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Review
The Mediterranean diet has been for a very long time the basis of food habits all over the countries of the Mediterranean basin, originally founded on rural models and low consumption of meat products and high...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:74
Published on: 17 August 2017
Research
Insufficient quantities, frequencies, and inadequate quality of complementary feedings have a negative effect on child health and growth, especially in the first two years of life. Therefore, the aim of this s...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:73
Published on: 15 August 2017
Research
Pediatricians play a crucial role in the identification and management of child abuse and neglect (CAN) but they often don’t have a formal specialized training.
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:72
Published on: 14 August 2017
Letter to the Editor
Following the most recent modification by the American Academy of Pediatrics, based on American studies on RSV epidemiology, the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA) decided to limit the total financial coverage of the ...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:71
Published on: 14 August 2017
Case report
The onset of coeliac disease (CD) in the first year of life is uncommon and the diagnosis can be challenging due to the suboptimal sensitivity of tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTG) at this age and the ma...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:70
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research
Although the autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 (APS-3) is the commonest APS that may be encountered in pediatric age, last year literature includes only few studies aiming to specifically ascertain the ...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:69
Published on: 7 August 2017
Letter to the Editor
Pyridoxine dependent epilepsies (PDEs) are rare autosomal recessive disorders with onset in neonatal period. Seizures are typically not responsive to conventional antiepileptic drugs, but they cease after pare...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:68
Published on: 5 August 2017
Research
The recognition, follow-up, and early treatment of neonatal jaundice has become more difficult, since the earlier discharge of newborns from hospitals has become common practice. Since intrapartum hypoxic stre...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:67
Published on: 4 August 2017
Review
Referral for an assessment of tall stature is less common than for short stature. Tall stature is defined as a height more than two standard deviations above the mean for age. The majority of subjects with tal...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:66
Published on: 3 August 2017
Case report
Adenylosuccinate lyase (ADSL) deficiency is a defect of purine metabolism affecting purinosome assembly and reducing metabolite fluxes through purine de novo synthesis and purine nucleotide recycling pathways....
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:65
Published on: 2 August 2017
Case report
Short stature (SS) is a relatively early sign of poor health. Only in 5% of cases we can explain it through the presence of endocrinological pathologies. Therefore, if SS is present since the first months of l...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:64
Published on: 28 July 2017
Research
Childhood rubella infection is a mild, self-limiting illness. Rubella infection among pregnant women however, is a major public health concern. Depending on gestation age, it may result in fetal death, stillbi...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:63
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research
Recurrent reciprocal 1q21.1 deletions and duplications have been associated with variable phenotypes. Phenotypic features described in association with 1q21.1 microdeletions include developmental delay, cranio...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:61
Published on: 19 July 2017
Commentary
A recent article from Pavone et al. published in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics entitled «Ataxia in children: early recognition and clinical evaluation» made an exhaustive overview of the large spectrum of ...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:62
Published on: 19 July 2017
Research
The aim of our study is to evaluate if in children with highly positive serology and HLA-DQ2/DQ8 (triple test, TT) and only extra-intestinal symptoms, it is possible to omit performing an intestinal biopsy for...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:59
Published on: 15 July 2017
Research
This crossover, randomized, double-blind study (conducted over a 32-week period) was performed to determine, in clinically stable Cystic fibrosis (CF) preschool children: the effects of 7% inhaled hypertonic s...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:60
Published on: 15 July 2017
Research
Due to the lack of real life clinical and educational studies, “Io e l’Asma” Centre performed this implementation research (IR).
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:58
Published on: 24 June 2017
Case Report
Lipoid congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) (OMIM n. 201710) is the most severe form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. It is characterized by severe adrenal and gonadal steroidogenesis impairment due to a def...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:57
Published on: 20 June 2017
Research
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis of unknown origin which can be considered an autoimmune disease (AD). The aim of this study is to analyse the presence of two or more aut...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:56
Published on: 14 June 2017
Research
There are limited data on the characterization of medication-related visits (MRVs) to the emergency department (ED) in pediatric patients in Italy. We have estimated the frequency, severity, and classification...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:55
Published on: 13 June 2017
Research
Acute cerebellitis (AC) and acute cerebellar ataxia (ACA) are the principal causes of acute cerebellar dysfunction in childhood. Nevertheless. there is no accepted consensus regarding the best management of ch...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:54
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research
Visceral obesity in children increases the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. To evaluate overweight children, in addition to Body Mass Index (BMI), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) can be used to predict...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:53
Published on: 7 June 2017
Research
In Cameroon, sustainable effort needs to be done to reduce the current neonatal mortality rate from 21 deaths per 1000 live births to the global target of fewer than ten deaths per 1000 live births by 2035. We...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:52
Published on: 5 June 2017
Review
Perampanel is among the latest AEDs approved, indicated for the treatment of partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalization, and for primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures, in patients aged...
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:51
Published on: 2 June 2017
Research
Adolescence is a period of transition to adulthood. Little is known about oral mucosal lesions (OMLs) in teenagers, in which the emergence of new habits, unfamiliar to children, could affect the type of lesions.
Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2017 43:50
Published on: 31 May 2017
