Chronic headaches are not a rare condition in children and adolescents with negative effects on their quality of life. Our aims were to investigate the clinical features of chronic headache and usefulness of the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3rd edition (ICHD 3) criteria for the diagnosis in a cohort of pediatric patients. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients attending the Headache Center of Bambino Gesù Children and Insubria University Hospital during the 2010-2016 time interval.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
December 2017
Although ADHD comorbidity has been widely studied, some issues remain unsolved. This multicenter observational study aims to examine comorbid psychiatric disorders in a clinical sample of newly diagnosed, treatment naïve children and adolescents with and without ADHD and, to compare treatment efficacy based on the type of comorbidity. We performed an analysis of the medical records of patients identified from the Regional ADHD Registry database, enrolled in 18 ADHD centers in the 2011-2016 period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To compare Stratus time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) with Cirrus spectral-domain HD-OCT for measuring macular thickness in eyes with and without macular abnormalities.
Methods: Seventy-five eyes of 48 patients were included in the study. Forty-one eyes of 29 patients had a normal macular thickness, and 34 eyes of 26 patients had an abnormal macular thickness.