Vincenzo Provitera, MD

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Medical Specialty:

Neurology

Hospital or Clinic Affiliation:

Maugeri

Department or Group:

Skin Biopsy Lab

Links:

http://www.icsmaugeri.it

Patient Age Group(s):

Adult

Location:

"Maugeri" Clinical Scientific Institutes

Via Bagni Vecchi, 1

Telese Terme

Benevento, 82037

Italy

Appointments:

+39 0824909111

Fax (Medical Records):

+39 0824909614

Clinical Services

Clinical Areas of Interest:

Painful Neuropathy, Autonomic Neuropathy

Adult Clinical Services:

Research

Research subjects are currently being recruited for these studies:

Subjects with distal symmetrical painful polyneuropathy either diabetic or idiopathic for a clinical trial of a Nav1.7 blocker; Subjects with extrapiramidal involvement within two years from the onset of symptoms for a project on early differential diagnosis between Parkinson's diseases and atypical parkinsonisms.

Contact telephone for potential research subjects:

+39 0824909111

Contact email for potential research subjects:

vincenzo.provitera@icsmaugeri.it

Biography

Vincenzo Provitera M.D. was trained at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is a certified Neurologist and helds a position in the Rehabilitation Unit of “Maugeri” Clinical and Scientific Institutes in Telese terme (BN) Italy. In 1999, along with prof. Maria Nolano he founded the Skin Biopsy Lab in Telese. His main interests are pain, autonomic neuropathies, genetic neuropathies and neurodegenerative disorders. He is a Fellow of the Italian Neurological Society (SIN), the Italian Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC) and the Italian Association for Peripheral Nervous System (ASNP). From 2010 to 2017 he has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He coordinates since 2014 the “Autonomic Nervous System Study Group” of the Italian Society for Clinical Neurophysiology. He is the Author of 65 papers indexed on Scopus with a total of 1419 citations and a h-Index = 20.

Publications

A Model to Study Myelinated Fiber Degeneration and Regeneration in Human Skin.
Provitera V, Piscosquito G, Manganelli F, Mozzillo S, Caporaso G, Stancanelli A, Borreca I, Di Caprio G, Santoro L, Nolano M.
Ann Neurol. 2020 Mar;87(3):456-465.

A Delphi consensus statement of the Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group of the Italian Neurological Society on pharmacoresistant neuropathic pain.
Ciaramitaro P, Cruccu G, de Tommaso M, Devigili G, Fornasari D, Geppetti P, Lacerenza M, Lauria G, Mameli S, Marchettini P, Nolano M, Polati E, Provitera V, Romano M, Solaro C, Tamburin S, Tugnoli V, Valeriani M, Truini A; Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group of the Italian Neurological Society.
Neurol Sci. 2019 Jul;40(7):1425-1431.

Nolano M, Provitera V, Stancanelli A, Saltalamacchia AM, Caporaso G, Lullo F, Borreca I, Piscosquito G, Mozzillo S, Esposito M, Manganelli F, Lanzillo B, Santoro L. Small fiber pathology parallels disease progression in Parkinson disease: a longitudinal study. Acta Neuropathol. 2018 Jun 18. doi: 10.1007/s00401-018-1876-1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29916036.

Marchi M, Provitera V, Nolano M, Romano M, Maccora S, D'Amato I, Salvi E, Gerrits M, Santoro L, Lauria G. A novel SCN9A splicing mutation in a compound heterozygous girl with congenital insensitivity to pain, hyposmia and hypogeusia. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2018 Sep;23(3):202-206. doi: 10.1111/jns.12280. Epub 2018 Jul 23. PubMed PMID: 29978519.

Acanfora D, Casucci G, Ciccone MM, Scicchitano P, Lonobile T, Chiariello L, Maestri R, Pedone C, Provitera V, Nolano M, Antonelli Incalzi R. Pathological evidence of adrenergic cardiac denervation in a patient with congestive heart failure. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2018 Sep - Oct;36:20-21. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2018.05.007. Epub 2018 Jun 5. PubMed PMID: 30005392.

Loavenbruck A, Sit N, Provitera V, Kennedy W. High-resolution axon reflex sweat testing for diagnosis of neuropathy. Clin Auton Res. 2018 Jul 21. doi: 10.1007/s10286-018-0546-7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30032335.

Provitera V, Lubrano E, Piscosquito G, Manganelli F, Santoro L, Nolano M. Generalized anhidrosis as first clinical presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus. 2018 Dec;27(14):2296-2297. doi: 10.1177/0961203318804887. Epub 2018 Oct 3. PubMed PMID: 30282559.

Provitera V, Gibbons CH, Wendelschafer-Crabb G, Donadio V, Vitale DF, Loavenbruck A, Stancanelli A, Caporaso G, Liguori R, Wang N, Santoro L, Kennedy WR, Nolano M. The role of skin biopsy in differentiating small fiber neuropathy from ganglionopathy. Eur J Neurol. 2018 Mar 1. doi: 10.1111/ene.13608.

Loavenbruck AJ, Hodges JS, Provitera V, Nolano M, Wendelshafer-Crabb G, Kennedy WR. A device to measure secretion of individual sweat glands for diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2017 Jun;22(2):139-148. doi: 10.1111/jns.12212.

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