Ricerc@Sapienza

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently rare in children and they seem to have a milder disease course and better prognosis than adults. However, SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has indirectly caused problems in pediatric medical assistance. In view of this we wanted to draw a picture of what happened during health emergency and analyze future prospects for restarting.

A multidisciplinary approach is needed for the management of pregnancy related issues in women affected by Multiple Sclerosis, however little attention has been devoted to the modality of delivery. Here we aimed to investigate whether the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) influences delivery modality in MS patients. Patients who received the diagnosis before pregnancy showed a lower frequency of natural delivery and a higher frequency of both planned and urgency caesarean sections. Gestational weeks and birth weight were lower in MS patients when compared with healthy subjects.

PURPOSE As cancer surgery restarts after the first COVID-19 wave, health care providers urgently require data to determine where elective surgery is best performed. This study aimed to determine whether COVID-19–free surgical pathways were associated with lower postoperative pulmonary complication rates compared with hospitals with no defined pathway. PATIENTS AND METHODS This international, multicenter cohort study included patients who underwent elective surgery for 10 solid cancer types without preoperative suspicion of SARS-CoV-2.

Aim of our study was to assess the impact of vacation on urinary symptoms in health care workers. Between March 2018 to October 2019 a survey was carried out by enrolling health care system workers in three centers. Demographic and clinical characteristics of health care workers (i.e. age, smoking status, medical history) were collected. Urinary symptoms work related quality of life and health were

Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit Italy early and strongly, challenging the whole health care system. Proctological patients and surgeons are experiencing a previously unseen change in care with unknown repercussion. Here we discuss the proctological experience of 4 Italian hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Following remote brainstorming, the authors summarised their experience in managing proctological patients during the COVID-19 pandemics and put forward some practical observations to further investigate.

La letteratura psicologica ha solo recentemente prestato maggiore attenzione alle persone anziane lesbiche, gay, bisessuali e transgender (LGBT) anche a causa delle sfide metodologiche che caratterizzano lo studio di tale popolazione. Scopo della presente rassegna è approfondire il contesto sociale e relazionale delle persone anziane LGBT e l’impatto che le relazioni significative esercitano su alcuni processi fondamentali come il coming-out e l’isolamento, il benessere psicologico e la salute fisica.

COVID-19 has rapidly become a pandemic emergency, distressing health systems in each affected country. COVID-19 determines the need for healthcare in a large number of people in an extremely short time and, like a tsunami wave, overruns emergency, infectious diseases, and pneumology departments as well as intensive care units, choking healthcare services. Rehabilitation services are also affected by this epidemic which forces radical changes both in the organization and in the operating methods.

To evaluate the effect of eculizumab on perceived fatigue in patients with anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive, refractory, generalized myasthenia gravis (MG) using the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QOL) Fatigue subscale, and to evaluate correlations between improvements in Neuro-QOL Fatigue and other clinical endpoints.

The lack of verbal communication due to the tracheostomy is a great challenge for nurses because communication is an essential aspect for caring, which also involves parental figures in pediatric patients.

This study is the first to employ configurational analysis to investigate combinations of ESG pillars that lead firms to achieve higher levels of marketing performance. In this pioneering approach, using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs-QCA) and data from the largest European listed companies belonging to the pharmaceutical industry in the year 2019, our results identify two different causal configurations that lead to higher marketing performance.