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Precursori di ADHD nei bambini moderatamente pretermine

2011

From Neonatal Intensive Care to Neurocritical Care: Is It Still a Mirage? The Sicilian Multicenter Project

2021

Background. Neonatal brain injury (NBI) can lead to a significant neurological disability or even death. After decades of intense efforts to improve neonatal intensive care and survival of critically ill newborns, the focus today is an improved long-term neurological outcome through brain-focused care. The goal of neuroprotection in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is the prevention of new or worsening NBI in premature and term newborns. As a result, the neonatal neurocritical care unit (NNCU) has been emerging as a model of care to decrease NBI and improve the long-term neurodevelopment in critically ill neonates. Purpose. Neurocritical care (NCC) Sicilian project includes three aca…

Prematurity and overlap between reading and arithmetic: The cognitive mechanisms behind the association

2019

It is well-known that very preterm children perform at lower levels than full-term children in reading and arithmetic at school. Whether the lower performance levels of preterm children in these two separate domains have the same or different origins, however, is not clear. The present study examined the extent to which prematurity is associated with the overlap (i.e., common variance) of reading and arithmetic among Finnish school beginners. We also examined the extent to which the association of prematurity with the overlap between reading and arithmetic is due to different prereading skills, basic number skills, and general cognitive abilities. The participants (age 6-7) consisted of 193…

Preterm birth: incidence, risk factors and second trimester cervical length in a single center population. A two-year retrospective study

2017

To report the incidence and the major risk factors (RFs) associated with preterm birth (PTB), combining both maternal RFs and cervical length (CL), and to understand if cervical length measurement is really useful in all the patients.The study population consisted of 2048 women admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of Messina, over a 2-year period. Preterm cases represented approximately 8.64% of our total population and, exactly, 65% were late preterm, 32% were preterm, and 3% were extremely preterm.An analysis of PTB sub-categories based on gestational age showed a stronger correlation between gestational age and CL among preterm and extremely preter…

Precursori di Deficit dell'Attenzione e disturbi di iperattività (ADHD) in bambini moderatamente pretermine di età prescolare

2013

Lo studio presentato ha voluto esplorare la possibile presenza in bambini di etŕ prescolare, nati moderatamente pretermine, di precursori del disturbo da deficit dell'attenzione e iperattivitŕ. La ricerca ha coinvolto un gruppo di 50 bambini (etŕ media = 5 anni e 2 mesi, ds = 4 mesi) nati moderatamente pretermine (etŕ gestazionale media = 34 settimane, ds = 2) senza complicanze mediche neonatali e con basso peso alla nascita (media = 2100 g., ds = 350 g.) e 50 bambini nati a ter - mine in assenza di complicanze pre e perinatali (etŕ gestazionale media = 40 settimane). Ai genitori e agli insegnanti delle scuole di riferimento dei bambini sono stati somministrati specifici questionari (Identi…

PROFILO DI RISCHIO DEL NEONATO LATE PRETERM: DISTURBI DEL NEUROSVILUPPO E RUOLO DEL FOLLOWUP

2015

Safety of Rotavirus Vaccination in Preterm Infants Admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Sicily, Italy: A Multicenter Observational Study

2023

Rotavirus (RV) is among the most common vaccine-preventable diseases in children under five years of age. Despite the severity of rotavirus pathology in early childhood, rotavirus vaccination for children admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), who are often born preterm and with various previous illnesses, is not performed. This multicenter, 3-year project aims to evaluate the safety of RV vaccine administration within the six main neonatal intensive care units of the Sicilian Region to preterm infants. Methods: Monovalent live attenuated anti-RV vaccination (RV1) was administered from April 2018 to December 2019 to preterm infants with gestational age ≥ 28 weeks. Vaccine a…

2020

Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) devices using variable (vf-) and continuous (cf-) flow or synchronized nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (s-NIPPV) are used to prevent or treat intermittent hypoxia (IH) in preterm infants. Results concerning which is most effective vary. We aimed to investigate the effect of s-NIPPV and vf-NCPAP compared to cf-NCPAP on the rate of IH episodes. Preterm infants with a gestational age of 24.9–29.7 weeks presenting with IH while being treated with cf-NCPAP were monitored for eight hours, then randomized to eight hours of treatment with vf-NCPAP or s-NIPPV. Data from 16 infants were analyzed. Due to an unexpectedly low sample size…

STUDIO DEI PRECURSORI DELLE FUNZIONI ESECUTIVE IN BAMBINI NATI PRETERMINE A 3 E A 4 ANNI

This research is focused on the potential evolutive involvements of risk situation concerning the preterm birth. In particular, the goal is to study the Executive Functions precursors (FE) on preterm born children 3-4 years old. The participants are: an experimental group of 80 preterm children, born with low weight, divided into 4 sub-groups related to the seriousness of prematurity (very and moderately) and to their age: 20 children, aged 3, very preterm (M=29,19 weeks of GA, DS=1,58); 20 children, aged 3, moderately preterm (M=35,00 weeks of GA, DS=1,79); 20 children, aged 4, born very preterm (M=28,36 weeks of GA, DS=1,93); 20 children, aged 4, born moderately preterm (M=34,34 weeks of …

Developmental outcomes of preterm birth: Cognitive and behavioural problems in moderately preterm children at preschool age

2012

Moderately preterm birth seems to be an evolutional risk condition at cognitive, behavioural and socio-relational levels. The study is aimed to investigate the likely occurrence of precursors of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in moderately preterm children at preschool age. The research involved an experimental group made up of 50 moderately preterm children (mean: 34.6 weeks’ gestational age, standard deviation [SD]: 2) without any medical and neurologic neonatal complications and low birth weight (mean:2100g., SD: 350g.) and a check group of 50 full term born children. Parents and teachers of children were administered specific questionnaires to detect ADHD. The outcomes …