Publications by authors named "Luisella Lazier"
Goals Of Work: To describe the course of hepatitis C in a cohort of 105 survivors after childhood cancer.
Patients And Methods: Data on chemo/radiotherapy, clinical status, serial alanine aminotransferase (ALT) evaluation, and virological parameters after the end of treatment were collected for each patient. Liver biopsies, when performed, were centrally evaluated by a pathologist.
Background: Few studies have assessed the determinants of birthweight in newborns from HIV-positive mothers in analyses that adjusted for different gestational age at delivery.
Method: We calculated gestational age-adjusted birthweight Z-score values in a national series of 600 newborns from women with HIV and in 600 newborns from HIV-negative women matched for gender and gestational age. The determinants of Z-score values in newborns from HIV-positive mothers were assessed in univariate and multivariate regression analyses.
Purpose Of Review: To analyse the most relevant recent information on efficacy, duration and coverage of anti-hepatitis B virus vaccination; correlates of mother-to-child hepatitis C virus transmission; the natural history and outcomes of hepatitis B and C virus infections in children; the efficacy and safety of specific therapies.
Recent Findings: Insufficient hepatitis B virus vaccine coverage and incomplete or delayed vaccine cycles need improvement in many countries. Hepatitis B virus mutants may explain some fulminant hepatitis in perinatally infected infants and vaccine failures.