160 results on '"Pisanelli, P."'
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152. 275: Intravesical Administration of Gemcitabine in Superficial Bladder Cancer: A Phase I Study with Pharmacodynamic Evaluation. A Phase II Study with Chemoresection of the Marker Lesion
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De Berardinis, Ettore, Antonini, Gabriele, Autran Gomez, Ana Maria, Pisanelli, Giovanni Codacci, Di Silverio, Franco, and Peters, G.J.
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- 2004
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153. Morbidity and Mortality of Incontinence Surgery in Elderly Women
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Sultana, Carmen J., Campbell, James W., Pisanelli, Wendy S., Sivinski, Lynn, and Rimm, Alfred A.
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- 1997
154. ADAMS: Aggregate Data Management System for epidemiologists and health-care managers
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Ferri, F., Grifoni, P., Meo-Evoli, L., and Pisanelli, D. M.
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- 1993
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155. Exercise training restores ischemic preconditioning in the aging heart
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Nicola Ferrara, Pasquale Abete, Giancarlo Longobardi, Paolo Pisanelli, Claudio Calabrese, Angelo Cioppa, Claudio Napoli, Franco Rengo, Francesco Cacciatore, Abete, Pasquale, Calabrese, C, Ferrara, Nicola, Cioppa, A, Pisanelli, P, Cacciatore, Francesco, Longobardi, G, Napoli, C, Rengo, F., Abete, P., Calabrese, C., Cioppa, A., Pisanelli, P., Cacciatore, F., Longobardi, G., Napoli, C., Abete, P, Cacciatore, F, Rengo, Franco, Ferrara, N, and Napoli, Claudio
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Aging ,Ischemia ,Hemodynamics ,In Vitro Techniques ,Norepinephrine (medication) ,Norepinephrine ,Physical Conditioning, Animal ,Medicine ,Animals ,Rats, Wistar ,business.industry ,Vascular disease ,Body Weight ,Swim training ,Heart ,Organ Size ,Reserpine ,medicine.disease ,Rats ,Anesthesia ,Ischemic Preconditioning, Myocardial ,Ischemic preconditioning ,Analysis of variance ,business ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,medicine.drug - Abstract
OBJECTIVESTo investigate the effects of ischemic preconditioning in hearts from adult and both sedentary and trained senescent rats.BACKGROUNDIschemic preconditioning does not prevent postischemic dysfunction in the aging heart, probably because of reduction of cardiac norepinephrine release. Exercise training can reverse the age-related decrease of norepinephrine production.METHODSWe investigated the effects on mechanical parameters of ischemic preconditioning against 20 min of global ischemia followed by 40 min of reperfusion in isolated perfused hearts from adult (six months) and sedentary or trained (six weeks of graduated swim training) senescent (24 months) rats. Norepinephrine release in coronary effluent was determined by high-performance liquid cromatography.RESULTSFinal recovery of percent-developed pressure was significantly improved after preconditioning in adult hearts (91.6 ± 9.6%) versus unconditioned controls (54.2 ± 5.1%, p < 0.01). The effect of preconditioning on developed pressure recovery was absent in sedentary but present in trained senescent hearts (39.6 ± 4.1% vs. 64.3 ± 7.1%, p < 0.05). Norepinephrine release significantly increased after preconditioning in adult and in trained but not in sedentary senescent hearts. The depletion of myocardial norepinephrine stores by reserpine abolished preconditioning effects in adult and trained senescent hearts.CONCLUSIONSIn adult and trained but not in sedentary senescent hearts, preconditioning reduces postischemic dysfunction and is associated with an increase in norepinephrine release. Preconditioning was blocked by reserpine in both adult and trained senescent hearts. Thus, exercise training may restore preconditioning in the senescent heart through an increase of norepinephrine release.
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156. The aging heart and exercise training
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F. Rengo, M. Voza, Pasquale Abete, Amelia Filippelli, Nicola Ferrara, Francesca Rossi, Dario Leosco, Paolo Pisanelli, Ferrara, Nicola, Pisanelli, P., Voza, M., Abete, P., Leosco, Dario, Filippelli, A., Rossi, F., and Rengo, F.
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Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,business.industry ,Physical therapy ,Medicine ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,business ,Gerontology ,Training (civil) - Published
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157. Accuracy of clinical diagnostic criteria for Friedreich's ataxia
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Giovanni Coppola, Giuseppe Caruso, Paolo Barone, Antonella Monticelli, Anna Perretti, F Cavalcanti, A. Filla, Antonio Toscano, G. De Michele, Antonio Federico, V. Scarano, Giuseppe Vita, S. Cocozza, Antonino Uncini, Paolo Pisanelli, Lucia Santoro, Filla, Alessandro, DE MICHELE, Giuseppe, Coppola, G, Federico, A, Vita, G, Toscano, A, Uncini, A, Pisanelli, P, Barone, P, Scarano, V, Perretti, A, Santoro, Lucio, Monticelli, A, Cavalcanti, F, Caruso, G, and Cocozza, Sergio
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Adult ,Male ,Heterozygote ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Ataxia ,Adolescent ,DNA Mutational Analysis ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Central nervous system disease ,Dysarthria ,Degenerative disease ,Predictive Value of Tests ,medicine ,Humans ,Point Mutation ,Repolarization ,Age of Onset ,Child ,accuracy ,business.industry ,Homozygote ,Sporadic occurrence ,nutritional and metabolic diseases ,Friedreich's ataxia ,Middle Aged ,Reference Standards ,medicine.disease ,Predictive value ,nervous system diseases ,Progressive ataxia ,Neurology ,Friedreich Ataxia ,Child, Preschool ,diagnostic criteria ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion ,business - Abstract
The accuracy of the diagnostic criteria for Friedreich's ataxia proposed by Harding and by the Quebec Cooperative Study on Friedreich's Ataxia was studied in 142 patients with progressive unremitting ataxia of autosomal recessive inheritance or sporadic occurrence. Eighty-eight patients received the molecular diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia. Traditional diagnostic criteria are characterized by high specificity, but they yield a high number of false-negative diagnoses. We suggest three levels of diagnostic certainty: (1) possible Friedreich's ataxia, defined as sporadic or recessive progressive ataxia with (a) lower limb areflexia and dysarthria, Babinski sign, or electrocardiographic repolarization abnormalities, or (b) with lower limb retained reflexes and electrocardiographic repolarization abnormalities (95% sensitivity and 88% positive predictive value); (2) probable Friedreich's ataxia as defined by Harding's criteria (63% sensitivity and 96% positive predictive value) or by Quebec Cooperative Study on Friedreich's Ataxia criteria (63% sensitivity and 98% positive predictive value); (3) definite diagnosis, molecularly confirmed.
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- 2000
158. The medical simulation blog: A pilot project in Italy.
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Dojmi Di Delupis F, Pisanelli P, and Di Daniele N
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- Humans, Italy, Pilot Projects, Blogging, Information Dissemination methods, Simulation Training organization & administration
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Introduction : In Italy, medical simulation is undergoing a phase of intense diffusion, establishing a more decisive and uniform role in medical education. Educators receive many opportunities to train in simulation education, but these provide little room for personal growth and collaboration. This could have a negative impact on education quality and the standardization of processes. Thus, we found a gap in new information technology use, specifically in the informal diffusion of medical simulation content knowledge. Using a blog platform, we identified a space in which people can disseminate information, share their experiences, criticisms, and perspectives. Approach : From March 2016 to November 2019, we implemented a novel pilot project, creating the first Italian blog on simulations, dedicated to simulation educators. It contained the following main sections: communication, debriefing, simulation experiences, instructions for use, journal club, and psychology. Findings : Multidisciplinary personnel contributed to the blog's content. With over 70 posts, the blog accumulated 25,615 pageviews and 9,056 sessions, without promotional, monetary support or diffusion efforts. The average visitor session was 2.17 minutes long and the average pages viewed in a session was 2.83. Additionally, 30.5% of the users were returning visitors and 58.67% found the website through Google. Insights : Despite the blog's niche subject, the results were encouraging. The materials were not only meant for personal viewing, but also as a source for announcing public events (meetings and workshops). The project provided educators with an easy tool for continuous education. We believe that it enabled and organized the informal sharing of educational simulation content. As such, it also offered significant insights into formal program consolidation and the standardization of simulation instruction, while we wait for further local scientific literature production. For future developments, we believe that collaborations with other stakeholders, scientific societies, and ethical sponsorship could foster this project's continuation.
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- 2021
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159. Pre-hospital/emergency department handover in Italy.
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Dojmi Di Delupis F, Mancini N, di Nota T, and Pisanelli P
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- Continuity of Patient Care standards, Continuity of Patient Care statistics & numerical data, Emergency Medical Services statistics & numerical data, Emergency Service, Hospital organization & administration, Emergency Service, Hospital statistics & numerical data, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, Italy, Emergency Medical Services methods, Patient Handoff, Transfer Agreement, Triage methods
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In Italy, emergency department (ED) triage is a complex and delicate interface in which different emergency healthcare providers interact: physicians, nurses, and pre-hospital rescuers. There are significant differences in the communication, training, and abilities of these providers. Communication failures during the pre-hospital/hospital interface have been identified as a major preventable cause of patient harm. We previously evaluated handover in simulated scenarios, and developed specialized handover training for pre-hospital emergency rescuers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate communication during the clinical handover between pre-hospital to ED staff, using realistic scenarios. A nurse, trained through high-fidelity simulation handover scenarios, used our adapted ISBAR tool to evaluate inter-professional communication at triage. We evaluated and statistically analyzed 240 handovers performed by pre-hospital rescuers over nine observing shifts. On the whole, the data analysis highlights a lack of communication standards, a lack of formal transfer of responsibility of patient care, and a marked inconsistency in information communicated by every professional group examined. Only those rescuers who were previously trained in handover performed 100% of the ISBAR tool items. The information most often communicated was the reason for the call, (85%) and the information least often communicated was the complete ABCDE patient survey (1%). Currently, ED personnel receive poor verbal information from pre-hospital providers. The general habit of pre-hospital providers is to give different written reports to the triage nurses without a true shared transfer of responsibility. This lack of standardization in communication presumably has an adverse impact upon patient care.
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160. The aging heart and exercise training.
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Ferrara N, Pisanelli P, Voza M, Abete P, Leosco D, Filippelli A, Rossi F, and Rengo F
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- 2002
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