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Ferreri AJM, Angelillo P, Erbella F, Liberatore C, Cattaneo C, Verga L, Lleshi A, Allione B, Facchetti F, Ponzoni M, Pagani C, Foppoli M, Pecciarini L, Sassone MC, Flospergher E, Rossi G, Spina M, A. Re. SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF THE “CARMEN” REGIMEN, A NEW DOSE‐DENSE SHORT‐TERM THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH AGGRESSIVE B‐CELL LYMPHOMA AND
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REARRANGEMENT. Hematol Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/hon.93_2880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- A. J. M Ferreri
- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- Spedali Civili di Brescia UOC Ematologia Brescia Italy
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- Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo Divisione di Ematologia Monza Italy
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- Centro Riferimento Oncologico Oncologia Medica Aviano Italy
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- AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino SC Ematologia Torino Italy
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- Spedali Civili di Brescia, Servizio di Anatomia Patologica Brescia Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Anatomia Patologica Milan Italy
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- Spedali Civili di Brescia UOC Ematologia Brescia Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- Spedali Civili di Brescia, Servizio di Anatomia Patologica Brescia Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Department of Onco‐Hematology Milan Italy
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- Spedali Civili di Brescia UOC Ematologia Brescia Italy
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- IRCCS Centro Riferimento Oncologico SOC Oncologia Medica e Tumori Immunocorrelati Aviano Italy
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- Spedali Civili di Brescia UOC Ematologia Brescia Italy
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Ferreri AJ, Calimeri T, Conte G, Ponzoni M, Fallanca F, Cattaneo D, Scarano E, Flavio C, Sassone M, Foppoli M, Perrone S, Cecchetti C, Lopedote P, Gritti G, Castellino C, Verga L, Olcese F, Mazza R, Ciceri F, Bordignon C, Anzalone N, Corti A. R-CHOP PRECEDED BY ENGINEERED TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR (TNF) IN RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY PRIMARY DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA OF THE CNS (rPCNSL): FINAL RESULTS OF THE INGRID TRIAL. Hematol Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/hon.115_2629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- A. J. Ferreri
- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Neuroradiology Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Pathology Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Pharmacology; ASTT Fatebenefratelli Sacco University Hospital; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Tumor Biology and Vascular Targeting Unit; DIBIT-1, 3A1, Lab. 6, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Lymphoma Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Hematology Unit; Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII; Bergamo Italy
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- Unit of Hematology; Ospedale Santa Croce E Carle; Cuneo Italy
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- Division of Hematology; "S Gerardo" Hospital University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- S.c.Oncologia-Ematologia, ASL5 Liguria; La Spezia Italy
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- Operative Unit of Medical Oncology and Hematology; Humanitas Cancer Center; Milano Italy
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- Hematology and BMT Unit, Department of Onco-Hematology; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Neuroradiology Unit; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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- Tumor Biology and Vascular Targeting Unit; DIBIT-1, 3A1, Lab. 6, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele; Milano Italy
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Rindone G, Bandera A, Brioschi F, Dalu D, Pagni F, Vitiello P, Mena M, Fasola C, Rossi M, Crippa F, Suardi E, Epifani R, Zeroli C, Serio G, Cocito F, Doni E, Giglio O, Rossi R, Gori A, Gambacorti Passerini C, Verga L. A RETRO-PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN HIV+ PATIENTS AFFECTED BY LYMPHOMA: THE MUSTHAL MULTICENTER EXPERIENCE IN NORTHERN ITALY. Hematol Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/hon.216_2631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- G. Rindone
- Clinic of Hematology; ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Departement of Internal Medicine; Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Infectious Diseases Unit Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- Clinic of Hematology; ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Department of Oncology; Oncology Unit, « L. Sacco» Hospital, University of Milan; Milan Italy
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- Surgical Department; Pathology Unit, ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Clinic of Infectious Disease; ASST Monza, «San Gerardo Hospital», University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Medical Area Department; Infectious Disease Unit, Legnano Hospital; Legnano Italy
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- Department of Oncology; Oncology Unit, « L. Sacco» Hospital, University of Milan; Milan Italy
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- Clinic of Infectious Disease; ASST Monza, «San Gerardo Hospital», University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences; Infectious and Tropical Disease Unit, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milano; Milan Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences; Infectious and Tropical Disease Unit, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milano; Milan Italy
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- Department of Oncology; Oncology Unit, Sant'Anna Hospital; Como Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Infectiuos Disease Unit; ASST Valle Olona, Busto Arsizio Hospital; Busto Arsizio Italy
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- Pathology Department; Pathology Unit, ASST Valle Olona, Busto Arsizio Hospital; Busto Arsizio Italy
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- Clinic of Hematology; ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Clinic of Hematology; ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine; Infectious Disease Unit, Sant'Anna Hospital; Como Italy
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- Pathology Department; Pathology Unit, « L. Sacco» Hospital, University of Milan; Milan Italy
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- Departement of Internal Medicine; Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Infectious Diseases Unit Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; Milan Italy
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- Clinic of Hematology; ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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- Clinic of Hematology; ASST Monza « San Gerardo» Hospital, University of Milano-Bicocca; Monza Italy
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Candoni A, Klimko N, Busca A, Di Blasi R, Shadrivova O, Cesaro S, Zannier ME, Verga L, Forghieri F, Calore E, Nadali G, Simonetti E, Muggeo P, Quinto AM, Castagnola C, Cellini M, Del Principe MI, Fracchiolla N, Melillo L, Piedimonte M, Zama D, Farina F, Giusti D, Mosna F, Capelli D, Delia M, Picardi M, Decembrino N, Perruccio K, Vallero S, Aversa F, Fanin R, Pagano L. Fungal infections of the central nervous system and paranasal sinuses in onco-haematologic patients. Epidemiological study reporting the diagnostic-therapeutic approach and outcome in 89 cases. Mycoses 2019; 62:252-260. [PMID: 30565742 DOI: 10.1111/myc.12884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Invasive fungal infections (IFI) of the Central Nervous System (IFI-CNS) and Paranasal Sinuses (IFI-PS) are rare, life-threatening infections in haematologic patients, and their management remains a challenge despite the availability of new diagnostic techniques and novel antifungal agents. In addition, analyses of large cohorts of patients focusing on these rare IFI are still lacking. Between January 2010 and December 2016, 89 consecutive cases of Proven (53) or Probable (36) IFI-CNS (71/89) and IFI-PS (18/89) were collected in 34 haematological centres. The median age was 40 years (range 5-79); acute leukaemia was the most common underlying disease (69%) and 29% of cases received a previous allogeneic stem cell transplant. Aspergillus spp. were the most common pathogens (69%), followed by mucormycetes (22%), Cryptococcus spp. (4%) and Fusarium spp. (2%). The lung was the primary focus of fungal infection (48% of cases). The nervous system biopsy was performed in 10% of IFI-CNS, and a sinus biopsy was performed in 56% of IFI-PS (P = 0.03). The Galactomannan test on cerebrospinal fluid has been performed in 42% of IFI-CNS (30/71), and it was positive in 67%. Eighty-four pts received a first-line antifungal therapy with Amphotericine B in 58% of cases, Voriconazole in 31% and both in 11%. Moreover, 58% of patients received 2 or more lines of therapy and 38% were treated with a combination of 2 or more antifungal drugs. The median duration of antifungal therapy was 60 days (range 5-835). A surgical intervention was performed in 26% of cases but only 10% of IFI-CNS underwent neurosurgical intervention. The overall response rate to antifungal therapy (complete or partial response) was 57%, and 1-year overall survival was 32% without significant differences between IFI-CNS and IFI-PS. The overall mortality was 69% but the IFI attributable mortality was 33%. Mortality of IFI-CNS/PS remains high but, compared to previous historical data, it seems to be reduced probably due to the availability of newer antifungal drugs. The results arising from this large contemporary cohort of cases may allow a more effective diagnostic and therapeutic management of these very rare IFI complications in haematologic patients.
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- A Candoni
- Clinica Ematologica, ASUI, Udine, Italy
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- Metchnikov North-Western State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- S.C. Ematologia, AO Città della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy
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- Istituto di Ematologia, Polo Onco-Ematologico Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli-IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy
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- Metchnikov North-Western State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Oncoematologia Pediatrica, AOUI, Verona, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologica, Ospedale S Geraldo, Monza, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologica, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche-Chirurgiche, Università di Modena, Modena, Italy
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- Clinica di Oncoematologia pediatrica, Dipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Padova, Italy
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- U.O.C. Ematologia, AOUI, Policlinico GB Rossi, Verona, Italy
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- Ematologia, Ospedale SM Misericordia, Perugia, Italy
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- Oncoematologia Pediatrica, AOUC Policlinico, Bari, Italy
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- UO di Ematologia, Dipartimento di Medicina, AO di Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento Oncoematologico Fondazione, ICRRS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- UO Pediatria, Dipartimento Materno-Infantile, AOU Policlinico, Modena, Italy
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- Ematologia, Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione, Università Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
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- UO Oncoematologia, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
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- Divisione di Ematologia, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Clinica e di Medicina Molecolare, AOU Sant'Andrea, Università Sapienza, Roma, Italy
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- Oncoematologia Pediatrica, Ospedale Sant Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologica, Ospedale S Geraldo, Monza, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologica, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche-Chirurgiche, Università di Modena, Modena, Italy
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- Struttura Complessa Ematologia, Ospedale Ca' Foncello, Treviso, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologica, Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy
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- Sezione di Ematologia, Università degli studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Avanzate, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Oncoematologia Pediatrica, Fondazione IRCCS, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Oncoematologia Pediatrica, Ospedale SM Misericordia, Perugia, Italy
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- Ematologia Pediatrica, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita S. Anna, Torino, Italy
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- Ematologia e Centro Trapianti Midollo Osseo, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Clinica Ematologica, ASUI, Udine, Italy
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- Istituto di Ematologia, Polo Onco-Ematologico Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli-IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy
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Peri AM, Bisi L, Cappelletti A, Colella E, Verga L, Borella C, Foresti S, Migliorino GM, Gori A, Bandera A. Invasive aspergillosis with pulmonary and central nervous system involvement during ibrutinib therapy for relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: case report. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018; 24:785-786. [PMID: 29427802 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Revised: 01/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- A M Peri
- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Hematology Department, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Hematology Department, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST Monza (MB), Italy
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Sforza M, Poletti M, Galbiati A, Verga L, Zucconi M, Ferini-Strambi L, Castronovo V. Evaluation of the outcome of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in patients with subjective short or normal total sleep time. Sleep Med 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.11.889] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cattaneo C, Zappasodi P, Mancini V, Annaloro C, Pavesi F, Skert C, Ferrario A, Todisco E, Saccà V, Verga L, Passi A, Da Vià M, Ferrari S, Mometto G, Petullà M, Nosari A, Rossi G. Emerging resistant bacteria strains in bloodstream infections of acute leukaemia patients: results of a prospective study by the Rete Ematologica Lombarda (Rel). Ann Hematol 2016; 95:1955-1963. [DOI: 10.1007/s00277-016-2815-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Latocca M, Dalu D, Fasola C, Filipazzi V, Ferrario S, Tosca N, Brioschi F, Bandera A, Verga L, De Francesco D, Piazza E. Retrospective analysis of patients affected by diffuse large B cell lymphomas AIDS-related. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw345.45] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cattaneo C, Monte S, Algarotti A, Audisio E, Borlenghi E, Campiotti L, Cerqui E, Fanizza C, Giuliani R, Mico C, Rocconi R, Salvi A, Salvi F, Verga L, Levis A, Lambertenghi Deliliers G, Pogliani EM, Tognoni G, Rambaldi A, Rossi G. A randomized comparison of caspofungin versus antifungal prophylaxis according to investigator policy in acute leukaemia patients undergoing induction chemotherapy (PROFIL-C study). J Antimicrob Chemother 2011; 66:2140-5. [DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Foli A, Palladini G, Caporali R, Verga L, Morbini P, Obici L, Russo P, Sarais G, Donadei S, Montecucco C, Merlini G. The role of minor salivary gland biopsy in the diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis: results of a prospective study in 62 patients. Amyloid 2011; 18 Suppl 1:80-2. [PMID: 21838441 DOI: 10.3109/13506129.2011.574354029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- A Foli
- Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center and Department of Biochemistry, Pavia, Italy
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Lavatelli F, Valentini V, Palladini G, Verga L, Russo P, Foli A, Obici L, Sarais G, Perfetti V, Casarini S, Merlini G. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics as a diagnostic tool when immunoelectron microscopy fails in typing amyloid deposits. Amyloid 2011; 18 Suppl 1:64-6. [PMID: 21838435 DOI: 10.3109/13506129.2011.574354023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- F Lavatelli
- Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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Pogliani EM, Dilda I, Villa F, Farina F, Giudici G, Guerra L, Di Lelio A, Borin L, Casaroli I, Verga L, Gambacorti-Passerini C. High response rate to crizotinib in advanced, chemoresistant ALK+ lymphoma patients. J Clin Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.29.15_suppl.e18507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rossini F, Terruzzi E, Cammarota S, Morini F, Fumagalli M, Verga L, Elli E, Verga M, Miccolis I, Parma M, Pogliani EM. Cytomegalovirus infection after autologous stem cell transplantation: incidence and outcome in a group of patients undergoing a surveillance program. Transpl Infect Dis 2006; 7:122-5. [PMID: 16390400 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2005.000111.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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This study was performed to evaluate the incidence, risk factors, and outcome of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT), with the aim of performing preemptive therapy in patients with antigenemia. Starting from 2001, 171 consecutive ASCTs were performed in 136 patients; 102 of these patients were seropositive for CMV at the onset of hematological disease. In all these patients, a CMV pp65 antigenemia assay was determined weekly, starting from the day when the absolute neutrophil count went above 500/microL, and until day 60 after ASCT; subsequently, antigenemia was determined only when a CMV infection was suspected. Among the 136 transplanted patients, 40 (29.4%) presented a positive antigenemia; all of them were seropositive for CMV before ASCT; and no cases of primary infection were seen. The incidence of CMV infection in the seropositive population was 40/102 (39.3%); 6 patients (5 with multiple myeloma and 1 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) who received 2 ASCTs developed CMV infections after both transplantations, so that positive antigenemia developed after 46/171 (26.9%) transplantations. First positive antigenemia presented a median of 32 days (range 7-57) after stem cell reinfusion. The median antigenemia level at the first appearance was 2/200,000 (range 1-1000). No significant prognostic factors could be shown. Enteritis was present in 5 patients; 2 of them also had fever, and 1 of them also had thrombocytopenia. In 5 patients fever without any other clinical signs or symptoms was present; 30 patients were asymptomatic. Fourteen patients were treated with anti-CMV drugs. CMV reactivation was successfully treated in all patients, and no patient died from CMV disease.
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- F Rossini
- Hematology Unit, S. Gerardo Hospital, University of Milan, Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the western world and the major cause of disability among the middle aged and elderly populations. Carotid artery stenosis is the single most important risk factor for stroke. The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial and the European Carotid Surgery Trial have demonstrated that the risk of stroke is reduced by surgery in patients with high grade stenosis. Carotid plaque morphology also plays an important role; plaques which are ulcerated and echolucent are associated with a higher risk of stroke. Arteriography has long been regarded as the gold standard diagnostic tool for evaluation of carotid artery disease, but it is an invasive and costly technique which carries the risk of potentially serious complications. Doppler ultrasound can provide functional and anatomical information on vessel stenosis and plaque morphology at sub-millimetric resolutions and is an inexpensive and noninvasive tool. Color and spectral Doppler ultrasound are now recognized as the best screening tests for carotid artery stenosis. The evidence for its use as the sole diagnostic imaging modality prior to carotid endarterectomy is examined. The recent availability of ultrasound contrast agents helps to distinguish between pseudo- and true occlusions, improves ultrasound images and should help to reduce operator variability.
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- F Calliada
- Servizio di Radiologia, Ospedale Maggiore di Lodi, Italy
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Obici L, Bellotti V, Mangione P, Stoppini M, Arbustini E, Verga L, Zorzoli I, Anesi E, Zanotti G, Campana C, Viganò M, Merlini G. The new apolipoprotein A-I variant leu(174) --> Ser causes hereditary cardiac amyloidosis, and the amyloid fibrils are constituted by the 93-residue N-terminal polypeptide. Am J Pathol 1999; 155:695-702. [PMID: 10487826 PMCID: PMC1866882 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)65167-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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We identified a novel missense mutation in the apolipoprotein A-I gene, T2069C Leu(174) --> Ser, in a patient affected by familial systemic nonneuropathic amyloidosis. The amyloid deposits mostly affected the heart of the proband, who underwent transplantation for end-stage congestive heart failure. Amyloid fibrils of myocardial and periumbilical fat samples immunoreacted exclusively with anti-ApoA-I antibodies. Amyloid fibrils extracted from the heart were constituted, according to amino acid sequencing and mass spectrometry analysis, by an amino-terminal polypeptide ending at Val(93) of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I); no other significant fragments were detected. The mutation segregates with the disease; it was demonstrated in the proband and in an affected uncle and excluded in three healthy siblings. The plasma levels of high-density lipoprotein and apoA-I were significantly lower in the patient than in unaffected individuals. This represents the first case of familial apoA-I amyloidosis in which the mutation is outside the polypeptide fragment deposited as fibrils. Visualization of the mutation in the three-dimensional structure of lipid-free apoA-I, composed of four identical polypeptide chains, indicates that position 174 of one chain is located near position 93 of an adjacent chain and suggests that the amino acid replacement in position 174 is permissive for a proteolytic split at the C-terminal of Val(93).
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- L Obici
- Biotechnology Research Laboratories, Institute of Human Pathology, Division of Cardiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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Bertana S, Parigi GP, Giuntoli M, Pelagalli M, Battisti C, Bragheri R, Verga L. Lipoblastoma and lipoblastomatosis in children. Minerva Pediatr 1999; 51:159-66. [PMID: 10479882] [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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Lipoblastoma and lipoblastomatosis are rare mesenchymal benign tumors of embryonal white fat. They are found primarily in children less than 5 years of age. This tumor presents in two forms: a localized well-circumscribed lesion (lipoblastoma), or a multicentric type (lipoblastomatosis). The authors presents three cases, two of them with a buttock lesion, the last with a paravertebral one. It is recommended a complete but conservative excision of the tumor because there is a natural tendency to involution, although in the first year of life a local reexcision for recurrence is sometimes described.
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- S Bertana
- Department of Paediatric Surgery, Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna
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Farina L, Nardocci N, Bruzzone MG, D'Incerti L, Zorzi G, Verga L, Morbin M, Savoiardo M. Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy: neuroradiological studies in 11 patients. Neuroradiology 1999; 41:376-80. [PMID: 10379598 DOI: 10.1007/s002340050768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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We report the imaging findings in 11 patients with infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy. Ten patients underwent 15 MRI examinations; one patient had only CT. Of the ten patients who underwent MRI, eight had cerebellar atrophy and mildly increased signal from the cerebellar cortex on T2-weighted images. With T2 weighting there was slightly increased signal from the dentate nuclei in two patients and from the posterior periventricular white matter in three. We saw four patients with a thin optic chiasm. The only two brothers in the series had markedly low signal from the globus pallidus and substantia nigra on 1.5 T T2-weighted images, as seen in Hallervorden-Spatz disease (HSD). Abnormalities of the globus pallidus may be related to a protracted course of the disease. However, an overlap with HSD should be considered.
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- L Farina
- Department of Neuroradiology, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy
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Nardocci N, Zorzi G, Farina L, Binelli S, Scaioli W, Ciano C, Verga L, Angelini L, Savoiardo M, Bugiani O. Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy: clinical spectrum and diagnostic criteria. Neurology 1999; 52:1472-8. [PMID: 10227637 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.7.1472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To present clinical, neurophysiologic, and neuroradiologic findings in 13 patients with infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD), focusing on aspects that assist early diagnosis. BACKGROUND Clinicopathologic diagnostic criteria for INAD were delineated by Aicardi and Castelein in 1979, but atypical cases are reported frequently and little is known of the diagnostic utility of MRI. METHODS The authors reviewed the clinical, neurophysiologic, and MRI findings of 13 patients who met the diagnostic criteria for INAD. RESULTS Symptoms onset was between 6 months and 2 years of age. In nine patients the clinical course was typical, with rapid motor and mental deterioration; in four patients progression was slower and the clinical picture was different. Electromyographic (EMG) signs of chronic denervation, fast rhythms on EEG and abnormal visual evoked potentials were observed in all patients during the disease course. Cerebellar atrophy with signal hyperintensity in the cerebellar cortex on T2-weighted images were the most characteristic MRI findings; hypointensity in the pallida and substantia nigra was also observed in two patients. alpha-N-acetyl-galactosaminidase activity on leukocytes was normal in the 10 patients tested. CONCLUSIONS EMG and MRI abnormalities are the earliest and most suggestive signs of INAD, which has a clinical and radiologic spectrum that is broader than reported previously.
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- N Nardocci
- Department of Child Neurology, National Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Milan Italy
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Heterotopic pancreatic tissue at the umbilicus is a very rare anomaly with only 4 cases previously reported in the literature: we describe our experience with 2 additional cases.
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- L Avolio
- Clinica di Chirurgia Pediatrica, Universitá degli Studi e IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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Bottinelli O, Campani R, Madonia L, Bozzini A, Genovese E, Verga L, Solcia M. [Contrast media in ultrasonography. Tumors of the peripheral soft tissues]. Radiol Med 1998; 95:81-3. [PMID: 9687910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- O Bottinelli
- Istituto di Radiologia dell'Università, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia
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Patella V, Marinò I, Arbustini E, Lamparter-Schummert B, Verga L, Adt M, Marone G. Stem cell factor in mast cells and increased mast cell density in idiopathic and ischemic cardiomyopathy. Circulation 1998; 97:971-8. [PMID: 9529265 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.97.10.971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [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: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND We compared cardiac mast cell (HHMC) density and the immunological and nonimmunological release of mediators from mast cells isolated from heart tissue of patients with idiopathic dilated (DCM) (n=24) and ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) (n = 10) undergoing heart transplantation and from control subjects (n = 10) without cardiovascular disease. METHODS AND RESULTS HHMC density in DCM (18.4+/-1.6 cells/mm2) and ICM (18.4+/-1.5 cells/mm2) was higher than that in control hearts (5.3+/-0.7 cells/mm2; P<.01). The histamine and tryptase contents of DCM and ICM hearts were higher than those of control hearts. The histamine content of the hearts was correlated with mast cell density (r(s)=.91; P<.001). Protein A/gold staining of heart tissue revealed stem cell factor (SCF), the principal growth, differentiating, and activating factor of human mast cells, in HHMC secretory granules. Histamine release from cardiac mast cells caused by immunological (anti-IgE and rhSCF) and nonimmunological stimuli (Ca2+ ionophore A23187) was higher in patients with DCM and ICM compared with control subjects. Immunological activation of HHMC induced a significantly greater release of tryptase and LTC4 in patients with DCM and ICM compared with control subjects. CONCLUSIONS Histamine and tryptase content and mast cell density are higher in failing hearts than in control hearts. SCF, present in secretory granules of HHMC, might represent an autocrine factor sustaining mast cell hyperplasia in heart tissue in these patients. The increased local release of fibrogenic factors (eg, histamine, tryptase, and leukotriene C4) might contribute to collagen accumulation in the hearts of patients with cardiomyopathy.
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- V Patella
- Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of Naples Federico II, School of Medicine, Napoli, Italy
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Arbustini E, Morbini P, Grasso M, Fasani R, Verga L, Bellini O, Dal Bello B, Campana C, Piccolo G, Febo O, Opasich C, Gavazzi A, Ferrans VJ. Restrictive cardiomyopathy, atrioventricular block and mild to subclinical myopathy in patients with desmin-immunoreactive material deposits. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998; 31:645-53. [PMID: 9502648 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(98)00026-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [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: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVES We present clinical data and heart and skeletal muscle biopsy findings from a series of patients with ultrastructural accumulations of granulofilamentous material identified as desmin. BACKGROUND Desmin cardiomyopathy is a poorly understood disease characterized by abnormal desmin deposits in cardiac and skeletal muscle. METHODS Clinical evaluation, endomyocardial and skeletal muscle biopsy, light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry were used to establish the presence of desmin cardiomyopathy. RESULTS Six hundred thirty-one patients with primary cardiomyopathy underwent endomyocardial biopsy (EMB). Ultrastructural accumulations of granulofilamentous material were found in 5 of 12 biopsy samples from patients with idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy and demonstrated specific immunoreactivity with anti-desmin antibodies by immunoelectron microscopy. Immunohistochemical findings on light microscopy were nonspecific because of a diffuse intracellular distribution of desmin. All five patients had atrioventricular (AV) block and mild or subclinical myopathy. Granulofilamentous material was present in skeletal muscle biopsy samples in all five patients, and unlike the heart biopsy samples, light microscopic immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated characteristic subsarcolemmal desmin deposits. Two patients were first-degree relatives (mother and son); another son with first-degree AV block but without myopathy or cardiomyopathy demonstrated similar light and ultrastructural findings in skeletal muscle. Electrophoretic studies demonstrated two isoforms of desmin--one of normal and another of lower molecular weight--in cardiac and skeletal muscle of the familial cases. CONCLUSIONS Desmin cardiomyopathy must be considered in the differential diagnosis of restrictive cardiomyopathy, especially in patients with AV block and myopathy. Diagnosis depends on ultrastructural examination of EMB samples or light microscopic immunohistochemical studies of skeletal muscle biopsy samples. Familial desminopathy may manifest as subclinical disease and may be associated with abnormal isoforms of desmin.
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- E Arbustini
- Department of Pathologic Anatomy, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
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Verga G, Spina P, Minniti S, Verga L. [A follow-up study in individuals subjected to ileo-cecal resection in infancy and childhood]. Minerva Pediatr 1996; 48:365-71. [PMID: 8992279] [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: 02/03/2023]
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It is stated that the ileocecal valve delays the passage of ileal contents into the cecum and acts as a barrier against reflux and ascension of colonic bacterial flora into the small bowel: its resection may lead to bacterial colonization of the ileum and to abnormalities of intestinal motility, transit and absorption. In this study twenty individuals subjected in pediatric age (1 day to 11 years) to ileocecal resection have been evaluated from 2 to 19 years after surgery. Three patients underwent limited ileocecal resection, in four this was associated with a significant ileal resection, in five with extensive right colon resection and in eight with extensive ileal and right colon resection. Growth, stool habit, hematology and serum biochemistry were examined; all patients also underwent abdominal ultrasonography. In all body weight and height were within normal limits; seven had moderate diarrhea up to 18 months after surgery and two who required extensive intestinal resection (40 and 30 cm of small bowel left) had diarrhea until about 36 months after surgery: now all of them have daily fecal evacuation. Hematological, biochemical, urinary and fecal studies proved normal except in one treated with TPN who presented transaminases slightly increased and in three suffering from mucoviscidosis in whom steatorrhea with moderate alterations of fats and elevation of alkaline phosphatase and transaminases were present. Urinary and gall stones were not seen in anyone. In conclusion from this study it can be postulated that removal of ileocecal valve can be done safely in children.
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- G Verga
- Clinica di Chirurgia Pediatrica, IRCCS Policlinico, S. Matteo, Università degli Studi, Pavia
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de Paulis A, Marinò I, Ciccarelli A, de Crescenzo G, Concardi M, Verga L, Arbustini E, Marone G. Human synovial mast cells. I. Ultrastructural in situ and in vitro immunologic characterization. Arthritis Rheum 1996; 39:1222-33. [PMID: 8670335 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780390723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the ultrastructure of human synovial mast cells in situ, to identify immunologic and nonimmunologic stimuli that activate these cells in vitro, and to quantify a number of preformed and de novo-synthesized mediators. METHODS We conducted an ultrastructural study of synovial mast cells in situ and performed immunoelectron microscopy localization of tryptase and chymase. Isolated synovial mast cells were analyzed biochemically, immunologically, and functionally in vitro and compared with cells from human lung, heart, and skin. RESULTS Ultrastructural study of synovial tissue revealed mast cells with homogeneously dense, scrolled, crystal, and mixed granules, and lipid bodies in the cytoplasm. A small percentage of mast cells showed evidence of degranulation. Immunoelectron microscopy demonstrated the subcellular localization of tryptase and chymase over granules of > 90% of the mast cells, which were of the MCTC subtype. Isolated synovial mast cells released histamine in response to immunologic (anti-IgE and anti-Fc epsilon receptor I [anti-Fc epsilon RI]) and nonimmunologic (substance P, recombinant human stem cell factor, and 48/80) stimuli, but did not respond to recombinant human C5a in vitro. Synovial mast cells differed from those isolated from other human tissues, in a variety of immunologic and biochemical features. There was a linear correlation between the percentage of histamine secretion and tryptase release (r = 0.79, P < 0.001) induced by cross-linking of Fc epsilon RI. Cross-linking of IgE with anti-IgE on synovial mast cells induced de novo synthesis of prostaglandin D2 (mean +/- SEM 87.5 +/- 4.9 ng/10(6) cells) and of leukotriene C4 (57.6 +/- 17.8 ng/10(6) cells). CONCLUSION Mast cells ultrastructurally characterized in situ in synovial tissue were seen to differ from mast cells previously isolated from other human tissues. This raises the possibility that the local microenviroment influences their phenotype. Isolation of mast cells from human synovia can be useful for studying their role and their mediators in patients with arthritis.
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Giaccone G, Pedrotti B, Migheli A, Verga L, Perez J, Racagni G, Smith MA, Perry G, De Gioia L, Selvaggini C, Salmona M, Ghiso J, Frangione B, Islam K, Bugiani O, Tagliavini F. beta PP and Tau interaction. A possible link between amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease. Am J Pathol 1996; 148:79-87. [PMID: 8546229 PMCID: PMC1861592] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils and intraneuronal accumulation of paired helical filaments (PHFs) are the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. The major constituent of amyloid fibrils is a 39- to 43-residue peptide (termed A beta), which is derived from a 695- to 770-amino-acid precursor protein (termed beta PP). The main component of PHFs identified so far is the microtubule-associated protein tau. Yet, there is no direct evidence of interconnection between these two pathological states. We report here that antibodies to an epitope located between residues 713 and 723 of beta PP770 (ie, the transmembrane region of beta PP distal to A beta) consistently labeled PHFs in the brain of Alzheimer patients. Solid phase immunoassay showed that a peptide homologous to residues 713 to 730 of beta PP770 bound tau proteins. This beta PP peptide spontaneously formed fibrils in vitro and, in the presence of tau, generated dense fibrillary assemblies containing both molecules. These data suggest that beta PP or beta PP fragments containing the tau binding site are involved in the pathogenesis of PHFs in Alzheimer's disease.
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- G Giaccone
- Divisione di Neuropatologia, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
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Bugiani O, Tagliavini F, Giaccone G, Verga L, el-Hachimi K, Foncin JF, Frangione B. Diffuse senile plaques: amorphous or fibrous? Am J Pathol 1995; 146:777-9. [PMID: 7887458 PMCID: PMC1869186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Verga G, Minniti S, Donati P, Spina P, Verga L. [Follow-up study of pulmonary function in individuals subjected to lobectomy in infancy and childhood]. Minerva Pediatr 1995; 47:7-12. [PMID: 7791711] [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: 01/27/2023]
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Experimental research in animals have demonstrated that pulmonary development continues after birth. This happens in man as well: alveolar proliferation and enlargement go on until the eighth year of age, furthermore complete pulmonary development is achieved until the 20-22 years of age. It is therefore possible to hypothesise that respiratory deficit following pulmonary exeresis in children would regress with time. In the Pediatric Surgery of IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo of Pavia eight children, 4 days to 8 years of age, underwent lobectomy for pulmonary hypertensive emphysema (3), lung abscess (2), bronchogenic cysts (2) and hystiocytoma (1). One of them was lost to follow-up; the remainders were controlled from 3 to 25 years after surgery: all of them enjoy a normal active life. Respiratory function was evaluated through blood chemistry, blood gas analysis, basal and after strain ECG, chest X-ray, spirometry, basal and after strain pulmonary scintigraphy. Basal and after strain ECG, chest X-ray, and arterial blood gas were normal in every examined subjects; spirometry, although results are quite variable, did not show serious respiratory deficits; basal after strain pulmonary scintigraphies weren't homogeneous. These results, although they aren't univocally interpretable, positively confirmed that the residual lung after lobectomy has a satisfactory possibility of functional recovery.
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- G Verga
- Università degli Studi, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia
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Forloni G, Del Bo R, Angeretti N, Chiesa R, Smiroldo S, Doni R, Ghibaudi E, Salmona M, Porro M, Verga L. A neurotoxic prion protein fragment induces rat astroglial proliferation and hypertrophy. Eur J Neurosci 1994; 6:1415-22. [PMID: 8000566 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1994.tb01003.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Prion-related encephalopathies are characterized by the accumulation of an abnormal prion protein isoform (PrPSc) and the deposition of PrP amyloid in the brain. This process is accompanied by neuronal loss and astrogliosis. We recently showed that a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 106-126 of human PrP is amyloidogenic and causes neuronal death by apoptosis in vitro. In the present study we investigated the effects of 1- and 14-day exposures of rat astroglial cultures to micromolar concentrations of this peptide as well as peptides homologous to other portions of PrP, a peptide corresponding to residues 25-35 of amyloid-beta protein, and a scrambled sequence of PrP 106-126. No significant changes were observed after 1-day exposure of cultures to any peptide. Conversely, 14-day treatment with PrP 106-126 (50 microM) resulted in a 5-fold increase in glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression, as evaluated by Northern and Western blot analyses, and a 1.5-fold increment in cell number. Light and electron microscopy immunohistochemistry showed an enlargement in size and density of astroglial processes, and an increase in GFAP-immunoreactive intermediate filaments. These changes were not observed after 14-day treatment of cultures with the other peptides, including PrP 106-126 scrambled. The increase in GFAP expression of astroglial cultures exposed to PrP 106-126 was quantitatively similar to that found in scrapie-infected hamster brains.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- G Forloni
- Alzheimer Neurobiology Unit, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy
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Tagliavini F, Prelli F, Verga L, Giaccone G, Sarma R, Gorevic P, Ghetti B, Passerini F, Ghibaudi E, Forloni G. Synthetic peptides homologous to prion protein residues 106-147 form amyloid-like fibrils in vitro. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:9678-82. [PMID: 8105481 PMCID: PMC47633 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.20.9678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) is a prion-related encephalopathy pathologically characterized by massive deposition of prion protein (PrP) amyloid in the central nervous system. The major component of amyloid fibrils isolated from patients of the Indiana kindred of GSS (GSS-Ik) is an 11-kDa fragment of PrP spanning residues 58 to approximately 150. These patients carry a missense mutation of the PRNP gene, causing a Phe-->Ser substitution at codon 198. We investigated fibrillogenesis in vitro by using synthetic peptides homologous to consecutive segments of GSS-Ik amyloid protein (residues 57-64, 89-106, 106-126, and 127-147) as well as peptides from the PrP region with the GSS-Ik mutation (residues 191-205 and 181-205, both wild type and mutant). Peptide PrP-(106-126) formed straight fibrils similar to those extracted from GSS brains, whereas peptide PrP-(127-147) formed twisted fibrils resembling scrapie-associated fibrils isolated from subjects with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Congo red staining and x-ray fibril diffraction showed that both straight and twisted fibrils had tinctorial and conformational properties of native amyloid. Conversely, the other peptides did not form amyloid-like fibrils under similar conditions. These findings suggest that the sequence spanning residues 106-147 of PrP is central to amyloid fibril formation in GSS and related encephalopathies.
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- F Tagliavini
- Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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Tagliavini F, Giaccone G, Prelli F, Verga L, Porro M, Trojanowski JQ, Farlow MR, Frangione B, Ghetti B, Bugiani O. A68 is a component of paired helical filaments of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, Indiana kindred. Brain Res 1993; 616:325-9. [PMID: 8358624 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(93)90226-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease in the Indiana kindred is pathologically characterized by prion protein amyloid deposits and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) with paired helical filaments (PHF). Using antibodies to various domains of the tau molecule, we investigated the composition of PHF in this family by immunocytochemistry and immunoblot analysis. The results indicate that A68 is a component of NFT in this family as it is in Alzheimer's disease, and suggest that post-translational modifications of tau leading to formation of A68 are not unique to Alzheimer's disease.
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Forloni G, Chiesa R, Smiroldo S, Verga L, Salmona M, Tagliavini F, Angeretti N. Apoptosis mediated neurotoxicity induced by chronic application of beta amyloid fragment 25-35. Neuroreport 1993; 4:523-6. [PMID: 8513131 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199305000-00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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To investigate whether and how amyloid-beta protein (A beta) is involved in the neurodegenerative changes characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD), primary hippocampal neurones from foetal rat brain were exposed acutely and chronically to micromolar concentrations of a synthetic peptide homologous to residues 25-35 of A beta (beta 25-35). A single application of this peptide (25-100 microM) was ineffective but when the neuronal cultures were exposed to beta 25-35 (25-100 microM) repeatedly every two days for ten days, cell survival was dramatically reduced. The structural changes and the DNA fragmentation of cells chronically exposed to the peptide suggested that neuronal death occurred by apoptosis. Furthermore, beta 25-35 showed the intrinsic ability to polymerize into amyloid-like fibrils in vitro. These results confirm the potential pathogenic role of A beta in AD, and indicate that amyloid fibrils may induce neuronal death through a specific programmed process.
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- G Forloni
- Unit of Neurobiology of Alzheimer, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy
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Bugiani O, Giaccone G, Verga L, Pollo B, Frangione B, Farlow MR, Tagliavini F, Ghetti B. Beta PP participates in PrP-amyloid plaques of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, Indiana kindred. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1993; 52:64-70. [PMID: 8093899 DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199301000-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease in the Indiana kindred is pathologically characterized by deposits of PrP-amyloid, neurofibrillary tangles and degenerating neurites. The aim of this study was to investigate seven patients of different ages for beta PP and A beta immunoreactivities associated with PrP-amyloid deposits and degenerating neurites. In one asymptomatic individual with PrP-amyloid deposits, Alz50 and A beta immunoreactivities were absent. In six symptomatic patients, the degenerating neurites surrounding PrP-amyloid deposits were labeled by Alz50 and by antibodies to synaptophysin, ubiquitin and the N- and C-terminal domains of beta PP. In one symptomatic, senile patient, A beta immunoreactivity was present in the extracellular space, often in association with PrP-amyloid deposits. The analysis of the immunohistochemical findings suggested that in the Indiana kindred the intracellular accumulation of beta PP, synaptophysin and ubiquitinated material most probably revealed a reaction of neurites to PrP-amyloid, whereas the extracellular deposition of A beta was likely an age-related phenomenon.
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- O Bugiani
- Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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Giaccone G, Verga L, Bugiani O, Frangione B, Serban D, Prusiner SB, Farlow MR, Ghetti B, Tagliavini F. Prion protein preamyloid and amyloid deposits in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, Indiana kindred. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:9349-53. [PMID: 1357663 PMCID: PMC50124 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.19.9349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) is a familial neurological disorder pathologically characterized by amyloid deposition in the cerebrum and cerebellum. In GSS, the amyloid is immunoreactive to antisera raised against the prion protein (PrP) 27-30, a proteinase K-resistant peptide of 27-30 kDa that is derived by limited proteolysis from an abnormal isoform of a neuronal sialoglycoprotein of 33-35 kDa designated PrPSc. Polyclonal antibodies raised against synthetic peptides homologous to residues 15-40 (P2), 90-102 (P1), and 220-232 (P3) of the amino acid sequence deduced from hamster PrP cDNA were used to investigate immunohistochemically the distribution of PrP and PrP fragments in the brains of two patients from the Indiana kindred of GSS. Two types of anti-PrP-immunoreactive deposits were found: (i) amyloid deposits, which were exclusively labeled by anti-P1 antiserum to residues 90-102 of PrP, and (ii) preamyloid deposits, which were labeled by all anti-PrP antisera but did not exhibit the tinctorial and optical properties of amyloid. The latter appeared as diffuse immunostaining of the neuropil that targeted to areas in which amyloid deposits were most abundant. They were partially resistant to proteinase K digestion and consisted ultrastructurally of amorphous, flaky, electron-dense material. These findings substantiate our previous observation that the major amyloid component in the GSS Indiana kindred is an internal fragment of PrP and indicate that full-length abnormal isoforms of PrP and/or large PrP fragments accumulate in brain regions most affected by amyloid deposition. These findings support the view that in the GSS Indiana kindred a stepwise degradation of PrP occurs in situ in the process of amyloid fibril formation.
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- G Giaccone
- Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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Verga L, Giaccone G, Salmona M, Prelli F, Frangione B, Bugiani O, Tagllavini F. Sinthetic peptides homologous to prion protein fragments form amyloid-like fibrils in vitro. Neurobiol Aging 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0197-4580(92)90535-6] [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: 10/26/2022]
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el Hachimi KH, Verga L, Giaccone G, Tagliavini F, Frangione B, Bugiani O, Foncin JF. Relationship between non-fibrillary amyloid precursors and cell processes in the cortical neuropil of Alzheimer patients. Neurosci Lett 1991; 129:119-22. [PMID: 1922961 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(91)90734-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We examined the ultrastructural localization of amyloid beta-protein in 8 Alzheimer neocortical biopsies. Intense immunoreactivity was located extracellularly on amyloid fibrils and amorphous material. Amorphous labelled material was also found in cell processes. No ultrastructural cell marker, such as glial fibrils, glycogen, tubules, paired helical filaments (PFHs) or synaptic vesicles could be seen in these processes that could allow their identification as glial processes, neurites or presynaptic terminals, respectively; occasional membrane stacks were observed. These findings suggest that preamyloid deposits are related to cell processes and, by elimination, that postsynaptic terminals may be involved in abnormal metabolism of the amyloid fibril precursors.
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- K H el Hachimi
- Laboratoire de Neurohistologie EPHE, U.106 INSERM, La Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Tagliavini F, Giaccone G, Verga L, Ghiso J, Frangione B, Bugiani O. Alzheimer patients: preamyloid deposits are immunoreactive with antibodies to extracellular domains of the amyloid precursor protein. Neurosci Lett 1991; 128:117-20. [PMID: 1922939 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(91)90773-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In patients with Alzheimer's disease, in patients with Down's syndrome and in aged non-demented individuals, anti-beta-protein antibodies label not only the fibrillary amyloid, but also preamyloid deposits. The latter are made up of amorphous material lacking the tinctorial, optical and ultrastructural properties of amyloid fibrils. To investigate the antigenic profile of preamyloid deposits, we have carried out an immunohistochemical study on specimens of cerebral cortex from 4 Alzheimer patients and two non-demented individuals, using antibodies to the beta-protein (anti-SP28), the C-terminal region of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) (anti-SP20) and an APP extracellular epitope between residues 50 and 100 (anti-preA4). Anti-preA4 and anti-SP28 immunoreactivity was found to be present in preamyloid deposits, whereas anti-SP20 immunoreactivity was not. These findings suggest that an extracellular portion of APP, close to the N-terminus of the molecule, participates with beta-protein in the composition of preamyloid deposits.
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Bugiani O, Giaccone G, Verga L, Pollo B, Ghetti B, Frangione B, Tagliavini F. Alzheimer patients and Down patients: abnormal presynaptic terminals are related to cerebral preamyloid deposits. Neurosci Lett 1990; 119:56-9. [PMID: 1965862 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90754-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In Alzheimer's disease, in Down syndrome and in normal aging, scattered deposits of amyloid fibril precursors occur in both cerebral cortex and subcortical grey structures. Within such preamyloid deposits, no degenerating neurites with paired helical filaments have ever been observed. This study, carried out on brains from Alzheimer patients and Down patients, reports on the relationship between preamyloid deposits and neuritic changes. These changes were represented by presynaptic terminal swellings immunolabeled by antisynaptophysin and antiubiquitin antibodies, not by Alz50. These findings support the view that the deposition of amyloid fibril precursors in the neuropil is closely related to presynaptic terminals, although whether the former precedes or follows the development of presynaptic terminal changes is still undetermined.
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- O Bugiani
- Istituto neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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Giaccone G, Tagliavini F, Verga L, Frangione B, Farlow MR, Bugiani O, Ghetti B. Neurofibrillary tangles of the Indiana kindred of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease share antigenic determinants with those of Alzheimer disease. Brain Res 1990; 530:325-9. [PMID: 2176119 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(90)91304-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In the Indiana kindred of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) with paired helical filaments (PHF) are numerous, widespread and consistently present in the cerebral cortex and several subcortical nuclei. Such tangles share antigenic determinants with those of Alzheimer disease; in fact, they are recognized by Alz50, anti-PHF and anti-ubiquitin antibodies. Thus, NFT with structural and immunocytochemical similarities are present in two distinct forms of amyloidosis of the central nervous system, i.e. the Indiana kindred of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease and Alzheimer disease.
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- G Giaccone
- Division of Neuropathology, Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
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Giaccone G, Verga L, Finazzi M, Pollo B, Tagliavini F, Frangione B, Bugiani O. Cerebral preamyloid deposits and congophilic angiopathy in aged dogs. Neurosci Lett 1990; 114:178-83. [PMID: 2395530 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90068-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The brains of 7 dogs aged 6 to 18 years have been histochemically and immunohistochemically investigated at the light- and electron microscopy levels for preamyloid deposits and amyloid fibrils to verify the hypothesis that the accumulation of cleavage products of amyloid precursor protein is related not only to Alzheimer's disease but also to the normal aging of the brain. Preamyloid deposits were detected in the neuropil of the cerebral cortex and neostriatum, whereas amyloid fibrils were found in the walls of parenchimal and leptomeningeal vessels. The densities of preamyloid deposits in the neuropil and of deposits of amyloid fibrils in the vessel walls were higher in the brains of the most aged dogs. These findings suggest that aging of the canine brain is characterized by an accumulation of intermediate cleavage products of the amyloid precursor protein in both the neuropil and the vessel walls, and by processing of these products to amyloid fibrils in the vessel walls.
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- G Giaccone
- Istituto neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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Verga L, Frangione B, Tagliavini F, Giaccone G, Migheli A, Bugiani O. Alzheimer patients and Down patients: cerebral preamyloid deposits differ ultrastructurally and histochemically from the amyloid of senile plaques. Neurosci Lett 1989; 105:294-9. [PMID: 2531851 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(89)90636-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The preamyloid deposits found in the cerebral grey matter of Alzheimer patients and Down patients following immunostaining with anti-beta-protein antisera are neither birefringent following Congo red staining nor fluorescent after thioflavine S treatment. Further, they contain small amounts of alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, sulfated glycosaminoglycans and complement fraction C3d, but not the P component. As suggested previously, the material accumulated in these deposits may lack the molecular conformation responsible for the properties of amyloid fibrils. To test this hypothesis, we selected cortical samples from 6 Alzheimer and 4 Down patients for an electronmicroscopical study of senile plaques and of preamyloid deposits, both identified by indirect immunogold staining with anti-beta-protein antiserum. We observed the labelling of 4-8 nm wide amyloid fibrils in the plaque cores and of extracellular electrondense, flaky and irregularly distributed material in the preamyloid deposits. In the latter, amyloid fibrils were very rarely detected. These findings support the view that preamyloid deposits mostly contain amyloid precursors that are not yet organized in fibrils.
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- L Verga
- Istituto neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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Ghetti B, Tagliavini F, Masters CL, Beyreuther K, Giaccone G, Verga L, Farlow MR, Conneally PM, Dlouhy SR, Azzarelli B. Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease. II. Neurofibrillary tangles and plaques with PrP-amyloid coexist in an affected family. Neurology 1989; 39:1453-61. [PMID: 2573006 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.39.11.1453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Azzarelli et al reported an Indiana kindred affected by a hereditary disorder, characterized clinically by ataxia, parkinsonism, and dementia. Recently, we studied neuropathologically the 3rd and 4th cases that came to autopsy among the patients of this family. As in 2 patients examined previously, amyloid plaques were widespread throughout the cerebrum and the cerebellum, whereas neurofibrillary tangles were numerous in the cerebral cortex, the hippocampus, and the substantia innominata. Amyloid plaques were not recognized by polyclonal antibodies against the Alzheimer's disease amyloid A4 protein, but did contain epitopes recognized by antibodies against a prion protein. Spongiform changes were occasionally observed and were mild. Our findings indicate that this familial disorder is a form of or is related to Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease. The consistent presence of numerous neurofibrillary tangles may be important in differentiating a distinct subgroup of patients with familial Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, and indicates that a disturbance of the cytoskeleton might be part of the neuronal pathology of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease.
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- B Ghetti
- Department of Pathology (Division of Neuropathology), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202-5120
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Verga L, Alazn R. [Peruvoside in clinical practice. Study of a new cardioactive drug in cardiac insufficiency]. Minerva Cardioangiol 1975; 23:43-7. [PMID: 1143647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Verga L, Forzani GF. [Therapeutic experiences with proscillaridin A in decompensated heart diseases]. Minerva Med 1967; 58:4318-22. [PMID: 6083293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Belloni F, Verga L. Aspetti Morfologici e Citochimici Dei Granuloblasti Midollari Irradiati in Vivo: Le Cellule Megamieloidi. Tumori 1959. [DOI: 10.1177/030089165904500509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The DNA modifications in medullary granuloblasts have been studied as « direct » effect as well as « indirect » or late effect of X-rays. For the purpose rabbits have been irradiated « in toto » after lead screening of two limbs. The modifications, consisting in a DNA increase, are cytologically expressed in the formation of giant cells, and have been obtained both as direct and indirect effect of X-rays. These results, if considered as a biochemical and cytologic aspect of the carcinogenic action of radiation, constitute an experimental demonstration that this carcinogenic action must be looked upon also as an « indirect » or « late » effect.
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- F. Belloni
- (dall'Istituto di Clinica Medica Generate e Terapia Medica dell'Uniuersità di Pavia, diretto dal prof. P. Introzzi)
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- (dall'Istituto di Clinica Medica Generate e Terapia Medica dell'Uniuersità di Pavia, diretto dal prof. P. Introzzi)
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