Search Results - Antonio Gasbarrini

In recent years, gender medicine has emerged as a field of research analyzing sex-related differences in health and disease. Biological sex, depending on sex chromosome complement, sex steroid hormones, and reproductive organs, has been demonstrated to influence human susceptibility to infections, i...

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Recent advancements in understanding how cancer cells evade immune recognition have led to significant progress in cancer immunotherapy. Therapeutic cancer vaccines hold great promise due to their safety, specificity, and ability to establish lasting immune memory, serving as an effective immunother...

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Alopecia areata (AA) is a complex autoimmune disorder with multifactorial pathogenesis. Recent research highlights the gut microbiota as a possible key player in AA pathogenesis through the gut–skin axis: gut dysbiosis may disrupt intestinal barrier integrity and immune tolerance by affecting T regu...

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ABSTRACT Objective Hip fractures in elderly patients are a major public health concern, associated with high morbidity and mortality. Early identification of high‐risk patients is crucial to guide clinical decision‐making, optimize resource allocation, and improve outcomes. However, existing risk pr...

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<b>Background/Objectives:</b> The increasing use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer treatment has led to a rise in immune-related adverse events (irAEs), including pancreatic injury. While current guidelines suggest that baseline monitoring of amylase and lipase levels is n...

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Soft tissue tumors (STTs) are a heterogeneous group of mesenchymal neoplasms requiring accurate differentiation for optimal patient management. While histopathology remains the gold standard, imaging plays a crucial role in non-invasive assessment. Multiparametric ultrasound (mpUS) has emerged as a...

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Lifestyle, diet, and genetics are established risk factors for developing colorectal cancer (CRC). In recent years, the role of the gut microbiota (GM) has been increasingly highlighted in several studies, suggesting an effect on both the disease’s pathogenesis and the efficacy and tolerability of t...

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<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are two forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which, despite their shared inflammatory nature, differ markedly in clinical presentation and disease course. In this study, we aimed to explore whether these...

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BackgroundIdiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome currently represents a major unmet need for all medical specialties dealing with this disease. Markers capable of characterising the wide variability of its clinical presentation are currently lacking.ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate a panel of pos...

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Psychological distress and gut dysbiosis play key roles in IBD. This study investigated whether specific psychopathological and gut microbiota features predict adverse outcomes in UC patients. This retrospective cohort study included 35 UC patients recruited in 2019. Baseline assessments involved cl...

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Background &amp; Aims: For patients with single small (≤3 cm) hepatocellular carcinoma ablation is the first-line treatment, although a high rate of recurrence has been reported. The aim was to compare videolaparoscopic liver resection (laparoscopic resection group) vs. percutaneous thermoablati...

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