It is well known that cancer may affect nutritional status, especially in patients with advanced-stage disease. There is strong evidence in the literature about the prognostic effect of nutritional status on the clinical outcomes of patients receiving oncological treatment and even in terminal-stage disease. Nutritional support is recognized as a useful clinical practice to enhance the nutritional status and improve the outcomes of patients with cancer. Guidelines have been published in order...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus responsible for the development of a respiratory illness, first identified during late 2019 in China and called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus was isolated and sequenced, identifying its positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome of 29,903 nucleotides. Since then, the virus has rapidly spread to the rest of the worldwide population, primarily through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, s...
Over the last century, Radiology departments have experienced rapid transformative evolution, driven by engineering innovations in medical imaging. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based algorithms in medical imaging has started, with the aim of helping clinicians in addressing high workload challenges, mainly due to aging population. In this setting, the introduction of weight-bearing MRI give the opportunity to perform MRI scans of the lumbar spine in both supine and upright ...
Background: Accurate selection of patients with severe heart failure (HF) who might benefit from advanced therapies is crucial. Several risk scores aimed at predicting the risk of mortality in patients with HF are available, but their performance in patients with severe HF has been poorly investigated. Methods: The risk of 1-year mortality was estimated in the cohort of the HELP-HF registry, including 1,149 patients with severe HF, according to the MAGGIC, 3-CHF, ADHF/NTproBNP, GWTG risk sco...