Comparison of medium-term adverse reactions induced by the first and second dose of mRNA BNT162b2 (Comirnaty, Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine: a post-marketing Italian study conducted between 1 January and 28 February 2021.

Objectives: On 21 December 2020 the European Commission granted conditional marketing authorisation in the European Union for the anti-COVID-19 mRNA vaccine Bnt162b2 (Comirnaty, Pfizer/BioNTech). The main endpoint of this epidemiological, observational, prospective and monocentric study was to identify the number, types, and severity of adverse events following immunisation that occurred in subjects who had been previously infected with COVID-19, and in those who had not, after vaccination with Comirnaty, and to compare the two groups of subjects looking at events that occurred within a month after the first and the second dose.

Methods: Data were gathered by a questionnaire.

Haemodynamic modifications after unilateral subarachnoid anaesthesia evaluated with transthoracic echocardiography.

Aim: The aim of the study is the evaluation through transthoracic echocardiography of the haemodynamic modifications due to unilateral subarachnoid anaesthesia with bupivacaine 0.5% given for orthopaedic surgery.

Methods: In this prospective study, at the University Hospital Orthopedics surgical theater, 20 patients underwent orthopaedic surgery on the lower limbs.

Catch-up growth and final height in celiac disease.

Background: Growth retardation resulting from celiac disease diagnosed in infancy or in early childhood is remediable after introduction of a gluten-free diet. The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term growth, catch-up growth and final height in a group of treated patients with celiac disease.

Methods: The study population consisted of 35 patients (13 M, 22 F) with typical celiac disease.

Psychological problems connected to the dietary restrictions in the adolescent with coeliac disease.

Aims: To assess the influence of dietary restrictions on psychological development in adolescents with coeliac disease.

Design: Statistical analysis on coeliac patients on gluten-free diet who agreed to answer the questionnaire.

Setting: Children with coeliac disease on gluten-free diet followed by the Department of the Pediatric Division of the City Mayor Hospital, Chair of Paediatrics, Verona University.

[Hepatic and splenic micro-abscess in cat scratch disease. Report of a case].

Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is an infection caused by a gram-negative bacillus known as Bartonella Henselae. Hepatosplenic disease occurs in only 0.3-0.

[Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. A unique familial case].

The paper reports the case of family in which the mother and sons were affected by hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Epidemiological, etiopathogenetic and diagnostic aspects of the disease are taken into account.