Annamaria Dachille

An Unusual Case of Acute Myopericarditis Possibly Due to Food Poisoning

Annapaola Zito, Fiorella Devito, Annamaria Dachille, Rosa Carbonara, Francesco Giardinelli, Ottavio Di Cillo & Marco Matteo Ciccone · International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports · 2014

The manuscript describes the case of a 23 year-old woman, with acute myopericarditis associated with food poisoning without other cardiovascular disease. The patient had a history of hypothyroidism, treated with levothyroxine 75 μg/d, however she was clinically and biochemically...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/12942

Hereditary Juvenile Haemochromatosis and Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Fiorella Devito, Annapaola Zito, Annamaria Dachille, Rosa Carbonara, Francesco Giardinelli & Marco Matteo Ciccone · International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports · 2014

Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), a common autosomal recessive disease, is characterized by excessive iron overload/toxicity in multiple organs (joints, liver, heart, pancreas, pituitary, adrenals and skin). Symptoms and signs depend upon the location of the excess iron deposition...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/13130