Clinical Presentations of Celiac Disease: Experience of a Single Italian Center.

Background/objectives: In Italy, the prevalence of celiac disease (CeD) among children exceeds 1.5% and has steadily increased with a linear trend over the past 25 years. The clinical presentation is heterogenous and a change in onset symptoms has been described in recent years.

Non-interventional, 5-year retrospective data of home parenteral nutrition in patients with benign chronic intestinal failure: Analysis of an Italian nurse registry (SERECARE II).

Objective: This study is an assessment of home parenteral nutrition service performance and safety and efficacy outcomes in patients with benign chronic intestinal failure.

Methods: This is a retrospective, non-interventional, and multicenter study. Data were collected by trained nurses and recorded in a dedicated registry (SERECARE).

Intractable diarrhea in infancy and molecular analysis: We are beyond the tip of the iceberg.

Background: Intractable diarrhea (ID) could be defined as a syndrome of severe chronic diarrhea associated with malnutrition not easily resolved by conventional management.

Aims: To provide an overview on etiology and management of ID patients in Italy in the last 12 years.

Methods: The members of Italian Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (SIGENP) enrolled all ID patients seen between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2022.

Novel insect-based child nutrition: the position of the nutritional committee of the Italian society of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition (SIGENP).

Background: The European Union (EU) approved the placement on European market of insect-based novel foods. Those foods were defined safe for the consumption for all European population, including children.

Main Body: The nutrition committee of the Italian society of Paediatric Hepatology and Nutrition (SIGENP) performed literature research to understand benefits and risk of those use of those NF for Italian children.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorders risk and symptoms: a retrospective study.

Background: Social distancing and quarantine imposed by the authority during the COVID-19 pandemic caused restrictions, which had a negative impact on eating behavior, especially among adolescents. We proposed a retrospective study aimed to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorders risk and symptoms.

Methods: In this study, a group of 127 pediatric patients (117 females and 10 males) with eating disorders admitted to the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital of Rome (Italy), in the period between August 2019 and April 2021, was analyzed.