Children

Assistenza ventilatoria non invasiva: dalla teoria alla pratica

Grigoletto V, Cognigni M, Badina L, Ghirardo S, Maschio M, Mazzari L, Amaddeo A.

2024/8 — pag. 490-498 — DOI

Noninvasive respiratory assistance strategies are becoming part of everyday life for paediatricians, both in hospitals and territorial settings. In the acute condition, a timely and correct use of noninvasive respiratory support can improve the outco...

La gestione della piastrinopenia immune acuta in età pediatrica

Parodi E, Russo G. a nome del GdL AIEOP

2024/5 — pag. 313-316 — DOI

This report summarizes the most relevant issues of the document that the Working Group on Coagulation Disorders of the Italian Association of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (AIEOP) developed to gather shared expert opinions on the management of ...

L’insonnia nei disturbi del neurosviluppo: ADHD e ASD

Banditelli F, Pisanu L, Gagliano A

2024/1 — pag. 37-42 — DOI

The present work aims to summarize the recent advances in the field of clinical paediatric sleep medicine and to give tools for clinical assessment and treatment of paediatric insomnia in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, especially ASD and...

Sindrome da ipersensibilità dei recettori della tosse (SIRT): “la tosse che fa tosse”

Longo G.

2023/7 — pag. 427-436 — DOI

Dry cough usually accompanies the first few days of each “cold” (Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: URTI), but in some children, it always recurs with a particular intensity that “prevents sleep” and puts the whole family to the test. This cough is r...

Farmaci intranasali nel bambino: cosa devono sapere i pediatri

Nisticò D, Marchetti F, Badina L, Barbi E, Cozzi G.

2023/6 — pag. 381-389 — DOI

The use of the intranasal route of administration to deliver drugs in children has become more and more popular in the last decades. Seizure, severe acute pain and severe hypoglycaemia in diabetic patients may be managed with intranasal drugs. The in...

Disordini demielinizzanti nel bambino e nell’adolescente: ADEM, neurite ottica e MOGAD

Dal Bo S, Ruscelli M, Cenni P, Piscaglia MG, D’Eliseo D, Marchetti F.

2023/4 — pag. 231-236 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 4-year-old girl who presented with an episode of ADEM and, 8 years later, multiple relapses associated with optic neuritis. The patient resulted positive to anti-MOG antibodies. About a third of patients with an ADEM...

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...

Il dupilumab nell’esofagite eosinofila: una nuova frontiera?

Mainetti M, Troisi A, Turlà G, Fontijn S, Rametta G, Buzzi A, Mussetto A, Marchetti F.

2022/9 — pag. 583-587 — DOI

Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, immune-mediated or antigen-mediated oe-sophageal disease. Therapeutic first-line options currently available for EoE are elimina-tion diets, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and steroids. The ultimate goal o...

Mal di schiena: tre casi per tre malattie (infettive)

Troisi A, Mambelli L, Del Vecchio L, Altimari L, Mazzieri T, Dal Bo S, Minguzzi M, Marchetti F.

2022/8 — pag. 511-517 — DOI

Back pain is an uncommon paediatric symptom and often manifests non-specifically, especially in younger children. Behind this insidious symptom lie multiple causes, such as trauma, infectious and inflammatory forms and malignant causes. Especially in...

L’epistassi

Zago A, Grasso D, Barbi E.

2022/8 — pag. 499-504 — DOI

Epistaxis is a common condition in childhood. Anterior nosebleeds are most common, almost always self-limited and rarely life-threatening. Infective and allergic rhinitis, mucosal dryness, trauma, foreign body, rhinitis and digital manipulation can c...

Terapia farmacologica in urgenza

Squillaci D, Tumminelli C, Molina Ruiz I, Calligaris L, Poropat F, Barbi E, Amaddeo A, Cozzi G.

2022/7 — pag. 441-450 — DOI

Emergency cases are rare events in the paediatric emergency department. Nevertheless, paediatricians working at the emergency department should be able to provide the appropriate pharmacological intervention. This retrospective study, performed at th...

Il sintomo febbre: l’interpretazione e la corretta gestione

Altimari L, Troisi A, Marchetti F.

2022/4 — pag. 235-243 — DOI

In paediatric age, fever represents one of the main reasons for parental concern and the main cause of access to the emergency room. Against "fever phobia", it is essential that the paediatrician spends some time explaining to parents that fever is a...

La sincope in età pediatrica

Corona F, Tessitore A, Bobbo M, Barbi E, Cozzi G.

2022/4 — pag. 229-234 — DOI

Syncope is a loss of consciousness with or without prodromes characterized by fast onset, short duration and spontaneous recovery. It is a frequent cause of recourse to the consultation of a paediatrician. The most frequent cause of syncope in paedia...

Approccio pratico al bambino “sempre stanco”

Gortani G.

2022/3 — pag. 168-172 — DOI

Fatigue is a common, nonspecific symptom with many different aetiologies. The term “fatigue” can be used to describe muscular weakness, difficulty or inability to initiate activity (subjective sense of weakness), reduced capacity to maintain activity...

Cosa deve sapere il pediatra dei nevi melanocitari

Berti I.

2022/3 — pag. 179-182 — DOI

Melanocytic nevi are very common at any age. They can be congenital or acquired and are benign lesions in most cases. Melanoma is indeed very rare in children. Melanocytic nevi do not often require specialistic evaluation. Paediatricians should know ...

Bambini, adolescenti e tecnologie digitali

Bastone A, Ravaglia A, Borraccino A.

2022/3 — pag. 173-178 — DOI

The present work addresses the issue of the different risks associated with the exposure to digital technologies in the various stages of development, from childhood to adolescence. It further discusses the role and responsibilities of both families ...

La psicosi e i disturbi psicotici nei bambini e negli adolescenti

Gamberini G, Secci I, Vitiello B.

2022/2 — pag. 103-113 — DOI

Psychosis can present a variety of symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, catatonia, thought and speech disorganization, alogia, avolition and general functional decline. Transient psychotic symptoms are not uncommon during development and are n...

Quando la linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica è secondaria

Ventresca S, Fabbri E, Bracaglia C, Gasperini P, Filippini B, Libertucci F, Bigucci B, Pericoli R, Vergine G.

2022/2 — pag. 97-102 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 1-year-old Caucasian boy with a 1-month history of fever and splenomegaly. Laboratory findings showed pancytopenia, hypertriglyceridemia and hyperferritinemia. Secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis was suspec...

Long-Covid nel bambino e nell’adolescente: virus, salute mentale e pandemia

Cozzi G, Troisi A, Iacono A, Marchetti F.

2022/1 — pag. 21-25 — DOI

Long-Covid is a typical condition of adults with a history of probable or confirmed SARS-Cov-2 infection in the previous 3 months with symptoms that last over 2 months and are not explained by an alternative diagnosis. Studies in paediatric age are h...

Pericarditi acute e ricorrenti in Pediatria

Della Paolera S, Favaretto E, Bobbo M, Barbi E, Gortani G

2021/7 — pag. 425-431 — DOI

Chest pain in children and adolescents is rarely associated with an underlying heart disease. How-ever, when it does occur, pericarditis is the most common cause. Most cases are of unknown origin (idiopathic) and mild. Up to 15-35% of paediatric pati...

Gestione del Covid-19 in età pediatrica: documento di consenso

Gruppo di Lavoro su Covid-19 in Pediatria della Regione Emilia-Romagna (RE-CO-PED)

2021/2 — pag. 85-101 — DOI

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly spread, becoming the first pandemic of the 21st century by death toll. Children appear to be less affected than adults, with a milder clinical presentation and a significantly lower...

La trombosi venosa nel bambino

Parodi E, Del Borrello G, Portulano C, Saracco P, Ramenghi U

2021/2 — pag. 103-108 — DOI

Venous thrombosis is a complication that mostly occurs in the paediatric patient with multiple comorbidities. In these cases, it is relatively simple for the paediatrician to suspect the presence of a thrombosis. On the contrary, due to the rarity of...

La prima infezione urinaria febbrile in bambini di età compresa tra 2 mesi e 3 anni

Gruppo di lavoro sulle infezioni delle vie urinarie della Società Italiana di Nefrologia Pediatrica (SINePe)

2020/8 — pag. 495-504 — DOI

The aim was to update the recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the first febrile urinary tract infection in young children, which were first published in 2012 and endorsed by the Italian Society of Paediatric Nephrology. The ...

La diagnosi e la gestione del prolasso rettale

S. Ventresca, M. Bacchini, G. Graziani, F. Marchetti

2020/7 — pag. 453-457 — DOI

Rectal prolapse is an overall rare occurrence in children in the first 4 years of age. It typically tends to relapse. In the majority of cases it is not possible to highlight a single cause that determines prolapse, even if it is more frequent in chi...

Non era una colangite infettiva

M. Mainetti, F. Marchetti

2020/5 — pag. 317-318

A picture of the onset of “hepatocolangitis” especially if with dilatation of the biliary tract must necessarily make one think of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). The suspicion of PSC must always make one think of concomitant chronic inflammato...

Pandemia di Covid-19: motivazioni e indicazioni per l’apertura di spazi educativi per bambini

G. Tamburlini, F. Marchetti

2020/5 — pag. 301-304

In the context of measures to control the Covid-19 pandemia, risk factors related to reopening of the education system have been overemphasized whereas the risks for health education and social protection of children deriving from persistent closur...

Quando la sindrome di Guillain-Barré è più dolore che ipostenia

F. Marchetti, M. Roveran, F. Currò, M. Mainetti, C. Muratori, L. Casadio, P. Ricciardelli

2020/3 — pag. 179-182

The paper reports the case of a 4-year-old girl who had been suffering from progressive pain in her legs and back and impossibility of walking for 10 days. The presence of a slight hyposthenia but with absence of patellar reflexes was observed. The...

La vertigine in età pediatrica

M.V. Abate, A.M. Pusateri, G. Danesi, L. D’Antiga

2019/9 — pag. 567-571

Dizziness is a recurrent symptom in children that is often underestimated and incorrectly evaluated. The inability of affected children to explain the characteristics of the experienced symptoms may preclude the diagnosis making, especially in very y...

L’idrosadenite suppurativa nella popolazione pediatrica

B. Bossini, M. Mazzolai, A. Tommasini, S. Crovella, I. Berti, E. Barbi

2019/1 — pag. 28-32

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic and recurrent skin disease affecting apocrine gland-bearing regions. Typical lesions are nodules and abscesses that result in sinus tracts, fistulas and eventually scarring. Prepubertal onset of HS is quit...

Orticaria emorragica: eppur si muove

S. Della Paolera, M.C. Pellegrin, I. Berti, E. Barbi

2018/7 — pag. 441-444

Acute urticaria is a frequent benign disease in children and is often secondary to infections. Usually it is a self-limited histamine-dependent cutaneous condition marked by transient, erythematous, and pruritic wheals and frequently by acral angio...

Urgenze neurologiche in Pediatria: il caso della perdita acuta del visus

A. Suppiej

2018/1 — pag. 42-46

Acute loss of vision in children is a worrying sign for both patients and physicians. In the absence of obvious ophthalmological signs, the paediatrician is faced with the challenge of distinguishing a functional (non-organic) disorder from potenti...

Disturbo da sintomi somatici e disturbi correlati in età pediatrica

C. Lama, R. Faggioli, F. Marchetti

2018/1 — pag. 35-41

Background - Somatic symptom disorders (SSD) and related disorders are a frequent problem in paediatric age that can compromise the quality of life and cause a remarkable burden for the caregiver. Objectives - This study analysed the epidemiologic...

“Più matti che malati”: chi, quanti, cosa succede di loro

G. Morabito, G. Cozzi, C. Bertolini, S. Ghirardo, E. Barbi, A. Ventura

2018/1 — pag. 27-34

Functional and somatic disorders are common in childhood and can become long-lasting and disabling. This study showed a 6.9% prevalence of children with emotional distress and/or mental disorders among children admitted to a third level paediatric ...

Dolore e funzione: il ruolo del catastrofismo

E. Parisotto, G. Morabito, G. Cozzi, F. Fusco, D. Sambugaro, R. Cavallo, E. Barbi, A. Ventura

2018/1

La gestione condivisa ospedale-territorio del bambino con malattia drepanocitica

P. Samperi, R. Colombatti, E. Cannata, L. Sainati, G. Russo

2017/10 — pag. 629-635

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary autosomal disease of haemoglobin characterized by chronic haemolytic anaemia, vaso-occlusive painful crisis, organ damage and increased susceptibility to infections. In recent years, the number of patients with s...

Uso di antibiotici in Pediatria

S. Di Mario, C. Gagliotti, R. Buttazzi, L. Cisbani, A. Brambilla, M.L. Moro a nome del Comitato tecnico-scientifico regionale “Progetto ProBA 2014”*

2017/9 — pag. 578-583

Inappropriate antibiotic use in paediatric care is a main issue in Italy where prescription rates are among the highest in Europe and wide spectrum antibiotics (e.g. the association amoxicillin + clavulanic acid) are the most prescribed with an inc...

Appendicite acuta: intervento o terapia conservativa?

S. Pusceddu, V. Dell’Omo, F. Marchetti

2017/9

Algodistrofia: cosa deve sapere il pediatra

G. Ferrara, G. Zanella, G. Gortani, I. Bruno, S. Pastore, M. Carbone, A. Taddio, A. Ventura

2017/4 — pag. 237-242

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a debilitating pain condition characterized by continuous and severe pain that usually affects a limb. The syndrome is well-described in adults, but can also affect children and adolescents. Symptoms include...

Quando l’asma è “difficile”: il ruolo dell’omalizumab

G. Vieni, L. Biserna, F. Marchetti

2017/3 — pag. 177-181

The percentage of asthmatic children with severe asthma is low (< 5%). Children with severe asthma require treatment with high dose of inhaled steroids plus a second controller and/or systemic steroids to control symptoms. They can also remain unco...

Una rara causa di sindrome di Claude-Bernard-Horner

L. Garassino, I. Raffaldi, I. Tardivo, A.F. Urbino

2017/2

Claude-Bernard-Horner syndrome is a disorder of the oculosympathetic pathway. At the onset, the classic triad of signs and symptoms consists in eyelid ptosis, ipsilateral miosis and facial anhidrosis. In children, the etiologies of this syndrome coul...

Post-genomica della crescita e della pubertà

L. Greco, D. Cielo

2017/1 — pag. 31-37

In the last 50 years the surveillance of children’s growth was based upon the adoption of the graphs of percentiles of normal growth: there was no chance to explore the pattern of growth of the individual child, more than declaring his normality/ab...

Dexmedetomidina intranasale per sedazione procedurale

G. Cozzi, G. Morabito, G. Caddeo, S. Norbedo, N. Maximova, F. Poropat, F. Barbieri, D. Zanon, A. Maestro, L. Travan, S. Furlan, E. Barbi

2016/10 — pag. 641-645

Sedation outside the operating theatre for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children is more and more frequently performed. Most of the sedative drugs commonly used in this setting, such as midazolam, chloral hydrate and propofol, may induc...

L’appendicite acuta nei primi cinque anni di vita:una sfida per il pediatra

G. Campana, P. Marzuillo, C. Germani, S. Guarino, I. Rabach, E. Barbi

2016/4 — pag. 225-230

Acute appendicitis is one of the most frequent causes of abdominal surgery in paediatric ages, with the peak incidence in the second decade of life. Acute appendicitis in the first years of life is an uncommon but not so rare event. The clinical pr...

Approccio pratico al bambino con paralisi periferica del nervo faciale

G. Cozzi, E. Aru, A. Velkoski, A. Skabar, E. Barbi

2015/10 — pag. 639-643

Acute peripheral facial nerve palsy in children has an incidence of 20 new cases per 100,000 children/year. The diagnosis is essentially clinical. The etiology of the condition remains unknown in most cases. Useful blood tests are full blood count ...

Il bambino con infezione da micobatteri non tubercolari

M. Caironi, R. Badolato

2015/10 — pag. 634-638

Localized mycobacterial infections of cervical lymph nodes are frequently observed in normal children. These types of infections are sustained by environmental mycobacteria and can be treated by surgical therapy. On the contrary, disseminated mycob...

L’impianto cocleare in età pediatrica: attuali indicazioni

F. Di Lella, A. Bacciu, E. Pasanisi, M. Guida, F. Canzano, V. Vincenti

2015/10

Cochlear implant is a partially implantable electronic device designed to provide profoundly deafened patients with hearing sensitivity within the speech range. Over the years patient candidacy has been expanded and the criteria for implantation cont...

L’epistassi nel bambino

S. Lega, G. Ferrara

2015/9 — pag. 585-588

Epistaxis is very common in children and usually originates from small anastomotic vessels in the anterior septum as a consequence of local trauma. In most cases bleeding is self-limiting and can be easily managed with direct compression of the nas...

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2015/9

Lettura condivisa in famiglia e sviluppo del cervello nel bambino

G. Tamburlini

2015/8 — pag. 505-510

The article provides an overview of recent advances in the understanding of how and when the home reading environment influences brain development in the first years of life. Neural circuits that enable language and reading skills are based on a co...

Gli antibiotici fanno ingrassare?

V. Murgia

2015/7

Le nuove Linee Guida sulla bronchiolite

G. Cozzi, S. Pusceddu, L. Mambelli, E. Barbi, F. Marchetti

2015/6 — pag. 369-375

Bronchiolitis is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection and hospitalization in children less than 1 year old. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Italian Pediatric Society (SIP) have recently published new guidelines fo...

La linfopenia nel bambino

C. Dallavilla, R. Badolato

2015/4 — pag. 239-246

Isolated lymphopoenia is a common finding in children evaluation. Usually, lymphopoenia is observed in children with infectious or autoimmune diseases, with nutritional disorders or under treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. However, persistence...

L’insonnia in età evolutiva

O. Bruni, M. Angriman

2015/4 — pag. 224-233

The aim of the present work is to summarize recent advances in the field of clinical paediatric sleep medicine and to give tools for clinical assessment and treatment of paediatric insomnia. Bedtime problems and night awakenings are common cause of...

L’ecografia nella diagnostica delle fratture

S. Ghirardo, E. Neri, I. Rabach, G. Ventura, V. Guastalla, P. Guastalla, A. Ventura, E. Barbi

2015/1 — pag. 25-30

In the emergency room the current management of the patient with suspected fracture involves a physical examination of the damaged area, an examination by the specialist and the performance of radiographic projections depending on the clinical susp...

Visite domiciliari per mamme e bambini: razionale, evidenze, modelli e ipotesi di attuazione

G. Tamburlini

2014/8 — pag. 511-518

Home visiting for mothers and children have a great potential to improve health and developmental outcomes and to mitigate disparities, by acting early, working with families and being proactive in reaching out for all. There is substantial evidenc...

Una tumefazione sternale da osteomielite

M. Giovannini, F. Pugliese, L. Casadio, F. Marchetti

2014/4

Primary sternal osteomyelitis cases are rare. The etiological agents are those of osteomyelitis. In the case presented the hypothetical diagnosis was osteomyelitis caused by Kingella kingae, a pathogenic bacterium that is a frequent cause of osteomye...

Epatite A in età pediatrica in Piemonte

D. Lombardi, G. Acucella, L. Boscardini, P. Ferrero, A. Guala

2014/4

Background - Hepatitis A epidemiology in children (0-14 years) and the distribution of cases by nationality in Piedmont, a region of North Italy were analyzed. Aims - The aim of the present work was to raise awareness among paediatricians and...

La gestione del bambino con diabete di tipo 1

T. Suprani, V. Graziani, A. Cirillo, A. Biasini, F. Marchetti

2014/2 — pag. 87-95

The primary objective in type 1 diabetes management is the maintenance of good metabolic control in order to reduce the incidence of acute adverse events and long term complications. Recently, thanks to technological advances, use of new insulin an...

I test allergologici nella diagnosi di ipersensibilità all’amoxicillina nel bambino

F. Tubili, C. Angelucci, D. Butti, S. Barni, F. Mori, E. Novembre

2013/7 — pag. 446-452

Introduction - Adverse reactions to antibiotics, in particular to Amoxicillin, are frequently reported by parents but the allergologic work-up confirms a true state of drug hypersensitivity only in a small percentage of cases. Objective - The aim ...

L’appendicectomia senza cicatrice

S. Federici, S. Straziuso, L. De Biagi, M.D. Sabatino, V. Domenichelli

2013/6

Background - Acute appendicitis is a flogistic process that is often observed in the paediatric population. The reason could be found in the over activity of the lymphatic tissue against inflammatory agents. The experience of the Paediatric Surgery U...

Pancreatiti acute e ricorrenti in pediatria: chi, come e perché

F. Minen, A. De Cunto, S. Martelossi, A. Ventura

2013/5 — pag. 302-307

Background - Etiologies of acute pancreatitis in children are more variable than in adults and have different causes. Aims - The aims of this study were: 1) to assess the etiological factors of acute and recurrent pancreatitis in a paediatric popu...

L’ascesso retrofaringeo

A. Favret, C. Germani, G. Pelos, E. Benelli, M. Gregori, E. Barbi

2013/3 — pag. 159-166

Retropharyngeal abscess in children is a rare suppurative complication of upper respiratory infections. Clinical manifestations can be variable but the most common features are fever, neck pain, neck lymphoadenopathy, neck mass, torticollis, neck sti...

I corticosteroidi nelle malattie respiratorie: certezze e dubbi 60 anni dopo (Seconda parte)

F.M. de Benedictis, F. Franceschini, R. Budassi, A. Capolongo, C. Gobbi, A. Guerrieri, C. Migliori, A. Nobilini, C. Pasqualini

2012/10 — pag. 652-659

Corticosteroids are anti-inflammatory drugs which are used in many pulmonary conditions, either systemically or by inhalation. Corticosteroids have a proven beneficial role in asthma, croup, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and subglottic he...

Il trauma cranico minore in Pronto Soccorso

G. La Fauci, G. Pagano, A. Biasini, E. Valletta

2012/7 — pag. 436-441

Head trauma is one of the most common causes of access to paediatric emergency services and it is the leading cause of death and disability after the first year of life. However, the approach to minor head injury (MHI), which by definition should b...

La terapia antibiotica dell’appendicite nella popolazione pediatrica

F. Marchetti, M. Minute, E. Da Dalt, E. Biasotto, F. Rovere, D. Codrich (Comitato di scrittura)

2012/2 — pag. 111-116

Objective - To review evidence-based data regarding the use of antibiotics for the treatment of appendicitis in children. Methods - A literature search using “appendicitis” and “antibiotics” as key words and restricting target population to childr...

La neutropenia autoimmune primitiva del bambino

P. Farruggia, F. Tucci, M. Calvillo, F. Fioredda, C. Dufour

2012/2 — pag. 102-106

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 d...

Alimentazione complementare con un po’ di sale in zucca

C. Carletti, P. Pani, A. Cattaneo

2012/1 — pag. 35-37

While there is much evidence to support the beneficial effect of reducing sodium intake in adults to prevent hypertension and cardio and cerebro-vascular diseases, evidence for a relation between sodium intake and blood pressure levels in children is...

Uno, cento, mille diabeti - Parte seconda

G. Tornese, L. Rubert, G. Tonini, E. Faleschini

2011/10 — pag. 635-643

The term “diabetes mellitus” does not only refer to one disease, but to a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia. Besides these two main forms (type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus), there are a number of less known classif...

Lezioni dalla tubercolosi

F.M. De Benedictis, P. Osimani, A. Martino, L. Bardeggia, B. Fabrizzi, C. Piersimoni

2011/9 — pag. 573-580

Tuberculosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the last twenty years, changed social conditions due to immigration have largely modified the epidemiology of tuberculosis in western countries. Children with tuberculosis are m...

Uno, cento, mille diabetiDiabete mellito di tipo 1 e 2 - parte prima

G. Tornese, L. Rubert, G. Tonini, E. Faleschini

2011/6 — pag. 360-366

The term “diabetes mellitus” does not only refer to one disease, but to a group of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, action, or both. The vast majority of cases of diabetes falls in...

Il sintomo somatico di natura non organica

P. Costa, C. Zanus

2011/5 — pag. 296-300

Physical symptoms without evidence of somatic aetiology are common events in children and adolescents; sometimes they may be challenging for the paediatrician. The diagnosis usually comes when an organic pathology has been excluded and must be rein...

Il pediatra e i disturbi gastrointestinali funzionali

G. Primavera, G. Magazzù

2011/5 — pag. 289-295

Even though functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) are often considered an example of disease mongering, their reported prevalence and costs prompt to take into consideration the most cost-effective approach that can be applied to primary car...

Trattamento antibiotico di osteomielite, artrite settica e piomiosite

F. Marchetti, E. Rizzello, F. Poropat, F. Rovere, C. Germani, G. Messi, S. Demarini, M. Carbone, S. Furlan, P. Tamaro, M. Busetti, A. Ventura

2010/9 — pag. 585-589

Evidence for the choice or duration of antibiotic treatment for bone, joint infections and pyomyositis is scarce and no randomised trials (RCT) have been done in children and adolescents. The recommendations contained in this work come from the aud...

Tre problemi oculari da ben gestire nel prossimo decennio

P. Nucci

2010/8 — pag. 515-518

The aim of this article is to focus on three common and controversial ophthalmological problems paediatricians face nowadays: myopia, with all the relevant clinical aspects and the proposed treatments; vernal conjunctivitis, stressing the pathogene...

Uso del ceftriaxone in italia: inappropriato e non esente da rischi

F. Marchetti

2010/5 — pag. 315-316

In Italy, data concerning the utilization of ceftriaxone in adults and children increased by about 75% from 2001 to 2008. Moreover, a significant variability in its utilization can be observed in the Italian regions, indeed it is more frequently us...

La Convenzione sui Diritti del Bambino e la sua applicazione in ItaliaDisuguaglianze su base regionale in Italia

G. Cirillo

2010/4 — pag. 223-232

The second update Report on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Adolescent analyses the differences across geographical regions with respect to some important health determinants and outcomes in Italy. The Report highlights the marked...

Le complicanze della varicella come causa di ospedalizzazione: studio retrospettivo di 27 anni

M.V. Abate, C. Zanchi, E. Barbi, A. Ventura

2010/3

Noduli tiroidei e agobiopsia con ago sottile in età pediatrica: uno sguardo alla letteratura

S. Spagnolo, M. Barreca, D. Tarantino, B. Vonella, L. Fuiano, M. Baserga

2010/1

Valutazione della capacità visiva per identificare i difetti ambliogenici

M. Angi, V. Murgia

2009/9 — pag. 573-578

The early diagnosis and treatment of visual significant refractive errors in children are widely accepted to reduce lifelong vision loss caused by amblyopia. Children should be examined routinely by pediatricians in search of amblyogenic factors an...

Lo stroke in età pediatrica

E. Franzoni, G.G. Salerno, V. Valenti, C. Garone, I. Cecconi, D.M. Cordelli, V. Marchiani

2009/9 — pag. 566-571

According to the definition given by WHO, stroke is a clinical syndrome characterized by rapid appearance of a focal neurologic deficit lasting more than 24 hours and determined by arterial or venous occlusion or rupture. The incidence of stroke is...

Utilizzo delle immunoglobuline endovenose nella pratica clinica in pediatria

G. Ventura, M. Rabusin, E. Spinelli, R. Badolato

2009/6 — pag. 371-381

Intravenous immunoglobuline is a blood product prepared from the serum of between 1,000 and 15,000 donors per batch. It is the treatment indicated for patients with antibody deficiencies and it is used in replacement doses of 200-400 mg/kg. In cont...

Indicazioni per l’utilizzo razionale dei farmaci antiacidi (anti-H2 e IPP)

F. Marchetti

2009/4 — pag. 250-254

In Italy proton pump inhibitors PPI are, certainly, too often prescribed just to prevent gastric bleedings caused by NSAIDs or steroids; besides, other drugs are prescribed to relieve symptoms or to make a diagnosis ex-juvantibus in patients with sus...

Malattie infiammatorie croniche intestinali: epidemiologia e presentazione clinica

M. Bramuzzo, M. Londero, G. Cont, S. Martelossi, M. Lazzerini

2009/4 — pag. 232-237

Background: Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are an increasing cause of morbidity in paediatric age both in the western countries and in the developing ones and, due to frequent aspecificity of their symptoms, are often diagnosed with a cert...

Il Quiz di Marzo

D. Radzik

2009/3

Il trattamento delle ostruzioni congenite delle vie lacrimali

C. Fiore, C. Peruzzi, A.L. Ricci, P.S. Menduno, B. Iaccheri

2009/3 — pag. 169-171

Aims: Evaluating the timing of probing in children with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Methods: We evaluated the success rate related to the age of children at the time of probing in a retrospective study of 335 children aged 3 months to...

Linee guida sulla diagnosi e il trattamento del bambino con bassa statura idiopatica

F. Chiarelli, R. Salomone

2008/10 — pag. 626-633

ISS is defined auxologically by a height below -2 SDS without findings of disease after a complete evaluation by a pediatric endocrinologist (including bone age X-ray, thyroid function, karyotype for girls, and measurements of IGF-I and stimulated gr...

La faringotonsillite e l’otite media acuta in età pediatrica. La guida rapida sviluppata dalla Regione Emilia-Romagna

S. Di Mario, C. Gagliotti, M. Asciano, ML. Moro per il comitato tecnico-scientifico regionale dei pediatri

2008/1 — pag. 38-42

The regional ProBA project conducted in Emilia-Romagna aims at assessing the determinants of antibiotic prescriptions in children and at promoting appropriate use of antibiotic for upper respiratory infections. During the first phase of the ProBA p...

Una zoppia di difficile inquadramento diagnostico

F. De Maddi, R. De Ritis, F. Di Pietto, P. Siani

2007/10

La splenomegalia

M. Rabusin, F. Patarino

2007/8 — pag. 493-499

The spleen in infants and children is involved in a wide variety of pathological conditions. Splenic disorders may be isolated like splenic cysts or, more frequently, due to multiorgan or systemic disease including hepatic diseases, malignancy, hemo...

L'esofagite eosinofila

J. Bua, F. Marchetti, I. Giuseppin, M. Marani, V. Villanacci, E. Barbi, S. Martelossi, A. Ventura

2007/8 — pag. 500-508

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) is the leading cause of dysphagia in children. Long underestimated in the past, it is nowadays reported with increasing frequency both in paediatric and adult gastroenterology. However, its natural history, its pathoge...

Segnalazioni di reazioni avverse a PERIDON supposte nei bambini Ritirato dal commercio medicinale SilomatL'AIFA assicura la disponibilità del medicinale Zarotin® per i pazienti epiletticiProfilassi antibiotica nelle infezioni urinarie: proprio inutile!Pubblicate Linee Guida Agenzia Sanitaria regione Emilia-Romagna su faringotonsillite e otite medi acutaL'esposizione ad endotossine riduce il rischio di sviluppare allergieScoperta una citochina che può curare la Osteopetrosi infantileI bambini a 4 mesi distinguono le lingueSicko: ammalati e delusi del sistema americano

a cura Irene Bruno

2007/7

Gli Steroidi Inalatori, anche se iniziati nei primi anni di vita,non modificano la storia naturale dell'asma bronchiale

D. Radzik

2006/10

Cosa sono diventati i bambiniriflessioni sui percorsi psico-evolutivi dei figli di genitori separati e dei bambini adottati

E. Confalonieri

2006/9 — pag. 580-584

Children who have been adopted or have divorced parents may encounter psychological, social and educational problems. Through a detailed review of the literature, we describe risk and protective factors which may affect children’s future life and psy...

È ragionevole trattare il dolore addominale acuto con i farmaci analgesici?

D. Radzik, C. Zaramella

2006/8 — pag. 519-524

Background Many paediatricians and surgeons are reluctant to use analgesics in children with acute abdominal pain for the fear of masking symptoms and delaying a possible diagnosis of appendicitis. Over the past few years this traditional belief has ...

Intolleranze e allergie alimentari nella prima infanzia

O. Frongia, Ar. Bellomo, G. Di Giorgio, et al.

2005/8 — pag. 533-538

The data presented in this article were obtained as part of a larger study on vaccination coverage and child health behaviours known as ICONA 2003. All regions and autonomous provinces of Italy participated in the study. The study population was re...

Le priorità associate all’uso dei farmaci “off-label”

F. Marchetti, J. Bua, S. Demarini, et al.

2005/8 — pag. 527-531

Two thirds of the drugs prescribed for children are off-label. However, off-label is not synonymous with incorrect, since it often represents the most rational, evidence-based therapy. Existing data on the use of off-label in children are based on ...

L’obesità in età pediatrica

F. Chiarelli, R. Capanna

2005/8 — pag. 513-525

In March 2004 a group of 65 physicians and other health professionals representing nine countries on four continents convened in Israel to discuss the widespread public health crisis in childhood obesity. The conference addressed topics ranging fro...

La prescrizione di farmaci soggetti a nota nella popolazione pediatrica italiana.

S. Maschi, A. Clavenna, E. Rossi, A. Berti, M. De Rosa, M. Bonati

2005/7

Salute orale in età pediatrica: studio della prevalenza di carie in provincia di Milano

M. Vezzoni, R. Lucchini, L. Acerbi, A. Calaciura, C. Morelli, L. Fantini, A. Senna, L. Strohmenger

2005/4

Le ragioni per l’adozione dell’ICF in età evolutiva

L. Barruffo, G. Greco, A. Pisacane, C. Sorella

2005/2 — pag. 104-110

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has been adopted by the World Health Organization in 2000, to improve the International Classification of Disease (ICD). ICF provides an accurate assessment of what a pers...

Sedazioni Profonde e ripetute in emato-oncologia:vissuto dei bambini affetti da leucemia e delle loro famiglie

L. Bana, I. Bruno, T. Geraraduzzi, E. Biasotto, I. Giuseppin, I. Berti, G. Zanazzo, M. Rabusin, R. Vecchi, E. Barbi, A. Sarti, P. Tamaro, A. Ventura.

2004/11

Meningite batterica nei bambini2° parte

G. Bartolozzi

2004/9

I disturbi somatoformi

R. Aliverti

2004/6 — pag. 373-381

Our current understanding of somatoform disorders and their consequences is limited. The article defines the concept of paediatric and adolescent somatoform disorder and presents a model for case management based on the collaboration between mental...

La sindrome dello stretto toracico nel bambino e nell’adolescente

G. Vercellio et al.

2004/2 — pag. 95-99

TOS is considered a relatively rare clinical condition. In most of cases TOS affects young men and women in their third - fourth decade of life, without any sex prevalence. In children and adolescents it is currently considered an exceptional findi...

Anafilassi da allergia alle proteine del latte vaccino: clinica, storia naturale, challenge e desensibilizzazione orale

G. Longo, E. Barbi, et al.

2004/1 — pag. 20-29

Food allergy represents a major problem for children and the first cause of anaphylaxis in pediatric age. Cow milk and egg are the main offending in Europe both for allergy and anaphylaxis. Limited evidence from the literature suggests that protrac...

I bisogni inevasi dei bambini con disabilità e delle loro famiglie

F. Marchetti

2001/3 — pag. 155-166

In 1992 a new law established policies and interventions to improve the care of disabled people. The implementation of the law was hampered by the scarcity of resources, the excess of discretionary role attributed to local authorities, burocracy an...

Le infezioni respiratorie acute in pediatria: uno studio prospettico

L. Cantarutti, M. Sturkenboom, A. Born, R. Bussi, S. Cozzani, S. Del Torso, G. Giancola, S. Girotto, G. Grillone , M. Katende, V. Murgia, A. Pasinato, A. Passarella, B. Ruffato, L. Saretta, F. Semenzato, W. Spanavello, G. Toffol, M. Soncin, B. Costa£, M. Bettio , S. Mannino, C. Giaquinto

2001/2

Il bambino e l’HIV

M. De Martino, A. Guarino Amato, L. Galli, A. Vierucci

2000/2 — pag. 101-105

Drug therapy during pregnancy has dramatically reduced the vertical tramission of HIV infection. Moreover, the life expectancy of the infected newborn is now significantly longer than in the past because of the more aggressive therapeutic approach....