Ricerc@Sapienza

OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the long-term validity and safety of pure oats in the treatment of children with celiac disease.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is emerging as the most common chronic liver disease, and is characterized by a wide spectrum of fat-liver disorders that can result in severe liver disease and cirrhosis. Inflammation and oxidative stress are the major risk factors involved in the pathogenesis of NAFLD. Currently, there is no consensus concerning the pharmacological treatment of NAFLD. However, lifestyle interventions based on exercise and a balanced diet for quality and quantity, are considered the cornerstone of NAFLD management.

Background: Data on the clinical course and outcomes of pediatric patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection complicating acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASC) are very limited. The aim of our study was to compare outcomes of children with ASC who were CMV positive or CMV negative. Methods: This was a multicenter retrospective case-controlled study, from centers affiliated with the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Porto Group of European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.

The traditional management of inflammatory bowel disease, based on treatment intensification guided by clinical activity alone, has been revised in the last 10 years and a treat-to-target approach has been proposed and is currently under evaluation as a disease-modifying strategy. Treat-to-target focuses on objective and scheduled measures to monitor intestinal damage, with consequent therapeutic adjustments in case of failure to achieve pre-defined targets.

With the current COVID-19 pandemic, concerns have been raised about the risk to children with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We aimed to collate global experience and provide provisional guidance for managing paediatric IBD (PIBD) in the era of COVID-19.

BACKGROUND:
Minor head trauma is one of the leading causes of accessing pediatric emergency departments; however, only a limited number of patients develops clinically relevant brain injuries.
OBJECTIVES:
The aim of this review is to provide physicians a clinical pathway for managing pediatric minor head trauma.
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OBJECTIVES: Surgery for vascular anomalies can occasionally fail to relieve symptoms, especially when severe tracheobronchial malacia persists. We studied outcomes in children who underwent airway stenting for severe post-surgical airway malacia and tested known clinical and surgical prognostic factors. METHODS: Among 257 children evaluated for tracheobronchial vascular compression, we reviewed the clinical charts for the 59 patients (23%) who underwent surgery. After surgery, children in whom severe malacia and respiratory symptoms persisted underwent airway stenting.

Background: RASopathies are developmental disease caused by mutations in genes encoding for signal transducers
of the RAS-MAPK cascade. The aim of the present study was to provide a comprehensive description of
morbidity and mortality in patients with molecularly confirmed RASopathy.
Methods: A multicentric, observational, retrospective study was conducted in seven European cardiac centres
participating to the CArdiac Rasopathy NETwork (CARNET). Clinical records of 371 patients with confirmed

Imatinib mesylate (IM) has demonstrated to be highly effective in children with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The main issues remain the long-term side effects in pre-pubertal children and the poor compliance in adolescents. The aims of this study were: a) to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of IM given intermittently to molecular responder (MR) CML children in chronic phase (CP), b) to reduce the long-term side effects of MR patients (pts) who started IM in pre-pubertal age, c) to improve compliance of poorly compliant adolescents in major MR (MMR).

BACKGROUND:
Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a chronic and often severe bilateral conjunctivitis. VKC etiology remains still unclear although endocrine, genetic, neurogenic and environmental factors have been implied. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble prohormone whose main function is the regulation of calcium and phosphate metabolism. The aim of this study was to evaluate serum vitamin D in children affected by VKC compared to the healthy children and investigate the relationship between its levels and disease severity.
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