[SCQ as a tool for screening ASD comorbidities with ADHD].

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) to early recognize autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) patients with a comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The SCQ is a 40 items questionnaire developed as a screening tool for ASD in children, with yes/no questions (presence of symptoms with a score of 1/ absence of symptoms with a score of 0) and a risk cutoff. We have analyzed 75 questionnaires completed by both parents of the 75 children referred to the Child Neuropsychiatry Unit of the "Aldo Moro" University of Bari for a psychopathological assessment.

Final height in congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency: the Italian experience.

Objective: To investigate the influence of target height (TH), gender, phenotype, glucocorticoid formulation and age at onset of treatment on final height (FH) in patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD).

Patients: Clinical data of 93 patients--46 simple virilizing (SV), 35 salt-wasting (SW) and 12 late onset (LO)--were collected in six pediatric endocrinology units in Italy.

Results: FH and TH were always below the mean height of the general population (mean FH, SDS: SW patients -1.

A new case of Ambras syndrome associated with a paracentric inversion (8) (q12; q22).

Ambras syndrome (AS) is a special form of congenital universal hypertrichosis described for the first time by Baumeister et al. (1). This form differs from other forms of congenital hypertrichosis in the pattern of hair distribution and its associated anomalies.

Hyperandrogenism in the adolescent female.

Hirsutism in adolescent girls commonly starts as an esthetic problem in young women and is later complicated by the development of infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome, which are frequent consequences of prolonged hyperandrogenism. To ascertain whether particular prepubertal clinical manifestations may predict the development of adolescent hirsutism, we followed 70 girls with precocious pubarche (PP) with or without prepubertal hypertrichosis (PH) until 3 years (mean age 14.8 +/- 0.

Effects of long-term growth hormone therapy on adrenal steroidogenesis in Turner syndrome.

It has been shown that growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1) enhance steroidogenesis responsiveness to ACTH in cultured adrenal cells. To investigate the GH effect on adrenal steroidogenesis in non-GH-deficient subjects, we studied 9 girls with Turner syndrome (chronological age 5.5-7.