Milva Battaglia

Dr. Milva Battaglia


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Academic Career Length

20Years (2007-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 December 2013 in Orthopedics
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MBMilva Battaglia
Milva Battaglia
Federica GuaraldiFederica Guaraldi
Federica Guaraldi
FVFrancesca Vannini
Francesca Vannini
GRGiuseppe Rossi
Giuseppe Rossi
ATAntonio Timoncini
Antonio Timoncini
SGSandro Giannini
Sandro Giannini
Intra-articular injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid (HA) represent efficacious medical treatments for osteoarthritis (OA), although no comparative study on long-term efficacy in hip OA exists. The goals of the current study were to compare the clinical efficacy of PRP vs HA at 12 months of follow-up in patients with hip OA and evaluate the influence of the type of infiltration and patient age, sex, body mass index, and degree of OA on temporal clinical evolution. One hundred patients with chronic unilateral symptomatic hip OA were consecutively enrolled and randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups: group A received PRP and group B received HA administered via intra-articular ultrasound-guided injections. Patients were evaluated at baseline and after 1, 3, 6, and 12 months using the Harris Hip Score (HHS) and visual analog scale (VAS). An overall improvement was detected in both groups between 1- and 3-month follow-up. Despite a slightly progressive worsening between 6- and 12-month follow-up, the final clinical scores remained higher compared with baseline ( P <.0005), with no significant differences between PRP and HA. Regarding clinical temporal evolution, multivariate analysis showed that HHS was not influenced by the type of infiltration, patient age, sex, body mass index, or degree of OA, whereas a significant association was detected between OA grade IV and VAS evolution ( P <.0005). Intra-articular injections of PRP are efficacious in terms of functional improvement and pain reduction but are not superior to HA in patients with symptomatic hip OA at 12-month follow-up.

1 November 2011 in European Journal of Radiology
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MBMilva Battaglia
Milva Battaglia
ERE. Rimondi
E. Rimondi
CMC. Monti
C. Monti
Federica GuaraldiFederica Guaraldi
Federica Guaraldi
ASA. Sant’aNdrea
A. Sant’aNdrea
FVF. Vannini
F. Vannini

1 October 2009 in European Journal of Radiology
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MBMilva Battaglia
Milva Battaglia
DVD. Vanel
D. Vanel
PPP. Pollastri
P. Pollastri
ABA. Balladelli
A. Balladelli
MAM. Alberghini
M. Alberghini
SGS. Galletti
S. Galletti

1 December 2011 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
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MBMilva Battaglia
Milva Battaglia
FVFrancesca Vannini
Francesca Vannini
Federica GuaraldiFederica Guaraldi
Federica Guaraldi
GRGiuseppe Rossi
Giuseppe Rossi
FBFederico Biondi
Federico Biondi
ASAlessandra Sudanese
Alessandra Sudanese

7 August 2011 in Skeletal Radiology
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MBMilva Battaglia
Milva Battaglia
Federica GuaraldiFederica Guaraldi
Federica Guaraldi
FVFrancesca Vannini
Francesca Vannini
DVDaniel Vanel
Daniel Vanel
SGSandro Giannini
Sandro Giannini

30 June 2007 in Journal of Ultrasound
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MBMilva Battaglia
Milva Battaglia
PPP. Pollastri
P. Pollastri
AFA. Ferraro
A. Ferraro
FBF. Betoni
F. Betoni
GBG. Bacci
G. Bacci
SGS. Galletti
S. Galletti