Luigi Allegra

TL;DR: Female patients appear to be more exposed to psychological impairment, which correlates well with some specific symptomatic aspects of the disease, such as dyspnea, which is more strongly correlated with depression in women than in men.

TL;DR: This study provides data on a possible C. pneumoniae involvement in the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysm and additional evidence for an association between this agent and atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: This study confirms that M. pneumoniae and/or C. pneumoniaE plays a significant role in community-acquired LRTIs in children of all ages and that such infections have a more complicated course when not treated with adequate antimicrobial agents.

TL;DR: Echocardiography not only provides an estimate of pulmonary pressure at rest and during exercise, but it may also help to exclude any secondary causes of pulmonary hypertension, predict the prognosis, monitor the efficacy of specific therapeutic interventions, and detect the preclinical stage of the disease.

TL;DR: Cellular and biochemical examination of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from nonallergic patients with asthma demonstrated that IL-1-beta, IL-6, and GM-CSF were mostly produced by nonciliated epithelial cells and/or monocytes, which can prime granulocytes to respond to other stimuli and can promote T cell activation.