[The effect on breastfeeding rate of regional anesthesia technique for cesarean and vaginal childbirth].

Background: To evaluate the influence of regional techniques of anesthesia and analgesia on breastfeeding rate after cesarean section and vaginal delivery.

Study Design: prospective, area-based.

Setting: Obstetrics and Pediatrics Department at Aosta Valley Regional Hospital.

[Frequency of hereditary neurologic diseases. A clinical study].

Introduction: The nervous system is affected in 30% of hereditary monogenic disorders and as many as 500 single-gene disorders display major neurologic symptoms. We have studied the frequency of hereditary neurological diseases to assess their importance in daily hospital activity. Only single-gene hereditary diseases with central or peripheral nervous system involvement were considered; thus chromosomal diseases and diseases with multifactorial etiology were excluded.

[Traumatic extradural hematoma in a newborn: a case report].

The authors report the case of a twenty-six-day-old patient presenting a traumatic extradural haematoma. The main clinical aspects of this feature are illustrated and the approach to diagnosis and management is discussed.

Deficiency 10p. Report of a case and exclusion mapping of the hexokinase 1 locus to band 10p11.2.

A patient deficient for most of the short arm of one chromosome 10 is described. The clinical picture is similar to those of other published cases but includes agenesis of olfactory bulbs, an uncommon finding, already noted in few 10p- patients. The normal levels of hexokinase 1 found in the fibroblasts of the patient allow a more precise localization of the gene at band 10p11.

[The newborn infant of mothers under treatment with anticonvulsants. Description of 5 cases].

The effects of fetal exposure to the anticonvulsant drugs and their clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic problems have been considered. The authors have reported five cases of newborns from addicted mothers. Particularly discussed are some clinical and pathologic correlations involved in the exposure to the Hydantoin and to the Sodium Valproate.