Maria Domenica Cappellini

TL;DR: Clinicians should incite clinicians for a close follow-up and monitoring of high risk patients who are susceptible to developing priapism, due to either a cellular mechanism involving a thrombus obstructing the efferent venules of the corpora cavernosa leading to priapist, or a recently elucidated functional mechanism that causes alteration of nitric oxide response of the penis, ultimately causing priapisms.

TL;DR: Findings from a nationwide study of outcomes of nontrauma splenectomy for benign and malignant hematologic conditions and an analysis of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data show clear trends in efficacy, complications, and impact on survival and transformation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a preventive protocol that was adopted in a hospital in 2010, and they then conducted a prospective study to investigate prevalence, incidence, and mortality of CDAD and compared the results with those of the retrospective study, evaluating adherence to preventive measures and their efficacy.

TL;DR: Evaluating the impact of the severity of the liver iron overload on the change in myocardial T2* (mT2*) for patients receiving up to 3 years of DFX treatment in the EPIC sub-study found that there was a statistically significant difference amongst the 3 subgroups in percent increase in the mT2* that had occurred.