve parenthood, such a desire is among the most profound aspects of a person's existential realization. When due to a delicate balance of ethics standards and potentially conflicting rights, lawmakers inter-vene, an authoritarian approach is unlikely to be beneficial. Offering real alternatives to surrogacy in an organic and pragmatic fashion (i.e. expediting adoption procedures, favoring motherhood at a younger age, when infertility issues are less likely to have set in) may be the best way to disincentivize fertility traveling and make sure the rights, hopes and aspirations of all the parties involved are upheld properly.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Telemanagement and Radiology: current structure, opportunities and new horizons. 远程管理和放射学:当前结构、机遇和新视野。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5092
G Delogu, L Pellegrini, L Sorace, G D'Antonio, F Spadazzi, I Naso, P Frati
{"title":"Telemanagement and Radiology: current structure, opportunities and new horizons.","authors":"G Delogu, L Pellegrini, L Sorace, G D'Antonio, F Spadazzi, I Naso, P Frati","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5092","DOIUrl":"10.7417/CT.2024.5092","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Telemedicine is a method of providing remote services in compliance with data security, with a significant positive impact on healthcare, in which Teleradiology means the electronic transmission of radiographic images from one geographical area to another. In this context, the term \"telemanagement\" shows a real remote management of a diagnostic examination, concluded by the production of telereport and telediagnosis.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>On the basis of Italian position papers, National guidelines and current Laws, a careful analysis of multiple aspects was carried out, in order to understand the current obligations and application limits.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion.: </strong>Proper radiotelemanagement requires a shared operating protocol within the structure, which integrates verification and safety procedures, periodic checks and adequate resources. In addition, practical interface between the involved figures must be properly established. Then, guidelines highlight the \"standard\" radiological procedures that can be performed in the absence of the specialist: in ordinary hospitalization, it is allowed to perform Telemanagement procedures only within \"standard\" procedures; in emergency setting, the only limit is placed in case of administration of contrast agent. No provisions have been approved for teleradiological work in private settings. Finally, inter-company procedures are only provided for screening programs. In this context; potential negative implications are the risk of substitution of health professionals, as well as ethical issues related to data security, patient's consent and quality of the doctor-patient relationship. In an effort of optimism aimed at the future, we want to express our propensity towards a universe with lots of potential that, over time, will emerge in its concreteness.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Application of Intracerebral Aquaporin-4 Expression in Differential Diagnosis of Drowning: an Immunohistochemical Study Related to Timing of Autopsy. 脑内Aquaporin-4表达在溺水鉴别诊断中的应用:一项与尸检时间相关的免疫组化研究。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5089
E Giacani, F Carpano, J Cappitelli, R Ribbò, S De Simone
{"title":"Application of Intracerebral Aquaporin-4 Expression in Differential Diagnosis of Drowning: an Immunohistochemical Study Related to Timing of Autopsy.","authors":"E Giacani, F Carpano, J Cappitelli, R Ribbò, S De Simone","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The role of forensic pathologists is pivotal in definitively diagnosing drowning cases. Further differentiation becomes essential for distinguishing between freshwater drowning (FWD) and saltwater drowning (SWD). Aquaporins are small integral membrane proteins that serve as major water transport pathways in various cell types. AQP4 appears to be involved in mechanisms related to cerebral volume regulation. Our study aims to examine the expression of AQP4 in the brain as a potential marker for differentiating between FWD and SWD relating to autopsy-performing timing.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A total of 23 cases were classified into three groups: FWD, SWD, and controls. All samples were classified upon autopsy-performing timing into two subgroups: within and after 72 hours of death. The samples were then processed for histological and immunohistochemical investigations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>For autopsies performed within 72 hours of death, we found a significantly higher value of AQP4-positive astrocytes in cases of FWD compared to SWD and control groups. We also found a significantly lower AQP4 expression in SWD cases compared to the control group. For autopsies conducted after 72 hours, the immunohistochemical staining does not reveal the peripheral terminations of astrocytes, which appear blurred and only recognizable as halos. In conclusion, the data aligns with existing literature about autopsies performed within 72 hours. However, in autopsies conducted after 72 hours, uncertain and even opposed results are observed. The difference can be ascribed to the post-mortem transformative processes that take place upon the cessation of vital functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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"When something goes wrong". "当出现问题时"。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5076
A Colucci, E Macorano, G De Gabriele, A Marzaioli, A Cristalli, F Introna
{"title":"\"When something goes wrong\".","authors":"A Colucci, E Macorano, G De Gabriele, A Marzaioli, A Cristalli, F Introna","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Aspiration of food or liquids can result in suffocation, evolving in coughing, difficulty breathing and forced exhalation. Asphyxia occurs when the aspirated material occludes the upper airways, either in the proximal or distal tract, resulting in the inability to breathe. The risk of asphyxiation death, is increased if a person makes sudden movements while eating, walks or runs while eating, or even becomes distracted or frightened. It is higher in individuals with neurological diseases, intellectual disability (ID), cognitive impairment, psychiatric pathologies or their pharmacological treatments and people carrying additional physiological impairments, which can cause oral dysfunction and dysphagia. Protective mechanisms may sometimes lack or fail to expel food fragments stuck in the airways, which completely obstruct them.</p><p><strong>Case series: </strong>The authors present some peculiar cases of subjects who died from food bolus choking, namely a case of mozzarella-cheese clogging in a young subject (25 years old) undergoing rehabilitation treatment following a stroke; a 38-year-old man with middle-grade mental retardation died from first airway food bolus (mush of bread) clogging; a 26-year-old subject with epilepsy died from tripe clogging in the course of a seizure; a 38-year-old subject in psychiatric treatment for depressive disorder who died from clogging with octopus tentacles.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Food bolus clogging asphyctic deaths generally occur in subjects with psychic/neurological pathologies, resulting in altered deglutition mechanisms or lack of protective reflexes. Foodstuff, especially if large or viscous, obstruct the proximal or distal airways, leading to acute respiratory failure and death. Autopsy is diriment in ascertain the cause of death.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Complex suicide by drowning and stabbing: first italian case reported in literature. 溺水和刺杀复合自杀:文献中报告的首个意大利病例。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5118
A Marzaioli, G De Gabriele, S Di Trani, M Calvano, F Mele, F Introna
{"title":"Complex suicide by drowning and stabbing: first italian case reported in literature.","authors":"A Marzaioli, G De Gabriele, S Di Trani, M Calvano, F Mele, F Introna","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>\"Complex suicide\" refers to suicides in which more than one suicide method is applied. The victim can either plan different and simultaneous ways of death, to prevent any failures, or change the method because the first one fails or turns out to be too painful.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>A Middle-age-man was found dead inside a car, in a field, near the seaside. Clothes were intact, wet, and smeared with mud and gravel. His shirt had dried whitish biological material on the thoracic area, referable to oedema fluid, his trousers were down to his ankles exposing external genitalia. Inside the car, a kitchen-serrated blade knife and scissors were found, both smeared with dried blood material. Cadaveric inspection showed: multiple superficial stab/cut injuries; nasal cavities leaking aqueous-like fluid; triangular and linear stab lesions all over the body; hesitation marks on both latero-cervical regions and both wrists; no defensive injuries referrable to third parties; maceration over both palmar and plantar surfaces. Autopsy showed: hemorrhagic infiltration for thoracic muscles; expanded and heavily congested lungs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This is the first Italian case, and one of the few cases reported in major literature (third case worldwide), of unplanned complex suicide achieved through stabbing and drowning by a man with no psychiatric or substances abuse history. Therefore, analyzing any evidence to distinguish this kind of sudden/unnatural death from accidental or homicidal ones is mandatory. Such cases require a flawless approach to judicial inspection, autopsy, and toxicological exams. Moreover, a multidisciplinary perspective including psychiatric criminological investigation is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Palliative care as a Fundamental Human Right: where are we at in Italy? 作为基本人权的姑息关怀:意大利的情况如何?
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5072
G Volonnino, G D'Antonio, F Cuomo, L Pellegrini, N Di Fazio, M Ferrara, M Arcangeli, P Frati
{"title":"Palliative care as a Fundamental Human Right: where are we at in Italy?","authors":"G Volonnino, G D'Antonio, F Cuomo, L Pellegrini, N Di Fazio, M Ferrara, M Arcangeli, P Frati","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The right to live with dignity during the final stages of existence, enshrined in national and supranational Charters of Rights, represents a significant step towards humanizing medicine and is integral to the right to health. Palliative Care, rooted in health, dignity, and therapeutic self-determination, has emerged as a fundamental human right and a moral imperative within health systems. It seeks to alleviate suffering, emphasizing the holistic well-being of patients with life-limiting illnes-ses. This paper provides an analysis of the current situation of Palliative Care in Italy and examines its critical aspects, also in relation to the issues found in other European and non-European countries. In Italy, although laws have been enacted to ensure the provision of Palliative Care, its availability remains inconsistent across different regions. Financial constraints and insufficient support hinder the comprehensive dissemination of these services. Recognizing the significance of Palliative Care, the Catholic Church also endorses its implementation as a response to human suffering and an approach to end-of-life care. Efforts to strengthen Palliative Care are critical to meeting the rising demand and ensuring access to compassionate and dignified care for all individuals in need. Through legislative advancements and adequate resources, Italy can make significant strides in advancing the provision of Palliative Care.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of PMCT in firearm injuries. Case study. PMCT 在枪支伤害中的作用。案例研究。
Clinica Terapeutica Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.7417/CT.2024.5084
C Pitrone, S Pellicano, C Franzutti, G Scappatura, G Baldino, A Asmundo, E Ventura Spagnolo
{"title":"The role of PMCT in firearm injuries. Case study.","authors":"C Pitrone, S Pellicano, C Franzutti, G Scappatura, G Baldino, A Asmundo, E Ventura Spagnolo","doi":"10.7417/CT.2024.5084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7417/CT.2024.5084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The use of radiological approaches in forensic investigations is rapidly emerging as an alternative to traditional autopsies. Here, we present the experience of the Sicilian and Calabrian forensic medical departments over the past five years, highlighting the application of PMCT to support autopsies in cases involving gunshot wound victims.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>From January 2020 to March 2024, thirty cadavers who died from gunshot wounds underwent total body PMCT examinations followed by autopsies. The examinations included multi-planar and 3D reconstructions. Data collected for each subject included gender, age, mode of death, type of weapon, number of shots, body sites affected, and presence of retained bullets. A team of two radiologists and two forensic physicians evaluated the images and compared them with the autopsy findings.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>PMCT and 3D reconstruction enabled evaluation of entry wounds, fracture margins, injury sites, fragments, and anatomical trajectories. The results from PMCT were compared with autopsy findings in terms of entry wounds, wound channels, foreign bodies, organ and skeletal injuries, and causes of death. PMCT showed concordance with autopsy findings in determining the cause of death in all cases. The speed, non-invasiveness, and ability to manipulate and reconstruct data make PMCT an ideal technique for supporting forensic investigations and autopsies. PMCT is highly reliable for accurately identifying lethal wounds and determining the cause of death. It excels at tracking wound paths, distinguishing entrance and exit wounds, locating retained bullets, and detecting fragmentation and dispersion of ballistic components.</p>","PeriodicalId":50686,"journal":{"name":"Clinica Terapeutica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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