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Henriksen MV, Arlé E, Pili A, Clarke DA, García-Berthou E, Groom Q, Lenzner B, Meyer C, Seebens H, Tingley R, Winter M, McGeoch MA. Global indicators of the environmental impacts of invasive alien species and their information adequacy. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20230323. [PMID: 38583467 PMCID: PMC10999262 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
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Monitoring the extent to which invasive alien species (IAS) negatively impact the environment is crucial for understanding and mitigating biological invasions. Indeed, such information is vital for achieving Target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. However, to-date indicators for tracking the environmental impacts of IAS have been either lacking or insufficient. Capitalizing on advances in data availability and impact assessment protocols, we developed environmental impact indicators to track realized and potential impacts of IAS. We also developed an information status indicator to assess the adequacy of the data underlying the impact indicators. We used data on 75 naturalized amphibians from 82 countries to demonstrate the indicators at a global scale. The information status indicator shows variation in the reliability of the data and highlights areas where absence of impact should be interpreted with caution. Impact indicators show that growth in potential impacts are dominated by predatory species, while potential impacts from both predation and disease transmission are distributed worldwide. Using open access data, the indicators are reproducible and adaptable across scales and taxa and can be used to assess global trends and distributions of IAS, assisting authorities in prioritizing control efforts and identifying areas at risk of future invasions. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ecological novelty and planetary stewardship: biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere'.
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- Marie V. Henriksen
- Department of Landscape and Biodiversity, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Trondheim 7031, Norway
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- Macroecology & Society, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997712, Israel
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia
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- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Macroecology & Society, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberganlage 25, Frankfurt 6325, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia
- EnviroDNA Pty Ltd, 95 Albert Street, Brunswick, Victoria 3056, Australia
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- sDiv, Synthesis Centre, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia
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Pili A, Bonutto A, Marzocco A, Peschiera F, Olivera L, Viola L, Livio V, Salamone V, Mazzola L, Lo Re M, Vignolini G, Gacci M, Minervini A, Serni S, Masieri L. Robot-assisted ureterectomy with Boari flap reconstruction for distal ureteral stenosis. Eur Urol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s0302-2838(23)01442-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Pili A, Lo Re M, Livio V, Olivera L, Viola L, Peschiera F, Salamone V, Mazzola L, Marzocco A, Bonutto A, Gacci M, Minervini A, Serni S, Masieri L. Robot-assisted surgery for retrocaval ureter: a single center experience. Eur Urol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s0302-2838(23)01408-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Roscigno M, Badenchini F, Napodano G, Borghesi M, Marenghi C, Magnani T, Simone G, Conti G, Guazzoni G, Tanello M, Ranieri A, Battaglia M, Lapini A, Altieri V, Bollito E, Cicchetti G, Colombo P, Colecchia M, Ditonno P, Fabiano M, Frego E, Rodolfo H, Montironi R, Patriarca C, Pili A, Paganelli A, Sanseverino R, Rancati T, Bangma C, Da Pozzo L, Valdagni R. Factors predicting active treatment free-survival and initial experience with mpMRI as a selection tool in patient undergoing active surveillance: 10-year follow-up of SIUrO PRIAS-ITA working group. EUR UROL SUPPL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-1683(20)35566-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Mameli S, Pisanu GM, Sardo S, Marchi A, Pili A, Carboni M, Minerba L, Trincas G, Carta MG, Melis MR, Agabio R. Oxytocin nasal spray in fibromyalgic patients. Rheumatol Int 2014; 34:1047-52. [PMID: 24509894 DOI: 10.1007/s00296-014-2953-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2013] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Fibromyalgia is a pain disorder associated with frequent comorbid mood, anxiety, and sleep disorders. Despite the frequent use of a complex, poly-drug pharmacotherapy, treatment for fibromyalgia is of limited efficacy. Oxytocin has been reported to reduce the severity of pain, anxiety, and depression, and improve the quality of sleep, suggesting that it may be useful to treat fibromyalgia. To evaluate this hypothesis, 14 women affected by fibromyalgia and comorbid disorders, assuming a complex pharmacotherapy, were enrolled in a double-blind, crossover, randomized trial to receive oxytocin and placebo nasal spray daily for 3 weeks for each treatment. Order of treatment (placebo-oxytocin or oxytocin-placebo) was randomly assigned. Patients were visited once a week. At each visit, the following instruments were administered: an adverse drug reaction record card, Visual Analog Scale of Pain Intensity, Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory, Zung Self-rating Depression Scale, and SF-12. Women self-registered painkiller assumption, pain severity, and quality of sleep in a diary. Unlikely, oxytocin nasal spray (80 IU a day) did not induce positive therapeutic effects but resulted to be safe, devoid of toxicity, and easy to handle.
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- S Mameli
- Pain Therapy Unit, "A. Businco" Hospital, ASL 8, Cagliari, Italy
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Pusceddu C, Mameli S, Pili A, Podda G. [Percutaneous neurolysis of the celiac plexus under CT guidance in the invasive treatment of visceral pain caused by cancer]. Tumori 2003; 89:286-91. [PMID: 12903623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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To verify the effectiveness and the incidence of complication in the transcutaneal celiac plexus block with CT-guided in the patient with intractable upper abdominal cancer, using alcoholic solutions to different concentrations (50% and 96%), previous insertion of the peridural catheter. From December 1997 to June 2002, studies were carried out on 24 patients with CT-guided percutaneous coeliac plexus neurolysis including 17 men and 7 women with inoperable abdominal malignancy and two with chronic pancreatitis. The patients were affected by very intense pain controllable only with high doses of analgesic narcotics. Before the procedure a catheter was installed in the peridurale space between L1-T12. To avoid general anesthesia, 40 mL of marcaine 0.5% was injected to relieve the back pain sometimes reported after the neurolysis, caused by the diffusion of alcohol in the coeliac plexus. This technique requires a posterior percutaneous procedural transaortic approach CT scan guided, to determine the correct position of the needle tips and the spread of neurolytic solution (40 mL of 96% + 3 mL of contrast medium) around the origin of the coeliac trunk's anatomical center of the plexus. The first 10 patients have received 40 mL of 50% ethyl alcohol + 3 mL of contrast medium. To evaluate the rate of the analgesia relief, a visual analogue pain score (VAS) was used before and 48 hours after the neurolysis. The percutaneous neurolysis of the celiac plexus is useful to relieve the pain in patients affected by cancer developing in upper abdomen. The CT-scan guide of the needle allows an omogeneous distribution of the contrast medium. The insertion of the peridural catheter made a complete analgesia and reduced the incidence of complications. Our method provided an excellent control of the pain in all patients. In our experience the pain relief was almost complete in patients treated with 96% ethyl alcohol solution (VAS from 8 before the treatment to 1, 48 hours after the treatment). The alcohol administered in elevated concentrations (96%), does not increase the incidence of complications.
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- C Pusceddu
- Servizio di Radiodiagnostica, Ospedale Oncologico A Businco, ASL 8, UO Terapia Antalgica
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Locci G, Pili A, Pais M, Cirio E, Sanna A. Heart metastases from gastric sarcoma. A case report. Ital Heart J 2001; 2:556-8. [PMID: 11501966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Cardiac involvement by metastatic gastric sarcoma is a rare event. We describe an unusual case of gastric sarcoma involving the heart in a 29-year-old man who presented with heart failure. The diagnosis was made at two-dimensional echocardiography. Heart metastases prolapsing into and obstructing the mitral valve orifice were located in the left atrium. In an attempt to excise the left atrial mass, the patient underwent heart surgery twice. The resections were non-curative. The patient died of refractory heart failure 9 months after the onset of symptoms. This case report is an example of a secondary intracavitary tumor that causes obstruction of the mitral valve orifice. Two-dimensional echocardiography has been confirmed as the examination of choice for the early diagnosis of cardiac tumors.
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- G Locci
- Division of Cardiology, Hospital G. Brotzu, Cagliari, Italy
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Pomata M, Pisano G, Pili A, Daniele GM. [Results of a cytological study of needle aspiration in 85 cases of nodular pathology of the thyroid gland, surgically controlled]. Ann Ital Chir 1997; 68:29-34; discussion 34-5. [PMID: 9235860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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UNLABELLED The present retrospective study is related to 85 patients with nodular thyroid pathology submitted to surgical therapy. In these patients preoperative cytology, through fine needle biopsy aspiration (FNBA), has been compared with histological examination performed on the surgical specimen. Malignant lesions were detected in 30 cases (35.3%). True positives cases were 14, true negative 48, false positive and false negative (FN) were 2 and 3 respectively. Due to the high number of FN, sensibility of FNBA was only 51.8%, specificity was 96% and accuracy 80.5%. Positive and negative predictive value were 87.5% and 78.6% respectively. CONCLUSIONS Evaluation of the several sources of error comes to a conclusion that FNBA is certainly the main diagnostic tool in nodular thyroid pathology. Its employment should undergo to a centralized diagnostic evaluation in such a way that cytology is analysed together with clinical and other instrumental data.
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- M Pomata
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Trapianti d'Organo, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
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