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Paraproteinemia in Autoinflammatory Diseases

Autoinflammatory diseases represent clinical entities characterized by recurrent episodes of systemic and organ-specific inflammation determined by the primary deregulation of the innate immune system. In addition to monogenic diseases, caused by gene mutations of specific genes involved in the innate immunity, other disorders have been recently classified as multifactorial autoinflammatory diseases on the basis of clinical, pathogenic, and treatment features shared with the monogenic entitie...

Cardiac Remodeling Versus Cardiomyopathies in Athletes

Prolonged and intensive training results in morphological and functional remodeling of cardiac chambers. Several determinants affect the remodeling including sport disciplines and the volume and intensity of the training. Harmonic dilatation of all chambers, mild hypertrophy, and low-normal ejection fraction can be observed as part of the spectrum of the morpho-functional changes. For these reasons, the traditional cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) normal reference values for ventricles and at...

Crowdsourcing in Management Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

New technologies have been having a significant impact in economics and business during the last few decades. Among the many changes brought about by technologies, one of the most revolutionary has been the role that they have brought to platforms; within platforms, crowdsourcing has emerged and revolutionised the way companies, customers, and different actors have been interacting among themselves creating and sharing new value. This chapter provides a literature review aimed at analysing th...