20-23 June, 2018 Barcelona
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Impaired quality of life of caregivers o.. | Nobumichi Takeuchi .. | Kumiko Koike, Sonomi Yoshida, .. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Quality of life by Karnofsky index in pa.. | Ticiana Pessoa .. | Ana Cristina Pessoa, Paulo Roc.. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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De novo malignancies in patients after l.. | Klara Chmelova .. | Bajer L, Spicak J.. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Laparoscopic liver resection for tumors .. | Mathieu DHondt .. | Edward Willems, Isabelle Parme.. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Impact of revision surgery timing on ove.. | Ashutosh Mishra .. | .. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Impact of lymph node positivity on overa.. | Ashutosh Mishra .. | .. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Surgical resection of primary tumor site.. | Tingting Feng .. | Liming Zhu, Haijun Zhong&65292.. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Comparing efficacy of 1-L Peg-Asc with p.. | Se Hyun Jang .. | .. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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A phase I/II Trial of CRISPR-Cas9-mediat.. | Jia Wei .. | .. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Endoscopic detachable auxiliary manipula.. | Han Jo Jeon .. | .. | Clinical Other.. | - - |
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Poly-Ligand Profiling differentiates pan.. | Valeriy Domenyuk .. | .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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The use of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio, .. | Andrew Dean .. | Meabh McNulty - firstAdarsh Da.. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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Timed-flat infusion (TFI) 5-fluorouracil.. | Alessandro Parisi .. | .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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Intraperitoneal chemotherapy for pancrea.. | Yasushi Tsuji .. | .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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Predictive factors for early relapse and.. | Cristina Saavedra Serrano .. | .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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HGCSG 1403: Phase I trial of oxaliplatin.. | Atsushi Ishiguro .. | .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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PanCO: An open-label, single-arm pilot s.. | Marion Harris .. | .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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Updated results of biweekly gemcitabine/.. | Maria Drizou .. | Stefania Kokkal.. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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Safety of gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxe.. | Mitsuhito Sasaki .. | Hiroshi Imaoka, Motoyasu Kan, .. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
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Use of gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel as.. | Meabh McNulty .. | Andrew Dean - first authorMeab.. | Clinical Pancreatic Cancer.. | - - |
Thunderstorm-related asthma in patients sensitised to olea europaea pollen: twenty emergency department visits for asthmatic symptoms in one single day Losappio, Laura1; Heffler, Enrico2; Falco, Antonio1; Contento, Francesco1; Cannito, Cosimo1; Rolla, Giovanni2 1"Dimiccoli" Hospital, Emergency Department, Barletta, Italy; 2University of Torino - AO Mauriziano "Umberto I", Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Torino, Italy
Background: Associations between thunderstorm and asthma morbidity have been reported in several countries. Common to all epidemics of thunderstorm-related asthma is a significant increase in atmospheric allergen load during and immediately after a thunderstorm. Sensitization to Alternaria species or to grass and parietaria pollens has been suggested to play a key role in thunderstorm-related asthma. The only reported event of thunderstorm-related asthma in Mediterranean area was attributed to sensitization to parietaria pollen.
Method: here we describe a series of 20 patients who presented to Emergency Department in Barletta (94,000 inhabitants), Puglia (Italy) for sudden and severe asthmatic symptoms between May 27th and 28th 2010 (from15:36 to 5:02), immediately after a violent thunderstorm which occurred following a very hot morning (mean temperature: 29°C). All the patients have been subsequently visited by an allergist and underwent allergological work-up which included skin prick tests and a careful clinical history. Local pollen counts were available.
Result: Between May 10th and June 10th 2010, 86 Emergency Department asthma visits were recorded, 20 of them during the study day. Patients' mean age was 44.25 +/- 18.5 years (range: 9-81), 8/20 females, 2 smokers, 16 with a previous history of known respiratory allergy. Only two patients regularly took anti-asthma drugs. All 20 patients were sensitized to Olea europaea pollen, 7 of whom were monosensitized. Ten patients were sensitized to grass, 7 to parietaria, 5 to compositae, 5 to cypress, 5 to house dust mites, 3 to dog and 1 to cat danders. No patient was sensitized to Alternaria. Mean pollen count was 17 granules/m3 for Olea europaea, 6 granules/m3 for grass pollen.
Conclusion: This is, in our knowledge, the second epidemic of thunderstorm related asthma described in Mediterranean area and the first one in which sensitization to Olea europaea played a key-role. In conclusion, our report indicates that thunderstorm asthma may involve different allergens (not only fungal spores and grass or parietaria pollen) in different geographic areas, depending on the seasonality of thunderstorms and allergenic pollen.