Anaemia

La B12 c'è ma non funziona

Vitale R.

2024/7 — pag. 468-470 — DOI

The paper reports the typical case and clinic of a defect in B12 metabolism. Such diseases, which are rare, mimic B12 intake or absorption deficits (crasis alterations, mixed neuropathy) but are distinguished first and foremost by the presence of nor...

Le parassitosi intestinali

Nuzzi G, Riboldi L, Pietravalle A, Putoto G.

2023/8 — pag. 527-530 — DOI

Parasitic infections are still a major public health problem in developing countries. The paper presents the case of an 18-month-old girl taken by her mother to the paediatrics department of St. Luke’s Hospital in Wolisso, Ethiopia for general malais...

Le parassitosi intestinali

Nuzzi G, Riboldi L, Pietravalle A, Putoto G

2023/8 — pag. 157-161 — DOI

Parasitic infections are still a major public health problem in developing countries. The paper presents the case of an 18-month-old girl taken by her mother to the paediatrics department of St. Luke’s Hospital in Wolisso, Ethiopia for general malais...

Il bambino con anemia severa: proposta di gestione diagnostico-terapeutica

Muratore E, Ruggi A, Abram N, Zanaroli A, Pierantoni L, Lanari M, Zama D.

2023/3 — pag. 159-168 — DOI

Anaemia is a common issue in the paediatric age group and it is not uncommon to encounter severe cases of anaemia in the Paediatric Emergency Unit. The correct identification of patients requiring urgent care is of central importance to provide timel...

Anemia severa, arresto di crescita... e dintorni

Tognato E, Fiorica L, Perona A, Loperfido B, Cimminelli L, Ceratto S, Enrico G, Felici E, Manzoni P

2021/9 — pag. 277-279 — DOI

Iron deficiency is the most commonly detected nutritional disorder in childhood and at the same time the most frequent cause of anaemia worldwide. In most cases it can go unnoticed, because it causes subtle symptoms and signs. Iron plays a key role i...

Un vaccino falcemico

Sambugaro D

2021/6 — pag. 394-394 — DOI

A case of a sickle cell crisis initially diagnosed as post vaccination arthritis is described. The author stresses the high specificity of acute dactylitis with respect to the diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia....

Non era una MICI

F. Graziano, R. Ganci, M. Di Pisa, et al.

2020/5 — pag. 319-320

The paper describes a case of colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC) in a twelwe-year-old girl, at first diagnosed as IBD. CRC represents 1-2% of paediatric cancers. Generally, it occurs after the age of 10 years of life. Symptoms of presentation include ab...

Un’emolisi ben mascherata

G. Del Borrello

2018/6

Chronic haemolytic anaemia is a pathophysiological process that can be the expression of many possible etiologies (e.g. a congenital defect of a membrane protein, immune-mediated destruction, enzymopathies, altered erythrocyte development). The paper...

Picacismo e carenza di ferro: una relazione problematica

S. Zanella, C. Borgna-Pignatti

2017/5 — pag. 291-294

Pica is the compulsive eating of non-nutritive substances and is often associated with iron deficiency but its pathophysiology is unknown. The paper is a review of the literature based on the search of online databases that was carried out using th...

Emorragia splenica post-traumatica in un adolescente: il ruolo della angio-embolizzazione

P. Gallo, C. Radice, M. Mainetti, C. Renzelli, D. Palmarini, F. Marchetti

2016/10

La nuova diagnostica delle anemie microcitiche

A. Iolascon, A. Gambale, C. Tortora, M. Bruno, L. De Falco

2013/9 — pag. 563-569

Microcytic anaemia is the most common form of anaemia, characterized by reduced MCV, often associated with hypochromia of red blood cells. Among the causes of microcytic anaemia, iron deficiency anaemia is the most common. The latest scientific dis...

Reticolociti: un parametro poco conosciuto e troppo poco utilizzato

U. Ramenghi, G. Ansaldi, M. Davitto, A. Mondino, C. Olivieri, R. Mazzone

2012/10 — pag. 649-651

The paper describes the usefulness of reticulocyte count in the diagnosis and management of anaemia. Reticulocytes are immature red cells that do not have the nucleus, but hold residual extranuclear RNA. In traditional morphologic examination, reti...