RUSSO , Chiara

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Diagnosing people living with chronic viral hepatitis is challenging due to the absence of symptoms as long as liver decompensated cirrhosis come out. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the prevalence of HBV and/or HCV infections in a non-selected population, hospitalised for SARS-CoV-2 infection in a tertiary care hospital in...

Purpose of review To discuss the current literature on novel agents for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant nonfermenting Gram-negative bacteria (NF-GNB) infections. Recent findings Some novel agents have recently become available that are expected to replace classical polymyxins as the first-line options for the treatment of...

Objectives: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), the gold standard for detecting frailty in elderly cancer patients, is time-consuming and hard to apply in routine clinical practice. Here we compared the performance of two screening tools for frailty, G8 and SAOP2 for their accuracy in identifying vulnerable patients. Material and Methods:...

Background The diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is challenging, and the role of Aspergillus-PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is unknown. Objectives This study evaluated diagnostic accuracy of Aspergillus-PCR in BAL in IPA in three different cohorts: ICU-admitted patients with COVID-19,...

Twenty-two immunocompromised patients with prolonged/relapsed COVID-19 received combination therapy with 2 antivirals (remdesivir + nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, n = 20; remdesivir + molnupiravir, n = 2) together with anti-spike monoclonal antibodies in 18. The response rate at day 14, day 30, and last follow-up was 75%, 73%, and 82%,...