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Franco Franceschini

Franco Franceschini

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Overview

Franco Franceschini is affiliated with the University of Brescia in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to rheumatology, pathology and forensic medicine, immunology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and infectious diseases.

Their work covers several main research topics including systemic lupus erythematosus research, systemic sclerosis and related diseases, inflammatory myopathies and dermatomyositis, vasculitis and related conditions, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, pregnancy and medication impact, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Franceschini has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Tocilizumab for the treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with hyperinflammatory syndrome and acute respiratory failure: A single center study of 100 patients in Brescia, Italy (2020, Autoimmunity Reviews)
  • Coagulation dysfunction in COVID-19: The interplay between inflammation, viral infection and the coagulation system (2020, Blood Reviews)
  • Anti-Phospholipid Antibodies in COVID-19 Are Different From Those Detectable in the Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome (2020, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • Association between treatment with colchicine and improved survival in a single-centre cohort of adult hospitalised patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases)
  • COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases in northern Italy: a single-centre observational and case-control study (2020, The Lancet Rheumatology)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Micaela Fredi
  • Laura Andréoli
  • Anǵela Tincani
  • Ilaria Cavazzana
  • Maria Grazia Lazzaroni

The main venues where Franceschini publishes work include:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
  • Poster presentations
  • Frontiers in Medicine

Best Publications

  • Tocilizumab for the treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with hyperinflammatory syndrome and acute respiratory failure: A single center study of 100 patients in Brescia, Italy.

    Paola Toniati;Simone Piva;Marco Cattalini;Emirena Garrafa

  • Risk of congenital complete heart block in newborns of mothers with anti-Ro/SSA antibodies detected by counterimmunoelectrophoresis: A prospective study of 100 women

    Antonio Brucato;Micol Frassi;Franco Franceschini;Rolando Cimaz

  • Anti-Ro/SSA and La/SSB antibodies

    F. Franceschini;I. Cavazzana

  • Sjögren's syndrome disease damage index and disease activity index: Scoring systems for the assessment of disease damage and disease activity in Sjögren's syndrome, derived from an analysis of a cohort of Italian patients

    Claudio Vitali;Gianluigi Palombi;Chiara Baldini;Maurizio Benucci

  • Novel aspects of Sjögren’s syndrome in 2012

    Angela Tincani;Laura Andreoli;Ilaria Cavazzana;Andrea Doria

  • Influence of Antisynthetase Antibodies Specificities on Antisynthetase Syndrome Clinical Spectrum Time Course

    Lorenzo Cavagna;Ernesto Trallero-Araguás;Federica Meloni;Ilaria Cavazzana

  • Pregnancy outcome in 100 women with autoimmune diseases and anti-Ro/SSA antibodies: a prospective controlled study

    A Brucato;A Doria;M Frassi;G Castellino

  • Clinical Spectrum Time Course in Anti Jo-1 Positive Antisynthetase Syndrome: Results From an International Retrospective Multicenter Study.

    Lorenzo Cavagna;Laura Nuño;Carlo Alberto Scirè;Marcello Govoni

  • Coagulation dysfunction in COVID-19: The interplay between inflammation, viral infection and the coagulation system.

    Maria Grazia Lazzaroni;Silvia Piantoni;Stefania Masneri;Emirena Michela Garrafa

  • Anti-Phospholipid Antibodies in COVID-19 Are Different From Those Detectable in the Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome.

    Maria Orietta Borghi;Asmaa Beltagy;Emirena Garrafa;Daniele Curreli

  • Health-related quality of life measured by the Short Form 36 (SF-36) in systemic sclerosis: correlations with indexes of disease activity and severity, disability, and depressive symptoms.

    Elisabetta Danieli;Paolo Airò;Lorenzo Bettoni;Massimo Cinquini

  • Testing for myositis specific autoantibodies: Comparison between line blot and immunoprecipitation assays in 57 myositis sera

    Ilaria Cavazzana;Micaela Fredi;Angela Ceribelli;Cristina Mordenti

  • Anti-MJ/NXP-2 autoantibody specificity in a cohort of adult Italian patients with polymyositis/dermatomyositis

    Angela Ceribelli;Micaela Fredi;Mara Taraborelli;Ilaria Cavazzana

  • Mepolizumab for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA): a European multicenter observational study

    Alessandra Bettiol;Maria Letizia Urban;Lorenzo Dagna;Vincent Cottin

  • Clinical and serological associations of ribosomal P autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus: prospective evaluation in a large cohort of Italian patients.

    R Gerli;Laura Caponi;A Tincani;R Scorza

  • Myositis autoantibodies and clinical phenotypes.

    Anna Ghirardello;Elisabetta Borella;Marianna Beggio;Franco Franceschini

  • Anti-52 kDa Ro, anti-60 kDa Ro, and anti-La antibody profiles in neonatal lupus.

    Patrick Gordon;Munther A Khamashta;Eric Rosenthal;John M Simpson

  • Effects of Belimumab on Flare Rate and Expected Damage Progression in Patients With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

    Luca Iaccarino;Silvano Bettio;Rossella Reggia;Margherita Zen

  • COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases in northern Italy: a single-centre observational and case-control study.

    Micaela Fredi;Ilaria Cavazzana;Liala Moschetti;Laura Andreoli

  • Anti-HMGCR antibodies as a biomarker for immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies: A history of statins and experience from a large international multi-center study

    Lucile Musset;Yves Allenbach;Olivier Benveniste;Olivier Boyer

  • Tocilizumab for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. The single-arm TOCIVID-19 prospective trial.

    Francesco Perrone;Maria Carmela Piccirillo;Paolo Antonio Ascierto;Carlo Salvarani

  • Malignancies in Italian Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Positive for Anti-RNA Polymerase III Antibodies

    Paolo Airo;Angela Ceribelli;Ilaria Cavazzana;Mara Taraborelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilaria Cavazzana
Ilaria Cavazzana University of Brescia
Angela Tincani
Angela Tincani University of Brescia
Paolo Airò
Paolo Airò University of Brescia
Carlomaurizio Montecucco
Carlomaurizio Montecucco University of Pavia
Andrea Doria
Andrea Doria University of Padua
Roberto Caporali
Roberto Caporali University of Milan
Minoru Satoh
Minoru Satoh RMIT University
Carlo Selmi
Carlo Selmi Humanitas University
Pier Luigi Meroni
Pier Luigi Meroni Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Fabrizio Conti
Fabrizio Conti Sapienza University of Rome

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