University of Bari Aldo Moro

Efficacy and safety of scaling and root planing for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

To evaluate the effects of scaling and root planing (SRP) on stage of hepatic steatosis measured by abdominal ultrasound (US) in patients affected by Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) and periodontitis. In this preliminary retrospective observational study, 205 adu...

Layer-aware deep feature optimization for privacy-preserving face biometrics with revocable key binding

Abstract Biometric cryptosystems designed with revocability and session-level renewability must preserve template privacy and maintain reliable authentication despite the inherent variability of biometric data. A key unresolved issue in deep biometric protection is how the embedd...

Vector-enabled metagenomics reveals the first detection of the geminivirus beet curly top Iran virus in Europe

Geminiviruses are among the most threatening emerging insect-borne viruses and are responsible for serious outbreaks worldwide. Climate change (i.e. higher temperatures) could further exacerbate their impact on crops, highlighting the need for new diagnostic approaches to manage...

First detection of Leishmania infantum in dogs and wild-caught Culicoides oxystoma in Hainan Province, Southern China

Leishmaniases are neglected parasitic diseases expanding globally. In China, Leishmania infantum , which isendemic in the west, has reemerged and spread to the central part of the country, raising concerns about further potential expansion. Given limited data from southern China,...

Superficial Peritoneal Endometriosis Beyond Surgical Diagnosis: A Narrative Review of Emerging Functional and Molecular Perspectives

Background and Objectives: Superficial peritoneal endometriosis (SPE) remains one of the most difficult endometriosis phenotypes to diagnose non-invasively, because lesions are frequently small, multifocal, and poorly detectable using conventional imaging. Diagnostic laparoscopy...

Readmission to hospital after thoracic trauma: better safe than sorry! the predictive read score

Thoracic trauma accounts for approximately 10–15% of trauma admissions and contributes substantially to trauma-related morbidity and mortality. Readmission rates for thoracic trauma have not been investigated thus far; thus, the purpose of this retrospective study is to reduce pa...

Clinical-histological and genetic features of rare variants of melanoma.

Melanoma is traditionally classified into a limited number of common clinicopathologic subtypes; however, routine clinical and histopathologic practice reveals a broad spectrum of rare variants and unusual morphologic patterns that pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic chal...

Schizophrenia Beyond Genome-Wide Association Studies: It’s About Time

The discovery of potentially many hundreds of risk genes for schizophrenia does not resolve the mystery of the illness at the level of an individual. The diversity of implicated gene functions has encouraged speculation that there are convergent biological pathways that mediate r...

Burden of Dementia in Europe, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Background Dementia is a leading cause of disability and mortality in Europe, yet no recent harmonised assessment has described its impact across the European Union (EU-27) and the WHO European Region. Methods We used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023) t...