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Open AccessA Multicenter Phase 2 Randomized Controlled Study on the Efficacy and Safety of Reparixin in the Treatment of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia
Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome are common complications in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Poor outcomes in patients with COVID-19 are associated with cytokine rel...
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Recurrence of immune thrombocytopenia at the time of SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Local Anaesthetics
Chemical characteristics of the various local anaesthetics are described: moreover their mechanism of action, toxicity, and the remedies to the latter.
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Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Solid Organ Transplantation
Despite advances in the field of solid organ transplantation (SOT), multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The most common MDR Gram-po...
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Common Nerve Blocks of the Lower Limb
The lumbar plexus is formed by the loops of communication between the anterior roots of the first three lumbar nerves, the greater part of the fourth nerve fibres and, in as many as 50 % of cases, by a branch ...
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Open AccessPredicting the occurrence of embolic events: an analysis of 1456 episodes of infective endocarditis from the Italian Study on Endocarditis (SEI)
Embolic events are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with infective endocarditis. We analyzed the database of the prospective cohort study SEI in order to identify factors associated with th...
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Open AccessFailure of levofloxacin treatment in community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). High global incidence of macrolide and penicillin resistance has been reported, whereas fluoroquinolone resistance is uncommon...
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Successful medical treatment of multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia farcinica in a paediatric renal transplant recipient
Brain abscesses caused by Nocardia are rare, but it is very important to detect and treat them early because the associated mortality is 3 times higher than that associated with other bacterial brain abscesses. T...
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Advances in Cytomegalovirus Diagnostic Testing and Their Implications for Management of Cytomegalovirus Infec tion in Transplant Recipients
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) was the first “opportunistic” virus described in renal transplant recipients under azathioprine and prednisone (1). It has been the most frequent cause of infectious complications afte...
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An intelligent system for monitoring infections in heart transplant recipients
A computer-based assistant for monitoring a patient’s clinical course requires the use of tools able to handle temporal issues. Thus, methodologies coming from two historically distinct worlds need to be combi...