Early Screening of the Autism Spectrum Disorders: Validity Properties and Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the First Year Inventory in Italy.

This study examined the cross-cultural generalisability of the First Year Inventory (FYI) on an Italian sample, testing its construct validity, consistency, and structural validity. Six hundred ninety-eight parents of children aged 11-13 months completed the questionnaire. Similarities between analyses of Italian and American/Israeli samples were found, as were demonstrations of the instrument's construct validity and internal consistency with both groups.

Pharmacovigilance knowledge in family paediatricians. A survey study in Italy.

Drugs prescription in children correlates with a high risk of developing unknown or rare adverse drug reactions (ADRs). In the absence of appropriate clinical trials in the paediatric population, the spontaneous reporting of suspected ADRs is an important means to promote reasonable warning signals. In this context, family paediatricians (FPs) play a crucial role although a general poor compliance in their ability of reporting of ADR is widely described.

[Intestinal endometriosis: a case report].

Endometriosis is seldom of interest to the general surgeon, since it is generally an exclusively gynaecological condition. Atypical locations, however, do fall within the domain of general surgery. Extra-gynaecological endometriosis denotes an ectopic localization of functional endometrial tissue, a finding whose incidence is increasing due to the increasingly widespread use of laparoscopic procedures in chronic abdominal pain and infertility.

Laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic mucosal resection in the colon: a preliminary report.

Endocopic mucosal resection of flat villous tumours or giant polyps (> 3 cm) may give rise to local complications such as haemorrhage or perforation because of the very thin wall of the colon, above all in the right half. Our aim was to evaluate whether laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic excision of flat villous tumours or giant polyps (> 3 cm) can be safely performed, avoiding critical septic complications and can also help in the selection of patients to be submitted to colonic resection without increasing morbidity or mortality. The procedure is a new minimally invasive therapeutic approach in selected cases with large, sessile or awkwardly located polyps.

[Traumatic shock--physiopathologic aspects].

Traumatic shock is a complex phenomenon that represents the culminating element of a series of events. It is, in fact, the outcome of an imbalance-decompensation of the organism's defence mechanisms, in which the oxygen supply to the mitochondria is hampered by a macro and/or microcirculation failure. Basically, it is a form of hypovolemic shock in which further factors have a role, including the activation of inflammation mediators.