La Radiologia medica
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La Radiologia medica · Sep 2020
Preparation of a radiology department in an Italian hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients.
Preparedness for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its spread in Italy called for setting up of adequately equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers, uninfected patients, and the community. In our country, in a short time span, the demand for critical care beds exceeded supply. ⋯ Along with this new initiative, the new concept of "Pandemic Radiology Unit" was implemented as a practical solution to the emerging crisis, born out of a critical and urgent acute need. The present article describes logistics, planning, and practical design issues for such a pandemic radiology and critical care unit (e.g., space, infection control, safety of healthcare workers, etc.) adopted in the IC Hospital Unit for the care and management of COVID-19 patients.
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La Radiologia medica · Sep 2020
Evaluation of relationships between the final Gleason score, PI-RADS v2 score, ADC value, PSA level, and tumor diameter in patients that underwent radical prostatectomy due to prostate cancer.
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the serum PSA level, Gleason score (GS), PI-RADS v2 score, tumor ADCmin value, and the largest tumor diameter in patients that underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) due to prostate cancer (PCa) and to comparatively evaluate the variables of these parameters in clinically significant and insignificant PCa groups. ⋯ The current PI-RADS v2 scoring system can be inadequate in distinguishing clinically significant and insignificant groups in central gland tumors. A separate cut-off value of the tumor diameter should be determined for central and peripheral gland tumors. Tumor ADCmin values can be used as a predictive parameter. The PSA cut-off value should be kept lower in peripheral gland tumors.