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Emilio Franzoni

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Rufinamide in children and adults with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: first Italian multicenter experience

2010

This is the first multicenter Italian experience with rufinamide as an adjunctive drug in children, adolescents and adults with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. The patients were enrolled in a prospective, add-on, open-label treatment study from 11 Italian centers for children and adolescent epilepsy care. Forty-three patients (26 males, 17 females), aged between 4 and 34 years (mean 15.9 ± 7.3, median 15.0), were treated with rufinamide for a mean period of 12.3 months (range 3-21 months). Twenty patients were diagnosed as cryptogenic and 23 as symptomatic. Rufinamide was added to the baseline therapy at the starting dose of 10mg/kg body weight, evenly divided in two daily doses and then increased…

MalePediatricsLennox-Gastaut syndromeAtypical absence seizuresRufinamideLennox–Gastaut syndrome; Rufinamide; Orphan drug; Pediatrics; Epilepsy; Drop attacksInfantilePediatricsSpasmsEpilepsyRufinamideDrop attacks; Epilepsy; Lennox-Gastaut syndrome; Orphan drug; Pediatrics; Rufinamide; Adolescent; Adult; Anticonvulsants; Child; Child Preschool; Drug Therapy Combination; Female; Humans; Intellectual Disability; Italy; Lennox Gastaut Syndrome; Male; Spasms Infantile; Treatment Outcome; Triazoles; Valproic Acid; Young Adult; Neurology (clinical); NeurologyChildPediatricValproic AcidDrop attacksGeneral MedicineSettore MED/39 - Neuropsichiatria InfantileTreatment OutcomeItalyNeurologyAnesthesiaChild PreschoolCombinationVomitingAnticonvulsantsDrug Therapy CombinationFemalemedicine.symptomSpasms Infantilemedicine.drugAdultmedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentClinical NeurologyIrritabilityYoung AdultDrug TherapyIntellectual DisabilitymedicineHumanspediatrics epilepsyPreschoolAdverse effectLennox–Gastaut syndrome; rufinamide; orphan drug; pediatrics epilepsy; drop attacks; refractory epilepsy.EpilepsyOrphan drugbusiness.industryLennox Gastaut SyndromeValproic Acidrefractory epilepsyTriazolesmedicine.diseaseNeurology (clinical)businessLennox–Gastaut syndromeLennox–Gastaut syndrome
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The relationship between alexithymia, shame, trauma, and body image disorders: investigation over a large clinical sample.

2013

Emilio Franzoni,1 Stefano Gualandi,1 Vincenzo Caretti,2 Adriano Schimmenti,3 Elena Di Pietro,1 Gaetano Pellegrini,1 Giuseppe Craparo,3 Arianna Franchi,1 Alberto Verrotti,4 Alessandro Pellicciari11Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, University of Bologna, Italy; 2Department of Psychology, University of Palermo, Italy; 3Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy; 4Department of Pediatrics, University of Chieti, ItalyBackground: The connections between eating disorders (EDs) and alexithymia have not been fully clarified. This study aims to define alexithymia's connections with shame, trauma, dissociation, and body image disorders.Methods: We administered the Dis…

Body Image Disordersmedicine.medical_specialtyNeuropsychiatric Disease and TreatmentDissociation (neuropsychology)body imagemedia_common.quotation_subjectShameNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryeating disordersAlexithymiaSettore M-PSI/07 - Psicologia DinamicamedicineRC346-429PsychiatryBiological Psychiatrymedia_commonOriginal Researchbusiness.industryshamemedicine.diseaseeating disorders alexithymia shame traumaPsychiatry and Mental healthEating disorderstraumaNeurology. Diseases of the nervous systemalexithymiabusinessAlexithymia; Body image; Eating disorders; Shame; Trauma; Psychiatry and Mental Health; Biological PsychiatryRC321-571
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Zonisamide in children and young adults with refractory epilepsy: an open label, multicenter Italian study

2009

Summary Purpose To report on the first multicenter Italian experience with zonisamide as an add-on drug for refractory generalised or partial epilepsy in children, adolescents and young adults. Methods The patients were enrolled in a prospective, add-on, open-label treatment study from eight Italian centres for children and adolescent epilepsy care. Eighty-two young patients (45 males, 37 females), aged between 3 and 34 years (mean 13.1 years), all affected by partial (47) or generalised (35) refractory epilepsy, were enrolled in the study. ZNS was added to the baseline therapy at a starting dose of 1 mg/kg/day twice daily. This dose was increased by 2 mg/kg every 1–2 weeks over a period of…

AdultMalePediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentmedicine.medical_treatmentAntiepileptic drugsZonisamideIrritabilityStatistics NonparametricEpilepsyYoung AdultRefractorymedicineHumansNonparametricYoung adultAdverse effectPreschoolChildNeurologic ExaminationEpilepsybusiness.industryStatisticsElectroencephalographyDrug ToleranceIsoxazolesmedicine.diseaseMagnetic Resonance ImagingSettore MED/39 - Neuropsichiatria InfantileEpilepsy; Zonisamide; Pediatric epilepsy; Antiepileptic drugsAnticonvulsantTolerabilityNeurologyItalyZonisamideChild PreschoolAnticonvulsantsFemaleNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptombusinessPediatric epilepsyAntiepileptic drugs; Epilepsy; Pediatric epilepsy; Zonisamide; Adolescent; Adult; Anticonvulsants; Child; Child Preschool; Drug Tolerance; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Isoxazoles; Italy; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Neurologic Examination; Statistics Nonparametric; Young Adult; Neurology; Neurology (clinical)medicine.drugFollow-Up Studies
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Mutations in CTC1, encoding conserved telomere maintenance component 1, cause Coats plus

2012

Coats plus is a highly pleiotropic disorder particularly affecting the eye, brain, bone and gastrointestinal tract. Here, we show that Coats plus results from mutations in CTC1, encoding conserved telomere maintenance component 1, a member of the mammalian homolog of the yeast heterotrimeric CST telomeric capping complex. Consistent with the observation of shortened telomeres in an Arabidopsis CTC1 mutant and the phenotypic overlap of Coats plus with the telomeric maintenance disorders comprising dyskeratosis congenita, we observed shortened telomeres in three individuals with Coats plus and an increase in spontaneous γ 3H2AX-positive cells in cell lines derived from two affected individual…

DNA polymeraseMolecular Sequence DataTelomere-Binding ProteinsHistones/metabolismHDE GENHDE NEU PEDCST complexCEREBRORETINAL MICROANGIOPATHY FAMILIAL SYNDROME CALCIFICATIONS CYSTS PROTEIN DNA LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY EVOLUTION DEFECTSHistoneschemistry.chemical_compoundAbnormalities Multiple/geneticsGeneticsmedicineAbnormalities MultipleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGeneticsTelomere-binding proteinTelomere/pathologyddc:618biologyBase SequenceGenetic Predisposition to Disease/geneticsDNA replicationSequence Analysis DNATelomeremedicine.diseaseFlow CytometryTelomereCell biologyRetinal Telangiectasis/genetics/pathologychemistrySequence Analysis DNA/methodsbiology.proteinRetinal TelangiectasisPrimaseTelomere-Binding Proteins/geneticsDNADyskeratosis congenitaNature Genetics
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Rufinamide in refractory childhood epileptic encephalopathies other than Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

2011

Background:  To report on the first multicenter Italian experience with rufinamide as adjunctive drug in children, adolescents and young adults with refractory childhood-onset epileptic encephalopathies other than Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Methods:  Thirty-eight patients (19 males, 19 females), aged between 4 and 34 (mean 13.7 ± 8.3, median 12.5), all affected by different types of childhood-onset refractory epileptic encephalopathies other than Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, were treated with rufinamide as adjunctive drug for a mean period of 11.4 months (range 3-26 months). Results:  Fifteen of 38 patients (39.5%) had a ≥50% seizure reduction in co…

AdultMalePediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentrufinamideRufinamideIrritabilityrefractory seizures; rufinamide; epileptic encephalopathies-childhoodYoung AdultRefractoryepileptic encephalopathies-childhoodrefractory seizuresrufinamideMedicineHumansYoung adultAdverse effectChildPreschoolepileptic encephalopathies-childhoodBrain DiseasesEpilepsybusiness.industryEpileptic encephalopathies-childhood; Refractory seizures; RufinamideTriazolesmedicine.diseaseSettore MED/39 - Neuropsichiatria Infantilerefractory seizuresMigraineepileptic encephalopathies-childhood refractory seizures rufinamideNeurologyAnesthesiaChild PreschoolVomitingAnticonvulsantsFemaleNeurology (clinical)medicine.symptombusinessEpileptic encephalopathies-childhood; Refractory seizures; Rufinamide; Adolescent; Adult; Anticonvulsants; Brain Diseases; Child; Child Preschool; Epilepsy; Female; Humans; Male; Triazoles; Young Adult; Neurology (clinical); NeurologyLennox–Gastaut syndromemedicine.drug
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Point of view of the Italians pediatric scientific societies about the pediatric care during the COVID-19 lockdown: What has changed and future prosp…

2020

Abstract Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently rare in children and they seem to have a milder disease course and better prognosis than adults. However, SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has indirectly caused problems in pediatric medical assistance. In view of this we wanted to draw a picture of what happened during health emergency and analyze future prospects for restarting. Methods We involved the Italian pediatric scientific societies institutionally collected in the Italian Federation of Associations and Scientific Societies of the Pediatric Area (FIARPED); We sent a questionnaire to all scientific societies about the pediatric care activity during the COVID-19 emergency a…

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Additional file 1 of Point of view of the Italians pediatric scientific societies about the pediatric care during the COVID-19 lockdown: what has cha…

2020

Additional file 1. Fiarped questionnaire.

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