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  1. Article ; Online: Asociación entre la variación de glóbulos blancos y las manifestaciones clínicas, anticuerpos e infecciones en adultos con lupus eritematoso sistémico

    Belén María Virasoro / Cecilia Pisoni

    Revista Argentina de Reumatología, Vol 33, Iss

    2022  Volume 3

    Abstract: ... de autoanticuerpos, manifestaciones clínicas e infecciones en pacientes con lupus eritematoso sistémico ...

    Abstract Introducción: la asociación de leucopenia, linfopenia y neutropenia con la presencia de autoanticuerpos, manifestaciones clínicas e infecciones en pacientes con lupus eritematoso sistémico (LES) no está bien establecida. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron analizar los cambios en los recuentos de leucocitos y linfocitos en pacientes con LES y su asociación con manifestaciones clínicas, autoanticuerpos y riesgo de infecciones. Materiales y métodos: se recolectaron retrospectivamente los valores de leucocitos, linfocitos y neutrófilos. Se agruparon a los pacientes en cinco categorías: recuento de glóbulos blancos normales, leucopenia (persistente o intermitente) y linfopenia (persistente o intermitente). Se registraron las manifestaciones clínicas, los autoanticuerpos acumulados, el daño, la mortalidad, las infecciones y los tratamientos inmunosupresores recibidos de cada paciente.
    Keywords leucopenia ; linfopenia ; neutropenia ; glóbulos blancos ; lupus eritematoso sistémico ; Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Sociedad Argentina de Reumatologia
    Document type Article ; Online
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  2. Article: Ecografia e artroscopia in contemporanea per lo studio dell'ambiente articolare: indicazioni e limiti.

    De Lucia, O / Paresce, E / Murgo, A / Epis, O / Pisoni, L / Schito, E / Valcamonica, E / Piana, C / Fantini, F

    Reumatismo

    2007  Volume 59, Issue 2, Page(s) 146–152

    Abstract: Arthroscopy is a mini-invasive technique that allows the direct observation of the joint cavity and the execution of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; arthroscopy needs a very long learning-time curve as well as dedicated spaces and instruments. ... ...

    Title translation Simultaneous ultrasonography and arthroscopy for the study of the joint environment: indications and limits.
    Abstract Arthroscopy is a mini-invasive technique that allows the direct observation of the joint cavity and the execution of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; arthroscopy needs a very long learning-time curve as well as dedicated spaces and instruments. Ultrasonography is an imaging technique that enables to perform an immediate extension of the standard physical examination. The opportunity to visualize soft tissues, to obtain multiplanar and dynamic images in real time makes this practice easy repeatable at low costs. Ultrasonography allows to detect a variety of changes during inflammatory processes. The wide experience in arthroscopy of rheumatic patients acquired through the years by our team at the G. Pini Institute led us to study in vivo, during arthroscopy, the correspondence between arthroscopic and ultrasonographic images. Up to now three knee arthroscopies have been conducted with the double equipment (ultrasonographic and arthroscopic devices) in operating room. In our experience, the combination of the two methods in operating room may improve the validation of ultrasonography with arthroscopy as gold standard, helps to train the ultrasonographer to give immediate answers in order to clear the doubts aroused by ultrasonographic images; it also allows the arthroscopist to visualize the deeper layers of the synovial membrane making double guided targeted biopsies possible. Limits are the complexity of the procedure (instruments, operators, spaces, training of the doctors), the loose of power-doppler signal with the blood tourniquet and the always difficult evaluation of cartilage.
    MeSH term(s) Arthroscopy ; Female ; Humans ; Joint Diseases/diagnostic imaging ; Joint Diseases/pathology ; Knee Joint/diagnostic imaging ; Knee Joint/pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Ultrasonography
    Language Italian
    Publishing date 2007-05-16
    Publishing country Italy
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 414816-2
    ISSN 2240-2683 ; 0048-7449
    ISSN (online) 2240-2683
    ISSN 0048-7449
    DOI 10.4081/reumatismo.2007.146
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  3. Article ; Online: Addressing the different paces of climate and air quality combustion emissions across the world.

    Monforti-Ferrario, Fabio / Crippa, Monica / Pisoni, Enrico

    iScience

    2023  Volume 27, Issue 1, Page(s) 108686

    Abstract: Greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollutants (AP) share several anthropic sources but evolve differently in time across the various regions of the globe. Fossil and biological fuel combustion is by far the single process producing the highest amounts of ... ...

    Abstract Greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollutants (AP) share several anthropic sources but evolve differently in time across the various regions of the globe. Fossil and biological fuel combustion is by far the single process producing the highest amounts of both types of compounds. We have analyzed the paces of change of both GHG and AP emissions across the world and in some selected highly emitting regions using purposely designed indicators. We have observed that, overall, combustion processes are generally producing a lower amount of pollutants per unit of GHG emitted in 2018 than in 1970, with the noticeable exception of ammonia emissions in transport. Nevertheless, comparing countries at different development levels, evidence of possible further improvement clearly emerges, depending on the technological evolution of the most important emitting sectors and on the implementation of appropriate control measures and policies.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2589-0042
    ISSN (online) 2589-0042
    DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108686
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  4. Article: Active mobility versus motorized transport? User choices and benefits for the society

    Pisoni, E. / Christidis, P. / Navajas Cawood, E.

    Science of the total environment. 2022 Feb. 01, v. 806

    2022  

    Abstract: Measures promoting active mobility – walking or cycling – are often seen as an effective strategy to meet multiple urban objectives. The advantages of such behavioural changes cover multiple dimensions at public and individual level, including positive ... ...

    Abstract Measures promoting active mobility – walking or cycling – are often seen as an effective strategy to meet multiple urban objectives. The advantages of such behavioural changes cover multiple dimensions at public and individual level, including positive impacts on health, safety, climate, economy, environment and air quality. However, there is still a considerable potential for increasing the uptake of active mobility in urban areas. This paper explores the determinants of active mobility choice and compares the demographic, socio-economic and cultural factors that influence it. The methodology combines extensive survey data, an EU-wide transport model and detailed indicators of external costs of transport with a Gradient Boosting Machine Learning approach. The model based scenarios quantify the benefit in terms of external costs savings from increasing active mobility shares. Such savings – at EU level, can reach the amount of 15 billion euro per year for a shift of 10% of trips to active mobility modes.
    Keywords air quality ; climate ; environment ; models ; society ; socioeconomics ; surveys
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-0201
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150627
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  5. Article ; Online: Audiovisual Processing Skills Before Cochlear Implantation Predict Postoperative Speech Recognition in Adults.

    Moberly, Aaron C / Pisoni, David B / Tamati, Terrin N

    Ear and hearing

    2023  Volume 45, Issue 3, Page(s) 617–625

    Abstract: ... to auditory cues (i.e., "visual enhancement" [VE]) during recognition of speech presented in a combined ...

    Abstract Objectives: Adults with hearing loss (HL) demonstrate greater benefits of adding visual cues to auditory cues (i.e., "visual enhancement" [VE]) during recognition of speech presented in a combined audiovisual (AV) fashion when compared with normal-hearing peers. For patients with moderate-to-profound sensorineural HL who receive cochlear implants (CIs), it is unclear whether the restoration of audibility results in a decrease in the VE provided by visual cues during AV speech recognition. Moreover, it is unclear whether increased VE during the experience of HL before CI is beneficial or maladaptive to ultimate speech recognition abilities after implantation. It is conceivable that greater VE before implantation contributes to the enormous variability in speech recognition outcomes demonstrated among patients with CIs. This study took a longitudinal approach to test two hypotheses: (H1) Adult listeners with HL who receive CIs would demonstrate a decrease in VE after implantation; and (H2) The magnitude of pre-CI VE would predict post-CI auditory-only speech recognition abilities 6 months after implantation, with the direction of that relation supporting a beneficial, redundant, or maladaptive effect on outcomes.
    Design: Data were collected from 30 adults at two time points: immediately before CI surgery and 6 months after device activation. Pre-CI speech recognition performance was measured in auditory-only (A-only), visual-only, and combined AV fashion for City University of New York (CUNY) sentences. Scores of VE during AV sentence recognition were computed. At 6 months after CI activation, participants were again tested on CUNY sentence recognition in the same conditions as pre-CI. H1 was tested by comparing post- versus pre-CI VE scores. At 6 months of CI use, additional open-set speech recognition measures were also obtained in the A-only condition, including isolated words, words in meaningful AzBio sentences, and words in AzBio sentences in multitalker babble. To test H2, correlation analyses were performed to assess the relation between post-CI A-only speech recognition scores and pre-CI VE scores.
    Results: Inconsistent with H1, after CI, participants did not demonstrate a significant decrease in VE scores. Consistent with H2, preoperative VE scores positively predicted postoperative scores of A-only sentence recognition for both sentences in quiet and in babble (rho = 0.40 to 0.45, p < 0.05), supporting a beneficial effect of pre-CI VE on post-CI auditory outcomes. Pre-CI VE was not significantly related to post-CI isolated word recognition. The raw pre-CI CUNY AV scores also predicted post-CI A-only speech recognition scores to a similar degree as VE scores.
    Conclusions: After implantation, CI users do not demonstrate a decrease in VE from before surgery. The degree of VE during AV speech recognition before CI positively predicts A-only sentence recognition outcomes after implantation, suggesting the potential value of AV testing of CI patients preoperatively to help predict and set expectations for postoperative outcomes.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Humans ; Cochlear Implantation ; Speech Perception/physiology ; Speech ; Cochlear Implants ; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/surgery ; Hearing Loss/surgery ; Deafness/surgery
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 603093-2
    ISSN 1538-4667 ; 0196-0202
    ISSN (online) 1538-4667
    ISSN 0196-0202
    DOI 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001450
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  6. Article ; Online: Inequality in exposure to air pollutants: A new perspective.

    Pisoni, E / Dominguez-Torreiro, M / Thunis, P

    Environmental research

    2022  Volume 212, Issue Pt B, Page(s) 113358

    Abstract: In research and policy design we mainly use a 'population weighted average concentrations' perspective to study changes in air quality, to evaluate if past policies have been effective, or to assess the impact of future air quality plans. This angle is ... ...

    Abstract In research and policy design we mainly use a 'population weighted average concentrations' perspective to study changes in air quality, to evaluate if past policies have been effective, or to assess the impact of future air quality plans. This angle is useful and informative, but sometimes masks other important patterns. In this paper we propose to add, to the existing population weighted average point of view, a new indicator that brings to the fore the 'inequalities' in exposure. This inequality indicator is based on the Gini coefficient, usually applied in Economics and here considered to evaluate if exposure to air pollutants is equally distributed among population. A case study for this new indicator is then proposed, to assess the evolution of exposure to air pollutants in Europe from 2000 to 2018, in terms of both average exposure and inequality levels. The results show that using only average exposure metrics can mask other interesting patterns, and confirm the benefits of including this alternative perspective into the analysis.
    MeSH term(s) Air Pollutants/analysis ; Air Pollution/analysis ; Environmental Exposure/analysis ; Europe
    Chemical Substances Air Pollutants
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-23
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 205699-9
    ISSN 1096-0953 ; 0013-9351
    ISSN (online) 1096-0953
    ISSN 0013-9351
    DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113358
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  7. Article: Inequality in exposure to air pollutants: A new perspective

    Pisoni, E. / Dominguez Torreiro, M. / Thunis, P.

    Environmental research. 2022 Apr. 20,

    2022  

    Abstract: In research and policy design we mainly use a ‘population weighted average concentrations’ perspective to study changes in air quality, to evaluate if past policies have been effective, or to assess the impact of future air quality plans. This angle is ... ...

    Abstract In research and policy design we mainly use a ‘population weighted average concentrations’ perspective to study changes in air quality, to evaluate if past policies have been effective, or to assess the impact of future air quality plans. This angle is useful and informative, but sometimes masks other important patterns. In this paper we propose to add, to the existing population weighted average point of view, a new indicator that brings to the fore the ‘inequalities’ in exposure. This inequality indicator is based on the Gini coefficient, usually applied in Economics and here considered to evaluate if exposure to air pollutants is equally distributed among population. A case study for this new indicator is then proposed, to assess the evolution of exposure to air pollutants in Europe from 2000 to 2018, in terms of both average exposure and inequality levels. The results show that using only average exposure metrics can mask other interesting patterns, and confirm the benefits of including this alternative perspective into the analysis.
    Keywords air quality ; case studies ; economics ; issues and policy ; research ; Europe
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-0420
    Publishing place Elsevier Inc.
    Document type Article
    Note Pre-press version
    ZDB-ID 205699-9
    ISSN 1096-0953 ; 0013-9351
    ISSN (online) 1096-0953
    ISSN 0013-9351
    DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113358
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  8. Article ; Online: Comment to the paper "Assessing nitrogen dioxide (NO

    Pisoni, E / Van Dingenen, R

    The Science of the total environment

    2020  Volume 738, Page(s) 139853

    Abstract: In this paper we critically review the work "Assessing nitrogen dioxide ( ... ...

    Abstract In this paper we critically review the work "Assessing nitrogen dioxide (NO
    MeSH term(s) Air Pollutants/analysis ; Air Pollution/analysis ; Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus ; Coronavirus Infections ; Estrone/analogs & derivatives ; Humans ; Nitrogen Dioxide/analysis ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral ; SARS-CoV-2
    Chemical Substances Air Pollutants ; Estrone (2DI9HA706A) ; Nitrogen Dioxide (S7G510RUBH) ; estropipate (SVI38UY019)
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-06-01
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 121506-1
    ISSN 1879-1026 ; 0048-9697
    ISSN (online) 1879-1026
    ISSN 0048-9697
    DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139853
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  9. Article ; Online: Neural Correlates of Semantic Interference and Phonological Facilitation in Picture Naming: A Systematic Review and Coordinate-Based Meta-analysis.

    Arrigoni, Eleonora / Rappo, Eleonora / Papagno, Costanza / Romero Lauro, Leonor J / Pisoni, Alberto

    Neuropsychology review

    2024  

    Abstract: Semantic interference (SI) and phonological facilitation (PF) effects occur when multiple representations are co-activated simultaneously in complex naming paradigms, manipulating the context in which word production is set. Although the behavioral ... ...

    Abstract Semantic interference (SI) and phonological facilitation (PF) effects occur when multiple representations are co-activated simultaneously in complex naming paradigms, manipulating the context in which word production is set. Although the behavioral consequences of these psycholinguistic effects are well-known, the involved brain structures are still controversial. This paper aims to provide a systematic review and a coordinate-based meta-analysis of the available functional neuroimaging studies investigating SI and PF in picture naming paradigms. The included studies were fMRI experiments on healthy subjects, employing paradigms in which co-activations of representations were obtained by manipulating the naming context using semantically or phonologically related items. We examined the principal methodological aspects of the included studies, emphasizing the existing commonalities and discrepancies across single investigations. We then performed an exploratory coordinate-based meta-analysis of the reported activation peaks of neural response related to SI and PF. Our results consolidated previous findings regarding the involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus and the left middle temporal gyrus in SI and brought out the role of bilateral inferior parietal regions in PF.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1062572-0
    ISSN 1573-6660 ; 1040-7308
    ISSN (online) 1573-6660
    ISSN 1040-7308
    DOI 10.1007/s11065-024-09631-9
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  10. Article ; Online: Neural alterations underlying executive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies.

    Arrigoni, Eleonora / Antoniotti, Paola / Bellocchio, Virginia / Veronelli, Laura / Corbo, Massimo / Pisoni, Alberto

    Ageing research reviews

    2024  Volume 95, Page(s) 102207

    Abstract: Parkinson's Disease's (PD) neuropsychological profile is often characterized by altered performance in executive functions (EF) tasks, with a remarkable impact on patients' quality of life. To date, the available neuroimaging literature lacks conclusive ... ...

    Abstract Parkinson's Disease's (PD) neuropsychological profile is often characterized by altered performance in executive functions (EF) tasks, with a remarkable impact on patients' quality of life. To date, the available neuroimaging literature lacks conclusive evidence about neural patterns underlying EF deficits in PD. Here, we aimed to synthesize the results of PET/fMRI studies examining the differences in brain activation between PD patients and controls during EF tasks, focusing on the three main EF sub-components: cognitive flexibility, working memory, and response inhibition. We conducted a coordinate-based meta-analysis to assess the converging alterations in brain activity in PD patients compared to controls. We assessed the association between aberrant patterns of activity and the EF sub-domains. We found a significant association between hypoactivation patterns in PD converging at the level of the right inferior frontal gyrus in response inhibition tasks, whereas hypoactivation in the left inferior frontal gyrus was found in association with the cognitive flexibility domain. Our results confirm the existence of neural alterations in PD patients in relation to specific EF sub-domains.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Parkinson Disease/diagnostic imaging ; Quality of Life ; Cognitive Dysfunction/diagnostic imaging ; Cognitive Dysfunction/etiology ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Executive Function/physiology ; Functional Neuroimaging
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-26
    Publishing country England
    Document type Systematic Review ; Meta-Analysis ; Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2075672-0
    ISSN 1872-9649 ; 1568-1637
    ISSN (online) 1872-9649
    ISSN 1568-1637
    DOI 10.1016/j.arr.2024.102207
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