Publications by authors named "Giada Biddeci"
species are ubiquitous pathogens causing opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. Clinical presentation depends on a host's immunity and can be localized or disseminated. Since there are few reports of disseminated fusariosis in children, we described an unusual case of infection in a 9-year-old child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
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- - Mucormycosis is a serious fungal infection that primarily affects immunocompromised individuals, often localized in the lungs and sinuses, and can involve blood vessels, making diagnosis difficult since common blood tests are typically negative.
- - A rare case involved a child with leukemia who developed a systemic mucormycosis infection and aortitis, initially misdiagnosed as bacterial; diagnosis was confirmed only after surgery and biopsy.
- - Successful treatment of mucormycosis often requires both antifungal medications and urgent surgical intervention, especially in patients with prolonged fever that doesn't improve with typical antibiotic or antifungal therapies.
Background/aim: In the last few decades, treatment strategies for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have been associated not only with improvement of prognosis, but also with an increasing rate of late complication as osteonecrosis (ON). Herein, the cumulative incidence, risk factors, new conservative therapeutic strategies as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), and outcome of symptomatic ON were studied in pediatric patients with ALL.
Patients And Methods: Between 2000 and 2017, 495 children and young adolescents with a diagnosis of ALL were evaluated.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a secular trend in growth occurred during the last century in Pygmies from Cameroon (West Pygmies) and in Bantu rural farmers, the latter being studied to serve as controls.
Design: The evolution in height of West Pygmies and Bantu farmers from 1911 to 2006 was evaluated using data from the literature as well as data gathered by our research team during an expedition to Cameroon in 2006.
Results: During the last century, no secular trend in west Pygmies is apparent, as height changed from 151 cm to 155 cm in males and from 143 cm to 146 cm in females.