Recurrent infections

Buona crescita, cattiva immunità

Grasso AG

2021/8 — pag. 257-257 — DOI

The author presents a case of common variable immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase 1 deficiency diagnosed in a 3-year-old girl with recurrent pneumonia slowly respondent to the antibiotic therapy....

Il deficit di IgA

C. Guiducci, F. Marchetti

2020/6 — pag. 365-369

IgA deficiency (D-IgA) in the paediatric population is often an occasional finding during tests performed for other reasons in children in whom an immunodeficiency disorder is not suspected. D-IgA is the most common primary immunodeficiency with a va...

Il bambino delicato

J. Apley

2018/1 — pag. 11

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...

Immunodeficienze primitive: istruzioni per l’uso

A. Pirrone, A. Tommasini

2010/10 — pag. 629-635

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are a wide group of rare disorders. In spite of the set up of warning criteria, a practical approach for suspect and diagnosis is still difficult. Based on few exemplar clinical cases and on the review of ou...

Infezioni ricorrenti nel lattante: spia di un problema più complesso?

C. Calitri, F. Mignone, C. Bertaina, C. Gabiano, C. Scolfaro

2010/10

An 11-month-old girl was referred to our Paediatric Department for immunological evaluation. She has had history of recurrent infections since birth. During different hospital admissions, blood tests revealed persistent microcytic anemia, liver funct...

Maturazione del sistema immunitario e difetti congeniti

A. De Palma, S. Borgonovo, S. Beretta, D. Frasca, L. Re Ferrè, F. Simone

2004/10

Il famciclovir nella cura dell'herpes genitalis ?

G. Bartolozzi

1999/4

Malattia granulomatosa cronica: una diagnosi che può sfuggire

C. Pignata, L. Balducci, M. Bardare e coll.

1998/3 — pag. 155-160

This is a comprehensive review article aimed at providing to paediatricians the basic knowledge on CGD and at improving the quality of care of patients affected by this rare disorder of cellular immune response. Since early diagnosis is very imp...