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Disability assessment using Google Maps.
2021
Objectives To evaluate the concordance between Google Maps® application (GM®) and clinical practice measurements of ambulatory function (e.g., Ambulation Score (AS) and respective Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)) in people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). Materials and methods This is a cross-sectional multicenter study. AS and EDSS were calculated using GM® and routine clinical methods; the correspondence between the two methods was assessed. A multinomial logistic model is investigated which demographic (age, sex) and clinical features (e.g., disease subtype, fatigue, depression) might have influenced discrepancies between the two methods. Results Two hundred forty-three pwMS were …
Real world experience with teriflunomide in multiple sclerosis: the TER-Italy study.
2021
Objective: To identify baseline factors associated with disease activity in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) under teriflunomide treatment. Methods: This was an independent, multi-centre, retrospective post-marketing study. We analysed data of 1,507 patients who started teriflunomide since October 2014 and were regularly followed in 28 Centres in Italy. We reported the proportions of patients who discontinued treatment (after excluding 32 lost to follow-up) and who experienced clinical disease activity, i.e., relapse(s) and/or confirmed disability worsening, as assessed by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). Decision tree-based analysis was performed to i…
The use of normothermic machine perfusion to rescue liver allografts from expanded criteria donors
2021
The use of expanded criteria donors is one of the strategies used to overcome the gap between the demand for organs and the number of donors. Physicians debate the extent to which marginal grafts can be used. In recent years, normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has been used to test liver viability before transplantation. Grafts underwent NMP whenever histological steatosis was > 40% or there were at least three Eurotransplant criteria for expanded criteria donor (ECD). We used NMP to test 19 grafts, 3 from donation after type 3 controlled cardiac death (DCD), and 16 from donation after brain death (DBD). Only two grafts from DBD were not transplanted, because perfusion proved they were…
Od scenografii teatralnej do scenografii społeczno--politycznej
2020
The paper is an attempt at comprehensive conceptualization of the category of ‘social and political scenography’. The author’s reference point are artistic practices (institutional theater, field theater, happenings), various performances, rituals of social life (e.g. funerals), public assemblies, including religious ones, but also different forms of unconventional participation (manifestations, demonstrations). The concept of “performance” was adopted as the common denominator of all these practices. The author tried to prove the thesis, that the social scenography (just like contemporary theater scenography) was not only a decorative background for collective social activities, artistic p…
Orbitotomía supero medial: nuevos límites en el abordaje endonasal expandido transetmoidal
2015
Introducción: Los límites de los abordajes endonasales endoscópicos expandidos (AEEE) no están delimitados y continúan en constante evolución. El límite de la extensión lateral en el plano coronal del AEEE transetmoidal descrito hasta el momento viene determinado por la unión del techo de las fóveas etmoidales con la lámina papirácea. Objetivos: Este trabajo se basa en la hipótesis fundamental de que la resección de lesiones situadas en la base craneal anterior, concretamente en la porción formada por el hueso frontal y asentadas más allá de las láminas papiráceas, pueden ser abordadas de forma completamente endonasal endoscópica. La hipótesis operativa considera que es posible mediante la …