15 results on '"Poletti G"'
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2. Surface modification of PET film by a DBD device at atmospheric pressure
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Esena, P, Riccardi, C, Zanini, S, Tontini, M, Poletti, G, Orsini, F, Orsini, F., RICCARDI, CLAUDIA, ZANINI, STEFANO, Esena, P, Riccardi, C, Zanini, S, Tontini, M, Poletti, G, Orsini, F, Orsini, F., RICCARDI, CLAUDIA, and ZANINI, STEFANO
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Plasma treatments are used to modify surface properties of materials such as adhesivity, hydrophobicity, oleophobicity, hydrophilicity. The plasma interaction with the surface produces modifications of its chemical structure and morphology. The present work shows the surface modification of polyethylene terephthalate film (PET) after the exposure to an atmospheric pressure air dielectric barrier discharge (DBD). The treated surface has been analyzed using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and contact angle measurement. AFM analysis show roughness changes in both amplitude and peaks spacing: surface modifications cause both optical properties changes and adhesivity enhancement to coating and depositions.
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- 2005
3. Characterization of Plasma Processing for Polymers
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Raffaele Addamo, A, Riccardi, C, Selli, E, Barni, R, Piselli, M, Poletti, G, Orsini, F, Marcandalli, B, Massafra, M, Meda, L, RICCARDI, CLAUDIA, BARNI, RUGGERO, PISELLI, MORENO, Massafra, MR, Meda, L., Raffaele Addamo, A, Riccardi, C, Selli, E, Barni, R, Piselli, M, Poletti, G, Orsini, F, Marcandalli, B, Massafra, M, Meda, L, RICCARDI, CLAUDIA, BARNI, RUGGERO, PISELLI, MORENO, Massafra, MR, and Meda, L.
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Some selective plasma treatments are described, aiming at modifying specific surface properties of textile polymeric materials, such as their hydrorepellence and dyeability. The prevailing plasma–polymer interactions were identified by correlating the physico-chemical modification of treated polymer surfaces to the characteristics of the plasma sources.
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- 2003
4. Cold plasma treatment of PET fabrics: AFM surface morphology characterisation
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Poletti, G, Orsini, F, Raffaele Addamo, A, Riccardi, C, Selli, E, Selli, E., RICCARDI, CLAUDIA, Poletti, G, Orsini, F, Raffaele Addamo, A, Riccardi, C, Selli, E, Selli, E., and RICCARDI, CLAUDIA
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used to investigate the morphology changes in the surface of poly(ethyleneterephthalate) (PET) fabrics due to cold plasma treatments. This has resulted in the possibility to measure quantitatively the root-mean-square (rms) surface roughness and the surface area of the samples developed after the treatment. The morphology changes, mainly rms surface roughness and surface area, on the PET fabrics surface due to air cold plasma have been measured as a function of treatment time and as a function of gas pressure. The same quantities as a function of pressure were measured also for He, Ar, SF 6 and CF 4 gases. The changes in morphology in the cases of air, He and Ar gases seems to be due mainly to etching effects. The situation is different for SF 6 and CF 4 gases where reorganisation of the surface, possibly due to fluorine atoms grafting, seems to be effective. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights rerserved.
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- 2003
5. Echocardiographic findings in apparently healthy Czechoslovakian wolfdogs.
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Ivasovic F, Poletti G, and Baron Toaldo M
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- Dogs, Animals, Male, Female, Reference Values, Dog Diseases diagnostic imaging, Mitral Valve Insufficiency veterinary, Mitral Valve Insufficiency diagnostic imaging, Echocardiography veterinary
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Introduction: To echocardiographically evaluate a large number of apparently healthy Czechoslovakian wolfdogs (CWDs) to identify possible subclinical cardiac abnormalities and to generate reference intervals., Animals: One-hundred and seventeen apparently healthy client-owned CWDs., Materials and Methods: Standard two-dimensional, M-mode, and Doppler echocardiographic measurements were obtained on non-sedated, manually restrained standing dogs. Animals with no relevant echocardiographic abnormalities were used to generate reference intervals. Echocardiographic variables were compared between males and females and between dogs with and without mitral regurgitation (MR)., Results and Discussion: Among the 117 CWDs, 103 dogs were used to generate reference intervals. The 14 dogs with abnormalities had more than trivial MR (12 dogs), subaortic stenosis (one dog), and equivocal subaortic stenosis (one dog). The 44 males were heavier than 59 females (P<0.001) and had a larger maximum left atrial dimension (P=0.015), left ventricular internal dimension at end-diastole (P<0.001) and systole (P<0.001), and thicker interventricular septum thickness at end-diastole (P=0.016). A positive linear correlation was identified between bodyweight and aortic root and left atrial diameters and left ventricular dimensions and between age and aortic root and left atrial diameter and peak late transmitral flow velocity. A negative linear correlation was identified between age and peak early transmitral flow velocity and the ratio between peak early and late transmitral flow velocities. No differences in echocardiographic-derived cardiac dimensions were detected between healthy dogs and dogs with more than trivial MR., Conclusions: In this population of CWDs, subclinical cardiac abnormalities were uncommon, and they were mainly classified as MR., Competing Interests: Conflict of Interest Statement The authors do not have any conflict of interest to disclose., (Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2024
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6. GWAs Identify DNA Variants Influencing Eyebrow Thickness Variation in Europeans and Across Continental Populations.
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Peng F, Xiong Z, Zhu G, Hysi PG, Eller RJ, Wu S, Adhikari K, Chen Y, Li Y, Gonzalez-José R, Schüler-Faccini L, Bortolini MC, Acuña-Alonzo V, Canizales-Quinteros S, Gallo C, Poletti G, Bedoya G, Rothhammer F, Uitterlinden AG, Ikram MA, Nijsten T, Ruiz-Linares A, Wang S, Walsh S, Spector TD, Martin NG, Kayser M, and Liu F
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- Humans, Genome-Wide Association Study, Racial Groups, Mutation, DNA, European People genetics, Eyebrows anatomy & histology
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- 2023
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7. Comprehensive computational analysis of the crimping procedure of PLLA BVS: effects of material viscous-plastic and temperature dependent behavior.
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Antonini L, Poletti G, Mandelli L, Dubini G, Pennati G, and Petrini L
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- Absorbable Implants, Plastics, Prosthesis Design, Temperature, Treatment Outcome, Drug-Eluting Stents
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Recently, researchers focused their attention on the use of polymeric bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVSs) as alternative to permanent metallic drug-eluting stents (DESs) for the treatment of atherosclerotic coronary arteries. Due to the different mechanical properties, polymeric stents, if compared to DESs, are characterized by larger strut size and specific design. It implies that during the crimping phase, BVSs undergo higher deformation and the packing of the struts, making this process potentially critical for the onset of damage. In this work, a computational study on the crimping procedure of a PLLA stent, inspired by the Absorb GT1 (Abbott Vascular) design, is performed, with the aim of evaluating how different strategies (loading steps, velocities and temperatures) can influence the results in terms of damage risk and final crimped diameter. For these simulations, an elastic-viscous-plastic model was adopted, based on experimental results, obtained from tensile testing of PLLA specimens loaded according to ad hoc experimental protocols. Furthermore, the results of these simulations were compared with those obtained by neglecting strain rate and temperature dependence in the material model (as often done in the literature), showing how this lead to significant differences in the prediction of the crimped diameter and internal stress state., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2021
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8. Prediction of eye, hair and skin colour in Latin Americans.
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Palmal S, Adhikari K, Mendoza-Revilla J, Fuentes-Guajardo M, Silva de Cerqueira CC, Bonfante B, Chacón-Duque JC, Sohail A, Hurtado M, Villegas V, Granja V, Jaramillo C, Arias W, Lozano RB, Everardo-Martínez P, Gómez-Valdés J, Villamil-Ramírez H, Hünemeier T, Ramallo V, Parolin ML, Gonzalez-José R, Schüler-Faccini L, Bortolini MC, Acuña-Alonzo V, Canizales-Quinteros S, Gallo C, Poletti G, Bedoya G, Rothhammer F, Balding D, Faux P, and Ruiz-Linares A
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- Datasets as Topic, Genetics, Population, Genotype, Humans, Latin America, Logistic Models, Phenotype, Eye Color genetics, Hair Color genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Skin Pigmentation genetics
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Here we evaluate the accuracy of prediction for eye, hair and skin pigmentation in a dataset of > 6500 individuals from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Brazil (including genome-wide SNP data and quantitative/categorical pigmentation phenotypes - the CANDELA dataset CAN). We evaluated accuracy in relation to different analytical methods and various phenotypic predictors. As expected from statistical principles, we observe that quantitative traits are more sensitive to changes in the prediction models than categorical traits. We find that Random Forest or Linear Regression are generally the best performing methods. We also compare the prediction accuracy of SNP sets defined in the CAN dataset (including 56, 101 and 120 SNPs for eye, hair and skin colour prediction, respectively) to the well-established HIrisPlex-S SNP set (including 6, 22 and 36 SNPs for eye, hair and skin colour prediction respectively). When training prediction models on the CAN data, we observe remarkably similar performances for HIrisPlex-S and the larger CAN SNP sets for the prediction of hair (categorical) and eye (both categorical and quantitative), while the CAN sets outperform HIrisPlex-S for quantitative, but not for categorical skin pigmentation prediction. The performance of HIrisPlex-S, when models are trained in a world-wide sample (although consisting of 80% Europeans, https://hirisplex.erasmusmc.nl), is lower relative to training in the CAN data (particularly for hair and skin colour). Altogether, our observations are consistent with common variation of eye and hair colour having a relatively simple genetic architecture, which is well captured by HIrisPlex-S, even in admixed Latin Americans (with partial European ancestry). By contrast, since skin pigmentation is a more polygenic trait, accuracy is more sensitive to prediction SNP set size, although here this effect was only apparent for a quantitative measure of skin pigmentation. Our results support the use of HIrisPlex-S in the prediction of categorical pigmentation traits for forensic purposes in Latin America, while illustrating the impact of training datasets on its accuracy., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2021
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9. TMR and CABG: the best way to obtain a complete and a more lasting revascularization?
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Actis Dato GM, Hakimpour M, Bacciega M, di Summa M, and Poletti G
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- Aged, Disease Progression, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Recurrence, Reoperation, Angina Pectoris surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass, Coronary Disease surgery, Laser Therapy, Myocardial Revascularization
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- 2000
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10. Gender and coronary artery bypass mortality.
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Aidala E, Lascala E, and Poletti G
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- Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Logistic Models, Male, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Survival Analysis, Coronary Artery Bypass mortality, Postoperative Complications mortality
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- 1999
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11. Reoperations on heart valve prostheses: an analysis of operative risks and late results.
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Pansini S, Ottino G, Forsennati PG, Serpieri G, Zattera G, Casabona R, di Summa M, Villani M, Poletti GA, and Morea M
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- Female, Humans, Italy epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Multivariate Analysis, Prosthesis Failure, Reoperation mortality, Reoperation statistics & numerical data, Risk Factors, Survival Rate, Bioprosthesis, Heart Valve Prosthesis mortality, Heart Valve Prosthesis statistics & numerical data, Postoperative Complications epidemiology, Surgery Department, Hospital statistics & numerical data
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To evaluate risks and complications of reoperations on heart valve prostheses, we reviewed data on 183 patients who underwent reoperation because of prosthetic valve malfunction. The incremental effect of the redo procedure on hospital mortality and morbidity was studied by comparing primary and reoperative procedures and analyzing a series of possible predisposing factors. Late survival after first and second reoperations was computed, and possible determinants of late mortality were examined. Overall operative mortality was 8.7%; emergency operation (p = 0.0001), previous thromboembolism (p = 0.05), and advanced New York Heart Association functional class (p = 0.031) were the independent determinants. In a series of 1,355 patients having primary or secondary isolated valve replacement, the redo procedure was a significant risk factor in the univariate analysis (p = 0.025) but not in the multivariate analysis except for the subset of patients having mitral valve replacement (p = 0.052). The postoperative course was quite complicated, as evidenced by the long mean stay in the intensive care unit (mean stay, 3.8 days; longer than 2 days for 26% of the survivors). Nevertheless, postoperative complications were not significantly greater after a redo procedure than after a primary operation. Actuarial survival at 7 years was 57.3% +/- 8%. A comparison with a nonhomogeneous series from our institution did not demonstrate significant differences. In the subset of 16 patients having a second reoperation, late survival was 37.8% +/- 16% at 2 years. Advanced New York Heart Association class (p = 0.0001), double prosthetic valve dysfunction (p = 0.003), and any indication other than primary tissue failure (p = 0.06) were determinants of late mortality.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- 1990
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12. Diffuse panbronchiolitis observed in an Italian.
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Poletti V, Patelli M, Poletti G, Bertanti T, and Spiga L
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- Humans, Italy epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Bronchiolitis epidemiology
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- 1990
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13. Effects of chronic lithium administration on brain weights, acetylcholinesterase activity and learning ability in rats.
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Gallo C, Poletti G, and Cazorla A
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- Analysis of Variance, Animals, Brain enzymology, Erythrocytes drug effects, Kidney drug effects, Lithium blood, Liver drug effects, Male, Organ Size drug effects, Rats, Rats, Inbred Strains, Acetylcholinesterase metabolism, Brain drug effects, Learning drug effects, Lithium pharmacology
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In order to test the effects of chronic lithium (Li) administration on learning and memory, 21 day old rats were subjected to different degrees of environmental stimulation (enriched condition, EC and impoverished condition, IC) with and without Li for 144 days. Li was administered with food (2.18 mEq/Kg weight/day). Average plasma Li concentration at the end of the experiment was 0.41 +/- 0.04 mu Eq/ml. Both Li treatment and the environmental condition showed an overall significant effect on the cortex/subcortex weight ratio and learning ability index, but not on AChE activity in occipital cortex. A similar pattern of brain Li distribution was observed in both EC-Li and IC-Li, with occipital cortex having the highest levels. Li tissue/protein/plasma ratio was higher in EC than in IC, in all the brain areas studied. Other organs (liver and kidney) did not show EC-IC differences in the tissue/protein/plasma Li ratio.
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- 1990
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14. Endocarditis in patients with bioprostheses: pathology and clinical correlations.
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Zussa C, Galloni MR, Zattera GF, Pansini S, di Summa M, Poletti GA, Ottino G, and Morea M
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- Adult, Aortic Valve surgery, Endocarditis, Bacterial microbiology, Female, Humans, Male, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Middle Aged, Mitral Valve surgery, Reoperation, Tricuspid Valve surgery, Bioprosthesis adverse effects, Endocarditis, Bacterial etiology, Heart Valve Prosthesis adverse effects
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We studied 13 porcine bioprostheses removed from patients with endocarditis at our institute during the last 4.5 years. All bioprostheses had been removed at reoperation and were analyzed using anatomical and histological techniques. Each bioprosthesis was found to have developed rather constant lesions which were not related to the type of bioprosthesis. The stage of infection was not related to the duration of implantation. The presence of perivalvular abscesses was an ominous finding, often being the seat of persistent endocarditis. Our good clinical results of reoperation lead us to suggest that this be performed early once valvular or prosthetic malfunction is detected. Bioprostheses are, in our experience, the best choice in the surgical treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis.
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- 1984
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15. Porcine cardiac bioprostheses: evaluation of long-term results in 990 patients.
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Zussa C, Ottino G, di Summa M, Poletti GA, Zattera GF, Pansini S, and Morea M
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aortic Valve surgery, Endocarditis etiology, Equipment Failure, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Hemorrhage etiology, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mitral Valve surgery, Reoperation, Thromboembolism etiology, Bioprosthesis adverse effects, Bioprosthesis mortality, Heart Valve Prosthesis adverse effects, Heart Valve Prosthesis mortality
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Clinical results with porcine bioprostheses were reviewed for 990 patients who underwent heart valve replacement from January, 1974, to December, 1980. Eight hundred and seventy-four Hancock, 283 Carpentier-Edwards, and 10 Liotta bioprostheses were used. In 23 patients, 26 mechanical prostheses were implanted as well. Overall operative mortality was 60 out of 990 (6.06%): 30 out of 506 (5.9%) for mitral valve replacement (MVR), 13 out of 287 (4.5%) for aortic valve replacement (AVR), 1 out of 4 (25%) for tricuspid valve replacement, 0 out of 2 for pulmonary valve replacement, and 16 out of 191 (8.4%) for multiple valve replacement. Cumulative follow-up covered 1,793 patient-years. (Actuarial survival at 7 years was 76.6 +/- 3% for MVR. At 6 years, it was 83.2 +/- 2.8% for AVR and 55 +/- 13.5% for multiple valve replacement.) Prosthesis-related survival at 7 years was 91.7 +/- 1.9% for MVR, and at 6 years, it was 96.6 +/- 1.5% for AVR and 95.1 +/- 2.2% for multiple valve replacement. Bioprosthesis survival, considering deaths or complications that led to reoperation as final events, was 84.2 +/- 3.7% at 7 years for mitral valves and 87.7 +/- 3.8% at 6 years for aortic valves. Emboli per 100 patient-years numbered 3.2 for MVR, 0.5 for AVR, and 1.6 for multiple valve replacement. Twenty-seven patients underwent reoperation, 12 for perivalvular leak, 5 for endocarditis, 6 for valve thrombosis, and 4 for primary tissue failure (linearized rates of 0.7, 0.3, 0.3, and 0.2% per patient-year, respectively).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- 1985
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