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Ocular changes associated with Giardia lamblia infection in children
No full textBackground - The protozoan disease giardiasis can cause ocular complications, including ('salt and pepper') retinal changes. Methods - Ophthalmic examinations were performed in 141 children (mean age 4.7 (SD 2.0) years) with active or past giardiasis diagnosed on the basis of microscopic examination of stool specimens or duodenal secretions - 53 were newly diagnosed and untreated (group A), 50 had active infections in spite of metronidazole therapy (group B), and 38 had been successfully treated, with negative stool specimens for 1-3 years (group C). 300 children with no evidence of giardiasis were used as controls. Results - Salt and pepper retinal changes (with normal electroretinographic findings) were diagnosed in 28 (19.9%) of the patients with giardiasis (11 from group A, 10 from group B, and seven from group C), including five pairs of siblings. In all subgroups, the children with retinal changes were consistently younger than those with normal retinas. In eight cases, the lesions could be visualised only with direct ophthalmoscopy. Conclusion - Our findings indicate that asymptomatic, non-progressive retinal lesions are particularly common in younger children with giardiasis. This risk does not seem to be related to the severity of the infection, its duration, or the use of metronidazole but may reflect a genetic predisposition
Area del nord est: temi/questioni e proposte di prospettiva
No full textSu richiesta dell'INU Lazio, gli autori sono stati coinvolti per presentare il risultato di un lavoro di ricerca e di sperimentazione didattica sull'area nord orientale dell'area romana. Pertanto il contributo é stato di due tipi, orale (alla Conferenza) e visivo (alla Mostra).At the request of the INU Lazio, the authors have been involved in order to present the result of a research and a didactic workshop on the north-eastern of the Roman area. Therefore, the contribution has been of two types, oral (the Conference) and visual (the exibition)
Heritage and culture role in the Rome metropolitan plan
No full textHeritage and culture are considered as fundamental lever for local and regional development in the Rome’s
metropolitan plan. The Plan interprets nature, heritage and culture as key value that characterize the
metropolitan identities.
Settlement’s transformations in the plan arise from the settlement’s morphology and historical territory’s
form and encourage a double polycentrism (Rome and 120 small municipalities). One of the general aim of
the plan is to reorganize present settlement emphasizing existing morphological pattern by using principles
of the compact city.
The paper would like to point out the importance of some compact city’s arguments for the project of the
dispersal contemporary city
Indagine Medicina Preventiva Oculistica in età Pediatrica (I-MPOEP) Risultati del progetto Assilt
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