Chromosomes, Mammalian

Fidarsi o non fidarsi del test prenatale non invasivo. Riflessioni a partire da un caso di falso negativo

Neirotti A, Bombaci S, Rubino C

2024/9 — pag. 183-186 — DOI

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a screening for foetal chromosomal abnormalities that identifies at-risk pregnancies and is used to propose a possible invasive genetic confirmation testing in case of its positive results. For Down syndrome (t...

La sindrome di Silver-Russel

Prada E, Scupilliti S, Selicorni A.

2024/8 — pag. 515-517 — DOI

Quando il disturbo del neurosviluppo ha un substrato genetico: un caso di sindrome di Kleefstra

Sorasio L, Franceschi L, Pavinato L, Peduto A

2021/4 — pag. 114-117 — DOI

Neurodevelopmental disorders (ND) have an important prevalence in children; intellectual disability in particular occurs in a heterogeneous group of genetic conditions. The evolution of molecular cytogenetic techniques and the recent advances in exom...

Le “basi” (genetiche) dell’obesità

F. Angrisani, M.R. Arienzo

2019/9 — pag. 230-230

La sindrome di Beckwith-Wiedemann

A. De Paoli, A. Di Francesco, A. Selicorni

2019/8 — pag. 509-517

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome is a multisystemic disease mostly caused by genomic imprinting pattern anomalies of the 11p15.5 region. BWS is characterised by a very wide clinical spectrum starting from the more classical form (overgrowth, macroglossia,...

La sindrome del “Cri du chat”: qualche novità per una “vecchia” sindrome

M. Spunton, M.E. Liverani, P. Cerruti Mainardi, S. Cavani, M. Malacarne, C. Baldo, M. Pierluigi, A. Guala

2015/5 — pag. 306-312

“Cri du chat” syndrome (CdC, OMIM 123450) is classified among the rare diseases. It was described for the first time in 1963 and it is due to a deletion in the short arm of chromosome 5 (in about 90% of cases as a result of a sporadic “de novo” del...

Ipoglicemia neonatale, emipertrofia e macroglossia: quale diagnosi?

V. Graziani, M. Mainetti, A. Zucchini, M. Poli, A. Sensi, S. Russo, F. Marchetti

2015/1 — pag. 44-49

The paper describes the case of an infant with neonatal hypoglycaemia, hemihyperplasia, and macroglossia and the diagnostic process that leads to the confirmation of Beckwith- Wiedemann syndrome (BWS). BWS is an overgrowth disorder caused by epimut...

Alopecia bitemporale e strie di iperpigmentazione in lattante con ritardo psicomotorio

G. Ciana, M.C. Fertz, C. Sanesi, S. Demarini, V. Petix, V. Pecile

2009/3 — pag. 189-190

The careful classification of a psychomotor delay in an infant is often a difficult task for paediatricians. Many hospital admissions for clinical, instrumental and laboratory investigations, are often needed, even though an exact diagnosis is no...

Alopecia bitemporale e strie di iperpigmentazione in lattante con ritardo psicomotorio

G. Ciana, M.C. Fertz, C. Sanesi, S. Demarini, V. Petix, V. Pecile

2009/3

Un Duchenne astenico

D. Sambugaro

2003/8 — pag. 532-534