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Grattagliano I, Scialpi C, Pierri G, Pastore A, Ragusa M, Margari F. [Judicial psychiatric hospital closings. Workers' expectations in rehabilitation facilities: A pilot study from the Province of Taranto (Italy)]. Clin Ter 2014; 165:e271-6. [PMID: 25203342 DOI: 10.7417/ct.2014.1742] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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SCOPE The aim of this study is to gain a clear understanding of the level of knowledge and training of staff members from psychiatric rehabilitation services in the Province of Taranto (Italy), where patients released from judicial psychiatric hospitals will be admitted. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire taken from an earlier study on judicial psychiatric hospitals, conducted by The Ministry of Justice of the Department Penitentiary Administration - Superior Institute of Penitentiary Studies, was used in this study. Were contacted in advance of Directors 8 Community Rehabilitation and Psychiatric Care and Day Care Centres 7 present the province of Taranto, who has sought membership survey. RESULTS Many requests for information and training regarding the problems and challenges related to the management of individuals who are mentally ill, perpetrators of crimes, and persons who are held in protective custody are made by those who work in these institutions. CONCLUSIONS Hospital workers are highly apprehensive with regard to working with a patient population quite different from that which they are normally accustomed to. In order to confront these challenges, they, together with other colleagues from both the private and public services sector, have turned toward the concept of teamwork. One element of contradiction seems to be a low level of knowledge regarding what will be required of them when their work will be connected to the world of criminal justice in the future. The workers who were interviewed who have experience in working with patients from Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals seem to be up to the task of meeting the complex needs of the mentally ill and perpetrators of crimes within psychiatric rehabilitation facilities, as these patients must be kept under security.
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- I Grattagliano
- Dipartimento di Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso, Sezione di Psichiatria, DSNP, Università di Bari, Italia
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- Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia
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- Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia
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- Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia
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- Dipartimento di Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso, Sezione di Psichiatria, DSNP, Università di Bari, Italia
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- Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia
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Calabrese C, Fabbri A, Areni A, Zahlane D, Scialpi C, Di Febo G. Mesalazine with or without cholestyramine in the treatment of microscopic colitis: randomized controlled trial. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2007; 22:809-14. [PMID: 17565633 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2006.04511.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Collagenous colitis (CC) and lymphocytic colitis (LC) are chronic inflammatory diseases of the colon with a benign and sometimes relapsing course. Frequency among patients with chronic diarrhea and normal looking colonoscopy is around 10-15%. To date, treatment of CC and LC is not well defined. Data about these conditions are mostly derived from retrospective studies. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the response to treatment and the clinical course of CC and LC in a large group of patients prospectively diagnosed. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 819 patients underwent a colonoscopy because of chronic watery diarrhea and among them we found 41 patients with LC and 23 with CC. These patients were later randomized and assigned to treatment with mesalazine or mesalazine + cholestyramine for 6 months. Fifty-four patients (84.37%) had resolved diarrhea in less than 2 weeks. After 6 months a colonoscopy with biopsies was repeated. Clinical and histological remission was achieved in 85.36% of patients with LC and in 91.3% with CC, with a better result in patients with CC treated with mesalazine + cholestyramine. During a mean period of 44.9 months, 13% of patients relapsed; four with LC and three with CC. They were retreated for another 6 months. At the end of this period one patient with CC was still symptomatic and persistence of CC was confirmed at histology. CONCLUSIONS Treatment with mesalazine seems to be an effective therapeutic option for LC to date, while mesalazine + cholestyramine seems to be more useful in the treatment of CC.
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- Carlo Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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Calabrese C, Fabbri A, Areni A, Scialpi C, Zahlane D, Di Febo G. Asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease: effect of long-term pantoprazole therapy. World J Gastroenterol 2006; 11:7657-60. [PMID: 16437694 PMCID: PMC4727225 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i48.7657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM To define the prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in mild persistent asthma and to value the effect of pantoprazole therapy on asthmatic symptoms. METHODS Seven of thirty-four asthmatic patients without GERD served as the non-GERD control group. Twenty-seven of thirty-four asthmatic patients had GERD (7/27 also had erosive esophagitis, sixteen of them presented GERD symptoms. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed in all the subjects to obtain five biopsy specimens from the lower 5 cm of the esophagus. Patients were considered to have GERD when they had a dilation of intercellular space (DIS) >0.74 mum at transmission electron microscopy. Patients with GERD were treated with pantoprazole, 80 mg/day. Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) was performed at entry and after 6 mo of treatment. Asthmatic symptoms were recorded. The required frequency of inhaling rapid acting beta2-agonists was self-recorded in the patients' diaries. RESULTS Seven symptomatic patients presented erosive esophagitis. Among the 18 asymptomatic patients, 11 presented DIS, while all symptomatic patients showed ultrastructural esophageal damage. Seven asymptomatic patients did not present DIS. At entry the mean of FEV(1) was 1.91 L in symptomatic GERD patients and 1.88 L in asymptomatic GERD patients. After the treatment, 25 patients had a complete recovery of DIS and reflux symptoms. Twenty-three patients presented a regression of asthmatic symptoms with normalization of FEV(1). Four patients reported a significant improvement of symptoms and their FEV(1) was over 80%. CONCLUSION GERD is a highly prevalent condition in asthma patients. Treatment with pantoprazole (80 mg/day) determines their improvement and complete regression.
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- Carlo Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy.
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Calabrese C, Bortolotti M, Fabbri A, Areni A, Cenacchi G, Scialpi C, Miglioli M, Di Febo G. Reversibility of GERD ultrastructural alterations and relief of symptoms after omeprazole treatment. Am J Gastroenterol 2005; 100:537-42. [PMID: 15743348 DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.40476.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Dilation of intercellular spaces (DIS) of human esophageal epithelium, evident at transmission electron microscopy (TEM), is an early marker of damage caused by gastroesophageal reflux, but its reversibility after therapy has not been investigated. AIM To evaluate whether omeprazole can induce the healing of DIS. METHODS Thirty-eight symptomatic patients, 22 with nonerosive reflux disease (NERD) and 16 with erosive esophagitis (EE), classified on the basis of 24-h pH monitoring, were enrolled. During upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, six biopsies from apparently normal mucosa were taken within the lower 5 cm of the esophagus for histological and TEM analysis. One hundred computer measurements were taken on TEM photomicrographs of the specimens in each patient. After 3 months of omeprazole 40 mg/die a further endoscopy with biopsies was performed. In patients with persistent heartburn and/or incomplete ultrastructural recovery of esophageal epithelium, a new endoscopy was performed after 3 more months of treatment. RESULTS After 3 months of therapy, 35 patients (92.1%) showed a complete recovery of DIS and resolution of heartburn. Three patients required 3 more months of therapy because of an incomplete recovery of the epithelium correlated with sporadic heartburn. Healing of the mucosa was achieved in two patients, whereas one had an incomplete recovery of DIS with persistent heartburn. CONCLUSIONS Three and six months of omeprazole therapy led to a complete recovery of DIS in 92.1% and 97.4% of cases, respectively. No significant differences of DIS between NERD and EE were noted. Complete recovery of DIS was accompanied by regression of heartburn in all cases.
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- Carlo Calabrese
- Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Sezione di Anatomia Patologica, Università di Bologna, Italy
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Calabrese C, Fabbri A, Bortolotti M, Cenacchi G, Areni A, Scialpi C, Miglioli M, Di Febo G. Dilated intercellular spaces as a marker of oesophageal damage: comparative results in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease with or without bile reflux. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2003; 18:525-32. [PMID: 12950425 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01713.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND The dilation of oesophageal intercellular spaces, clearly apparent in transmission electron microscopy images, is a marker of cellular damage induced by acid. AIM To analyse the presence of dilated intercellular spaces and to quantify the scores in controls and in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease or duodenal gastro-oesophageal reflux accompanied by erosive or non-erosive reflux disease. METHODS Thirty-eight symptomatic patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease or duodenal gastro-oesophageal reflux and 12 asymptomatic controls, classified on the basis of pH-metry and bilimetry, underwent endoscopy. Six tissue biopsies were taken from the normal mucosa for light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy evaluation. Dilated intercellular spaces were measured on photomicrographs of the specimens (at least 100 transects were measured for each patient). RESULTS Twenty-two patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease had normal macroscopic mucosa but, at histology, five patients with erosive gastro-oesophageal reflux disease had mild oesophagitis and one had moderate oesophagitis. Seven patients with duodenal gastro-oesophageal reflux had normal mucosa, whilst three with erosive duodenal gastro-oesophageal reflux had mild oesophagitis at histology. At transmission electron microscopy, all controls had dilated intercellular spaces of less than 1.69 microm. Each symptomatic patient had a mean dilated intercellular space value and a mean value of the maximum dilated intercellular space at least three or more times greater than that in controls (P < 0.001). No statistical differences were observed between erosive and non-erosive oesophagitis. CONCLUSIONS The dilated intercellular space is an extremely sensitive marker of damage in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, duodenal gastro-oesophageal reflux and non-erosive reflux disease, and serves as the most appropriate marker of damage evaluation in non-erosive reflux disease reported to date. A mean dilated intercellular space of 0.74 micro m provides a cut-off score for damage. No quantitative or qualitative differences in dilated intercellular space scores were found between pure and mixed acid reflux.
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- C Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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- Carlo Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy
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Calabrese C, Di Febo G, Areni A, Scialpi C, Biasco G, Miglioli M. Pantoprazole, azithromycin and tinidazole: short duration triple therapy for eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2000; 14:1613-7. [PMID: 11121909 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2000.00879.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Azithromycin is an acid-stable macrolide that achieves remarkably high concentrations in gastric tissue, persisting above the MIC90 for Helicobacter pylori over a period of 5-days, after a single 500 mg oral dose. AIM To evaluate and compare the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of two eradicating regimens of pantoprazole, azithromycin and tinidazole. METHODS A total of 100 consecutive symptomatic H. pylori-positive patients received pantoprazole 40 mg b.d. for 1 week, and were randomly assigned to either azithromycin 500 mg o.m. and tinidazole 500 mg b.d. during the first 3 days (early group, n=50) or during the last 3 days of therapy with pantoprazole (late group, n=50). H. pylori status was assessed by histology and rapid urease test at entry and by histology and 13C-urea breath test 1 month after the end of the therapy. RESULTS Ninety-nine patients completed the study. H. pylori was eradicated in 86% of patients in the early group (intention-to-treat 86%) and in 88% of patients in the late group (intention-to-treat 88%). CONCLUSIONS This short triple therapy is effective for H. pylori eradication. The compliance was excellent and side-effects negligible. Moreover, the pantoprazole pre-treatment did not modify the efficacy of the therapy.
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- C Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy.
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Calabrese C, Di Febo G, Areni A, Morelli MC, Scialpi C, Brandi G, Miglioli M. Severe and relapsing upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a patient with Glanzmann's thrombasthenia. Dig Dis Sci 2000; 45:633-6. [PMID: 10749344 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005478114897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (GT) is a rare familial thrombocytic disease inherited as an autosomal recessive disorder that can induce hemorrhages due to a defect of platelet aggregation, resulting from the absence or reduced concentration of the membrane glycoproteic receptor binding the fibrinogen (integrin alpha(IIb)beta3). The gastrointestinal tract is the site of bleeding in only about 10% of cases but the related mortality is high (12.8%). Among the deaths due to hemorrhage, digestive bleeding causes 57.1%. According to reported data, the source of bleeding may be from preexisting gastroduodenal chronic and acute lesions. We report a case of severe and relapsing upper digestive bleeding in a woman with GT and coexisting thrombocytopenia (from HCV-related liver cirrhosis) and H. pylori-positive duodenal ulcer.
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- C Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy
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Scialpi C, Mosca S, Malaguti A, Orsi I, Vezzadini C, Toni R. Acromegaly and intestinal neoplasms. MINERVA ENDOCRINOL 1999; 24:123-7. [PMID: 10953728] [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: 02/17/2023]
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Acromegalic subjects show increased frequency of neoplastic lesions in the colon and rectum with respect to the general population. Recent prospective studies using colonoscopy have shown a 3 time higher prevalence of intestinal polyps and up to 4 time increased presence of colorectal cancer in acromegaly, independently of sex, age, duration of disease and clinical status of the patients. The polyps are distributed throughout the extension of the large bowel and are often multiple, showing at least two different histologic types: hyperplastic and adenomatous. Sometimes they are associated with intestinal carcinomas. Pancolonoscopy is the procedure of choice for the diagnosis of large bowel neoplasms, even though it may be difficult to complete in these subjects because of the frequent presence of an enlarged and elongated colon. It shows a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to other tests such as the barium enema, fecal occult blood test and serum levels of carcinoembryonic antigen. Therefore, it is recommended to follow up acromegalic patients using pancolonoscopy to obtain early detection of neoplastic lesions in the large bowel.
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- C Scialpi
- Bellaria Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Bologna
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Calabrese C, Di Febo G, Brandi G, Morselli-Labate AM, Areni A, Scialpi C, Biasco G, Miglioli M. Correlation between endoscopic features of gastric antrum, histology and Helicobacter pylori infection in adults. Ital J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1999; 31:359-65. [PMID: 10470592] [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: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori induces histologic inflammation of mucosa variably correlated to different macroscopic features. Recent studies highlight that the presence of Helicobacter pylori could be assessed on the basis of the macroscopic pattern only, in particular nodularity. The present prospective study has correlated this and other endoscopic features, defined by Sydney classification of gastritis, both to Helicobacter pylori presence and histological patterns. RESULTS Out of 532 patients, 364 were evaluable. The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori was 51.1% with a different distribution between the endoscopic features. Nodularity showed the highest positive predictive value in detecting the Helicobacter pylori presence (69.9%). The histological findings were: normal 26.9%, non atrophic gastritis 55.2%, atrophic gastritis 17.9%. There was a significant difference between abnormal endoscopic features in detecting the histologic gastritis, with endoscopic atrophy and nodularity showing the highest positive predictive value which reaches 96.7% and 91.8%, respectively. Helicobacter pylori infection and histologic gastritis were also present in 30.9% and 41.8%, respectively, of endoscopically normal subjects. Multivariate analysis has strictly correlated age with all abnormal endoscopic features, metaplasia with endoscopic atrophy, and chronic inflammation (gastritis) with nodularity. CONCLUSIONS The single endoscopic features are poorly correlated with histologic changes and Helicobacter pylori status. Biopsies are mandatory in all cases. The causes of the different macroscopic findings are not yet fully understood.
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- C Calabrese
- Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy.
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Scialpi C, Mosca S, Malaguti A, Orsi I, Vezzadini C, Toni R. Acromegaly and intestinal neoplasms. Panminerva Med 1999; 41:157-60. [PMID: 10479917] [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: 02/13/2023]
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Acromegalic subjects show increased frequency of neoplastic lesions in the colon and rectum with respect to the general population. Recent prospective studies using colonoscopy have shown a 3 time higher prevalence of intestinal polyps and up to 4 time increased presence of colorectal cancer in acromegaly, independently of sex, age, duration of disease and clinical status of the patients. The polyps are distributed throughout the extension of the large bowel and are often multiple, showing at least two different histologic types: hyperplastic and adenomatous. Sometimes they are associated with intestinal carcinomas. Pancolonoscopy is the procedure of choice for the diagnosis of large bowel neoplasms, even though it may be difficult to complete in these subjects because of the frequent presence of an enlarged and elongated colon. It shows a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to other tests such as the barium enema, fecal occult blood test and serum levels of carcinoembryonic antigen. Therefore, it is recommended to follow up acromegalic patients using pancolonoscopy to obtain early detection of neoplastic lesions in the large bowel.
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- C Scialpi
- Bellaria Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Bologna, Italy
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