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Combining Deroofing with LAight® Therapy for Long-Term Disease Control of Hurley Stage II Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Case Report
2021
There is an increasing consensus that the treatment of Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) significantly varies with the degree of inflammation and that treatment according to guidelines is not always successful. Here, we report the case of a 31-year-old male with widespread, highly inflammatory Hurley Stage II HS in multiple locations who failed to respond to any kind of established medical treatment, including biologics. As an alternative approach, Ustekinumab was maintained, and additionally the patient was treated with LAight therapy, a combination of intense pulsed light and radiofrequency. After 10 sessions, deroofing of multiple lesions was performed in a two-step process. After a few week…
Il consenso del minore al trattamento medico in prospettiva comparatistica: un nuovo soggetto di diritto?
2020
The research analyzes in a comparative perspective the new role recognized to the minor thanks to the juridical relevance of his will with particular reference to some recent jurisprudential rulings both of the Suprême Court, in the English system, and of the Court of Cassation, in the Italian law. In this new perspective, the minor is increasingly considered the centre of imputation of rights and duties and less perceived as a weak subject, whose protection is traditionally entrusted to parents or, in case of their absence, to other substitute figures. In this new approach, the minor seems to play a new juridical subjectivity and his will must be increasingly taken into consideration as i…
Zabieg medycyny estetycznej w przypadku małoletniego dziecka bez zgody sądu rodzinnego a odpowiedzialność prawnokarna
2017
This article refers to criminal liability for performing aesthetic medicine treatment in a form of plastic surgery without patient’s consent, substitute consent (including collective) or substitute consent of Family Court. Article presents the current state of law in this respect and the correlation between applicable regulations of various branches of law and lex generalis regulations that deal with this issue, i.e. aesthetic medicine treatment.The author evaluates and describes the legal issues related with aesthetic medicine, including the patient’s consent, extended disclosure obligation as well as the ground for statutory liability for committing a prohibited act that is described and …