Rivista di formazione e aggiornamento professionale del pediatra e del medico di base, fondata nel 1982. In collaborazione con l'Associazione Culturale Pediatri.
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La neutropenia autoimmune primitiva del bambino

Primary autoimmune neutropenia in children

Piero Farruggia1, Fabio Tucci2, Michaela Calvillo3, Francesca Fioredda3, Carlo Dufour3

1Ospedale dei Bambini “G. Di Cristina”, Palermo
2Ospedale “Meyer”, Firenze
3Istituto “G. Gaslini”, Genova

Febbraio 2012 - pagg. 102 -106

Abstract
Primary autoimmune neutropenia in children is a rather unknown but not an infrequent disease: it is probable that in his career a paediatric practitioner will deal at least with one patient and it is pretty sure that a hospital paediatrician will deal with more than one case. The disease induces anxiety in the family and in the child’s paediatrician: more than 2/3 of the patients experience neutrophils < 500/mm3 and the anxiety is related to possible serious infections. Luckily, childhood autoimmune neutropenia is almost ever a mild disease that will recover in a short time.
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