emorragia gastrointestinale

Un bersaglio quando meno te lo aspetti: la sindrome di Peutz-Jeghers

Neirotti A, Rossi L, Parola F, Scarcia S, Brach del Prever AM

2024/1 — pag. 1-4 — DOI

Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome is a genetic condition that puts affected patients at risk of oncological degeneration and gastrointestinal complications. In most cases, abdominal pain is the acute symptom that leads the patient to the emergency room. This ma...

Un Meckel fantasma

Malni I

2023/1 — pag. 11-12 — DOI

The case of a 3-year-old child with acute abdomen due to the perforation of a Meckel’s diverticulum is presented. At the first surgical exploration the diagnosis was misunderstood because of the anomalous positioning in the mesenteric side of the div...

Un diverticolo (dav)vero sanguinante

Tessitore A

2022/8 — pag. 174-175 — DOI

Meckel diverticulum has been suspected and then diagnosed at laparoscopic exploration of the abdomen in a severely anaemic 16-month-old child with acute intestinal bleeding. The surgical indication of all unexplained intestinal bleedings is discussed...

Una ematemesi fatale

Amoroso A, Di Stasio F, Locatelli L, D’Antiga L

2022/4 — pag. 81-85 — DOI

Disk battery ingestions in children are increasing worldwide. This condition may cause severe complications, especially if the battery is lodged in the oesophagus. The most dangerous complication with the highest mortality rate is aorto-oesophageal f...

Un mal di pancia capriccioso

C. Corrado

2020/6 — pag. 141-141 — DOI

Una ragazza con ascite e diarrea con sangue: quale diagnosi?

F. Marchetti, M. Mainetti, M. Giovannini, C. Morelli

2017/8 — pag. 519-522

Calprotectina elevata e polipi intestinali: quale relazione?

M. Mainetti, A. Zucchini, G. Turlà, A. Buzzi, F. Marchetti

2017/4 — pag. 256-258

n clinical paediatric practice faecal calprotectin, a protein derived from white blood cells, is a reliable, non-invasive and easy-to-perform marker, with a high positive predictive power to identify intestinal inflammation. It is very useful for the...

Anemia sideropenica: a ragionarci sopra è sempre facile

F. Marchetti, M. Mainetti, L. Mambelli, F. Italiano, V. Domenichelli, S. Federici

2015/4 — pag. 247-251

The paper describes the case of a 14-year-old girl who presented with relapsing chronic anaemia without initial evidence of gastrointestinal bleeding after performing EGDS, colonoscopy, scintigraphy with technetium and marked red blood cell, and en...

Dalla pelle all’intestino: le diagnosi differenziali di una sindrome rara

E. Benelli, C. Pierobon, A. Taddio, M. Maschio, I. Berti, S. Martelossi, A. Ventura, M. Carbone

2013/3 — pag. 167-172

The paper describes a child with chronic sideropenic anemia, who from birth presented a venous lesion of the ankle, which relapsed after surgery removal, and multiple small blue skin lesions. Through the description of the case the differential diagn...

L'importante è crederci!

E. Benelli

2012/7

Una bambina con sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto: utilità e limiti della videocapsula endoscopica

A. Montemaggi, J. Barp, C. Bonaccini, C. Fancelli, M. Milla, P. Lionetti

2012/2

Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract due to persistence of the congenital vitello-intestinal duct. Bleeding from Meckel's diverticulum due to ectopic gastric mucosa is the most common clinical...

ADR (reazione avversa ai farmaci) da ibuprofene: descrizione di un caso

N. Sardi, P. Fusco, S. Fungi, A. D’Amato, L. Besenzon

2010/10

We report a case of a 7-year-old girl developing an haemorragic duodenitis as a consequence of the administration of a single standard dose of ibuprofen for the symptomatic treatment of an upper respiratory tract infection. The aim of the case report...

Il sanguinamento gastrointestinale

C. Romano

2004/2 — pag. 86-93

Among the paediatric emergencies, gastroenterologic conditions have a prominent role. The most frequent are acute abdominal pain, intractable vomiting, foreign body ingestion, caustic ingestion and gastrointestinal bleeding, this last being the one...