hemolytic anemia

Sferocitosi: una famiglia... tre malattie!

Ferrara D, Giordano C, Borsellino Z, Cuccia L, Ruffo GB, Corsello G.

2024/1 — pag. 54-57 — DOI

The paper describes the cases of three siblings affected by Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS). The different clinical presentations in the same family are examples of the heterogeneity of this pathology. HS is a common inherited type of haemolytic anaemi...

Sferocitosi: una famiglia... tre malattie!

Ferrara D, Giordano C, Borsellino Z, Cuccia L, Ruffo GB, Corsello G

2024/1 — pag. 5-8 — DOI

The paper describes the cases of three siblings affected by Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS). The different clinical presentations in the same family are examples of the heterogeneity of this pathology. HS is a common inherited type of haemolytic anaemi...

Il gioco delle parti: bronchiolite e drepanocitosi

Izzo BPE, Radice C, Pelliccia V, Graziani V, Marchetti F

2023/9 — pag. 200-200 — DOI

The case of a 2-month-old Senegalese infant with severe anaemia and RSV-related bronchiolitis is described. The Authors stress the role of common infections in leading to the diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia....

Un bambino che ha messo la sesta

Bagni M

2023/7 — pag. 130-131 — DOI

The case of a 3-month-old infant presenting with fever, rash and hyporeactivity is described. A diagnosis of left parapharyngeal abscess as one of the complications of HHV-6 infection was finally made....

Diarrea emorragica: a volte i nodi vengono al pettine tardi

De Crescenzo S, La Scola C, Pillon R, Pasini A, Lami F, Pession A

2023/4 — pag. 72-72 — DOI

The case of a two-year-old girl finally diagnosed with haemolytic uremic syndrome is described....

Un’anemia che toglie il fiato

Giannone V, Garrone E, Tardivo I, Versace A, Castagno E, Conrieri M

2021/7 — pag. 218-219 — DOI

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is commonly associated not only with atypical pneumonia, but also with different clinical features. The paper reports the case of a 10-year-old girl with pneumonia, fictitious anaemia, due to the presence of cryo-agglutinins, an...

Un’anemia emolitica da sferocitosi ereditaria

Ursi D, Valentino MS

2021/3 — pag. 193-195 — DOI

A case of haemolytic anaemia due to spherocytosis in a 3-month-old infant is reported. It is important to remember that post-transfusion blood tests are not reliable and must be repeated 3 months after the transfusion. The erythrocyte osmotic resista...

Myasthenia gravis giovanile generalizzata

L. Di Genova, A. Paglino

2019/2 — pag. 27-29

Due casi di favismo: dalla diagnosi alla gestione

C. Guiducci, A. Fumarola, S. Pusceddu, C. Radice, F. Marchetti

2018/6 — pag. 379-383

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD) is the most common red blood cells enzymopathy that affects 400 million people worldwide and is especially prevalent in areas of high malaria infection. G6PD deficiency has an X-linked recessive m...

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...

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...

Il gene del G6PD, le varianti cliniche e... la minestrina della nonna

M.L. Tortorella, F. Colonna, L. Fanti

2016/8 — pag. 526-528

Un colpo d’occhio… siculo

M.C. Lia, I. Giuseppin, A. Tonetto, P.G. Flora

2015/7

Quando la sferocitosi incontra il chirurgo

C. Bibalo

2015/6 — pag. 391-392

Summary Hereditary spherocytosis is a common inherited disorder that is characterized by anaemia, jaundice and splenomegaly. It is reported worldwide and is the most common inherited anaemia in individuals of northern European ancestry. Clinical ...

Un’anemia da sfera di cristallo

V. Dal Cengio, M. Bellettato

2013/7

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...

Cinquant’anni di talassemia, a Ferrara

F. Panizon

2011/10 — pag. 644-645

Grattacapi… da zecca Una vita senza sorriso Storie di adolescenti

2011/2 — pag. 119-121

Una banale gastroenterite?

A. Paladini, S. Ciccone, C. Farneti

2010/10

Una milza enorme...

Mario Furbetta, Stefanie Rempp

2007/4 — pag. 255-256

Un caso di malaria da Plasmodium Falciparum

S. Vaccher, F. Patarino, M. Lazzerini, E. Barbi

2005/5

Due fratelli e un’anemia

C. Rossetti, V. Mattei, L. Sebastiani

2002/6 — pag. 389-390

Una caso di mielodisplasia... da parvovirus!

E. Barth, G.A. Zanazzo, M. Rabusin, P. Tamaro

2002/1

Quando l’epatite e l’anemia si alternano

C. Benucci, C. Trapani, F. Mannelli, I. Sforzi, M. Resti

2001/4 — pag. 255-256

Le β-talassemie

1999/8

La carenza di ferro Parte I: Epidemiologia e fisiopatologia

C. Vullo

1998/5 — pag. 293-298

A comprehensive review of iron deficiency is presented. Current knowledge on physiology of iron metabolism is reviewed and on this basis the particular features of iron control in the neonatal period and of iron absorption are described. Pathoph...

La figlia del professore

C. Apicella

1997/9 — pag. 589-590