BARBARO F.

Abstract Introduction Like most human behaviours, saving and collecting possessions can range from totally normal to excessive or pathological. Hoarding, or compulsive hoarding, are the terms used to refer to excessive form of collecting, which is frequent and disabling for both patients and their families. Hoarding can occur in the context of...

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Abstract OBJECTIVE:  The aim of this retrospective longitudinal naturalistic study was to evaluate the effects of maintenance lithium treatment on parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcium levels. METHODS:  A retrospective longitudinal naturalistic study design was used. Data were collected from the database of a tertiary psychiatric center...

Abstract Objectives Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as reported by studies in the literature, has a significant clinical heterogeneity; indeed, authors have moved different subtypes based on the main symptom dimensions, course (episodic vs. chronic), age at onset (early vs. late) and comorbidity (bipolar or tic disorder). Finally, gender...

Few data have been published regarding the epidemiology and outcome of infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with chronic hepatic disease (CHD). A retrospective analysis of the Studio Endocarditi Italiano (SEI) database was performed to evaluate the epidemiology and outcome of CHD+ patients compared with CHD− patients. The diagnosis of IE was...

Purpose: Persons on hemodialysis (HD) are at high risk of infective endocarditis (IE). In non-comparative retrospective studies, a higher rate of mortality was reported in IE on HD. We assessed risk factors, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of IE in HD. Methods: This was a prevalence study with a case control methodology on a set of data...

The objective of this study was to investigate predisposing factors and outcomes of infective endocarditis (IE) caused by non-HACEK Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) in a contemporary multicenter cohort. Patients with IE due to GNB, prospectively observed in 26 Italian centers from 2004 to 2011, were analyzed. Using a casecontrol design, each case...

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