Health

Emotions and the heart: research, conducted with the University of Padua and University of California Irvine, highlights the primary role of cardiac activity in emotional states

One of the most complex fractures that can occur is the fracture of the tibial plateau, i.e. the upper part of the tibia, which, with the femur and patella, forms the knee joint

Headaches are a very common type of headache, which can develop due to very different factors

If the patient complains of swollen feet, there may be an instinct to play down or even crack a smile, and that would be a very serious mistake: they are sometimes a symptom of serious undiagnosed pathologies

Chronic pain can be caused by many different factors. Often conditions that accompany normal aging may affect bones and joints in ways that cause chronic pain. Other common causes are nerve damage and injuries that fail to heal properly

Extracorporeal circulation allows the oxygenation and pumping of circulating blood during the middle phase of a cardiac surgery (performed with a stopped heart), when the heart is stopped in order to, for example, repair or replace a valve…

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning occurs when high levels of carbon monoxide in the air cause a buildup in a person’s bloodstream

Tetralogy of Fallot (pronounced "Fallot's tetralogy") also known as "Steno-Fallot tetralogy" or "blue child syndrome" or "quadrilogy of Fallot" (hence the acronym TOF or ToF) is a congenital heart malformation, i.e. already present at…

Analgesic mesotherapy is an outpatient treatment involving the administration of drugs to relieve pain intradermally in cases of muscle contractures, low back pain, tension-type headaches, tendinopathies, post-traumatic pain

Adult scoliosis is a deformity of the spinal column in a three-dimensional sense, due to vertebral flexion that results in the patient's curvature both frontally (laterally leaning or true scoliosis) and sagittally (curved back with hump or…