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<title type='html'>Absence of arrhythmias in the extremely preterm heart with severe hyperkalaemia.</title>
<summary type='html'>Daniele De Luca, Piermichele Paolillo (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Resuscitation&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 80: 8 &lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and early discharge from the maternity ward.</title>
<summary type='html'>Early discharge from the maternity hospital is almost becoming the rule: it is not clear if this practice actually increases the rate of newborn rehospitalization, but it surely poses some problems for jaundice management, since hyperbilirubinemia is the most frequent reason for hospital readmission. Available guidelines for jaundice management and early discharge are reviewed. Evidence-based upda...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Virgilio P Carnielli, Piermichele Paolillo (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Eur J Pediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 168: 9 1025-1030&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>No-glucose strategy influences posterior cranial fossa tumors' postoperative course: introducing the Glycemic Stress Index.</title>
<summary type='html'>In a selected patient population, we evaluated the glycemic response to different infusional policies in the management of posterior cranial fossa tumor (PFT) removal. We analyzed the perioperative course, prospectically collected, of 137 children undergoing 150 surgical procedures. Patients were divided in two groups according to different intraoperative fluids (group A, 2.5% glucose; group B, cr...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Domenico Pietrini, Concezio Di Rocco, Rossella Di Bartolomeo, Giorgio Conti, Franco O Ranelletti, Daniele De Luca, Federica Tosi, Sonia Mensi, Sonia D'Arrigo, Marco Piastra (2009)  &lt;i&gt;J Neurooncol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 93: 3 361-368&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Bile acids cause secretory phospholipase A2 activity enhancement, revertible by exogenous surfactant administration.</title>
<summary type='html'>BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES: Bile acids have been implicated in some forms of acute lung injury, including meconium aspiration and bile acid pneumonia in neonates, or aspiration related ARDS in adults. Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is now known as a key enzyme in the lung injury pathways and is supposed to be responsible for surfactant dysfunction. Our aim was to investigate the interaction betwe...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Angelo Minucci, Enrico Zecca, Marco Piastra, Domenico Pietrini, Virgilio P Carnielli, Cecilia Zuppi, Ascanio Tridente, Giorgio Conti, Ettore D Capoluongo (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Intensive Care Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 35: 2 321-326&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Skin bilirubin measurement during phototherapy in preterm and term newborn infants.</title>
<summary type='html'>BACKGROUND: The few existing studies evaluating the reliability of transcutaneous bilirubin monitoring during phototherapy gave controversial results. AIMS: To evaluate the accuracy of transcutaneous bilirubin measurement in a large population of newborn infants, during phototherapy. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Total serum bilirubin and transcutaneous bilirubin on patched and unpatched skin areas we...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enrico Zecca, Giovanni Barone, Daniele De Luca, Rosa Marra, Eloisa Tiberi, Costantino Romagnoli (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Early Hum Dev&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 85: 8 537-540&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>A prolonged neonatal jaundice associated with a rare G6PD mutation.</title>
<summary type='html'>Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), a X-linked hereditary deficiency, is one of most common clinically significant enzyme defects. Despite its largely known role in acute and life-threatening haemolytic crises, G6PD deficiency may be also associated with neonatal jaundice that, when severe and untreated, may lead to the potential of bilirubin encephalopathy. A prolonged neonatal jaundice was...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Angelo Minucci, Paola Concolino, Daniele De Luca, Bruno Giardina, Cecilia Zuppi, Ettore Capoluongo (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatr Blood Cancer&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 53: 3 475-478&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Noninvasive pressure-support ventilation in immunocompromised children with ARDS: a feasibility study.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: To verify the feasibility of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in immunocompromised children affected by ARDS. SETTING: University Hospital PICU. PATIENTS: Twenty-three consecutive immunocompromised children treated with NIV for ARDS. INTERVENTIONS: All consecutive patients received NIV through a face-mask or a helmet. RESULTS: No differences were found regarding admission data and severit...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Marco Piastra, Daniele De Luca, Domenico Pietrini, Silvia Pulitanò, Sonia D'Arrigo, Aldo Mancino, Giorgio Conti (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Intensive Care Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 35: 8 1420-1427&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Severe subdural hemorrhage due to minimal prenatal trauma.</title>
<summary type='html'>The authors report a case of minimal prenatal trauma producing a large subdural hematoma in the fetus, which was diagnosed in utero by MR imaging. The occurrence of such a complication is extremely rare in the absence of significant maternal trauma. Prenatally diagnosed intracranial hemorrhages, particularly those that are subdural in origin, have a poor prognosis in most cases. After birth, brain...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Marco Piastra, Domenico Pietrini, Luca Massimi, Massimo Caldarelli, Daniele De Luca, Laura Minguell Del Lungo, Maria Pia De Carolis, Concezio Di Rocco, Giorgio Conti, Enrico Zecca (2009)  &lt;i&gt;J Neurosurg Pediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 4: 6 543-546&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Transcutaneous bilirubin nomograms: a systematic review of population differences and analysis of bilirubin kinetics.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVES: To compare available nomograms in the literature defining trends in bilirubin levels across populations with different risk factor profiles and to study a mathematical bilirubin kinetics model describing the natural course of jaundice and the bilirubin rate of rise needed to cross percentile curves. DATA SOURCES: We searched PubMed for publications between March 1999 and March 2009 tha...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Gregory L Jackson, Ascanio Tridente, Virgilio P Carnielli, William D Engle (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 163: 11 1054-1059&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Does Ibuprofen increase neonatal hyperbilirubinemia?</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether ibuprofen exposure was associated with increased hyperbilirubinemia in preterm infants. METHODS: Since 2000, ibuprofen has been administered to all infants at &lt;30 weeks of gestation who are admitted to our unit, to prevent patent ductus arteriosus. We retrospectively compared data for 418 infants subjected to ibuprofen prophylaxis (2000-2...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enrico Zecca, Costantino Romagnoli, Maria Pia De Carolis, Simonetta Costa, Rosa Marra, Daniele De Luca (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatrics&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 124: 2 480-484&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Flow-cycled versus time-cycled sIPPV in preterm babies with RDS: a breath-to-breath randomised cross-over trial.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVES: Few data exist about patient-triggered ventilation techniques in neonatal critical care. Our aim was to compare pressure-limited synchronised intermittent positive pressure (or assist/control) ventilation (sIPPV) in the classical time-cycled (TC-sIPPV) mode against flow-cycled (FC-sIPPV) modality. In this latter, typical sIPPV full respiratory support is provided but both the initiatio...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;D De Luca, G Conti, M Piastra, P M Paolillo (2009)  &lt;i&gt;Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 94: 6 F397-F401&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Secretory phospholipase A2 and neonatal respiratory distress: pilot study on broncho-alveolar lavage.</title>
<summary type='html'>PURPOSES: Secretory phospholipase A2 hydrolyzes phosphoglycerides and it has been shown to be involved in alveolar inflammation and surfactant degradation. It plays an important role in acute lung injury but it has never been studied in newborn infants. We were aimed to investigate the phospholipase A2 activity in neonatal lung injury and its relationship with ventilatory findings. SETTING: Third ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Silvia Baroni, Giovanni Vento, Marco Piastra, Domenico Pietrini, Federica Romitelli, Ettore Capoluongo, Costantino Romagnoli, Giorgio Conti, Enrico Zecca (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Intensive Care Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 34: 10 1858-1864&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Heterologous assisted reproduction and kernicterus: the unlucky coincidence reveals an ethical dilemma.</title>
<summary type='html'>Secrecy and anonymity related to heterologous assisted reproduction may hide basic newborn data to neonatologists. Secrecy and anonymity are discussed in view of their possible consequences on relational dynamics and on developmental psychology. Nevertheless, they can also involve the offspring's genetic status regarding inheritable diseases. International guidelines have been recently published o...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele de Luca, Andrea Virdis, Maria Luisa di Pietro, Simonetta Costa, Maria Pia de Carolis, Costantino Romagnoli, Enrico Zecca (2008)  &lt;i&gt;J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 21: 4 219-222&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Noninvasive ventilation in large postoperative flail chest.</title>
<summary type='html'>An 11-year-old male developed a severe respiratory failure due to a iatrogenic flail chest following a surgery for removing a large chest wall area. A rare Ewing sarcoma was histologically diagnosed and intensive chemotherapy was administered. Postoperatively, because of the failure in ventilation weaning, the patient was electively extubated and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation through f...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Marco Piastra, Daniele De Luca, Giulia Zorzi, Antonio Ruggiero, Massimo Antonelli, Giorgio Conti, Domenico Pietrini (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatr Blood Cancer&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 51: 6 831-833&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>The joint use of human and electronic eye: visual assessment of jaundice and transcutaneous bilirubinometry.</title>
<summary type='html'>Our aim was to study the usefulness of jaundice visual assessment combined with skin bilirubin determination in 517 healthy newborns. Yellowness assessment was made and babies were included in three different bilirubin classes. Skin bilirubin and total serum bilirubin were determined within 10 minutes from the visual assessment. This latter led to underestimation of serum bilirubin in 16.7-40.4% a...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Enrico Zecca, Antonio Alberto Zuppa, Costantino Romagnoli (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Turk J Pediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 50: 5 456-461&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>&quot;Glue lung&quot;: pulmonary micro-embolism caused by the glue used during interventional radiology.</title>
<summary type='html'>D De Luca, M Piastra, D Pietrini, M Rollo, G Conti (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Arch Dis Child&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 93: 3 &lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Severe hyperbilirubinemia in a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient preterm neonate: could prematurity be the main responsible factor?</title>
<summary type='html'>We report on a premature infant with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and severe hyperbilirubinemia. In this patient, all known potential hemolytic agents were excluded and no findings of hemolysis were observed. The crucial role of prematurity in the pathogenesis of this type of jaundice is discussed.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Simonetta Costa, Maria Pia De Carolis, Daniele De Luca, Immacolata Savarese, Costantino Romagnoli (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Fetal Diagn Ther&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 24: 4 440-443&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Successful resuscitation of unexpected neonatal hemorrhagic shock due to massive feto-maternal hemorrhage.</title>
<summary type='html'>Daniele De Luca, Domenico Pietrini, Marco Piastra, Eloisa Tiberi, Anita Romiti, Tommaso Bernardini, Giorgio Conti, Susanna Zecca, Enrico Zecca (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Paediatr Anaesth&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 18: 10 1004-1006&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Blood loss and short-term outcome of infants undergoing brain tumour removal.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: To evaluate perioperative management, early outcomes and hemocoagulative disorders in infants up to 1 year old, undergoing neurosurgery for brain tumors removal. DESIGN: Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data regarding all infants aged &lt;1 year admitted to PICU from 1994 to 2004, following intracranial mass removal. INTERVENTIONS: none. SETTING: University Hospital PICU...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Marco Piastra, Concezio Di Rocco, Elena Caresta, Giulia Zorzi, Daniele De Luca, Massimo Caldarelli, Giuseppe La Torre, Giorgio Conti, Massimo Antonelli, Simon Eaton, Domenico Pietrini (2008)  &lt;i&gt;J Neurooncol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 90: 2 191-200&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Attempt to improve transcutaneous bilirubinometry: a double-blind study of Medick BiliMed versus Respironics BiliCheck.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVES: To compare the accuracy of a new transcutaneous bilirubinometer, BiliMed (Medick SA, Paris, France) with BiliCheck (Respironics, Marietta, GA, USA), a widely available instrument, and with total serum bilirubin measurement. DESIGN: A prospective double-blind study comparing the two devices was carried out. 686 healthy newborns needing measurement of their bilirubin were enrolled over a...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;D De Luca, E Zecca, M Corsello, E Tiberi, C Semeraro, C Romagnoli (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 93: 2 F135-F139&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Skin bilirubin nomogram for the first 96 h of life in a European normal healthy newborn population, obtained with multiwavelength transcutaneous bilirubinometry.</title>
<summary type='html'>AIM: Hour-specific nomogram evaluation of serum or skin bilirubin is a suitable approach for managing neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and it is recommended by American Academy of Paediatrics. We aimed to provide data about skin bilirubin levels during the natural course of hyperbilirubinemia in European healthy neonates. METHODS: We enrolled 2198 healthy newborn infants (gestational age [GA]&gt;or= 35 we...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Costantino Romagnoli, Eloisa Tiberi, Antonio Alberto Zuppa, Enrico Zecca (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Acta Paediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 97: 2 146-150&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Bile acid-induced lung injury in newborn infants: a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid study.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVES: Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome is associated with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, and bile acids may play a major role in neonatal bile acid pneumonia. Our aim was to demonstrate the bile acid presence in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of neonates affected by respiratory distress syndrome who were born from intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and to investigate bile ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enrico Zecca, Daniele De Luca, Silvia Baroni, Giovanni Vento, Eloisa Tiberi, Costantino Romagnoli (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatrics&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 121: 1 e146-e149&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Predicting respiratory distress syndrome in neonates from mothers with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) has been associated with prematurity and fetal mortality. Recently, ICP has also been recognised as a risk factor for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in term or near-term neonates. Since fetal mortality is more frequent in pregnancies with an early ICP onset, we speculated that the time of exposure (ET) to maternal bile acids at t...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enrico Zecca, Daniele De Luca, Giada Barbato, Marco Marras, Eloisa Tiberi, Costantino Romagnoli (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Early Hum Dev&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 84: 5 337-341&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Insulin-like growth factor I (CA) repeats are associated with higher melanoma's Breslow index but not associated with the presence of the melanoma. A pilot study.</title>
<summary type='html'>BACKGROUND: IGF-I-(CA) repeats have been previously analysed in few types of cancer and the results, although discordant in different studies, showed possible associations between cancer and IGF-I(CA)(19) repeats. Aim of this pilot study was to detect a possible association between some of the IGF-I(CA) repeats and the presence of malignant melanoma and its Breslow index. METHODS: Two hundred pati...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Concetta Santonocito, Andrea Paradisi, Rodolfo Capizzi, Paola Concolino, Maria Michela Lavieri, Sara Lanza Silveri, Daniele De Luca, Caterina Catricalà, Aldo Di Carlo, Cecilia Zuppi, Franco Ameglio, Ettore Capoluongo (2008)  &lt;i&gt;Clin Chim Acta&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 390: 1-2 104-109&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<title type='html'>Tracheal agenesis without esophageal fistula: genetic, resuscitative, and pathological issues.</title>
<summary type='html'>An exceptional case of tracheal agenesis with no communication with the esophagus is described. This malformation needs surgical airway approach and is hardly classifiable. We analyzed the literature and our institutional data: this resulted to be the first case of such anatomical variant. Genetic and pathological issues are reviewed: recent genetic data seem to explain this malformation. We also ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Maria Pia De Carolis, Arnaldo Capelli, Francesca Gallini, Gaetano Draisci, Raffaella Pinto, Vincenzo Arena (2008)  &lt;i&gt;J Pediatr Surg&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 43: 1 e29-e32&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<updated>2009-12-07T23:49:50Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Iloprost as 'rescue' therapy for pulmonary hypertension of the neonate.</title>
<summary type='html'>Daniele De Luca, Enrico Zecca, Marco Piastra, Costantino Romagnoli (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Paediatr Anaesth&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 17: 4 394-395&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid38</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Using BiliCheck for preterm neonates in a sub-intensive unit: diagnostic usefulness and suitability.</title>
<summary type='html'>BACKGROUND: BiliCheck (BC), a new transcutaneous bilirubinometer is thought to be lacking in the disadvantages of old devices and could be potentially useful for diagnosing jaundice in preterm babies. Although its accuracy is well known in healthy term babies, there is a lack of knowledge about its usefulness in preterm infants. AIMS: To investigate BC usefulness in preterm babies and its suitabil...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Daniele De Luca, Enrico Zecca, Pierluigi de Turris, Giada Barbato, Marco Marras, Costantino Romagnoli (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Early Hum Dev&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 83: 5 313-317&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid33</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:49:50Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Is serum troponin T a useful marker of myocardial damage in newborn infants with perinatal asphyxia?</title>
<summary type='html'>AIM: To assess the correlation of echocardiographic signs of myocardial damage to serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) concentrations in newborn infants with perinatal asphyxia. METHODS: Electocardiograms (ECG) and echocardiograms (Echo) were obtained during the first 24 h of life from 29 asphyxiated and 30 control infants and correlated with cTnT concentrations. The echocardiographic parameters includ...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;S Costa, E Zecca, G De Rosa, D De Luca, G Barbato, M Pardeo, C Romagnoli (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Acta Paediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 96: 2 181-184&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid39</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Efficacy of a single dose of antenatal corticosteroids on morbidity and mortality of preterm infants.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of an incomplete course of antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) on neonatal morbidity and mortality of preterm infants. METHODS: Preterm infants born at 25-34 weeks' gestational age between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2003 were included in this study. Studied infants were divided in two groups: the ACS group included those infants who had been exposed to a si...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Simonetta Costa, Enrico Zecca, Daniele De Luca, Maria Pia De Carolis, Costantino Romagnoli (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 131: 2 154-157&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid32</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:49:50Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Resources allocation for neonatal critical care: the ethical debate in neonatology.</title>
<summary type='html'>Daniele De Luca (2007)  &lt;i&gt;Acta Paediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 96: 5 648-649&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid42</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVES: We sought to verify the association between maternal intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and to determine how bile acids levels alter the risk of developing neonatal RDS. METHODS: We extracted data from our divisional database about all of the newborns born during the years 2000-2004. We compared 77 neonates born from pregnancies...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enrico Zecca, Daniele De Luca, Marco Marras, Alessandro Caruso, Tommaso Bernardini, Costantino Romagnoli (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatrics&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 117: 5 1669-1672&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid40</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Health emergencies and first aid at construction sites in the Tuscany Region. The high speed and varying free way of Valico</title>
<summary type='html'>From 1996 the territory of Tuscany region and in particular that one of ASL 10 of Florence, has been interested from the realization of great works: the railway line to High Speed and varying of Valico of the A1 freeway between Florence and Bologna. ASL 10 has stipulated specific economic agreements with the been involved companies in the realization of the plans for a plan finalized to the preven...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;D De Luca (2006)  &lt;i&gt;G Ital Med Lav Ergon&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 28: 1 Suppl 105-111&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid41</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Transient effect of epoprostenol and sildenafil combined with iNO for pulmonary hypertension in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.</title>
<summary type='html'>Daniele De Luca, De Luca Daniele, Enrico Zecca, Giovanni Vento, Maria Pia De Carolis, De Carolis Maria Pia, Constantino Romagnoli, Romagnoli Constantino (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Paediatr Anaesth&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 16: 5 597-598&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid37</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Delivery room strategies and outcomes in preterm infants with gestational age 24-28 weeks.</title>
<summary type='html'>OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of different delivery room strategies on survival, short term morbidity, and outcomes in extremely premature infants. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included all preterm infants with a gestational age between 24 and 28 weeks who were born in 1992-1997 (period A; n = 161) and in 1998-2003 (period B; n = 163). In period A, elective intubation was perfor...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enrico Zecca, Daniele de Luca, Simonetta Costa, Marco Marras, Pierluigi de Turris, Costantino Romagnoli (2006)  &lt;i&gt;J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 19: 9 569-574&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid35</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:49:50Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Decreased chemiluminescence in leukocyte adhesion deficiency presenting with recurrent sepsis, amoebiasis and Candida albicans urinary tract infection.</title>
<summary type='html'>Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) is a rare disorder of cellular immunity, generally due to various mutations producing reduced or altered expression of membrane integrins. The authors report a case of LAD due to integrins expression imbalance. LAD was suspected after recurrent sepsis, fungal infection and amoebiasis with persistent leukocytosis. Neutrophils were studied with chemiluminescence s...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;P Valentini, P De Sole, D De Luca, P Plaisant, P Puggioni, M C Rossi, C Rumi, O Ranno (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Minerva Med&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 97: 5 437-442&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid36</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Mild and transient neutropenia in an infant of mother with Wegener's granulomatosis.</title>
<summary type='html'>A case of a pregnancy occurring in a woman with previously diagnosed Wegener's granulomatosis and the following neonatal follow-up are described. Complete clinical and laboratory disappearance of disease activity was achieved by steroid treatment before pregnancy. The newborn was followed up for 6 months; he always showed normal clinical and laboratory exams, except a mild and transient neutropeni...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A A Zuppa, D De Luca, F Cota, S De Carolis, R Savone, R Manna (2006)  &lt;i&gt;Minerva Pediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 58: 6 579-581&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid43</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:50:28Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Reaching the limit of neonatal viability: how do we answer the question &quot;how small is too small&quot;?</title>
<summary type='html'>Enrico Zecca, Daniele De Luca, Simonetta Costa, Costantino Romagnoli (2005)  &lt;i&gt;Acta Paediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 94: 4 508-509&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid2</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:47:52Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Neonatal lupus: different clinical neonatal expression in siblings</title>
<summary type='html'>Neonatal Lupus Syndrome is a rare disease caused by placental passage of maternal autoantibodies. Pathogenesis is partially unknown and many clinical manifestations are possible. We report on newborn siblings who presented with different symptoms of Neonatal Lupus Syndrome. One patient presented with congenital heart block and another with hepatic and haematologic involvement. Cases of Neonatal Lu...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A A Zuppa, A B Delogu, G De Rosa, D De Luca, F Visintini, F Cota, G Tortorolo (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Arch Pediatr&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 11: 8 936-939&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid1</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:47:52Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Usefulness of rh-G-CSF in early-onset severe neutropenia in neonatal lupus syndrome.</title>
<summary type='html'>Neutropenia is a mild and transient manifestation of neonatal lupus syndrome (NLS) in the second or third month of life. The authors describe a newborn with an early-onset severe neutropenia due to anti-Ro/SSA. In the second day of life, neutropenia has been treated with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rh-G-CSF). This is the first case in which rh-G-CSF was used in NLS, an...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Antonio Alberto Zuppa, Daniele De Luca, Pierluigi De Turris, Francesco Cota, Guiseppe Tortorolo (2004)  &lt;i&gt;J Pediatr Hematol Oncol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 26: 9 609-611&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid3</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:47:52Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Cerebral ultrasound findings in neonatal lupus syndrome.</title>
<summary type='html'>A prospective study was performed enrolling 11 newborns with neonatal lupus syndrome (NLS) and 22 control newborns to investigate cerebral ultrasound (US) anomalies and their relationship with clinical neurological signs and laboratory findings. Cerebral US detected a significantly higher incidence in the study group of both subependymal pseudocysts (SEPC) and subependymal hemorrhage (SEH), neithe...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A A Zuppa, F Gallini, D De Luca, R Luciano, S Frezza, P L de Turris, G Tortorolo (2004)  &lt;i&gt;Biol Neonate&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 86: 4 230-234&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid4</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:47:52Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Neonatal outcomes and risk/benefit ratio of induced multiple pregnancies.</title>
<summary type='html'>A A Zuppa, D de Luca (2003)  &lt;i&gt;J Med Ethics&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 29: 4 &lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid6</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:47:52Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Alimentary strategies in the neonatal period in the prevention of allergies.</title>
<summary type='html'>The Authors report an update relative to the dietetic prevention strategies in the high allergic risk subject, as proposed from more recent literature. The babies with a familiar history of atopia are defined as population with allergic risk. The Authors examine the role of early exposure to cow's milk formulas and maternal diet during breast-feeding as risk factors for allergic symptoms in such b...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A A Zuppa, F Cota, S Barberi, D De Luca, F Visintini, G Tortorolo (2002)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatr Med Chir&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 24: 1 45-52&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid5</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:47:52Z</updated>
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<title type='html'>Incidental diagnosis and tempestive therapy in a case of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti-HPA-5b.</title>
<summary type='html'>Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is usually attributable to HPA-1a antibodies. The authors report a case of incidentally diagnosed thrombocytopenia in a small for gestational age infant. A NAIT was suspected and she was successfully treated with intravenous IgG. The direct and indirect platelet suspension immunofluorescence test (PSIFT) in maternal blood suggested alloimmunization to HP...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Antonio Alberto Zuppa, Francesco Cota, Daniele De Luca, Federica Visintini, Pier Luigi De Turris, Giuseppe Tortorolo (2002)  &lt;i&gt;Pediatr Hematol Oncol&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 19: 8 587-591&lt;br/&gt;</summary>
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<id>http://publicationslist.org/dm.deluca/refid44</id>
<updated>2009-12-07T23:52:32Z</updated>
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