COVID-19 patients typically present with lower airway disease, although involvement of other
organ systems is usually the rule. Hematological manifestations such as thrombocytopenia …

Background We sought to quantify in-hospital and early post-discharge mortality rates in
hospitalised patients. Methods Consecutive adult patients admitted to an internal medicine …

Background Christmas and New Year’s holidays are risk factors for hospitalization, but the
causes of this “holiday effect” are uncertain. In particular, clinical complexity (CC) has never …

Studies exploring differences between comorbidity (ie, the co-existence of additional
diseases with reference to an index condition) and multimorbidity (ie, the presence of multiple …

Background Little is known about resilience in an internal medicine setting. We aimed to
assess the relationship between resilience and frailty and other clinical and sociodemographic …

Lung ultrasound (LUS) has rapidly emerged in COVID-19 diagnosis and for the follow-up
during the acute phase. LUS is not yet used routinely in lung damage follow-up after COVID-19 …

Objectives More than a year has passed since the initial outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, which
caused many hospitalizations worldwide due to COVID-19 pneumonia and its complications. …

… Alessia Ballesio … Gaetano Bergamaschi, Federica Borrelli de Andreis, Nicola Aronico,
Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Chiara Barteselli, Stefania Merli, Ivan Pellegrino, Luigi Coppola, Elisa …

Background and Objective Hydroxychloroquine was widely used during the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic as an antiviral drug. Most previous …

Correction to: Venous thromboembolism and COVID-19: a single center experience from an
academic tertiary referral hospital of Northern Italy Correction to: Venous thromboembolism and …