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Tramadol is a synthetic opioid agonist used extensively in human and, to a lesser extent, veterinary medicine throughout the world. The clinical efficacy and pharmacokinetic profile of intravenous (i.v.) and extradural (e.d.) tramadol (2... more
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"Il Rinascimento italiano", fa parte di "La grande storia dell'arte", Milano 2015, vol. 1, cap. 4, pp. 68-81
"Il Rinascimento italiano", fa parte di "La grande storia dell'arte", Milano 2015, vol. 1, cap. 4, pp. 68-81
Discussion paper Hygieia at: ‘Historicisation’ A summer course for PhD students arranged by the Nordic network for medical history (NordForsk) about "framing health".. The University of Bergen, 24-26 August, 2011. Updated and corrected... more
"The article explores how, when andwhy Pirro Ligorio (c. 1513–83) chose to link a sanctuary dedicated to MinervaMedica, listed in the fourth-century AD Regionary Catalogues of the monuments of Rome as being on the Esquiline, with the late... more
Extracted from: The Eastern Part of the Mons Oppius in Rome. By Chrystina Häuber The research on The Eastern Part of the Mons Oppius in Rome presented here has been conducted since March 1981 in close cooperation with the Musei... more
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in the United States, whose incidence is greatest in the elderly population. This rhythm disorder can be paroxysmal or chronic and is associated with a range of clinical conditions from... more
The use of hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIg) combined with nucleos(t)ide analogues (NUCs) has improved outcomes in post-hepatitis B (PHB) liver transplant (LT), reducing the 1-year recurrence rate below 10%. The aim of this study was to... more
α-Lipoic acid is an important micronutrient with several pharmacological as well as antioxidant properties. The present study was aimed to examine the human bioavailability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and tolerability of an innovative oral... more
Iron is an important metal in the complex biochemistry in human beings. However there are primary or secondary diseases that lead to an accumulation of iron in parenchymal organs and induce progressive and serious systemic harm. This... more
Nowadays, rigid and flexible ureteroscopy is a precise, minimal invasive surgery that can assess the entire collecting system in order to treat a stone with intracorporeal lithotripsy. The implication of laser technology has... more
BACKGROUND Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare but often lethal syndrome. In Italy, recent data on its incidence and causes are lacking. We report here the epidemiological analysis of ALF cases observed in Campania, a Southern Italian... more
Storia, Restauro e Struttura non individuano, nelle intenzioni di chi ha pensato questo libro, tre settori disciplinari in cui collocare gli scritti dei diversi autori a seconda del proprio ambito disciplinare e selezionati in modo più o... more
Asthma is a complex inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by airway hyper-responsiveness and variable, reversible, airflow obstruction. Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a new modality for treating asthma. It targets airway... more
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia encountered in clinical cardiology, particularly in patients with heart failure. Its prevalence increases with the degree of left ventricular dysfunction and... more
Minimal encephalopathy was originally associated with chronic liver disease but is increasingly associated with most other chronic diseases and particularly with diabetes and also chronic disorders in other organs: kidneys, lungs, thyroid... more
Breathlessness is a key symptom in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with prognostic implications on health status and survival. Since most conditions underlying chronic refractory breathlessness in COPD are not modifiable, the... more
Understanding whether the ABCD GOLD classification method is informative with respect to the spirometric classification of severity in predicting mortality of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is subject of... more
Basketball involves high-intensity bouts interspersed with brief/incomplete recovery periods. As a result repeated-sprint ability and change of direction training assume logical validity in basketball. Ball-drill games (BD) were suggested... more
Diagnosis of indeterminate mediastinal masses and staging of lung cancer poses a significant challenge. Options for tissue diagnoses include computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous biopsy, transbronchial fine-needle aspiration,... more
Two months after monolateral adrenalectomy, a 47-year-old woman stopped taking corticosteroid replacement therapy in the first 15 days of therapy. She was admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine because of hypertension, severe... more
Alcoholic hepatitis is an acute and severe form of alcoholic liver disease associated with high morbidity and mortality of 30-50% worldwide, severity ranging from asymptomatic derangement of liver biochemistries to fulminant liver failure... more
Aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of phytocomplexes of Uncaria, Shiitake and Ribes in terms of viability and inflammatory response on immune cell-derived cultures. Standardized extracts of Uncaria, Shitake and Ribes and their... more