Andrea Francavilla

ORCID: 0000-0002-1980-0871
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Research Areas
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Breast Lesions and Carcinomas
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Trauma Management and Diagnosis
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Breast Implant and Reconstruction
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
  • Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
  • Food Safety and Hygiene
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis
  • Forecasting Techniques and Applications
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies

University of Padua
2021-2024

Public Health Department
2022

Hospital General de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez
2013

Abstract OBJECTIVES Robotic thymectomy has been suggested and considered technically feasible for thymic tumours. However, because of small-sample series the lack data on long-term results, controversies still exist surgical oncological results with this approach. We performed a large national multicentre study sought to evaluate early outcomes after robot-assisted thoracoscopic in epithelial METHODS All patients tumours operated through robotic approach between 2002 2022 from 15 Italian...

10.1093/ejcts/ezae178 article EN European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 2024-04-25

<title>Abstract</title> Background Patients with biliary atresia (BA) undergoing liver transplantation (LT) often have complex portal vein (PV) reconstructions due to PV hypoplasia. The use of venous homograft (VH) interposition is a surgical option in demanding reconstruction guarantee optimal inflow. long-term outcomes this procedure are still unclear. Methods We selected patients under 3 years age affected by BA who underwent split (SLT) between 2006 and 2010 at our centre. compared the...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-6190467/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2025-03-27

Since the beginning of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many drugs have been purposed for treatment severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Remdesivir emerged as an encouraging antiviral drug patients with documented COVID-19-related pneumonia. Although several studies about remdesivir effectiveness exist, no study investigated effect combination vaccination status. The aim this was to assess whether administration could show some differences in terms...

10.1007/s10238-023-01036-x article EN cc-by Clinical and Experimental Medicine 2023-03-24

Central venous catheters (CVCs) represent one of the main risk factors for thrombotic events (VTEs) in children.We studied Italian Registry Pediatric Thrombosis (RITI) with regard to systemic radiologically confirmed CVC-related VTEs (CVC-VTEs) occurred during 6.5 years children aged 29 days 18 years.A total 78 CVC-VTEs were included, which 76 patients (40/76, 53% males). comprised 67 non-cardiac (86%) and 11 intracardiac (ICTEs) (14%); median age at onset was 19 17 months, respectively. The...

10.3389/fped.2022.843643 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Pediatrics 2022-03-23

The burden of infectious diseases is crucial for both epidemiological surveillance and prompt public health response. A variety data, including textual sources, can be fruitfully exploited. Dealing with unstructured data necessitates the use methods automatic data-driven variable construction machine learning techniques (MLT) show promising results. In this framework, varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection was chosen to perform an case identification MLT. Pedianet, Italian pediatric primary...

10.3390/ijerph19105959 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-05-13

Abstract Background The population aged ≥90 years is increasing worldwide, yet nearly 50% of elderly breast cancer (BC) patients receive suboptimal treatments, resulting in high rates BC-related mortality. We analyzed clinical and survival outcomes nonagenarian BC to identify effective treatment strategies. Methods This single-institution retrospective cohort study diagnosed with stage I–III between 2007 2018. Patients were categorized into three groups: traditional surgery (TS), performed...

10.1245/s10434-024-15790-z article EN cc-by Annals of Surgical Oncology 2024-08-04

(1) Background: SARS-CoV-2 infection is notably mild in children, though comorbidities may increase the risk of hospitalization and represent a for increased disease severity. There an urgent need targeted therapies with acceptable efficacy safety profile. To date, most medicines COVID-19-specific treatment are prescribed off-label children due to lack clinical trials consequent evidence this population. (2) Methods: This was retrospective, observational study investigating treatments...

10.3390/v15010192 article EN cc-by Viruses 2023-01-10

Introduction Thrombotic events in neonates and children represent a rare although severe occurrence view of the associated risk mortality sequelae. Quality evidence is limited this field, registry studies provide an essential base for research. The aim paper to present new Italian Registry Infantile Thrombosis (RITI), set it into scene international thrombosis stroke registries, some insight on challenges with management. Methods We detailed structure content RITI registry, brief overview...

10.3389/fped.2023.1094246 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Pediatrics 2023-04-20

Background Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in young children. Emergency department (ED) diagnoses are a useful source information for epidemiological surveillance purposes. However, ED data collection systems often use free-text fields to report patient diagnoses. Machine learning techniques (MLTs) powerful tools automatic text classification. The MLT system improve by speeding up manual coding tasks Objective This research aims develop tool classification automatically...

10.2196/44467 article EN cc-by JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2023-07-12

Abstract The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic showed importance timely monitoring admissions to ICU admissions. ability promptly forecast epidemic impact on occupancy beds in is a key issue for adequate management health care system. Despite this, most literature predictive models Italy has focused predicting number infections, leaving trends ordinary hospitalizations and occupancies background. This work aims present an ETS approach (Exponential Smoothing Time Series) time series...

10.1007/s10916-023-01982-9 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Systems 2023-08-05

BackgroundConventional treatment options for end-stage heart failure (ESHF) in children include transplantation (HT) and ventricular assist device (VAD), both with significant drawbacks the pediatric population. Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) strategy embedded a protective cardiovascular drug regime has been effectively used functional cardiac regeneration as bridge to HT ESHF.We herein describe early mid-term clinical outcomes from multicenter international experience.MethodsThis is...

10.1016/j.jhlto.2024.100143 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JHLT Open 2024-08-08

One of the most relevant public health issues among pediatric injuries concerns foreign body (FB) aspiration. The risk perception choking hazards (CH) and perception, in general, are complex multifactorial problems that play a significant role defining protective behavior. Risk prevention policies should take this aspect into account. A lack scientific knowledge FB injury may be evidenced Brazil other newly developed countries. This study aims to characterize differences peculiarities CH...

10.3390/children8070541 article EN cc-by Children 2021-06-24

Although rare in children, severe asthma is responsible for a heavy burden on families and society.Being condition, every center follows only limited number of patients, there solid rationale setting up networks to collect data.We present first report clinical features diagnostic workup children adolescents with included the database Italian Pediatric Respiratory Society (Società Italiana per le Malattie Respiratorie Infantili -SIMRI).24 pediatric pulmonology allergology centers took part...

10.56164/pediatrrespirj.2024.48 article EN 2024-05-17

Although rare in children, SA is responsible for a high burden on families and society. There solid rationale to set up prospective networking better define the disease improve treatment care of affected children. We aimed provide first report features children with consecutively recruited database. From October '21 January '23, 159 patients (58 females, median age 14 yrs, range 6-17) were 20 centres. 93% sensitised aeroallergens. Comorbidities last 12 months were: food allergy (12%...

10.1183/13993003.congress-2023.pa2082 article EN 2023-09-09

Several European countries suspended or changed recommendations for the use of Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) suspected adverse effects due to atypical blood-clotting. This research aims identify a reference point towards number thrombotic events expected in Italian population over 50 years age who received from 22 January 12 April 2021. The venous thromboembolism (VT) and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) event rates were estimated population-based cohort. overall VT rate was 1.15 (95% CI 0.93-1.42)...

10.3390/vaccines9111307 article EN cc-by Vaccines 2021-11-10
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