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Muscle hypertrophy, strength development, and serum hormones during strength training in elderly women with fibromyalgia.
2005
To examine the effects of strength training on maximal force, cross-sectional area (CSA), and electromyographic (EMG) activity of muscles and serum hormone concentrations in elderly females with fibromyalgia (FM).Twenty-six patients with FM were randomly assigned to a training (FMT; n = 13; mean age 60 years) or a control (FMC; n = 13; 59 years) group. FMT performed progressive strength training twice a week for 21 weeks. The measurements included maximal isometric and concentric leg extension forces, EMG activity of the vastus lateralis and medialis, CSA of the quadriceps femoris, and serum concentrations of testosterone (T), free testosterone (FT), growth hormone (GH), insulin-like growth…
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is ready to replace clinic blood pressure in the diagnosis of hypertension: con side of the argument.
2014
The San Francisco experience with Perloff and Sokolow was the starting point for the clinical application of ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) measurement. Using a semiautomatic device, the superiority of ABP to office measurement was demonstrated in the relationship with hypertension-induced organ damage1 and in the risk for cardiovascular events.2 This seminal study impelled an issue with the largest production and impact in the field of hypertension in recent decades, boosting research and having an enormous influence on daily clinical practice. Initially restricted to specialized clinics, ABP monitoring (ABPM) has largely expanded to primary care in many countries. Similarly, scientific p…
Early postoperative substitution procedure of the antioxidant ascorbic acid.
2005
Postoperatively reduced concentration of ascorbic acid (AA) in plasma (or =45.5 micromol/l (or =800 microg/dl)) is commonly interpreted as increased metabolic requirements, but it is not shown yet that the patient benefits from a substitution toward normal levels of AA. This is due to the missing knowledge on how to substitute AA effectively to normal plasma values in postoperative patients. Therefore, a postoperative AA substitution procedure "overnight" to normal values in plasma was investigated on a postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) in a university hospital.Fifty-seven operated patients were randomly assigned to a control- or intervention group (CG and IG, respectively). In all pa…
016: Evidence of systemic plaque vulnerability in acute coronary syndromes with FDG-positron emission tomography and computed tomographic angiography…
2013
PurposeAtherosclerotic plaque vulnerability is a systemic phenomenon and is often associated with severe plaque infiltration with inflammatory cells. 18-Fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) accumulates in inflammatory cells of atherosclerotic plaques. The aim of this study was to assess whether 1) FDG uptake in the aorta and carotid arteries measured by positron emission tomography (PET) is higher in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) than in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and; 2) associated with morphological markers of plaque instability detected with computed tomography angiography (CTA).MethodsPatients with ACS (n=50) or stable CAD (n=28) underwent a PET 90 minutes af…
Role of virtopsy in the post-mortem diagnosis of drowning.
2014
Purpose: Due to admitted limits of autopsy-based studies in the diagnosis of drowning, virtopsy is considered the new imaging horizon in these post-mortem studies. The aim of our study was to evaluate the role of virtopsy performed through computed tomography (CT) in the forensic diagnosis of drowning. Materials and methods: We retrospectively examined the CT data of four cadavers recovered from sea water and suspected to have died by drowning. Each patient underwent a full-body post-mortem CT scan, and then a traditional autopsy. Conclusion: To date, there are no autopsy findings pathognomonic of drowning. This study proves that virtopsy is a useful tool in the diagnosis of drowning in tha…
Effects of the type of recovery training on the concentric strength of the knee extensors
1997
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of specific concentric and eccentric training on concentric muscular strength following an initial standardized period of excessive training that combined concentric and eccentric actions. For a period of 12 weeks, 37 young elite female basketball players performed standardized training, which included concentric and eccentric actions at 70% and 110% of one-repetition maximum (1-RM), respectively. They were then divided into three groups that followed 12 week programmes which included concentric (C-E/C, n = 13), eccentric (C-E/E, n = 13) or a combination of both concentric and eccentric (C-E/-E, n = 11) exercises. The standardized and specifi…
Soccer players have a better standing balance in nondominant one-legged stance
2010
Rosario Barone1, Filippo Macaluso2, Marcello Traina3,4, Vincenza Leonardi4,5, Felicia Farina1, Valentina Di Felice11Human Anatomy Section 'E. Luna', BioNeC, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; 2Department of Physiological Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; 3Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases, 4Methods and Didactics of Motory Activities, DISMOT, 5Department of General Surgery, Emergency and Organ Transplants (GENURTO), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy  Rosario Barone and Filippo Macaluso contributed equally to the workAbstract: The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in standing balan…
The identification of biomarkers predicting acute and maintenance lithium treatment response in bipolar disorder: A plea for further research attenti…
2018
The prediction of acute and maintenance lithium treatment response carries major clinical and neurobiological implications, warranting systematic review. A Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) compliant review searched major electronic databases from inception until December 2017 for studies documenting a clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder (BD) made according to the mainstream diagnostic manuals and confirmed by a structured interview. Eligible studies allowed a quantitative comparison of endpoint vs baseline mean values of a given biomarker, regardless of the mood phase of patients with BD, and the disorder was assessed for severity using validate…
Asymptotic modeling of electrochemical signaling: Testing Zn in urine for non-invasive bladder cancer diagnosis
2021
Abstract A theoretical model on chemical signaling for diagnosis based on the combination of signals for marker and inert and/or interfering metabolites is described. The model yields asymptotic relationships between the intensities of the signals representative of marker and accompanying metabolites compensating concentration fluctuations. The model fits well with voltammetric features associated to the oxidation of different urine metabolites and Zn(II) reduction in the same urine samples after alkaline digestion. As a result, a non-invasive electrochemical detection of urothelial carcinoma (bladder cancer, BC) is reported. Different diagnostic criteria are described all displaying high s…
Association between low-frequency ultrasound and hip fractures - comparison with DXA-based BMD
2013
Background New methods for diagnosing osteoporosis and evaluating fracture risk are being developed. We aim to study the association between low-frequency (LF) axial transmission ultrasound and hip fracture risk in a population-based sample of older women. Methods The study population consisted of 490 community-dwelling women (78–82 years). Ultrasound velocity (VLF) at mid-tibia was measured in 2006 using a low-frequency scanning axial transmission device. Bone mineral density (BMD) at proximal femur measured using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) was used as the reference method. The fracture history of the participants was collected from December 1997 until the end of 2010. Lifestyl…