Abnormalities in the 24-hour Rhythm of Skin Temperature in Cirrhosis: Sleep-Wake and General Clinical Implications
Garrido M, Saccardo D, De Rui M, Vettore E, Verardo A, Carraro P, Di Vitofrancesco N, Mani AR, Angeli P, Bolognesi M, Montagnese S. Liver International BACKGROUND & AIMS: Sleep preparation/onset are associated with peripheral vasodilatation and a decrease in body temperature. The hyperdynamic syndrome exhibited by patients with cirrhosis may impinge on sleep preparation, […]
Expected accuracy of proximal and distal temperature estimated by wireless sensors, in relation to their number and position on the skin
Longato E, Garrido M, Saccardo D, Montesinos Guevara C, Mani A, Bolognesi M, Amodio P, Facchinetti A, Sparacino G, Montagnese S. PlosOne A popular method to estimate proximal/distal temperature (TPROX and TDIST) consists in calculating a weighted average of nine wireless sensors placed on pre-defined skin locations. Specifically, TPROX is derived from five sensors placed […]
The animal naming test: An easy tool for the assessment of hepatic encephalopathy.
Campagna F, Montagnese S, Ridola L, Senzolo M, Schiff S, De Rui M, Pasquale C, Nardelli S, Pentassuglio I, Merkel C, Angeli P, Riggio O, Amodio P. Hepatology. 2017 Screening for hepatic encephalopathy (HE) that does not cause obvious disorientation or asterixis (minimal HE [MHE]/grade 1 HE) is important. We examined if the animal naming test (ANT1 ) (maximum number of animals listed […]
Neuropsychiatric performance in patients with cirrhosis: Who is “normal”?
Montagnese S, De Rui M, Angeli P, Amodio P. Journal of Hepatology 2017 In patients with cirrhosis a normal neuropsychiatric performance has been traditionally defined by the absence of any degree of hepatic encephalopathy and/or the absence of psychometric or neurophysiological abnormalities, compared with data from the healthy population. As the understanding and management of end-stage liver disease continues to change, it is our impression […]
Identifying pathways modulating sleep duration: from genomics to transcriptomics
Allebrandt K, Teder-Laving M, Cusumano P, Frishman G, Levandovski R, Ruepp A, Hidalgo M, Costa R, Metspalu A, Roenneberg T, de Pittà C. Scientific Reports Recognizing that insights into the modulation of sleep duration can emerge by exploring the functional relationships among genes, we used this strategy to explore the genome-wide association results for […]