38 Result(s)
-
Article
Open AccessAdvancing healthcare through thoracic ultrasound research in older patients
This paper reports the proceedings of a meeting convened by the Research Group on Thoracic Ultrasound in Older People of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, to discuss the current state-of-the-a...
-
Article
Polypharmacy and Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities: The GeroCovid Vax Study
Polypharmacy is common in older adults, particularly among those living in long-term care facilities. This condition represents a marker of clinical complexity and might directly affect the immunological respo...
-
Article
Frailty in the chronic respiratory patient: association with mortality and clinical features in obstructive, restrictive, and mixed spirometric patterns
Frailty associates with increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes and reduced tolerance to medical interventions. Its impact on patients with chronic respiratory diseases, particularly beyond chronic ...
-
Article
Clinical profile of trazodone users in a multisetting older population: data from the Italian GeroCovid Observational study
To comparatively assess the clinical profiles of older patients treated with trazodone or other antidepressants in a large dataset from the GeroCovid Observational multiscope and multisetting study.
-
Article
Frailty and hyperactive delirium in hospitalized older patients with COVID-19: an insight from GeroCovid registry
Delirium is an acute neuropsychiatric condition associated with unfavourable outcomes, frequent in older hospitalized people. In the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, few studies have specifically focused on...
-
Chapter
Chronic Respiratory Disease: COPD, IPF
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary fibrosis, either primary or secondary, increase in prevalence with age and commonly coexist with chronic conditions, functional and social problems. T...
-
Article
Open AccessHumoral immunity induced by mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in Nursing Home Residents previously infected with SARS-CoV-2
Nursing home (NH) residents suffered the greatest impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Limited data are available on vaccine-induced immunity and on the protection ensured by a prior infection in this population.
-
Article
Chronic cough in adults: recommendations from an Italian intersociety consensus
Chronic cough (CC) is a burdensome health problem in adult and older people, with a major impact on quality of life. Its management is often troublesome, and many guidelines have been released. Notwithstanding...
-
Article
Open AccessComputed tomography findings and prognosis in older COVID-19 patients
In older and multimorbid patients, chronic conditions may affect the prognostic validity of computed tomography (CT) findings in COVID-19. This study aims at assessing to which extent CT findings have prognost...
-
Article
Reply to the Letter: “Low levels of transaminase and mortality risk in older people with special reference to sarcopenia”
-
Article
Atrial fibrillation and COVID-19 in older patients: how disability contributes to shape the risk profile. An analysis of the GeroCovid registry
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is often complicated by disabling conditions in the elderly. COVID-19 has high mortality in older people. This study aimed at evaluating the relationship of pre-infection AF with chara...
-
Article
Combined evaluation of aminotransferases improves risk stratification for overall and cause-specific mortality in older patients
Recent studies identified low levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) as strong predictors of mortality in older people.
-
Article
Orthogeriatric co-management for the care of older subjects with hip fracture: recommendations from an Italian intersociety consensus
Health outcomes of older subjects with hip fracture (HF) may be negatively influenced by multiple comorbidities and frailty. An integrated multidisciplinary approach (i.e. the orthogeriatric model) is, therefo...
-
Article
Association between frailty index, lung function, and major clinical determinants in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Airflow limitation alone is unable to capture the complexity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), better explained by comprehensive disease-specific indexes. Frailty is a clinical condition charact...
-
Article
Clustering of patients with end-stage chronic diseases by symptoms: a new approach to identify health needs
End-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic renal failure (CRF) are characterized by a high burden of daily symptoms that, irrespective of the primary organ ...
-
Article
Symptom-based clusters in patients with advanced chronic organ failure identify different trajectories of symptom variations
Healthcare needs are complex and heterogeneous in advanced chronic organ failure. However, based on symptom clusters, groups of patients with similar quality of life, care dependency and life-sustaining treatm...
-
Article
Authors’ Reply to Brunetti et al. “Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Drug–Drug Interactions, and Anticholinergic Burden in Elderly Hospitalized Patients: Does an Association Exist with Post-Discharge Health Outcomes?”
-
Article
The Cross-Talk between Age, Hypertension and Inflammation in COVID-19 Patients: Therapeutic Targets
This paper presents a brief overview of the complex interaction between age, hypertension, the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS), inflammation, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SA...
-
Article
Management of heart failure: an Italian national survey on fellows/specialists in geriatrics
Heart failure (HF) is often managed by geriatricians. Few data are available on their knowledge and attitudes about this condition.
-
Article
Open AccessCorrection to: Perioperative Management of Elderly patients (PriME): recommendations from an Italian intersociety consensus
The article Perioperative Management of Elderly patients (PriME).
