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View article: P-620 Oocyte competence in Vitro Fertilization: relation between serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) concentrations and complement C4 protein expression in follicular fluid
P-620 Oocyte competence in Vitro Fertilization: relation between serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) concentrations and complement C4 protein expression in follicular fluid Open
Study question To investigate if serum AMH concentration variations are correlated with protein expression in follicular microenvironment affecting IVF outcomes. Summary answer Serum AMH concentrations were associated with altered levels o…
View article: Profiling chronic diseases and hospitalizations in older home care recipients: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden
Profiling chronic diseases and hospitalizations in older home care recipients: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden Open
Background Older adults with home care (HC) often have complex disease patterns and use healthcare extensively. Increased understanding is necessary to tailor their care. To our knowledge, this is the first study to describe patterns of mo…
View article: Morbidity and hospitalisations among older adults with home care – a nationwide register study
Morbidity and hospitalisations among older adults with home care – a nationwide register study Open
Background: Older adults with home care have potentially complex disease patterns and extensive use of health care. Increased understanding is necessary to tailor their social and medical care. To our knowledge, this is the first study to …
View article: Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware MPC
Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware MPC Open
Drones have the potential to revolutionize power line inspection by increasing productivity, reducing inspection time, improving data quality, and eliminating the risks for human operators. Current state-of-the-art systems for power line i…
View article: HDVIO: Improving Localization and Disturbance Estimation with Hybrid Dynamics VIO
HDVIO: Improving Localization and Disturbance Estimation with Hybrid Dynamics VIO Open
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the most common approach for estimating the state of autonomous micro aerial vehicles using only onboard sensors. Existing methods improve VIO performance by including a dynamics model in the estimation pi…
View article: HDVIO: Improving Localization and Disturbance Estimation with Hybrid Dynamics VIO
HDVIO: Improving Localization and Disturbance Estimation with Hybrid Dynamics VIO Open
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the most common approach for estimating the state of autonomous micro aerial vehicles using only onboard sensors. Existing methods improve VIO performance by including a dynamics model in the estimation pi…
View article: Learned Inertial Odometry for Autonomous Drone Racing
Learned Inertial Odometry for Autonomous Drone Racing Open
Inertial odometry is an attractive solution to the problem of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. It is inexpensive, lightweight, and it is not affected by perceptual degradation. However, only relying on the integration of the in…
View article: Prognostic Stratification of Clinically Stable Patients with Heart Failure by Echocardiographic Pressure/Volume Loop Model
Prognostic Stratification of Clinically Stable Patients with Heart Failure by Echocardiographic Pressure/Volume Loop Model Open
View article: State Estimation for Agile Quadrotors in the Wild
State Estimation for Agile Quadrotors in the Wild Open
In this extended abstract, we present our latest research in robust state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. We discuss the differences between discrete- and continuous- time trajectory representations in visual-inertial odometry (VIO)…
View article: Subclinical Myocardial Fibrosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus as Assessed by Pulse-Cancellation Echocardiography: A Pilot Study
Subclinical Myocardial Fibrosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus as Assessed by Pulse-Cancellation Echocardiography: A Pilot Study Open
The aim of this study was to examine whether scar imaging echocardiography with ultrasound multi-pulse scheme (eSCAR) can detect subclinical myocardial involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We consecutively recruited SLE patie…
View article: How the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Patients’ Hospital Admission and Care in the Vascular Surgery Divisions of the Southern Regions of the Italian Peninsula
How the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Patients’ Hospital Admission and Care in the Vascular Surgery Divisions of the Southern Regions of the Italian Peninsula Open
Background: To investigate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on the vasculopathic population. Methods: The Divisions of Vascular Surgery of the southern Italian peninsula joined this multicenter retrospective study. Each received a 13-…
View article: How the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Patients’ Care in the Vascular Surgery Divisions of the Southern Regions of the Italian Peninsula
How the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Patients’ Care in the Vascular Surgery Divisions of the Southern Regions of the Italian Peninsula Open
Background: To investigate the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on the vasculopathic population. Methods: The Divisions of Vascular Surgery of the southern Italian peninsula joined this multicenter retrospective study conducted through cr…
View article: Continuous-Time vs. Discrete-Time Vision-based SLAM: A Comparative Study
Continuous-Time vs. Discrete-Time Vision-based SLAM: A Comparative Study Open
Robotic practitioners generally approach the vision-based SLAM problem through discrete-time formulations. This has the advantage of a consolidated theory and very good understanding of success and failure cases. However, discrete-time SLA…
View article: Reshaping of Italian Echocardiographic Laboratories Activities during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic and Expectations for the Post-Pandemic Era
Reshaping of Italian Echocardiographic Laboratories Activities during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic and Expectations for the Post-Pandemic Era Open
Background: Cardiology divisions reshaped their activities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study aimed to analyze the organization of echocardiographic laboratories and echocardiography practice during the sec…
View article: Sex-Specific Association of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sex-Specific Association of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy With Rheumatoid Arthritis Open
Objectives: Clinical expression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) varies by gender, but whether cardiovascular disease (CVD) is gender related in RA is unknown. Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH) is a hallmark of CVD in RA patients. We inv…
View article: Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors reduce aortic stiffness progression in patients with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis
Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors reduce aortic stiffness progression in patients with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis Open
Background Aortic stiffness index (AoSI) has to be considered a proxy outcome measure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to comparatively describe AoSI progression in two groups of RA patients on long-ter…
View article: The troubling liaison between cancer and metabolic syndrome in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases
The troubling liaison between cancer and metabolic syndrome in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases Open
View article: A cross-sectional study evaluating hospitalization rates for chronic limb-threatening ischemia during the COVID-19 outbreak in Campania, Italy
A cross-sectional study evaluating hospitalization rates for chronic limb-threatening ischemia during the COVID-19 outbreak in Campania, Italy Open
The expansion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prompted measures of disease containment by the Italian government with a national lockdown on March 9, 2020. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of hospitalization and mod…
View article: Tumor-necrosis Factor Inhibitors Improve Aortic Stiffness in Patients With Longstanding Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tumor-necrosis Factor Inhibitors Improve Aortic Stiffness in Patients With Longstanding Rheumatoid Arthritis Open
Background. Major cardiovascular disease (CVD) benefits of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) therapy occur in early RA patients with treat-to-target strategy. However, it is unknown whether long-term DMARDs treatment in estab…
View article: Clinical profile and outcome of patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis and metabolic syndrome
Clinical profile and outcome of patients with chronic inflammatory arthritis and metabolic syndrome Open
View article: SARS-CoV-2: Sanitize a hospital
SARS-CoV-2: Sanitize a hospital Open
Issue During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, several critical issues emerged. One of these was to identify which was the best terminal disinfection strategy for hospital rooms of a COVID-19. Description of the problem. Our University Hospital ado…
View article: Effects of linagliptin on left ventricular DYsfunction in patients with type 2 DiAbetes and concentric left ventricular geometry: results of the DYDA 2 trial
Effects of linagliptin on left ventricular DYsfunction in patients with type 2 DiAbetes and concentric left ventricular geometry: results of the DYDA 2 trial Open
Aims To evaluate the effect of linagliptin on left ventricular systolic function beyond glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods and results A multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled, parallel-group study, w…
View article: Very low reporting rate of connective tissue diseases among coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patients and the renin-angiotensin system – An overlooked association?
Very low reporting rate of connective tissue diseases among coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patients and the renin-angiotensin system – An overlooked association? Open
View article: AB1094 SCAR IMAGING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY WITH ULTRASOUND MULTI-PULSE SCHEME [eSCAR] FOR THE DETECTION OF MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS.
AB1094 SCAR IMAGING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY WITH ULTRASOUND MULTI-PULSE SCHEME [eSCAR] FOR THE DETECTION OF MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Open
View article: CHA2DS2-VASc Score Predicts Adverse Outcome in Patients with Simple Congenital Heart Disease Regardless of Cardiac Rhythm
CHA2DS2-VASc Score Predicts Adverse Outcome in Patients with Simple Congenital Heart Disease Regardless of Cardiac Rhythm Open
View article: Disease Activity and Anticitrullinated Peptide Antibody Positivity Predict the Worsening of Ventricular Function in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Disease Activity and Anticitrullinated Peptide Antibody Positivity Predict the Worsening of Ventricular Function in Rheumatoid Arthritis Open
Objective This prospective study was designed to analyze the incidence and the factors associated with impairment in left ventricular systolic function ( LVSF ) overtime in patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( RA ) without overt cardiac di…
View article: Tightly-coupled Fusion of Global Positional Measurements in\n Optimization-based Visual-Inertial Odometry
Tightly-coupled Fusion of Global Positional Measurements in\n Optimization-based Visual-Inertial Odometry Open
Motivated by the goal of achieving robust, drift-free pose estimation in\nlong-term autonomous navigation, in this work we propose a methodology to fuse\nglobal positional information with visual and inertial measurements in a\ntightly-cou…
View article: Integrating natriuretic peptides and diastolic dysfunction to predict adverse events in high-risk asymptomatic subjects
Integrating natriuretic peptides and diastolic dysfunction to predict adverse events in high-risk asymptomatic subjects Open
Background Natriuretic peptides and diastolic dysfunction have prognostic value in asymptomatic subjects at risk for heart failure. Their integration might further refine the risk stratification process in this setting. Aim of this paper w…
View article: Prolonged QRS associated with left bundle branch conduction defect is a prognostic red flag in asymptomatic patients at risk for heart failure (ACCF/AHA stages A and B): Insights from the DAVID-Berg study
Prolonged QRS associated with left bundle branch conduction defect is a prognostic red flag in asymptomatic patients at risk for heart failure (ACCF/AHA stages A and B): Insights from the DAVID-Berg study Open
View article: Risk stratifying asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the community: beyond left ventricular ejection fraction
Risk stratifying asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the community: beyond left ventricular ejection fraction Open
Aims Midwall fractional shortening (MWFS) is a measure of left ventricular (LV) systolic function that is more reliable in case of concentric LV geometry compared to LV ejection fraction (LVEF). We hypothesized that MWFS might predict hear…