Microcytic anemia

Una diagnosi di malattia di Hirschprung a 14 anni

Trombetta A

2025/10 — pag. 269-270 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 14-year-old boy with severe microcytic anaemia and lifelong constipation, with imaging showing massive faecal impaction and rectosigmoid dilatation. Poor response to transfusion and iron therapy, together with marked ...

Ntuj: scompenso e “colore” Marco: scompenso e “calore”

2025/3 — pag. 153-158 — DOI

Dysgermi... Bomb

Lauriola RS, Terranova CM, Dell'Acqua F

2025/3 — pag. 56-58 — DOI

An otherwise healthy 16-year-old girl was brought to the emergency department due to persistent fatigue and microcytic anaemia. Upon physical examination in the emergency department, a palpable abdominal mass of firm consistency was found. For this r...

Quando l'anemia blocca le gambe

Bellotto A, Gagliardo di Carpinello B, Radice C, Addeo AM, Mambelli L, Marchetti F

2024/9 — pag. 191-192 — DOI

A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized for dehydration due to gastroenteritis. She presented with a severe microcytic anaemia (Hb 6.2 g/dl) linked to an exclusive breastfeeding diet. Attempts at introducing solid foods had failed. Despite improvement i...

Anemia: sintomo o malattia?

Pentimalli E.

2024/1 — pag. 50-53 — DOI

The author describes an intriguing case finally diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in a 20-month-old boy presenting with severe anaemia....

Artrite che si sposta, nell'ecocardio la risposta

Ballarò G.

2024/1 — pag. 50-53 — DOI

The case of a Swiss boy presenting with migrant arthritis and finally diagnosed with rheumatic fever is described....

Un’insolita associazione: iperferritinemia e cataratta

Guardo C, Esposto MP, Chinello M, Cesaro S

2023/10 — pag. 217-218 — DOI

A 3-year-old boy presented with microcytic anaemia and hyperferritinaemia, in the absence of signs of iron overload. Once the main gastroenterological, rheumatological, haematological and infectious causes had been ruled out, despite the absence of s...

Le parassitosi intestinali

Nuzzi G, Riboldi L, Pietravalle A, Putoto G.

2023/8 — pag. 527-530 — DOI

Parasitic infections are still a major public health problem in developing countries. The paper presents the case of an 18-month-old girl taken by her mother to the paediatrics department of St. Luke’s Hospital in Wolisso, Ethiopia for general malais...

Le parassitosi intestinali

Nuzzi G, Riboldi L, Pietravalle A, Putoto G

2023/8 — pag. 157-161 — DOI

Parasitic infections are still a major public health problem in developing countries. The paper presents the case of an 18-month-old girl taken by her mother to the paediatrics department of St. Luke’s Hospital in Wolisso, Ethiopia for general malais...

Un’anemia cronica che nasconde una vasculite

Cernich M, Baggio L, Guarnieri M

2022/8 — pag. 171-171 — DOI

The case of a 14-year-old anaemic girl with paraesthesia finally diagnosed with Takayasu arteritis is presented and discussed....

L’ipogammaglobulinemia che aiuta a spiegare una anemia microcitica di difficile interpretazione

Catania MA, Trizzino A, Mosa C, Trizzino A, Regina I, Ferrari S, D’Angelo P

2022/7 — pag. 152-152 — DOI

The case of a 3-month-year old child presenting with microcytic anaemia is described. He subsequently developed viral encephalitis. The presence of hypogammaglobulinemia and of a mutation in TRNT1 gene at the genome analysis (NSC) led to the diagnosi...

Una “crisi” celiaca

Lenhardt A, Salierno P, Calipa MT, Milocco C, Saletta S, Giglia D, Petaros P, Pascolo P, Dragovic D

2021/8 — pag. 254-255 — DOI

The authors present the case of a 3-year-old child with severe diarrhoea, hypoalbuminaemia, hypogammaglobulinaemia and anaemia eventually diagnosed as coeliac. The clinical features of the so-called coeliac crisis are discussed....

Infiammazione cronica e arterite di Takayasu

M. Cernich, L. Baggio, M. Guarnieri

2020/1 — pag. 23-23

Calprotectina fecale: a volte basta e avanza

S. Carbogno

2019/7 — pag. 155-155

Cerchi una celiachia, trovi... una leucemia

S. Molinari

2018/6

Sbarchi

A. Filpo

2018/6

Febbre persistente, dolore toracico e artrite di Takayasu

B. Filippini, B. Bigucci, F. Mascella, M. Gattorno, G. Vergine

2018/5 — pag. 331-334

Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an extremely rare vasculitis that presents in paediatric age that typically affects adolescents. Clinical manifestations of TA are polymorph and in the fists stage of the disease systemic aspecific symptoms such as fev...

Febbre persistente, dolore toracico e arterite di Takayasu

B. Filippini, B. Bigucci, F. Mascella, M. Gattorno, G. Vergine

2018/5

Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an extremely rare vasculitis that presents in paediatric age that typically affects adolescents. Clinical manifestations of TA are polymorph and in the fists stage of the disease systemic aspecific symptoms such as fever,...

Due storie di malaria: c’è sempre da imparare

M.T. Bartolini, C. Ghizzi

2017/8

Anemia microcitica familiare Celiachia e difetto di IgA Cortisone e PFAPA

2017/6 — pag. 397

Dimmi cosa mangi... e ti dirò cos’hai

T. Bonasia, V. Murri

2017/5 — pag. 323-324

Dimmi cosa mangi… e ti dirò cos’hai

T. Bonasia, V. Murri

2017/5

Due bambini senza ferro

C. Landini, A. Campanile, R. Francavilla, P. Alvisi

2016/10 — pag. 660

La zoppia di Amita

B. Salvatore

2016/2 — pag. 120-122

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...

La mia Africa

M. Bellettato

2014/5

La nuova diagnostica delle anemie microcitiche

A. Iolascon, A. Gambale, C. Tortora, M. Bruno, L. De Falco

2013/9 — pag. 563-569

Microcytic anaemia is the most common form of anaemia, characterized by reduced MCV, often associated with hypochromia of red blood cells. Among the causes of microcytic anaemia, iron deficiency anaemia is the most common. The latest scientific dis...

Quando il dolore osseo viene… dal sangue

L. Mambelli, L. Marangio, L. Pini, I.A. Venturi, M. Poli, O. Donzelli, F. Marchetti

2012/10

The paper describes the case of an 8-year-old Moroccan girl who presented with recurrent multi-focal bone pains associated with negative flogosis indexes and standard radiological exams. The magnetic resonance exam of her thighbones showed a multi-fo...

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...

Sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto in una ragazza di 14 anni. Diagnosi di linfagioma cavernoso dell\'intestino tenue con videocapsula endoscopica

S. Bevilacqua, M. Mainetti, M. Vestri, A. Montemaggi, T. Slabadzianiuk, P. Lionetti

2009/5

Sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto in una ragazza di 14 anni. Diagnosi di linfangioma cavernoso dell’intestino tenue con videocapsula endoscopica

S. Bevilacqua, M. Mainetti, M. Vestri, A. Montemaggi, T. Slabadzianiuk, P. Lionetti

2009/5 — pag. 327-328

Occult lower gastrointestinal bleeding may be due to numerous conditions: a rare cause is small intestinal lymphangioma. The Authors describe a case of a 14 year-old girl who presented with severe anaemia, no abdominal pain and no rectal bleeding...

Una strana epatite autoimmune

G. Maggiore

2007/5 — pag. 320

Anemie facili e difficili

U. Ramenghi

2007/1 — pag. 27-31

Most forms of anemias in childhood are easy to diagnose. A decreased mean corpuscolar volume (MCV) is due to reduced hemoglobin synthesis and suggests iron deficiency or thalassemia. Anemia with a normal MCV is mainly due to hemolysis or hemorrhage...

Un caso di malaria da Plasmodium Falciparum

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

2005/5

Morbo di Crohn

F. Massei, M. Massimetti

1997/5 — pag. 321-323