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  1. Although children with special health care needs (CSHCN) represent a minority of the population, they go through more hospitalizations, more admissions to the Emergency Department (ED), and receive a major num...

    Authors: Paola Cianci, Valeria D’Apolito, Alex Moretti, Massimo Barbagallo, Sabrina Paci, Maria Teresa Carbone, Riccardo Lubrano, Antonio Urbino, Carlo Dionisi Vici, Luigi Memo, Giuseppe Zampino, Giancarlo La Marca, Alberto Villani, Giovanni Corsello and Angelo Selicorni
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:173
  2. Lyme neuroborreliosis can cause a variety of neurological manifestations. European children usually present facial nerve palsy, other cranial nerve palsies and aseptic meningitis.

    Authors: Salvatore Savasta, Ivan Fiorito, Thomas Foiadelli, Anna Pichiecchio, Patrizia Cambieri, Bianca Mariani, Piero Marone and Gianluigi Marseglia
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:172
  3. In comparison with adults, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in children has a milder course. The management of children with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease (COVI...

    Authors: Francesco Nunziata, Eugenia Bruzzese, Marco Poeta, Luca Pierri, Andrea Catzola, Gian Paolo Ciccarelli, Edoardo Vassallo, Emma Montella, Andrea Lo Vecchio and Alfredo Guarino
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:170
  4. SAPHO (synovitis, acne, pustolosis, hyperostosis and osteitis) syndrome is a rare autoinflammatory chronic disorder, presenting with non-infectious osteitis, sterile joint inflammation and skin manifestations ...

    Authors: Michele Luzzati, Gabriele Simonini, Cesare Filippeschi, Teresa Giani and Sandra Trapani
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:169
  5. Resistance to thyroid hormone syndrome (RTH) is an autosomal dominant or recessive genetic disease caused by mutation of either the thyroid hormone receptorβ (THR-β) gene or the thyroid hormone receptorα (THR-...

    Authors: Hongping Sun, Lin Cao, Rendong Zheng, Shaofeng Xie and Chao Liu
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:168
  6. Family Accommodation (FA) refers to the involvement of family members (especially parents) in the compulsive behaviors of children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (e.g. modifying family rout...

    Authors: Maria Pontillo, Francesco Demaria, Maria Cristina Tata, Roberto Averna, Prisca Gargiullo, Maria Laura Pucciarini, Ornella Santonastaso, Tommaso Boldrini, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi and Stefano Vicari
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:167
  7. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease associated with severe muscle atrophy and weakness in the limbs and trunk. The discovery of mutated genes is helpful in diagnosis and ...

    Authors: Ruiping Zhang, Chunyu Gu, Linjie Pu, Yingtao Meng, Jianbo Shu and Chunquan Cai
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:166
  8. The timing of puberty in girls is occurring at an increasingly early age. While a positive family history is recognised as a predisposing factor for early or precocious puberty, the role of environmental facto...

    Authors: Stefano Stagi, Salvatore De Masi, Erica Bencini, Stefania Losi, Silvia Paci, Maria Parpagnoli, Franco Ricci, Daniele Ciofi and Chiara Azzari
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:165
  9. Recurrent diabetic ketoacidosis in patients with known diabetes mellitus remains a relevant problem in pediatrics with an incidence of 1–10% per patient. Children may die because of cerebral edema and had a si...

    Authors: Birtukan Assefa, Haymanot Zeleke, Rajalakshmi Murugan and Kalkidan Wondwossen
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:164
  10. The phenotypic features of SHOX deficiency (SHOX-D) are highly variable and can be very mild, especially in young children. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate auxological and radiological indi...

    Authors: Silvia Vannelli, Maria Baffico, Raffaele Buganza, Francesca Verna, Giulia Vinci, Daniele Tessaris, Gianpaolo Di Rosa, Alberto Borraccino and Luisa de Sanctis
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:163
  11. Every year, 1.3 million young people reported to die from preventable causes of death. Parent-adolescent communication on sexuality is critical in informing youth about risk and protective behaviors which in t...

    Authors: Maru Mekie, Dagne Addisu, Abenezer Melkie and Wubet Taklual
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:162
  12. Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) is a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder caused by the defect in the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase. This defect leads to the deficiency of cholesterol biosynthesis with ...

    Authors: Maurizio Delvecchio, Biagio Rapone, Simonetta Simonetti, Simona Fecarotta, Graziana De Carlo, Elvira Favoino, Maria Teresa Loverro, Anna Maria Isdraele Romano, Federica Taurino, Edoardo Di Naro and Antonio Gnoni
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:161
  13. Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis in infants, with long term neurodevelopmental sequelae. GBS may be associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, including spontane...

    Authors: Alberto Berardi, Tiziana Cassetti, Roberta Creti, Caterina Vocale, Simone Ambretti, Mario Sarti, Fabio Facchinetti, Stephen Cose, Paul Heath and Kirsty Le Doare
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:160
  14. In the recent years, clinical progress and better medical assistance for pregnant women, together with the introduction of new complex technologies, has improved the survival of preterm infants. However, this ...

    Authors: Antonella del Vecchio, Sergio Salerno, Massimo Barbagallo, Gaetano Chirico, Mauro Campoleoni, Vittorio Cannatà, Elisabetta Genovese, Claudio Granata, Andrea Magistrelli and Paolo Tomà
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:159
  15. A number of genetic syndromes associated with variants in the BSCL2/seipin gene have been identified. Variants that cause skipping of exon 7 are associated with progressive encephalopathy with/without lipodystrop...

    Authors: Stefania Pedicelli, Luca de Palma, Caterina Pelosini and Marco Cappa
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:158
  16. Thyroid hemangioma mostly occurs in adults and is extremely rare in infants. So far, only four pediatric cases of thyroid hemangioma have been reported, one of which has only been clinically diagnosed. Most of...

    Authors: Yujian Liang, Ronghui Pu, Xueqiong Huang, Suping Li, Yingqian Chen and Wen Tang
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:157
  17. The aim of this study was to quantify the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on pediatric operations, and establish preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative protocols to improve the pediatric...

    Authors: Yi Wei, Chengjun Yu, Tian Xin Zhao, Tao Lin, H. E. Dawei, Sheng-de Wu and Guang-hui Wei
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:155
  18. Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD; MIM#263200) is one of the most frequent pediatric renal cystic diseases, with an incidence of 1:20,000. It is caused by mutations of the PKHD1 gene, on chromo...

    Authors: Gregorio Serra, Giovanni Corsello, Vincenzo Antona, Maria Michela D’Alessandro, Nicola Cassata, Marcello Cimador, Mario Giuffrè, Ingrid Anne Mandy Schierz and Ettore Piro
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:154
  19. Pediatric COVID-19 is relatively mild and may vary from that in adults. This study was to investigate the epidemic, clinical, and imaging features of pediatric COVID-19 pneumonia for early diagnosis and treatm...

    Authors: Yu Zhang, Ru-Ming Xie, Yu-Lin He, Li-Hong Xing, Li Dong, Jian-Zhong Zhang, Wei-Hong Xing, Xiao-Yan Lv, Yi-Bo Lu, Qiang Liu, Ling-Bo Lin, Gui-Zeng Liu, Li Li, Pan Li, Yuan-Zhong Xie, Zhi-Yu Ni…
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:153
  20. Mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) is a clinical-radiological syndrome that can be related to infectious and non-infectious conditions. The most prominent neurological sy...

    Authors: Antonella Tuscano, Marisa Zoppo, Carlotta Canavese, Maurizio Cogoni and Carlo Scolfaro
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:152
  21. Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare genetic, multi-systemic disease characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, immune deficiency, bone marrow failure and skeletal abnormalities. Most patients p...

    Authors: Agnieszka Bogusz-Wójcik, Honorata Kołodziejczyk, Maja Klaudel-Dreszler, Grzegorz Oracz, Joanna Pawłowska and Mieczysław Szalecki
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:151
  22. This consensus document has been prepared by a multidisciplinary group of experts (Paediatricians, Radiologists, Paediatric Orthopaedics) and it is mainly aimed at paediatricians, hospitals and primary care pr...

    Authors: Rino Agostiniani, Giuseppe Atti, Salvatore Bonforte, Carolina Casini, Marco Cirillo, Maurizio De Pellegrin, Daniela Di Bello, Francesco Esposito, Ambra Galla, Giorgio Marrè Brunenghi, Nicola Romeo, Paolo Tomà and Norberto Vezzali
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:150
  23. The rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy has dramatically impacted the National Healthcare System, causing the sudden congestion of hospitals, especially in Northern Italy, thus imposing drastic rest...

    Authors: Giovanni Trisolino, Carlo Enrico Origo, Nando De Sanctis, Daniela Dibello, Pasquale Farsetti, Cosimo Gigante, Pasquale Guida, Lorenza Marengo, Elena Panuccio, Renato Maria Toniolo, Fabio Verdoni and Antonio Memeo
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:149
  24. Pleuropulmonary blastomas (PPB) are rare aggressive paediatric lung malignancies and are among the most common DICER1-related disorders: it is estimated that 75–80% of children with a PPB have the DICER1 mutation...

    Authors: Shihan Zhang, Xisi Wang, Sihui Li, Siyu Cai, Tong Yu, Libing Fu, Na Zhang, Xiaoxia Peng, Qi Zeng and Xiaoli Ma
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:148
  25. Bronchiolitis is the primary infection of the lower respiratory tract in children under 2 years of age. Although it is generally considered a single nosological entity, recent studies suggested remarkable clin...

    Authors: Giuliana Ferrante, Carmela Fondacaro, Giovanna Cilluffo, Piera Dones, Francesca Cardella and Giovanni Corsello
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:147
  26. There is ample evidence that COVID-19 is significantly less severe in children than in adults and asthma and allergy, the most common chronic disorders in children, are not included in the top 10 comorbidities...

    Authors: Lucia Diaferio, Giuseppe Fabio Parisi, Giulia Brindisi, Cristiana Indolfi, Giuseppe Marchese, Daniele Giovanni Ghiglioni, Anna Maria Zicari, Gian Luigi Marseglia and Michele Miraglia del Giudice
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:146
  27. To describe a case of thrombophlebitis associated with Candida infection and to analyze other published reports to define clinical characteristics, prognostic data, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

    Authors: Claudia Colomba, Luigi Campa, Lucia Siracusa, Salvatore Giordano, Maria C. Vella, Giovanni Corsello, Mario Giuffrè and Antonio Cascio
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:145
  28. Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES) is a non IgE-mediated food allergy that generally affects children in the first year of life. Usually symptoms break out when formula milk or solid foods are...

    Authors: Francesco Baldo, Martina Bevacqua, Cristiana Corrado, Daniela Nisticò, Laura Cesca, Valentina Declich, Roberto Dall’Amico and Egidio Barbi
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:144
  29. The Veneto region is one of the most affected Italian regions by COVID-19. Chronic lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), may constitute a risk factor in COVID-19. Moreover, respi...

    Authors: Valentino Bezzerri, Francesca Lucca, Sonia Volpi and Marco Cipolli
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:143
  30. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently rare in children and they seem to have a milder disease course and better prognosis than adults. However, SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has indirectly caused problems...

    Authors: Riccardo Lubrano, Alberto Villani, Stefano Berrettini, Paolo Caione, Alberto Chiara, Antonella Costantino, Roberto Formigari, Emilio Franzoni, Guido Castelli Gattinara, Arturo Giustardi, Giancarlo La Marca, Paolo Lionetti, Mario Lima, Claudio Maffei, Monica Malamisura, Giantonio Manzoni…
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:142
  31. People increasingly search online for health information. Particularly, parents of patients often use the Internet as a source for health information. We conducted a survey to investigate the online searching ...

    Authors: Luisa Russo, Ilaria Campagna, Beatrice Ferretti, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Marta Luisa Ciofi Degli Atti, Simone Piga, Sally Jackson, Caterina Rizzo, Francesco Gesualdo and Alberto E. Tozzi
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:141
  32. Mitochondrial diseases, also known as oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) disorders, with a prevalence rate of 1:5000, are the most frequent inherited metabolic diseases. Leigh Syndrome French Canadian type (LS...

    Authors: Ettore Piro, Gregorio Serra, Vincenzo Antona, Mario Giuffrè, Elisa Giorgio, Fabio Sirchia, Ingrid Anne Mandy Schierz, Alfredo Brusco and Giovanni Corsello
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:140
  33. A statement of consensus was formulated after reviewing available literature on pediatric treatment strategies for COVID-19 by the Steering and Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Infectious Pediatr...

    Authors: Elisabetta Venturini, Carlotta Montagnani, Silvia Garazzino, Daniele Donà, Luca Pierantoni, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Giangiacomo Nicolini, Sonia Bianchini, Andrzej Krzysztofiak, Luisa Galli, Alberto Villani and Guido Castelli-Gattinara
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:139
  34. Neonatal mortality remains a serious public health concern in developing countries including Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the countries with the highest neonatal mortality in Africa. However, there is limited ...

    Authors: Zemenu Tadesse Tessema and Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:138
  35. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a highly contagious viral disease has spread from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China to all over the world from its first recognition on December 2019. To date, only a few neonat...

    Authors: Setareh Sagheb, Ameneh Lamsehchi, Mohamadreza Jafary, Reza Atef-Yekta and Kourosh Sadeghi
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:137
  36. Persistent neonatal hypoglycemia, owing to the possibility of severe neurodevelopmental consequences, is a leading cause of neonatal care admission. Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia is often resistant to dextrose...

    Authors: Ettore Piro, Ingrid Anne Mandy Schierz, Vincenzo Antona, Maria Pia Pappalardo, Mario Giuffrè, Gregorio Serra and Giovanni Corsello
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:136
  37. Hirschsprung disease, the most important congenital colonic dysmotility in children results from neural crest migration, differentiation, proliferation, or apoptosis defects where the rearranged during transfe...

    Authors: Ingrid Anne Mandy Schierz, Marcello Cimador, Mario Giuffrè, Claudia Maria Aiello, Vincenzo Antona, Giovanni Corsello and Ettore Piro
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:135
  38. This is the report of the first official survey from the Italian Society of Pediatric Surgery (ISPS) to appraise the distribution and organization of bedside surgery in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU)...

    Authors: Gloria Pelizzo, Pietro Bagolan, Francesco Morini, Mariagrazia Aceti, Daniele Alberti, Mario Andermarcher, Luigi Avolio, Fabio Bartoli, Vito Briganti, Sebastiano Cacciaguerra, Francesco S. Camoglio, Pierluca Ceccarelli, Maurizio Cheli, Fabio Chiarenza, Enrico Ciardini, Marcello Cimador…
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:134
  39. Pediatricians have observed a significant decrease in in-person child health visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the post lockdown period, the coronavirus trend remains positive in Italy but fears of a sec...

    Authors: Rino Agostiniani, Elena Bozzola, Annamaria Staiano, Antonio Del Vecchio, Teresa Mazzone, Luigi Greco, Giovanni Corsello and Alberto Villani
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:133
  40. Facial masks may be one of the most cost-effective strategies to prevent the diffusion of COVID 19 infection. Nevertheless, fake news are spreading, alerting parents on dangerous side effects in children, such...

    Authors: Alberto Villani, Elena Bozzola, Annamaria Staiano, Rino Agostiniani, Antonio Del Vecchio, Nicola Zamperini, Francesco Marino, Davide Vecchio and Giovanni Corsello
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:132
  41. Congenital Hyperinsulinism typically occurs with a neonatal hypoglycemia but can appear even in childhood or in adolescence with different types of glucose metabolism derangements. Current diagnostic algorithm...

    Authors: Alberto Casertano, Arianna De Matteis, Enza Mozzillo, Francesco Maria Rosanio, Pietro Buono, Valentina Fattorusso and Adriana Franzese
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:131
  42. For a number of persons with rare diseases (RDs) a definite diagnosis remains undiscovered with relevant physical, psychological and social consequences. Undiagnosed RDs (URDs) require other than specialised c...

    Authors: Marco Salvatore, Agata Polizzi, Maria Chiara De Stefano, Giovanna Floridia, Simone Baldovino, Dario Roccatello, Savino Sciascia, Elisa Menegatti, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Erica Daina, Paraskevas Iatropoulos, Bruno Bembi, Rosalia Maria Da Riol, Alessandra Ferlini, Marcella Neri, Giuseppe Novelli…
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:130
  43. Hemophilia A (HA) is an X-linked recessive bleeding disorder characterized by qualitative and quantitative deficiency of factor VIII (FVIII). The development of inhibitor antibodies against FVIII is the most c...

    Authors: Laila M. Sherief, Osama A. Gaber, Hala Mosaad Youssef, Hanan S. Sherbiny, Wesam a Mokhtar, Asmaa A. A. Ali, Naglaa M. Kamal and Yehia H. Abdel Maksoud
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:129
  44. To describe the epidemiological aspects of nocturnal enuresis (NE). In this study we identify the prevalence and the familial conditions in a large, representative sample of children with monosymptomatic NE (M...

    Authors: Pietro Ferrara, Giulia Franceschini, Federico Bianchi Di Castelbianco, Rachele Bombace, Alberto Villani and Giovanni Corsello
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:128
  45. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Moges Agazhe Assemie, Alehegn Aderaw Alamneh, Daniel Bekele Ketema, Ali Mekonen Adem, Melaku Desta, Pammla Petrucka and Mekdes Marew Ambaw
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:126

    The original article was published in Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:118

  46. Bleedings are more frequent in the population of preterm children than among those born at term, much less in older children. The reasons for such bleedings in preterms include plasma factor deficiencies, imma...

    Authors: Agnieszka Berendt, Monika Wójtowicz-Marzec, Barbara Wysokińska and Anna Kwaśniewska
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:125
  47. Mothers in low socio-economic conditions frequently have low birth weight infants. Inaddition Physically demanding work during pregnancy also contributes to poor fetal growth. During gestation a woman needs ba...

    Authors: Sielu Alemayehu Desta, Ashenafi Damte and Tsehay Hailu
    Citation: Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2020 46:124

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