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Carney complex is a rare disease characterised by a set of alterations that can be summarised as follows: skin lesions associated with tumours that may involve both endocrine and non-endocrine organs

BMI or Body Mass Index is a very important value in the assessment of risks related to overweight and obesity: its criteria are provided by the World Health Organisation

Discovered by Steinert in 1909, as a variant of congenital myotonia and later re-evaluated by Batten and Gibb as a disease in its own right, myotonic dystrophy is a multisystem disease (i.e. it affects several of the body's systems)…

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) is an interventional cardiology technique first performed in 1977 by a German physician, Dr Andreas Gruentzing

Stress dermatitis: increasingly often moments of apprehension, stress and anxiety can trigger manifestations on the skin with symptoms typical of dermatitis

Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in the general population and its prevalence tends to increase with age

Usually, cirrhosis of the liver shows no obvious signs and may be asymptomatic for several years. As the fibrosis process progresses, the disease can lead to a number of complications. These are

The bad weather has violently hit the island of Ischia: in Casamicciola there are missing people, including a family consisting of husband, wife and an infant

Condylomas are benign tumour lesions, mainly transmitted sexually, and caused by viruses of the papillomavirus type

Depression is a clinical condition that involves a number of issues that are not always easy to manage and affects an increasing number of people