Psychotherapeutic treatment outcome of a female filicide patient.

A case of double filicide of both her children admitted to a forensic psychiatric facility is described. According to the CARE guidelines (for CAse REports), a full description of the patient, clinical and diagnostic scenarios, the crime, psychotherapy treatment, and changes in psychopathological functioning and clinical outcome are outlined. The patient's psychopathological functioning and clinical outcome were assessed during treatment with the MMPI-2 test: 6 months after filicide (T0), after 2 years of psychotherapy treatment (T1), and prior to discharge/after 5 1/2 years of psychotherapy treatment (T2).

Group psychoeducation for patients with bipolar disorder: a retrospective study on effectiveness in delaying relapse episodes and intensity.

Introduction: Group psychoeducation is effective in preventing relapse in bipolar disorder. It's indicated as an adjunctive intervention to pharmacotherapy for all outpatients. This retrospective, single center experience of group psychoeducation for bipolar disorder over a 6 years period, aims to assess severity of symptoms and comparative relapse episodes and intensity prior to and following psychoeducation as well as evaluating the decrease in hospitalizations and days of hospitalization.

Effects of intensive rehabilitation on functioning in patients with mild and moderate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: a real-practice retrospective study.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is one of the most common inherited neuropathies and can lead to progressive muscular weakness, pes cavus, loss of deep tendon reflexes, distal sensory loss, and gait impairment. There are still no effective drugs or surgical therapies for CMT, and supportive treatment is limited to rehabilitative therapy and surgical treatment of skeletal deformities. Many rehabilitative therapeutic approaches have been proposed, but timing and cadence of rehabilitative intervention are not clearly defined, and long-term follow-up is lacking in literature.

Filicide by mentally ill maternal perpetrators: a longitudinal, retrospective study over 30 years in a single Northern Italy psychiatric-forensic facility.

Characterization of mentally ill maternal perpetrators of filicide assigned to a single psychiatric-forensic facility, including previous access to mental health services. A cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of medical records and legal documentation of maternal filicide patients at a single psychiatric-forensic facility (1990-2021) was performed. Socio-demographic, relationship, psychopathological, and criminological characteristics were collected.

Convalescent Plasma for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: A Single-Center Experience.

In Winter 2020, Italy, and in particular the Lombardy region, was the first country in the Western hemisphere to be hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Plasma from individuals recovered from COVID-19 (COVID-19 convalescent plasma, CCP) was the first therapeutic tool adopted to counteract the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this retrospective cohort study, we report the experience of the city hospital of Mantua, Lombardy region, on the compassionate use of CCP in patients hospitalized for severe COVID-19.

[The COVID-19 Epidemic: the experience in the Social and Health Care Center of the Mantua District (Lombardy Region, Northern Italy)].

Objectives: to describe the course of COVID-19 epidemic in the hospitals of the ASST of Mantua (Lombrady Region, Northern Italy) from February 2020 to April 2021.

Design: observational study.

Setting And Participants: data from hospital discharging chart of all patients admitted to the hospitals of ASST were collected from 26.

Long-term outcomes after lung-sparing surgery for epithelial mesothelioma.

Background: This observational study evaluates retrospectively the long-term outcomes after pleurectomy/decortication for pleural mesothelioma, with and without the resection/reconstruction of diaphragm and pericardium.

Methods: Data from 155 consecutive patients undergoing lung-sparing surgery for epithelial pleural mesothelioma were reviewed. Selection criteria for surgery were cT1-3, cN0-1, good performance status, age <80 years.

Refined diagnostic criteria for bone marrow mastocytosis: a proposal of the European competence network on mastocytosis.

In the current classification of the World Health Organization (WHO), bone marrow mastocytosis (BMM) is a provisional variant of indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) defined by bone marrow involvement and absence of skin lesions. However, no additional diagnostic criteria for BMM have been proposed. Within the registry dataset of the European Competence Network on Mastocytosis, we compared characteristics and outcomes of 390 patients with BMM and 1175 patients with typical ISM.

Pulmonary embolism in patients with severe COVID-19 treated with intermediate- to full-dose enoxaparin: A retrospective study.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may predispose patients to pulmonary embolism (PE), despite standard thromboprophylaxis. Our retrospective study aimed to report the prevalence of PE in patients with COVID-19 and severe respiratory failure (SRF) treated with intermediate- to full-dose enoxaparin. We analyzed data from patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and SRF admitted to our Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) from February 27 to April 20, 2020.

Role of Skin Tests in the Diagnosis of Immediate Hypersensitivity Reactions to Taxanes: Results of a Multicenter Study.

Background: Immediate hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs) to taxanes have been increasing in recent years, but the importance of skin tests in allergological workup has not been established.

Objective: In our study we tried to evaluate the role of prick and intradermal tests in the diagnosis of HSRs to paclitaxel and docetaxel.

Methods: In this multicenter prospective study, we enrolled patients with immediate HSRs to the aforesaid agents.

Comparing outcomes after treatment of rectal cancer over a long-lasting follow-up between patients who were offered surgery alone and surgery with neoadjuvant therapy.

Background: To assess outcomes of patients operated on for rectal cancer (RC) by analysing the trends of disease free survival curves (DFSc) after a very long-term follow-up.

Methods: All patients treated with curative intent for RC from 1986 to 2005 were retrospectively analyzed. Other than demographics, disease characteristics and treatment-related factors were considered.

The detection of interval colorectal cancers following screening by fecal immunochemical test may predict worse outcomes and prompt ethical concerns: a 6-year population-based cohort study in a full district.

The rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) interval surveyed in screen-detected patients using a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) are not negligible. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of interval cancer on outcomes compared with a population with cancer diagnosed after a positive test result. All patients between 50 and 71 years of age, who were residents of the Mantua district, affected by CRC and operated on from 2005 to 2010 were reviewed.

Relationship between early administration of abciximab and TIMI flow in STEMI patients undergoing primary angioplasty: findings from a large regional STEMI network.

Aims: The aim of this study is to assess whether in S-T Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) a relationship between early administration of abciximab and Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow before and after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in 960 consecutive patients exists.

Methods: From 1 February 2001 onward, in the Province of Mantua it has been operating a 'Cardiology Network for the Acute Infarction Care' having its Hub in the Central Coronary ICU/Cath Lab of Mantua Hospital and being its Spokes centers represented by the emergency rooms and Central Coronary ICUs of the four territorial hospitals.

Results: T1 (time from symptoms onset to first medical contact) and T2 (time from first medical contact to angioplasty) are shorter for patients rescued by first aid units rather than for those presented in emergency rooms as well as Ta (time from symptoms onset to abciximab administration).

The impact of colorectal screening program on the detection of right-sided colorectal cancer. A 5-year cohort study in the Mantua District.

Background: High rates of advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) are still diagnosed in the right side of the colon. This study aimed to investigate whether screening programs increase CRC detection and whether tumor location is associated with survival outcome.

Methods: Patients affected by CRC, aged from 50 to 69 years and operated on from 2005 to 2009 were reviewed.