Issue 1/2013
Content (82 Articles)
Respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants and correlation with meteorological factors and air pollutants
Silvia Vandini, Luigi Corvaglia, Rosina Alessandroni, Giulia Aquilano, Concetta Marsico, Marica Spinelli, Marcello Lanari, Giacomo Faldella
Human milk glycosaminoglycans: the state of the art and future perspectives
Giovanni Valentino Coppa, Orazio Gabrielli, Enrico Bertino, Lucia Zampini, Tiziana Galeazzi, Lucia Padella, Lucia Santoro, Rita Lucia Marchesiello, Fabio Galeotti, Francesca Maccari, Nicola Volpi
Hemihydranencephaly: living with half brain dysfunction
Piero Pavone, Francesco Nigro, Raffaele Falsaperla, Filippo Greco, Martino Ruggieri, Renata Rizzo, Andrea D Praticò, Lorenzo Pavone
Non-autoimmune subclinical hypothyroidism due to a mutation in TSH receptor: report on two brothers
Manuela Cerbone, Patrizia Agretti, Giuseppina De Marco, Nicola Improda, Claudio Pignata, Francesca Santamaria, Massimo Tonacchera, Mariacarolina Salerno
Hashimoto's thyroiditis in childhood: presentation modes and evolution over time
Filippo De Luca, Simona Santucci, Domenico Corica, Elda Pitrolo, Marika Romeo, Tommaso Aversa
The prevalence and risk factors of allergic and respiratory symptoms in a regional cohort of extremely low birth weight children (<1000 g)
Przemko Kwinta, Grzegorz Lis, Malgorzata Klimek, Andrzej Grudzien, Tomasz Tomasik, Karolina Poplawska, Jacek Jozef Pietrzyk
Four-year follow-up study in a NF1 Boy with a focal pontine hamartoma
Pasquale Parisi, Severino Persechino, Maria Chiara Paolino, Francesco Nicita, Isabella Torrente, Alessandro Bozzao, Maria Pia Villa
The R156H variation in IL-12Rβ1 is not a mutation
Esther van de Vosse, Jaap T van Dissel, Loredana Palamaro, Giuliana Giardino, Francesca Santamaria, Rosa Romano, Anna Fusco, Silvia Montella, Mariacarolina Salerno, Matilde Valeria Ursini, Claudio Pignata
Hypertransaminasemia and fatal lung disease: a case report
Francesca Santamaria, Sara De Stefano, Silvia Montella, Marco Maglione, Roberto Della Casa, Emma Acampora, Claudio Pignata, Mariacarolina Salerno, Giancarlo Parenti
Impact of speed and magnitude of weight loss on the development of brain trophic changes in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a case control study
Monica Bomba, Anna Riva, Federica Veggo, Marco Grimaldi, Sabrina Morzenti, Francesca Neri, Renata Nacinovich
Chromosome 18q-Syndrome and 1p terminal duplication in a patient with bilateral vesico-ureteral reflux: case report and literature revision
Elisa Brandigi, Francesco Molinaro, Anna Lavinia Bulotta, Rossella Angotti, Maria Pavone, Mario Messina
The origins of health and disease: the influence of maternal diseases and lifestyle during gestation
Lucetta Capra, Giovanna Tezza, Federica Mazzei, Attilio L Boner
Cannabis use and its socio-demographic correlates among in-school adolescents in Zambia
Seter Siziya, Adamson S Muula, Chola Besa, Olusegun Babaniyi, Peter Songolo, Njinga Kankiza, Emmanuel Rudatsikira
The value of mean platelet volume in the determination of community acquired pneumonia in children
Eda Karadag-Oncel, Yasemin Ozsurekci, Ates Kara, Sevilay Karahan, Ali Bulent Cengiz, Mehmet Ceyhan
Temporal and geographical trends in infant, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Italy between 1991 and 2009
Laura Dallolio, Jacopo Lenzi, Maria Pia Fantini
3-M syndrome associated with growth hormone deficiency: 18 year follow-up of a patient
Cristina Meazza, Ekkehard Lausch, Sara Pagani, Elena Bozzola, Valeria Calcaterra, Andrea Superti-Furga, Margherita Silengo, Mauro Bozzola
Focus on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in children and adolescents
Amedeo Spagnolo, Marco Giussani, Amalia Maria Ambruzzi, Mario Bianchetti, Silvio Maringhini, Maria Chiara Matteucci, Ettore Menghetti, Patrizia Salice, Loredana Simionato, Mirella Strambi, Raffaele Virdis, Simonetta Genovesi
Gastrointestinal function development and microbiota
Antonio Di Mauro, Josef Neu, Giuseppe Riezzo, Francesco Raimondi, Domenico Martinelli, Ruggiero Francavilla, Flavia Indrio
Virological and clinical characterizations of respiratory infections in hospitalized children
Suat Bicer, Tuba Giray, Defne Çöl, Gülay Çiler Erdağ, Ayça Vitrinel, Yesim Gürol, Gülden Çelik, Çigdem Kaspar, Öznur Küçük
The effect of IVF pregnancies on mortality and morbidity in tertiary unit
Gülcan Turker, Emek Doger, Ayşe Engin Arısoy, Ayla Günlemez, Ayşe Sevim Gökalp
Erythema multiforme as first sign of incomplete Kawasaki disease
Francesco Vierucci, Cristina Tuoni, Francesca Moscuzza, Giuseppe Saggese, Rita Consolini
Allergic conjunctivitis: a comprehensive review of the literature
Mario La Rosa, Elena Lionetti, Michele Reibaldi, Andrea Russo, Antonio Longo, Salvatore Leonardi, Stefania Tomarchio, Teresio Avitabile, Alfredo Reibaldi
Intrauterine growth restriction and congenital malformations: a retrospective epidemiological study
Giuseppe Puccio, Mario Giuffré, Maria Piccione, Ettore Piro, Grazia Rinaudo, Giovanni Corsello
Issues in pediatric haemophilia care
Paola Giordano, Massimo Franchini, Giuseppe Lassandro, Maria Felicia Faienza, Roberto Valente, Angelo Claudio Molinari
Serum hepcidin: indication of its role as an “acute phase” marker in febrile children
Lydia Kossiva, Alexandra Soldatou, Dimitrios I Gourgiotis, Lamprini Stamati, Charalampos Tsentidis
Progress in Pediatrics in 2012: choices in allergy, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious diseases, neurology, nutrition and respiratory tract illnesses
Carlo Caffarelli, Francesca Santamaria, Alessandra Vottero, Sergio Bernasconi
How to feed small for gestational age newborns
Giovanni Barone, Luca Maggio, Annalisa Saracino, Alessandro Perri, Costantino Romagnoli, Enrico Zecca
Bacteremia and resistant gram-negative pathogens among under-fives in Tanzania
Alexandra Christopher, Stephen E Mshana, Benson R Kidenya, Aldofineh Hokororo, Domenica Morona
Improvement of dysphagia in a child affected by Pompe disease treated with enzyme replacement therapy
Simona Fecarotta, Serena Ascione, Giuseppe Montefusco, Roberto Della Casa, Paola Villari, Alfonso Romano, Ennio Del Giudice, Generoso Andria, Giancarlo Parenti
Food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome caused by rice beverage
Lucia Caminiti, Giuseppina Salzano, Giuseppe Crisafulli, Federica Porcaro, Giovanni Battista Pajno
Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome: case report of fetal unilateral ventriculomegaly and hypoplastic left middle cerebral artery
Ettore Piro, Maria Piccione, Gianluca Marrone, Mario Giuffrè, Giovanni Corsello
A neonatal case of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric-coenzyme A lyase deficiency
Francesca Santarelli, Michela Cassanello, Ausilia Enea, Francesca Poma, Valentina D'Onofrio, Giovanna Guala, Giangiacomo Garrone, Paola Puccinelli, Ubaldo Caruso, Francesco Porta, Marco Spada
Vitamin D status in cord blood and newborns: ethnic differences
Francesco Cadario, Silvia Savastio, Erica Pozzi, Antonella Capelli, Elena Dondi, Miriam Gatto, Mauro Zaffaroni, Gianni Bona
Neonatal seizures therapy: we are still looking for the efficacious drug
Carlotta Spagnoli, Elena Pavlidis, Francesco Pisani
Epidemiology and associations with climatic conditions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydophila pneumoniae infections among Chinese children hospitalized with acute respiratory infections
Zhengrong Chen, Wei Ji, Yuqing Wang, Yongdong Yan, Hong Zhu, Xuejun Shao, Jun Xu
Intellectual function evaluation of first generation immigrant children with sickle cell disease: the role of language and sociodemographic factors
Maria Montanaro, Raffaella Colombatti, Marisa Pugliese, Camilla Migliozzi, Fabiana Zani, Maria Elena Guerzoni, Sheila Manoli, Renzo Manara, Giorgio Meneghetti, Patrizia Rampazzo, Francesca Cavalleri, Marco Giordan, Paolo Paolucci, Giuseppe Basso, Giovanni Palazzi, Laura Sainati
Analgesia for infants’ circumcision
Carlo V Bellieni, Maria G Alagna, Giuseppe Buonocore
Triple A (Allgrove) syndrome: an unusual association with syringomyelia
Carla Bizzarri, Danila Benevento, Cesare Terzi, Angela Huebner, Marco Cappa
Survey on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in Italy
Cesarina Borroni, Carla Carlevaro, Sabrina Morzenti, Elena De Ponti, Valentina Bozzetti, Vito Console, Salvatore Capobianco, Paolo E Tagliabue
CD19 + CD23+ B cells, CD4 + CD25+ T cells, E-selectin and interleukin-12 levels in children with steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome
Bilal Yildiz, Nuran Cetin, Nurdan Kural, Omer Colak
Congenital nystagmus in two infants born from mothers exposed to methadone during pregnancy
Francesca Tinelli, Alessandra Gamucci, Roberta Battini, Giovanni Cioni
A short questionnaire to assess pediatric resident’s competencies: the validation process
Liviana Da Dalt, Pasquale Anselmi, Silvia Bressan, Silvia Carraro, Eugenio Baraldi, Egidio Robusto, Giorgio Perilongo
Breakfast: a multidisciplinary approach
Antonio Affinita, Loredana Catalani, Giovanna Cecchetto, Gianfranco De Lorenzo, Dario Dilillo, Giorgio Donegani, Lucia Fransos, Fabio Lucidi, Chiara Mameli, Elisa Manna, Paolo Marconi, Giuseppe Mele, Laura Minestroni, Massimo Montanari, Mario Morcellini, Giuseppe Rovera, Giuseppe Rotilio, Marco Sachet, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti
Esophageal atresia in newborns: a wide spectrum from the isolated forms to a full VACTERL phenotype?
Simona La Placa, Mario Giuffrè, Antonella Gangemi, Stefania Di Noto, Federico Matina, Federica Nociforo, Vincenzo Antona, Maria Rita Di Pace, Maria Piccione, Giovanni Corsello
Modulation of airway epithelial cell functions by Pidotimod: NF-kB cytoplasmatic expression and its nuclear translocation are associated with an increased TLR-2 expression
Sonia Carta, Michela Silvestri, Giovanni A Rossi
Probiotics and food allergy
Anna Maria Castellazzi, Chiara Valsecchi, Silvia Caimmi, Amelia Licari, Alessia Marseglia, Maria Chiara Leoni, Davide Caimmi, Michele Miraglia del Giudice, Salvatore Leonardi, Mario La Rosa, Gian Luigi Marseglia
BiliCheck vs JM-103 in identifying neonates not at risk of hyperbilirubinaemia
Costantino Romagnoli, Piero Catenazzi, Giovanni Barone, Lucia Giordano, Riccardo Riccardi, Antonio Alberto Zuppa, Enrico Zecca
Skin prick test to foods in childhood atopic eczema: pros and cons
Carlo Caffarelli, Arianna Dondi, Carlotta Povesi Dascola, Giampaolo Ricci
Polymorphic variants of SLCO1B1 in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in China
Jiebo Liu, Jun Long, Shaofang Zhang, Xiaoyan Fang, Yuyuan Luo
Symptomatic fever management among 3 different groups of pediatricians in Northern Lombardy (Italy): results of an explorative cross-sectional survey
Alberto Bettinelli, Maria Cristina Provero, Felice Cogliati, Anna Villella, Maddalena Marinoni, Francesco Saettini, Mario Giovanni Bianchetti, Luigi Nespoli, Cino Galluzzo, Sebastiano Antonio Giovanni Lava
Antiepileptic drugs and breastfeeding
Riccardo Davanzo, Sara Dal Bo, Jenny Bua, Marco Copertino, Elisa Zanelli, Lorenza Matarazzo
A family history of serious complications due to BCG vaccination is a tool for the early diagnosis of severe primary immunodeficiency
Pérsio Roxo-Junior, Jorgete Silva, Mauro Andrea, Larissa Oliveira, Fernando Ramalho, Thiago Bezerra, Altacílio A Nunes
Health-related quality of life in pediatric liver transplanted patients compared with a chronic liver disease group
Antonella Gritti, Simone Pisano, Tiziana Salvati, Nicolina Di Cosmo, Raffaele Iorio, Pietro Vajro
Association between radiological findings and severity of community-acquired pneumonia in children
Maria Francesca Patria, Benedetta Longhi, Mara Lelii, Carlotta Galeone, Maria Angela Pavesi, Susanna Esposito
Is mTOR inhibition a systemic treatment for tuberous sclerosis?
Romina Moavero, Antonella Coniglio, Francesco Garaci, Paolo Curatolo
Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome in a 25-month-old Italian girl caused by a homozygous mutation in AMN
Gianpaolo De Filippo, Domenico Rendina, Vincenzo Rocco, Teresa Esposito, Fernando Gianfrancesco, Pasquale Strazzullo
Home treatment in paediatric patients with Hunter syndrome: the first Italian experience
Ferdinando Ceravolo, Italia Mascaro, Simona Sestito, Elisa Pascale, Antonino Lauricella, Elio Dizione, Daniela Concolino
Nijmegen breakage syndrome and chronic polyarthritis
Srdjan Pasic, Maja Cupic, Tanja Jovanovic, Slobodanka Djukic, Maja Kavaric, Ivana Lazarevic
Childhood mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: clinical course, diagnosis, neuroimaging findings, mtDNA mutations and outcome in six children
Jun Lu, Yuanyuan Huang
Evaluation of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in pediatric patients with acute rotavirus gastroenteritis and dehydration
Tanju Çelik, Emel Altekin, Rana İşgüder, Yasin Kenesari, Murat Duman, Nur Arslan
Melatonin: its possible role in the management of viral infections-a brief review
Michela Silvestri, Giovanni A Rossi
Survey assessment on pediatricians’ attitudes on head lice management
Claudia Fancelli, Manuela Prato, Carlotta Montagnani, Monica Pierattelli, Paolo Becherucci, Elena Chiappini, Maurizio de Martino, Luisa Galli
Refractory rheumatoid factor positive polyarthritis in a female adolescent already suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis successfully treated with etanercept
Alma Nunzia Olivieri, Dario Iafusco, Antonio Mellos, Angela Zanfardino, Angela Mauro, Carmela Granato, Maria Francesca Gicchino, Francesco Prisco, Laura Perrone
Health promotion for children, mothers and families: here’s why we should “think about it before conception”
Carlo Corchia, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo
Short-term health service utilization after a paediatric injury: a population-based study
Ileana Baldi, Francesco Avossa, Ugo Fedeli, Francesca Foltran, Dario Gregori
Mass population screening for celiac disease in children: the experience in Republic of San Marino from 1993 to 2009
Susanna Alessandrini, Elisa Giacomoni, Fausto Muccioli
Children left unattended in parked vehicles: a focus on recent italian cases and a review of literature
Pietro Ferrara, Flaminia Vena, Olga Caporale, Valentina Del Volgo, Pio Liberatore, Francesca Ianniello, Antonio Chiaretti, Riccardo Riccardi
A case of meningitis due to varicella zoster virus reactivation in an immunocompetent child
Susanna Esposito, Samantha Bosis, Raffaella Pinzani, Laura Morlacchi, Laura Senatore, Nicola Principi
Good cognitive performances in a child with Prader-Willi syndrome
Rosa Nugnes, Eugenio Zito, Enza Mozzillo, Maria Erminia Camarca, Maria Pia Riccio, Gaetano Terrone, Daniela Melis, Carmela Bravaccio, Adriana Franzese
Vitamin D status in diabetic Egyptian children and adolescents: a case–control study
Seham FA Azab, Safaa Hamdy Saleh, Wafaa F Elsaeed, Sanaa M Abdelsalam, Alshaymaa Ahmed Ali, Asmaa MH Esh
Rhinocerebral zygomycosis with pansinusitis in a 14-year-old girl with type 1 diabetes: a case report and review of the literature
Annalisa di Coste, Francesco Costantino, Luigi Tarani, Vincenzo Savastano, Claudio Di Biasi, Laura Schiavi, Ilaria Ernesti, Taulant Melengu, Marzia Duse
Focal epilepsy with ictal abdominal pain: a case report
Caterina Cerminara, Nadia El Malhany, Denis Roberto, Paolo Curatolo
Childhood asthma and vitamin D deficiency in Turkey: is there cause and effect relationship between them?
Metin Uysalol, Levent Cem Mutlu, Gamze Varol Saracoglu, Erkut Karasu, Savas Guzel, Semra Kayaoglu, Nedret Uzel
Recent advances on diagnosis and management of childhood asthma and food allergies
Dani Hakimeh, Salvatore Tripodi
Are IgM-enriched immunoglobulins an effective adjuvant in septic VLBW infants?
Letizia Capasso, Angela Carla Borrelli, Claudia Parrella, Silvia Lama, Teresa Ferrara, Clara Coppola, Maria Rosaria Catania, Vita Dora Iula, Francesco Raimondi
Is there a role for high dose chemotherapy and blood stem cell rescue in childhood hepatoblastoma presenting with lung metastases? A case report and literature review
Massimo Provenzi, Francesco Saettini, Valentino Conter, Eugenia Giraldi, Carlo Foglia, Laura Cavalleri, Michele Colledan, Lorenzo D’Antiga, Giorgio Perilongo, Liviana Da Dalt
Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) gene polymorphism in children with Kawasaki syndrome (KS) and susceptibility to cardiac abnormalities
Fernanda Falcini, Donato Rigante, Laura Masi, Marcello Covino, Francesco Franceschelli, Gigliola Leoncini, Giusyda Tarantino, Marco Matucci Cerinic, Maria Luisa Brandi
Hypertension and prehypertension among adolescents in secondary schools in Enugu, South East Nigeria
Fortune A Ujunwa, Anthony N Ikefuna, Ada RC Nwokocha, Josephat M Chinawa
Endocrine autoimmunity in Turner syndrome
Armando Grossi, Antonino Crinò, Rosa Luciano, Antonietta Lombardo, Marco Cappa, Alessandra Fierabracci
Application of a score system to evaluate the risk of malnutrition in a multiple hospital setting
Maria Immacolata Spagnuolo, Ilaria Liguoro, Fabrizia Chiatto, Daniela Mambretti, Alfredo Guarino
Erratum to: The immunopathogenesis of cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA)
Giovanna Vitaliti, Carla Cimino, Alfina Coco, Andrea Domenico Praticò, Elena Lionetti