Anemia

Splenomegalia e malattia di Gaucher

Piccioni A, Santoro L, Bruschi B, Lionetti ME, Pugliese F

2025/7 — pag. 187-187 — DOI

A 4-year-old girl, asymptomatic and in good general health, is referred to a paediatric Haemato-Oncology centre for splenomegaly associated with mild anaemia and thrombocytopenia. Initial suspicion of leukaemia is ruled out after thorough clinical, l...

Anemia e desaturazione… uno strano caso di favismo

Sarno E, Fabbri E, Saia RE, Pericoli R.

2025/6 — pag. 397-398 — DOI

Methaemoglobinaemia is a rare but significant complication in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. In these individuals, oxidative stress - triggered by infections, drugs, or foods like fava beans - may convert haemoglob...

"Che cosa può celarsi dietro un'anemia...": un caso di atresia duodenale a esordio tardivo

Allegra M, Dolce R, Bignone L, Raso E, Caruso A, Giglione E, Putignano L, Alizzi C, Cardella F, Corsello G

2025/5 — pag. 103-106 — DOI

Duodenal atresia (AD) is a congenital malformation characterised by complete or incomplete intrinsic obstruction of the duodenum. Prenatal diagnosis is often possible. Type 1 AD, according to the Gray-Skandalakis classification, consists of transvers...

Lupus eritematoso sistemico a esordio con embolia polmonare

La Cognata D, Ferrigno M, Nannola C, La Loggia N, Di Nora A, Smilari P, Timpanaro T

2025/2 — pag. 55-56 — DOI

A 15-year-old girl was hospitalized with persistent fever lasting 40 days, accompanied by fatigue, loss of appetite and muscle pain. After initial antibiotic treatment proved ineffective, further investigations revealed pulmonary embolism and cardiac...

Monoartrite: artrite idiopatica giovanile o malattia reumatica?

Barachino A.

2024/10 — pag. 660 — DOI

A 9-year-old child presents to the emergency room with fever, pain, and swelling in the right knee. Based on the tests, the onset of pauciarticular rheumatoid arthritis is hypothesized. After further medical history assessment and a cardiology consul...

Una trombocitopenia associata alla scabbia in un neonato: caso clinico e revisione della letteratura

Giulia La Malfa

2024/10 — pag. 220-222 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 1-month-old infant with persistent skin lesions who was diagnosed with scabies after initial ineffective treatments. The condition was linked to thrombocytopenia and anaemia, which resolved following dermatologic ther...

La B12 c'è ma non funziona

Vitale R.

2024/7 — pag. 468-470 — DOI

The paper reports the typical case and clinic of a defect in B12 metabolism. Such diseases, which are rare, mimic B12 intake or absorption deficits (crasis alterations, mixed neuropathy) but are distinguished first and foremost by the presence of nor...

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....

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...

Febbre e gengivostomatite: non è sempre solo herpes simplex

Arnaboldi S

2023/5 — pag. 76-77 — DOI

Gingivostomatitis is a clinical condition frequently diagnosed by the family paediatrician and it generally shows a viral aetiology. In particular, primary herpes simplex infection is the most frequent cause of gingivostomatitis in toddlers and it ty...

Il bambino con anemia severa: proposta di gestione diagnostico-terapeutica

Muratore E, Ruggi A, Abram N, Zanaroli A, Pierantoni L, Lanari M, Zama D.

2023/3 — pag. 159-168 — DOI

Anaemia is a common issue in the paediatric age group and it is not uncommon to encounter severe cases of anaemia in the Paediatric Emergency Unit. The correct identification of patients requiring urgent care is of central importance to provide timel...

Un diverticolo (dav)vero sanguinante

Tessitore A

2022/8 — pag. 527-530 — DOI

Meckel diverticulum has been suspected and then diagnosed at laparoscopic exploration of the abdomen in a severely anaemic 16-month-old child with acute intestinal bleeding. The surgical indication of all unexplained intestinal bleedings is discussed...

Un diverticolo (dav)vero sanguinante

Tessitore A

2022/8 — pag. 174-175 — DOI

Meckel diverticulum has been suspected and then diagnosed at laparoscopic exploration of the abdomen in a severely anaemic 16-month-old child with acute intestinal bleeding. The surgical indication of all unexplained intestinal bleedings is discussed...

Approccio pratico al bambino “sempre stanco”

Gortani G.

2022/3 — pag. 168-172 — DOI

Fatigue is a common, nonspecific symptom with many different aetiologies. The term “fatigue” can be used to describe muscular weakness, difficulty or inability to initiate activity (subjective sense of weakness), reduced capacity to maintain activity...

Anemia severa, arresto di crescita... e dintorni

Tognato E, Fiorica L, Perona A, Loperfido B, Cimminelli L, Ceratto S, Enrico G, Felici E, Manzoni P

2021/9 — pag. 277-279 — DOI

Iron deficiency is the most commonly detected nutritional disorder in childhood and at the same time the most frequent cause of anaemia worldwide. In most cases it can go unnoticed, because it causes subtle symptoms and signs. Iron plays a key role i...

Disturbo della condotta alimentare, ecchimosi e carenza di vitamina C

Attico A, Iacono A, Biserna L, Brandolini S, Marchetti F

2021/9 — pag. 273-276 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 16-year-old girl with a 6-month history of eating disorder, restrictive subtype and diffuse ecchymosis. Anamnestic history and laboratory investigations allowed excluding coagulation disorders and making the diagnosis...

Una “crisi” celiaca

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

2021/8 — pag. 529-532 — 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....

Trauma toracico e... lacerazione epatica

Parpanesi M

2021/3 — pag. 84-84 — DOI

Anemia normocitica e dosaggio degli ormoni tiroidei

E. Ferretti, C.M. Pini, L. Luti

2020/9 — pag. 228-230 — DOI

The paper describes the case of an 11-year-old girl presenting with normocytic hyporegenerative anaemia associated with increase of transaminases, CK and LDH. On physical exam skin pallor, mask-like facies and dry skin were observed; weight and heigh...

Non era una MICI

F. Graziano, R. Ganci, M. Di Pisa, et al.

2020/5 — pag. 319-320

The paper describes a case of colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC) in a twelwe-year-old girl, at first diagnosed as IBD. CRC represents 1-2% of paediatric cancers. Generally, it occurs after the age of 10 years of life. Symptoms of presentation include ab...

Una tumefazione testicolare con linfoma

I. Cattapan, I. Tosetto, A. Meneghel, M. Bellettato

2020/2 — pag. 31-32

Zoppia, citopenia e VES: pensa anche al neuroblastoma

S. Andrade

2019/10 — pag. 250-250

Pile

S. Vignola, G. Ottonello, P. Gianiorio, A. Lavagetto

2018/10 — pag. 662-663

Cerchi una celiachia, trovi... una leucemia

S. Molinari

2018/6

Sbarchi

A. Filpo

2018/6

Un’emolisi ben mascherata

G. Del Borrello

2018/6

Chronic haemolytic anaemia is a pathophysiological process that can be the expression of many possible etiologies (e.g. a congenital defect of a membrane protein, immune-mediated destruction, enzymopathies, altered erythrocyte development). The paper...

Morbo di Crohn: 3 casi per 3 sottolineature

P. Pascolo, M. Bramuzzo, A. Ventura

2018/5 — pag. 331-334

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed in paediatric age, especially during adolescence, in approximately one third of the cases. Pathogenesis is unknown but growing evidence suggests that immunological anomalies due to monoge...

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,...

Morbo di Crohn: 3 casi per 3 sottolineature

P. Pascolo, M. Bramuzzo, A. Ventura

2018/5

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed in paediatric age, especially during adolescence, in approximately one third of the cases. Pathogenesis is unknown but growing evidence suggests that immunological anomalies due to monogenic ...

Scorbuto 2017 attraverso i casi

E. Conversano, R. Bergamaschi, G. Ingrasciotta, A. Martoni, S. Monti, M. Cattalini

2017/6 — pag. 365-370

Scurvy is an uncommon presentation of vitamin deficiency that in our century is becoming more and more common, especially in patients with cognitive disorder. Being an uncommon disease, diagnosis is often delayed and can lead to unnecessary complex...

Picacismo e carenza di ferro: una relazione problematica

S. Zanella, C. Borgna-Pignatti

2017/5 — pag. 291-294

Pica is the compulsive eating of non-nutritive substances and is often associated with iron deficiency but its pathophysiology is unknown. The paper is a review of the literature based on the search of online databases that was carried out using th...

Ipoglicemia chetotica e malattia celiaca: quale relazione? Descrizione di un caso clinico

M. Mainetti, V. Graziani, M. Cozzolino, F. Marchetti

2017/2 — pag. 123-124

Ketotic hypoglycaemia is the most common cause of hy-poglycaemia in preschoolers. The literature does not describe cases that have demonstrated the association between celiac disease and idiopathic ketotic hypoglycaemia. The article reports the case ...

Emorragia splenica post-traumatica in un adolescente: il ruolo della angio-embolizzazione

P. Gallo, C. Radice, M. Mainetti, C. Renzelli, D. Palmarini, F. Marchetti

2016/10 — pag. 665-666

The paper describes the case of a 13-year-old boy who arrived to the emergency room for 2 syncopal episodes associated with abdominal pain. Blood tests showed Hb 10.5 g/dl with normal MCV. His general medical conditions were regular except for a ...

Emorragia splenica post-traumatica in un adolescente: il ruolo della angio-embolizzazione

P. Gallo, C. Radice, M. Mainetti, C. Renzelli, D. Palmarini, F. Marchetti

2016/10

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2016/8

La medicina “magica” che ti rimette in piedi

G.I. Baroncelli, G. Laccetta, A. Giannoni, F. Massei

2016/7 — pag. 445-448

Prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding without vitamin D supplements is a main determinant of vitamin D deficiency rickets in children of immigrants living in Italy. Dark skin may be an adjunctive factor for the development of rickets. Early signs a...

Quando la sferocitosi incontra il chirurgo

C. Bibalo

2015/6

Summary Hereditary spherocytosis is a common inherited disorder that is characterized by anaemia, jaundice and splenomegaly. It is reported worldwide and is the most common inherited anaemia in individuals of northern European ancestry. Clinical ...

La carenza di ferro nel neonato pretermine

V. Guastalla, M.C. Pellegrin, F. Rovere, R. Davanzo

2015/5 — pag. 298-305

Iron deficiency is the most common micronutrient deficiency worldwide. Preterm infants are a special risk group, because of lower total body iron at birth, rapid catch-up growth and uncompensated phlebotomy losses. Recent scientific literature sugg...

La mia Africa

M. Bellettato

2014/5

Raccomandazioni sui latti adattati Le differenze di genere, ovvero Marte e Venere In ricordo del prof. Roberto Burgio

2014/3 — pag. 151-152

Al di là dell’occhio!

G. Ferrara, E. Zanelli

2014/3

Una trasfusione “di troppo”

F. Sfriso, F. Visentin, G. Biddeci, T. Zangardi, S. Zanconato, S. Scanferla, S. Masiero

2013/10

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...

Lupus in fabula

S. Venezia, M. Corradi, S. Osmi, C. Greco, N. Carano

2013/5

Reticolociti: un parametro poco conosciuto e troppo poco utilizzato

U. Ramenghi, G. Ansaldi, M. Davitto, A. Mondino, C. Olivieri, R. Mazzone

2012/10 — pag. 649-651

The paper describes the usefulness of reticulocyte count in the diagnosis and management of anaemia. Reticulocytes are immature red cells that do not have the nucleus, but hold residual extranuclear RNA. In traditional morphologic examination, reti...

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...

L'importante è crederci!

E. Benelli

2012/7

Dalla tiroide al duodeno: andata e ritorno

V. Moressa, L. Materazzo, N. Giurici, G. Tornese

2011/8 — pag. 534

… Tanto ti “frega” comunque!

G. Paloni, E. Rossetto

2011/8 — pag. 534

Il laboratorio africano essenziale

M. Fortini

2011/7 — pag. 427-441

La picnocitosi infantile: una causa rara ma non infrequente di anemia emolitica neonatale severa

A.M. Aurino, R. Di Concilio, G. d’Urzo, M. Amendolara, C. Romano, G. Attianese, S. Mauriello, C. Di Filippo, G. Amendola

2011/3

The diagnosis and treatment of six patients with infantile pyknocytosis are reported. The clinical course and the diagnostic work-up are shown. All the patients necessitated therapy: phototherapy in five patients and one red blood cell transfusion in...

Una banale gastroenterite?

A. Paladini, S. Ciccone, C. Farneti

2010/10

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...

Screening per minori adottati o recentemente immigrati da Paesi a rischio?Un'esperienza su 100 casi

F. De Franco, F. Colonna, E. Miorin, I. Robieux, E. Moretto, P. Aragona, L. Lubrano

2010/3 — pag. 191-192

100 children were studied, 72 recently immigrated with their family from developing countries (40% from sub- Saharan Africa) and 28 adopted from foreign countries. By protocol a complete physical examination and the following tests were performed...

Screening per minori adottati o recentemente immigrati da Paesi a rischio? Un’esperienza su 100 casi

F. De Franco, F. Colonna, E. Miorin, I. Robieux, E. Moretto, P. Aragona, L. Lubrano

2010/3

Quando le vitamine servono davvero

F. Lombardi, A.L. Quitadamo, A. Pelizzoni, P. Accorsi, F. Olivetti

2010/2

La leucemia “italo-cinese”

C. Landini, E. Mazzoni

2009/9

Un percorso troppo breve

Antonio Pulella, Rocco Cavaliere, Angela Tisci, Marco Rabusin

2008/5 — pag. 319-321

A 10-year-old girl was admitted with a 3-month history of pain in her knee joints. The pain had been occasional, very short, particularly prominent at night, when she woke up and then fell asleep again. The knee joints were warm, but there was no li...

Malattie da altitudine

G. Bartolozzi

2008/4 — pag. 239-243

Children less than one year old can be taken to altitudes up to 2,500 meters, like adults with minor or medium severity heart and lung conditions. Higher altitudes can cause severe reactions, including acute mountain sickness and pulmonary and cere...

Anemia emolitica autoimmune in un bambino di 7 anni con colite ulcerosa

C. Brondello, M. Lorusso, E. Pozzi, F. Bronzini, F. Mangiantini, M. de Martino, P. Lionetti

2007/9

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...

ß-talassemia (Parte prima)

G. Bartolozzi

2006/1

La celiachia dal vero: dal bambino all’adulto filo conduttore è l’anemia

T. Gerarduzzi, M. Lazzerini, F. De Franco, A. Lenhardt, I. Berti

2005/7 — pag. 434-455

La malaria

M. Lazzerini

2005/5

Un caso di malaria da Plasmodium Falciparum

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

2005/5

Una ragazza con pelle scura e macchie scure

A. Franzil, A. Taddio, A. Saccari, L. Lepore

2005/4 — pag. 251-252

Manifestazioni ematologiche nelle malattie mitocondriali con mutazione del mt-DNA

R. Cerchio, F. Timeus, P. Saracco, L. Garbarini, P. Quarello, M. Forni, L. Montezemolo, U. Ramenghi, M. Zeviani

2005/1

Quando una sepsi neonatale nasconde una malattia metabolica

C. Forino, C. Rodriguez-Perez

2005/1 — pag. 58-58

A 50-day-old boy presented with failure to thrive, hypotonia, pustular lesions and facial erythema, neutropenia and multiple positive cultures to Staphylococcus aureus. He was treated with intravenous antibiotics without clinical benefit. He devel...

Leggere l’emocromo

I. Bruno

2004/2 — pag. 113-115

Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

Un caso di istiocitosi con interessamento cutaneo ed edema

2003/8 — pag. 535

A case of histiocytosis with skin involvement, multifocal disease including visceral involvement....

Un caso di emosiderosi polmonare idiopatica

2003/6 — pag. 400

A case of idiopathic pulmonary emosiderosis with irondeficiency anemia as the only presenting sign is described...

La storia di Fabio

A. Pinti

2003/3 — pag. 193-195

Laboratorio "fai da te" in un ospedale africano

A. Azzini, S. Facchini, F. Panizon

2003/2

Anemia cronica nell’artrite reumatoide: ferro intrappolato o ferro conservato?Terapia dell’asma e monitoraggio degli eosinofili nello sputoBambini poveri, adulti malati Sembra proprio veroAncora più indietro: le malattie dell’adulto nascono nel fetoAppendicectomia: benvenuta nella colite ulcerosaUna terapia (apparentemente) paradossale per la malattia di CrohnIgG endovena nella sindrome di Kawasaki e ossido nitrico“Cortisone” nella meningite: sì, certamente sì negli adulti

2002/10 — pag. 639-640

Diagnosi precoce di malaria da Plasmodium falciparum

A. Comite, A. Perrone, R. Chakrokh, P. Salvago, A. Corsini, P. Minelli, M. Malni

2002/9

Malaria: diagnosi tempestiva

2002/9 — pag. 606-606

Report of a malaria case (temperature, convulsions, anaemia, splenomegaly) back from a trip to Africa....

Le microcitosi nel bambino: classificazione e approccio diagnostico

A. Sciotto, V. Furia, S.E. Munda

2001/2 — pag. 87-93

The Authors provide an overview of microcytic anemias. Causes of microcytic anemia include a wide variety of diseases, the most common being iron-deficiency, impaired haemoglobin synthesis, sideroblastic anemias and anemias due to chronic disease. ...

CELIACHIA: DAL BAMBINO ALL’ADULTOCeliachia, autoimmunità e altro: sei famiglie e una lettera

A. Ventura, P. Petaros, T. Gerarduzzi, G. Torre, S. Martelossi, M. Persic

2000/1 — pag. 19-30

Six families are described where more than one component was diagnosed as coeliac. The reported cases provide strong evidence of both the genetic background and the broad clinical spectrum of gluten intolerance. Most cases did not show any gastroin...

La malttia infiammatoria cronica intestinale: una esperienza “tutta d’un fiato”

G. Palla e coll.

1998/8 — pag. 523-527

La carenza di ferro Parte II: Clinica, prevenzione e terapia

C. Vullo

1998/6 — pag. 359-374

Part II of the review on iron deficiency (ID) is devoted to clinical manifestations, prevention and treatment. Pallor and fatigue are increasingly rare as presenting signs and symptoms of ID in industrialized countries. More subtle conditions su...

Eritroblastopenia transitoria del bambino

F. Massei, M. Nardi, C. Favre e coll.

1998/4 — pag. 247-250

The Authors describe the diagnostic, therapeutical and prognostic features of transient erythroblastopenia of childhood (TEC) and report 5 cases. This disorder usually occurs in children aged between 6 mounts and 5 years. The clinical picture is...