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Sferra R, Pompili S, D'Alfonso A, Sabetta G, Gaudio E, Carta G, Festuccia C, Colapietro A, Vetuschi A. Neurovascular alterations of muscularis propria in the human anterior vaginal wall in pelvic organ prolapse. J Anat 2019; 235:281-288. [PMID: 31148163 PMCID: PMC6637706 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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In the pathophysiology and progression of pelvic organ prolapse (POP), it has been demonstrated that there is a reorganisation of the muscularis propria of the anterior vaginal wall due to a phenotypic smooth muscle cell to myofibroblast switch. An abnormal deposition of collagen type III seems to be influenced by the involvement of advanced glycation end‐products. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the hypothesis that this connective tissue remodelling could also be associated with neurovascular alterations of the muscularis in women with POP compared with control patients. We examined 30 women with POP and 10 control patients treated for uterine fibromatosis. Immunohistochemical analysis, using glial fibrillary acidic protein, S‐100 protein, receptor tyrosine kinase, neurofilament and α‐smooth muscle actin antibodies, was performed. S‐100, receptor tyrosine kinase and neurofilament were also evaluated using Western blot analysis. We observed a decrease in all neurovascular‐tested markers in nerve bundles, ganglia and interstitial cells of Cajal from POP samples as compared with controls. Even if the processes responsible for these morphological alterations are still not known, it is conceivable that collagen III deposition in the anterior vaginal wall affects not only the architecture of the muscle layer but could also modify the intramuscular neurovascularisation and account for an alteration of the neuromuscular plasticity of the layer.
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- R Sferra
- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Gynecology and Obstetrics Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Gynecology and Obstetrics Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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SummaryThe authors studied the behaviour of neonate platelet O2 consumption after the addition of pyridine nucleotide compared to adult controls.O2 consumption of neonate platelets after NADH addition was 103,2 mμmol O2/109/hr (SE = 24,74) and in adult controls 188,8 mμmol O2/109/hr (SE = 36,46).After the addition of NADPH O2 consumption was, respectively, 233,5 mμmol (SE = 46,29) and 218,3 mμmol (SE = 30,01).
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Principe DD, Mancuso G, Menichelli A, Maretto G, Sabetta G. Oxygen Consumption in Platelets of Newborn Infants before and after Stimulation by Thrombin. Thromb Haemost 2018. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1647969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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SummaryThe authors compared the oxygen consumption in platelets from the umbilical cord blood of 36 healthy newborn infants with that of 27 adult subjects, before and after thrombin addition (1.67 U/ml). Oxygen consumption at rest was 6 mμmol/109/min in adult control platelets and 5.26 in newborn infants. The burst in oxygen consumption after thrombin addition was 26.30 mμmol/109/min in adults and 24.90 in infants. Dinitrophenol did not inhibit the burst of O2 consumption in platelets in 8 out of 10 newborn infants, while the same concentration caused a decrease in 9 out of 10 adult subjects. Deoxyglucose inhibited the burst in O2 consumption in newborn infant and adult platelets by about 50%. KCN at the concentration of 10−4 M completely inhibited basal oxygen consumption but did not completely inhibit the burst after thrombin. At the concentration of 10−3 M, it inhibited both basal O2 consumption and the burst in infants and adult subjects.
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We report on a favourable pregnancy in a woman affected by mut- methylmalonic acidaemia. Under vitamin B12 and carnitine therapy she remained symptom-free throughout pregnancy, labour, delivery and the postpartum period and gave birth to a term, healthy female newborn. At follow-up, the child shows normal somatic and neurocognitive development.
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- F Deodato
- Division of Metabolism, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Picca S, Dionisi-Vici C, Abeni D, Pastore A, Rizzo C, Orzalesi M, Sabetta G, Rizzoni G, Bartuli A. Extracorporeal dialysis in neonatal hyperammonemia: modalities and prognostic indicators. Pediatr Nephrol 2001; 16:862-7. [PMID: 11685590 DOI: 10.1007/s004670100702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2001] [Accepted: 07/10/2001] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We investigated the prognostic indicators in ten hyperammonemic neonates: four treated by continuous arteriovenous hemodialysis (CAVHD), four with continuous venovenous hemodialysis (CVVHD), and two with hemodialysis (HD). Plasma ammonium levels decreased significantly within the first 24 h irrespective of dialysis modality (from 1419 to 114 micromol/l, median values; P<0.0001). CVVHD achieved the highest ammonium clearance. HD provided highest ammonium extraction but clearance was hampered by severe hemodynamic instability. Five patients had a good outcome (normal at follow-up of 9-59 months), five had poor outcome (four died and one has severe neurological damage). Total coma duration was shorter in patients who had a good outcome (47+/-11 vs 78+/-13 h; P=0.02). Remarkably, only coma duration before dialysis determined this difference (22.2+/-10.1 vs 48.8+/-11.2 h; P=0.02). In cases with good outcome, coma duration was <33 h, whereas the others exceeded this limit. The prognosis was not related to dialysis modality, rapidity in reducing ammonium levels or to the underlying metabolic defect. In conclusion, results showed CVVHD to be the optimal modality for extracorporeal ammonium detoxification. However, the most relevant indicator for prognosis was coma duration before the start of dialysis. Therefore, major efforts should be made to refer patients quickly to highly specialized centers.
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- S Picca
- Division of Nephrology and Dialyses, Bambino Gesù Children Research Hospital, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy.
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- C Rizzo
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Bambino Gesù Children's Research Hospital, Rome, Italy.
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Rizzo C, Dionisi-Vici C, D'Ippoliti M, Fina F, Sabetta G, Federici G. A simple and rapid HPLC method for simultaneous determination of plasma 7-dehydrocholesterol and vitamin E: its application in Smith-Lemli-Opitz patients. Clin Chim Acta 2000; 291:97-102. [PMID: 10612721 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-8981(99)00197-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- C Rizzo
- Department of Metabolism, IRCCS 'Bambino Gesù' Children's Research Hospital, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165, Rome, Italy.
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Dionisi-Vici C, De Felice L, el Hachem M, Bottero S, Rizzo C, Paoloni A, Goffredo B, Sabetta G, Caniglia M. Intravenous immune globulin in lysinuric protein intolerance. J Inherit Metab Dis 1998; 21:95-102. [PMID: 9584260 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005383307100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In addition to systemic manifestations with skeletal, pulmonary, renal, and haematological signs, lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI), a membrane transport defect of cationic amino acids, is often complicated by severe life-threatening immunological manifestations. A 10-year-old boy with LPI who exhibited a severe systemic immunohaematological disease is described here. This patient showed cutaneous lesions similar to the subacute form of systemic lupus erythematosus, severe anaemia and dysproteinaemia, and a marked reduction of circulating T lymphocytes, mainly the CD4+ cells. In vitro bone marrow cell culture studies showed that addition of patient's serum induced macrophage proliferation and inhibited erythroid progenitor cell growth. Treatment with high-dose intravenous immune globulin resolved most of the clinical and laboratory abnormalities.
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- C Dionisi-Vici
- Department of Metabolism, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Dionisi-Vici C, Ruitenbeek W, Fariello G, Bentlage H, Wanders RJ, Schägger H, Bosman C, Piantadosi C, Sabetta G, Bertini E. New familial mitochondrial encephalopathy with macrocephaly, cardiomyopathy, and complex I deficiency. Ann Neurol 1997; 42:661-5. [PMID: 9382480 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Two siblings presented with a new phenotype consisting of fatal progressive macrocephaly and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Onset of symptoms started in both patients at the end of the first month of life with massive brain swelling causing macrocephaly and evolving to extensive brain destruction. Light microscopy of the lesions showed extensive small-vessel proliferation and gliosis. A distinct deficiency of complex I of mitochondrial respiratory chain was established in cultured fibroblasts, skeletal muscle, and heart muscle. Specific lack of complex I protein was demonstrated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.
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Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency, a recently identified disorder of fatty-acid oxidation, may show characteristic features such as peripheral neuropathy, pigmentary retinopathy, and acute fatty liver degeneration in pregnant women with an affected fetus. We describe a patient with trifunctional protein deficiency whose clinical picture consisted of severe calcium and phosphate abnormalities caused by hypoparathyroidism.
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- C Dionisi-Vici
- Department of Metabolism, Bambino Gesù Hospital Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Rome, Italy
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Fariello G, Dionisi-Vici C, Orazi C, Malena S, Bartuli A, Schingo P, Carnevale E, Saponara I, Sabetta G. Cranial ultrasonography in maple syrup urine disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1996; 17:311-5. [PMID: 8938303 PMCID: PMC8338363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We performed serial cranial ultrasonography in four newborns affected by maple syrup urine disease. Symmetric increase of echogenicity of periventricular white matter, basal ganglia (mainly pallidi), and thalami was detected in the acute stage. The degree of ultrasonography abnormalities paralleled the clinical course of the disease.
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- G Fariello
- Department of Radiology, Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- A B Burlina
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Padova, Italy
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Burlina AB, Dionisi-Vici C, Bennett MJ, Gibson KM, Servidei S, Bertini E, Hale DE, Schmidt-Sommerfeld E, Sabetta G, Zacchello F. A new syndrome with ethylmalonic aciduria and normal fatty acid oxidation in fibroblasts. J Pediatr 1994; 124:79-86. [PMID: 8283379 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(94)70257-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We describe four Italian male infants with a novel clinical phenotype characterized by orthostatic acrocyanosis, relapsing petechiae, chronic diarrhea, progressive pyramidal signs, mental retardation, and brain magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities. The first symptoms appeared after the termination of breast-feeding and introduction of formula feeding. Marked persistent 2-ethylmalonic aciduria was associated with abnormal excretion of C4-C5(n-butyryl-, isobutyryl-, isovaleryl-, and 2-methylbutyryl-)acylglycines and acylcarnitines and with intermittent lactic acidosis. Short- and branched-chain plasma acylcarnitine levels were also elevated. 2-Ethylmalonic aciduria is generally regarded as being indicative of a defect in fatty acid oxidation. Extensive studies of cultured fibroblasts failed to reveal such a defect. The observation of intermittent urinary excretion of 2-ethylhydracrylic acid pointed to involvement of the isoleucine R pathway in ethylmalonate biosynthesis. This hypothesis was tentatively corroborated by the biochemical responses to an oral isoleucine challenge in two patients. However, fibroblast studies showed normal oxidation rates of (14C)isoleucine (ul), indicating that this is not a defect of isoleucine oxidation expressed in skin fibroblasts. In one of two patients tested, cytochrome c oxidase activity was partially reduced (45%) in cultured fibroblasts. This unique clinical and biochemical phenotype identifies a new metabolic encephalopathy of yet undetermined cause.
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- A B Burlina
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Padua, Italy
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Genuardi M, Dionisi-Vici C, Sabetta G, Mignozzi M, Rizzoni G, Cotugno G, Martini Neri ME. Cerebro-reno-digital (Meckel-like) syndrome with Dandy-Walker malformation, cystic kidneys, hepatic fibrosis, and polydactyly. Am J Med Genet 1993; 47:50-3. [PMID: 8368252 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320470111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We report on a boy with several findings of the Meckel syndrome, such as hepatic fibrosis, polycystic kidneys, post-axial hexadactyly, and genital abnormalities, but a Dandy-Walker malformation rather an occipital meningocele. Progressive deterioration of renal function beginning at 37 months led to death at 43 months. Both Dandy-Walker malformation and survival to the fourth year are unusual findings in Meckel syndrome. This uncommon combination represents a further demonstration of the pleiotropy/heterogeneity of the cerebro-reno-digital syndromes.
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- M Genuardi
- Istituto di Genetica Medica, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Rome, Italy
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Mazziotta MR, Ricci E, Bertini E, Dionisi Vici C, Servidei S, Burlina AB, Sabetta G, Bartuli A, Manfredi G, Silvestri G. Fatal infantile liver failure associated with mitochondrial DNA depletion. J Pediatr 1992; 121:896-901. [PMID: 1447652 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80335-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A 3-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of hypotonia and frequent vomiting. She had severe metabolic acidosis and her liver function was abnormal. Hepatomegaly and rapidly progressive liver failure developed, and she died at 4 months of age. Two half-siblings from a different mother had died in infancy of an undiagnosed myopathy. The liver was fatty and hepatocytes were filled with large and small lipid droplets. Other tissues were morphologically normal. The respiratory chain enzymes containing subunits encoded by mitochondrial DNA were markedly decreased in liver, partially decreased in muscle, but normal in other tissues. Southern blot analysis showed 90% depletion of mitochondrial DNA in liver, 53% depletion in muscle, and normal amounts in other tissues. This is the second case of fatal infantile liver failure associated with mitochondrial DNA depletion. This pathogenetic mechanism should be considered in infants with multiple respiratory chain defects and variable tissue expression.
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- M R Mazziotta
- Department of Metabolism, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Bertini E, Dionisi-Vici C, Garavaglia B, Burlina AB, Sabatelli M, Rimoldi M, Bartuli A, Sabetta G, DiDonato S. Peripheral sensory-motor polyneuropathy, pigmentary retinopathy, and fatal cardiomyopathy in long-chain 3-hydroxy-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Eur J Pediatr 1992; 151:121-6. [PMID: 1537353 DOI: 10.1007/bf01958956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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An 11-month-old girl presented acute episodes of hypoglycaemia and hepatic encephalopathy reminiscent of Reye syndrome and 3-hydroxydicarboxylic aciduria. The patient showed peculiar clinical manifestations of severe sensory-motor neuropathy, pigmentary retinopathy, and cardiomyopathy. She died of cardiac failure. Pathological studies of peripheral nerve showed signs of axonal neuropathy and demyelination. Enzymatic studies in cultured fibroblasts showed a deficiency of mitochondrial long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase. Peripheral nerve involvement and retinal pigmentary degeneration have as yet not been described in patients with proven defects of mitochondrial beta-oxidation.
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- E Bertini
- Department of Metabolism, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Burlina A, Zacchello F, Dionisi-Vici C, Bertini E, Sabetta G, Bennet MJ, Hale DE, Schmidt-Sommerfeld E, Rinaldo P. New clinical phenotype of branched-chain acyl-CoA oxidation defect. Lancet 1991; 338:1522-3. [PMID: 1683940 DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)92338-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Dionisi Vici C, Burlina AB, Bertini E, Bachmann C, Mazziotta MR, Zacchello F, Sabetta G, Hale DE. Progressive neuropathy and recurrent myoglobinuria in a child with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency. J Pediatr 1991; 118:744-6. [PMID: 2019931 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80039-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- C Dionisi Vici
- Department of Metabolism, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Sebastio G, de Franchis R, Strisciuglio P, Andria G, Dionisi Vici C, Sabetta G, Gatti R, Cross NC, Cox TM. Aldolase B mutations in Italian families affected by hereditary fructose intolerance. J Med Genet 1991; 28:241-3. [PMID: 1856829 PMCID: PMC1016824 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.28.4.241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is an inborn error of metabolism caused by aldolase B deficiency. The aldolase B gene has been cloned and the following mutations causing HFI have been identified: A149P (a G----C transversion in exon 5), A174D (a C----A transversion in exon 5), L288 delta C (a base pair deletion in exon 8), and N334K (a G----C transversion in exon 9). We have investigated the occurrence of these mutations in 11 Italian patients affected by HFI using PCR and hybridisation to specific oligomers. We found that four patients were homozygous for the A149P mutation, two patients were homozygous for the A174D mutation, three patients were compound heterozygotes for both the A149P and A174D mutations, one patient was homozygous for the N334K mutation, and one patient did not show any of the reported mutations (HFI diagnosis carried out by aldolase B assay). The L288 delta C mutation has not been found in this survey.
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- G Sebastio
- Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
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Dionisi Vici C, Bartuli A, Mazziotta MR, Sabetta G. Early introduction of uncooked cornstarch for the treatment of glycogen storage disease type I. Acta Paediatr Scand 1990; 79:978-9. [PMID: 2264476 DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1990.tb11366.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- C Dionisi Vici
- Department of Metabolism, Bambino Gesù', Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Liechti S, Dionisi Vici C, Bachmann C, Mazziotta MR, Bartuli A, Sabetta G. Prenatal exclusion of ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) by using RFLP analysis. J Inherit Metab Dis 1990; 13:888-90. [PMID: 1981921 DOI: 10.1007/bf01800215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- S Liechti
- Department of Genetics, Kinderklinik Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland
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Dionisi Vici C, Sabetta G, Gambarara M, Vigevano F, Bertini E, Boldrini R, Parisi SG, Quinti I, Aiuti F, Fiorilli M. Agenesis of the corpus callosum, combined immunodeficiency, bilateral cataract, and hypopigmentation in two brothers. Am J Med Genet 1988; 29:1-8. [PMID: 3344762 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320290102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We describe 2 brothers with a malformation syndrome consisting of agenesis of the corpus callosum, cutaneous hypopigmentation, bilateral cataract, cleft lip and palate, and combined immunodeficiency. The clinical history of both patients was characterized by severe psychomotor retardation, seizures, recurrent severe respiratory infections, and chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. The children died of bronchopneumonia at age 2 and 3 years, respectively. Immunological investigations showed, in one sib studied, skin anergy to recall antigens, profound depletion of T4+ lymphocytes, and serum IgG2 deficiency. Necropsy showed agenesis of the corpus callosum, hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, and profound hypoplasia of the thymus and of the peripheral lymphoid tissue. The distinctive features of these sibs appear to define a previously undescribed hereditary MCA/MR syndrome. The clinical and pathological findings seem to indicate, as a pathogenetic mechanism, a defect involving the embryonic organization of the central nervous system and of the immune system.
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- C Dionisi Vici
- Ospedale Bambino Gesù, Pediatric Research Center, Rome, Italy
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- C Dionisi-Vici
- Servizio di Patologia Metabolica, Ospedale Bambino Gesù Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica, Roma, Italy
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Dionisi Vici C, Bachmann C, Gambarara M, Colombo JP, Sabetta G. Hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome: low creatine excretion and effect of citrulline, arginine, or ornithine supplement. Pediatr Res 1987; 22:364-7. [PMID: 3116497 DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198709000-00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Two patients with neonatal onset of hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome were studied at 4 and 2 1/2 yr of age, respectively. The aim of the investigation was to assess the effect of supplementing citrulline, arginine, or ornithine (2 mmol/kg per day) while on a protein-restricted diet. The peroral supplementation was carried out during 2 wk for each amino acid. While ammonia in plasma was not increased the supply of citrulline or arginine led to a reduction of plasma glutamine compared to ornithine supplement or to no supplement (control period). Plasmatic ornithine was raised in all instances. Homocitrulline excretion was lower with all additions compared to the control period. Adding citrulline to the diet (in contrast to supplementing arginine) did not lower tubular lysine reabsorption. A lowered creatine excretion was found which could be normalized by arginine or citrulline. The data are compatible with a product inhibition of arginino-glycine transamidinase suggesting that the enzyme is not located in the mitochondrial matrix in man. Citrulline supplement combined with a protein-restricted diet appears to allow a normal development. The additional finding of a factor VII and X deficiency in one of the patient and reports in the literature of this association in two other patients with hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome suggest that the genetic defect leading to the syndrome might be located on chromosome 13.
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- C Dionisi Vici
- Servizio di Patologia Metabolica, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica, Rome, Italy
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A baby with a 46,XY,r(20) karyotype is described. The distinguishing features of this rare chromosome anomaly are analysed in the light of the suggested r(20) syndrome.
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Sabetta G, Bachmann C, Giardini O, Castro M, Gambarara M, Vici CD, Bartlett K, Middleton B. beta-Ketothiolase deficiency with favourable evolution. J Inherit Metab Dis 1987; 10:405-6. [PMID: 3126364 DOI: 10.1007/bf01799988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- G Sabetta
- Servizio di Patologia Metabolica, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica, Roma, Italy
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Bertini E, Marini R, Sabetta G, Palmieri GP, Spagnoli LG, Vaccario ML, de Barsy T. The spectrum of the so-called rigid spine syndrome: nosological considerations and report of three female cases. J Neurol 1986; 233:248-53. [PMID: 3746364 DOI: 10.1007/bf00314029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Three female cases of the "rigid spine" syndrome are reported and associated with different nosological entities. One patient was affected by congenital muscular dystrophy and one by a morphological pattern of fibre type disproportion with type I atrophy. The third patient showed very peculiar morphological changes on a muscle biopsy specimen resembling a vacuolar myopathy, which is rarely described in association with the rigid spine syndrome. The importance of an adequate investigation of the rigid spine syndrome and the recognition of the presence or absence of cardiomyopathy, if there is to be correct genetic counselling, is discussed.
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Castro M, Lucidi V, Colistro F, Papadatou B, Sabetta G, Ferretti F, Giardini O, Martufi A. [Serum levels of immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, IgM) in 82 celiac disease patients]. Minerva Pediatr 1984; 36:455-8. [PMID: 6472230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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D'Eufemia P, Corrado G, Sabetta G, Castro M, Martino F, Cantani A, Ruberto U. [Congenital deficiency of ornithine transcarbamylase. Description of 2 clinical cases]. Minerva Pediatr 1983; 35:219-24. [PMID: 6343831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Baumgartner R, Giardini O, Cantani A, Sabetta G, Castro M. Methylmalonic acidaemia due to mutase apoenzyme defect: responsive to vitamin B12 in intact fibroblasts but not in vivo. J Inherit Metab Dis 1982; 5:137-41. [PMID: 6133033 DOI: 10.1007/bf01800166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Congenital methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA-aemia) was diagnosed in an 8-month-old girl who presented with severe metabolic acidosis, hypoglycaemia and hyperglycinaemia. Vomiting, failure to thrive and apathy first appeared when breast feeding was replaced by a cows' milk formula at the age of 3 months. The patient, unresponsive to OH-Cbl therapy, was successfully treated with dietary protein restriction and with Shohl's solution. Aged 4 years 9 months, she is in good health. Studies in cultured fibroblasts revealed a defect of the MMA-CoA mutase apoenzyme. Mutase activity in cell extracts was barely detectable both with and without added coenzyme (Ado-Cbl). Addition of OH-Cbl to the culture medium improved overall propionate metabolism in intact fibroblasts but had no effect on mutase activity in cell extracts. These observations point to the presence of a very labile mutant enzyme, suggesting that the patient reported here may be suffering from yet another variant of MMA-aemia.
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Sabetta G, Castro M, Donfrancesco A, Castelli P, Lucidi V, Lubrano R, Ruberto U, Qaddourah M. [Reye's syndrome: pathogenetic problems (author's transl)]. Pediatr Med Chir 1981; 3:555-7. [PMID: 7343954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The authors describe six subjects with Reye's syndrome. All subjects died nevertheless the treatment (exchange-transfusions infusions of citrulline and ornithine). The autoptical studies showed cerebral oedema and fatty degeneration of the liver. Hepatic and seric OTC activity was measured in three patients: enzyme activity was virtually absent in one patient and normal in the other two. Instead in one patient was found partial CPS deficiency. However, Reye's syndrome is not only correlated with enzymatic deficiency of urea's cycle but sometimes also with toxic and metabolic causes.
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Castro M, Sabetta G, Lucidi V, Catena G, Gugliantini P. [Celiac disease: correlation of different diagnostic methods (author's transl)]. Pediatr Med Chir 1981; 3:403-6. [PMID: 7343934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The results of four diagnostic tests have been critically evaluated (xylosemia, serum Ig A level, steatorrhea, X-Ray of the digestic tract) in 80 cases of atrophy of the small intestinal mucosa discovered by biopsy, and in 20 cases in which the biopsy has proved normal. In the celiac subjects the best correlation with the biopsy was found with xylosemia (90%), followed by serum Ig A (87%), by X-Ray of the digestive tract (86%) and finally by steatorrhea (59%). Even in cases without histological alteration of the mucosa, and xylosemia proved abnormal in 70% of the cases, the seric IgA resulted higher greater than 2 delta in 35%, the steatorrhea in 29% while the X-Ray of the digestive tract has never given a false diagnosis. The presence of false negative or positive results in all four tests (except the radiological tests) reconfirms the absolute necessity for biopsy of the digestive tract in the diagnosis of celiac disorder, and has led the AA. Carry out whenever possible the xylosemia, the steatorrhea and the serum IgA level because in none of the 80 cases of celiac disorder has there been a false negative result in all three such tests at the same time.
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Castelli P, Castro M, Carratelli D, Lucidi V, Sabetta G, Vigevano F. [Reye's syndrome. Follow-up of 1 case]. Riv Neurobiol 1981; 27:626-32. [PMID: 7052671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Del Principe D, Menichelli A, Damiano AM, Coppola L, Sabetta G. Cyanide insensitive oxidase in platelets of newborn infant. Thromb Haemost 1977; 37:339-43. [PMID: 577631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The authors studied the behaviour of neonate platelet O2 consumption after the addition of pyridine nucleotide compared to adult controls. O2 consumption of neonate platelets after NADH addition was 103,2 millimicronmol O2/10(9)/hr (SE = 24,74) and in adult controls 188,8 millimicronmol O2/10(9)/hr (SE = 36,46). After the addition of NADPH O2 consumption was, respectively, 233,5 millimicronmol (SE = 46,29) and 218,3 millimicronmol (SE = 30,01).
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Del Principe D, Mancuso G, Menichelli A, Maretto G, Sabetta G. Oxygen consumption in platelets of newborn infants before and after stimulation by thrombin. Thromb Haemost 1976; 35:712-6. [PMID: 989975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The authors compared the oxygen consumption in platelets from the umbilical cord blood of 36 healthy newborn infants with that of 27 adult subjects, before and after thrombin addition (1.67 U/ml). Oxygen consumption at rest was 6 mumol/10(9)/min in adult control platelets and 5.26 in newborn infants. The burst in oxygen consumption after thrombin addition was 26.30 mumol/10(9)/min in adults and 24.90 in infants. Dinitrophenol did not inhibit the burst of O2 consumption in platelets in 8 out of 10 newborn infants, while the same concentration caused a decrease in 9 out of 10 adult subjects. Deoxyglucose inhibited the burst in O2 consumption in newborn infant and adult platelets by about 50%. KCN at the concentration of 10(-4) M completely inhibited basal oxygen consumption but did not completely inhibit the burst after thrombin. At the concentration of 10(-3) M, it inhibited both basal O2 consumption and the burst in infants and adult subjects.
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Iannetti P, Multari G, Sabetta G, Pinies S, Digilio G. [Electroencephalographic findings in children with acute lymphatic leukemia during treatment with vincristine]. Minerva Pediatr 1975; 27:727-8. [PMID: 1055288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Ballati G, Castello MA, Sabetta G, Midulla M. [Serum levels of the 3d and 4th complement factors in children with cytomegalic virus disease with predominantly hepatic involvement]. Minerva Pediatr 1975; 27:663-7. [PMID: 167271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Del Principe D, Balducci L, Sabetta G. Letter: NBT test in newborn platelets. Thromb Diath Haemorrh 1974; 31:368-9. [PMID: 4852878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Giovannozzi-Sermanni G, Del Principe D, Tricoli D, Sabetta G. Phosphatidylserine metabolism in normal and hemophylic human plasma. Clin Chim Acta 1973; 49:211-3. [PMID: 4772658 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(73)90293-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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