Publications by authors named "F Pederiva"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates the link between congenital lung malformations (CLMs) and the risk of developing cancer by examining genetic mutations in various lung malformations through whole-genome sequencing.
- - Analysis revealed that 95% of the CLMs exhibited genomic instability, with 30% harboring genetic variants associated with tumor development, suggesting a potential predisposition to malignancy.
- - The findings indicate that while CLMs are often benign, their genetic alterations, combined with environmental carcinogenic factors, may increase the likelihood of lung cancer, highlighting a significant biological connection.
Aim: This article evaluates the practice patterns of European Pediatric Surgeons' Association (EUPSA) members regarding the timing of inguinal hernia (IH) repair in premature infants.
Methods: Online survey containing 29 questions distributed to EUPSA members during January 2023.
Results: A total of 180 responds were received.
Congenital lung malformations (CLMs) are rare developmental anomalies of the lung, including congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAM), bronchopulmonary sequestration, congenital lobar overinflation, bronchogenic cyst and isolated congenital bronchial atresia. CLMs occur in 4 out of 10,000 live births. Postnatal presentation ranges from an asymptomatic infant to respiratory failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a variational Monte Carlo method that solves the nuclear many-body problem in the occupation number formalism exploiting an artificial neural network representation of the ground-state wave function. A memory-efficient version of the stochastic reconfiguration algorithm is developed to train the network by minimizing the expectation value of the Hamiltonian. We benchmark this approach against widely used nuclear many-body methods by solving a model used to describe pairing in nuclei for different types of interaction and different values of the interaction strength.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life and satisfaction about the surgical treatment in patients with symptomatic flexible flatfoot.
Methods: The Oxford Ankle Foot Questionnaire for children (one to fill in before the surgical correction and another 6-12 months after the screw's removal), the PedsQLTM Healthcare Satisfaction Generic Module and the PedsQLTM General Well-Being Scale were administered to all patients who underwent the anterograde calcaneo-stop procedure for flexible painful flatfoot between January 2012 and December 2015.
Results: One hundred forty patients were sent the questionnaires and 74 (40 male and 34 female) of them responded.