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Buonsenso D, Curatola A, Lazzareschi I, Panza G, Morello R, Marrocco R, Valentini P, Cota F, Rendeli C. Developmental dysplasia of the hip: real world data from a retrospective analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of universal screening. J Ultrasound 2020; 24:403-410. [PMID: 32356221 DOI: 10.1007/s40477-020-00463-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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AIMS Developmental dysplasia of the hip is an important cause of disability in children and young adult and it also has a significant socio-economic impact in our society. The main objective of our study is to evaluate, in our hospital, the effectiveness of a universal ultrasound screening protocol and to assess the general knowledge about the theme of pediatricians and neonatologists. METHODS Retrospective study of infants born from January 2016 to April 2019, evaluated with hip ultrasound (Graf method). Risk factors assessed were female gender, breech presentation at birth, positive family history and twin birth. For the secondary objective, an anonymous and validated questionnaire was distributed to all pediatricians and neonatologists. RESULTS Among the 4000 hips analyzed, on ultrasound examination, 98.8% hips resulted mature or immature but appropriate for age, while 1,2% hips were pathological. Analyzing the mature or immature hips, 2,4% were positive on clinical examination and 97,6% were negative. In relation to ultrasound pathological hips, 33,3% have positive clinical examination, while 66,7% negative. From the analysis of risk factors a significant association emerged between female sex, breech presentation and family history with the ultrasound pathological findings. The results of Survey showed that inadequate training about developmental dysplasia of the hip is done during medical school. CONCLUSIONS A universal ultrasound screening allowed us to identify developmental dysplasia of the hip in a number of children with normal clinical examination and no risk factors. Specific training courses should be implemented regarding Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip for neonatologists and pediatricians.
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- Danilo Buonsenso
- Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, RM, Italy
- Department of Pediatrics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, RM, Italy.
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- Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, RM, Italy
- Department of Pediatrics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, RM, Italy
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- Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, RM, Italy
- Department of Pediatrics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Spina Bifida Center, Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Buccelletti F, Marsiliani D, Zuccalà G, Iacomini P, Proietti L, Pola E, Zirio G, Genitiempo M, Marrocco R, Conti C, Brunetti C, Rocchi L, Merendi G, D'Aurizio G, Gilardi E, Franceschi F. Paracetamol-codeine compared to ketorolac for pain control in the Emergency Department. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2014; 18:3139-3143. [PMID: 25392117] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Paracetamol /codeine has shown a strong analgesic activity in several studies conducted among different kind of subjects, including those with trauma. Nevertheless, its efficacy in patients accessing the Emergency Department (ED) for different kind of pain has never been tested. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional, observational, prospective, cohort study. Inclusion criteria were patients > 18 year old presenting to the ED for localized traumatic or inflammatory pain involving only extremities. Numeric scale (NRS) was recorded thirty minutes and two hours after the administration of the analgesic therapy, consisting of 15 mg of ketorolac or 1000 mg/60 mg of paracetamol/ codeine, both orally. RESULTS Two-hundred patients were consecutively enrolled; 87 were treated with paracetamol/codeine and 113 with ketorolac. The combination paracetamol/codeine resulted to be not inferior to ketorolac in non-traumatic pain group and trauma group (p = 0.635 and p = 0.482, respectively). Compared to ketorolac, the combination paracetamol/codeine exerted a significantly higher analgesic activity in patients with fractures and muscular pain (p = 0.044) and was more effective in acute pain (p = 0.002), with a significant effect two hours after the administration (p = 0.029). CONCLUSIONS Paracetamol/codeine is equivalent to ketorolac in non-traumatic pain and post-traumatic pain, but is superior in acute pain and in patients with fractures and muscular pain. Those results play in favor of the use of the combination paracetamol/codeine in patients accessing the ED for non-traumatic or traumatic pain of the extremities.
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- F Buccelletti
- Emergency Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, School of Medicine, Rome, Italy.
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RATIONALE Nicotine is known to facilitate attentional processing, but its role in processing spatial and non-spatial cues is not well established in rodents. OBJECTIVE These experiments tested the hypothesis that nicotine facilitates the orienting of attention in space but has no effect on non-spatial cues and that the benefits are blocked by the nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine. METHODS Eight male rats were trained to insert their noses in an opening, which triggered the presentation of cue and target lights in a modified covert orienting task. Four types of trials were presented: valid cues (cue and target lights on the same side of the nose hole), invalid cues (cue and targets on opposite sides), double cues (both cue lights illuminated, target on either side), and no cue (cue lights omitted, targets on either side). The reaction time required to withdraw the nose from the fixation hole (RT) and the time for the rat to move to the feeder (MT) were measured. RESULTS Nicotine decreased all RTs in a dose-dependent manner but significantly lowered the invalid cue RTs and the validity effect (invalid-valid cue RT). Mecamylamine slowed RTs in a dose-dependent fashion and reduced the validity effect by significantly slowing the valid cue RTs. With mixtures of a fixed strength of nicotine and an increasing dose of mecamylamine, RTs showed nicotine-like effects at low doses and mecamylamine-like effects at high doses. Neither of these drugs had a major effect on non-orienting trials (double and no cue RTs), and the alerting effect (no cue RTs-double cue RTs). CONCLUSIONS Taken together with recent work in humans and non-human primates, these results suggest that the nicotinic cholinergic modulation of visual covert orienting is conserved across species despite different ecological niches.
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- C Stewart
- Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403-1254, USA
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Marrocco R, Castiglione MR, Ruberti F, Maggini F, Avanzi S. Ribosomal RNA genes of Phaseolus coccineus. IV. Structure and comparative-analysis of the intergenic spacer: possible involvement of some nucleotides in the transcription control of coding sequences. Sequence of the intergenic spacer of ribosomal genes. DNA Seq 1998; 9:45-8. [PMID: 9773275 DOI: 10.3109/10425179809050024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The sequence of the intergenic spacer (IGS) of Phaseolus coccineus is determined. The IGS contains three distinct regions: Region A, constant in length; Region B, heterogeneous in length among genes, including two very similar segments 162 and 177 bp long, repeated two and nine times respectively in the investigated clone; Region C, constant in length, comprising five islands. The putative promoters and the sites of termination, processing and methylation are detected by a comparison with other plant systems.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Plant/chemistry
- DNA, Plant/isolation & purification
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/isolation & purification
- Fabaceae/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Genes, rRNA/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plants, Medicinal
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Terminator Regions, Genetic
- Transcription, Genetic
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- R Marrocco
- Dept. of Agrobiology and Agrochemistry, Tuscia University Viterbo, Italy
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Marrocco R, Gelati MT, Maggini F. Nucleotide sequence of the internal transcribed spacers and 5.8S region of ribosomal DNA in Pinus pinea L. DNA Seq 1996; 6:175-7. [PMID: 8722573 DOI: 10.3109/10425179609010206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence of the first internal transcribed spacer (ITS1) belonging to different ribosomal RNA genes from Pinus pinea are reported. The analyzed ITS1 can be distinguished on the basis of their length, being one 2631 bp and the other 271 bp long. Nucleotide comparison of these regions did not show appreciable sequence homology. The larger ITS1 contains five tandem arranged subrepeats with size ranging between 219 bp and 237 bp. The nucleotide sequence of the 5.8S and the ITS2 regions belonging to the larger ribosomal RNA gene are also reported.
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- R Marrocco
- Dipartimento di Agrobiologia e Agrochimica, Viterbo, Italy
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