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| F F RubaltelliSummaryAffiliation: University of Florence Country: Italy Publications
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Epidemiology of neonatal acute respiratory disorders. A multicenter study on incidence and fatality rates of neonatal acute respiratory disorders according to gestational age, maternal age, pregnancy complications and type of delivery. Italian Group of NeF F Rubaltelli
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florence School of Medicine, Italy
Biol Neonate 74:7-15. 1998..Prematurity, low birth weight and a low Apgar score (< or = 3) at 1 and 5 min as well as a maternal age of > 34 years are risk factors for acute respiratory disorders...
Current drug treatment options in neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia and the prevention of kernicterusF F Rubaltelli
Department of Paediatrics, University of Florence School of Medicine, Italy
Drugs 56:23-30. 1998..The intramuscular administration of a single dose of Sn-mesoporphyrin (6 mumol/kg bodyweight) in healthy term or near-term infants seems to be a promising treatment modality for controlling hyperbilirubinaemia...
The role of blood transfusions and iron intake on retinopathy of prematurityC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence School of Medicine, Viale Morgagni, 85, Florence, Italy
Early Hum Dev 62:57-63. 2001..The role of blood transfusions and iron intake in the pathogenesis or retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is controversial...
Effect of blood transfusions on oxidative stress in preterm infantsC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence School of Medicine, Viale Morgagni, 85 Firenze, Italy
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 89:F408-11. 2004..To confirm the increase in non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI) after packed red cell (PRC) transfusion and to evaluate the association with increased oxidative stress in preterm infants...
Changes in mesenteric blood flow response to feeding: conventional versus fiber-optic phototherapyM Pezzati
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Firenze School of Medicine, Firenze, Italy
Pediatrics 105:350-3. 2000..To evaluate whether fiberoptic phototherapy influences the postprandial increase in mesenteric blood flow velocity similarly to conventional phototherapy in preterm infants...
Is breastfeeding really favoring early neonatal jaundice?G Bertini
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Section of Neonatology, University of Florence School of Medicine, Florence, Italy
Pediatrics 107:E41. 2001..In fact, in the breastfed infants, there is a small subpopulation with higher serum bilirubin levels. These infants, when starved and/or dehydrated, could probably be at high risk of bilirubin encephalopathy...
Paralytic ileus in a mechanically ventilated preterm infant treated with fentanylM Pezzati
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Firenze School of Medicine, Firenze, Italy
Pediatr Med Chir 23:201-2. 2001..To our knowledge, the association of paralytic ileus with fentanyl has not been reported previously in full-term or preterm infants. This study indicates that early recognition is required to shorten the delay in diagnosis...
Pharmacokinetics of oxatomide in preterm infantsC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence School of Medicine, Viale Morgagni, 85, Florence, Italy
Drugs Exp Clin Res 28:207-10. 2002..0 h, 37.4 +/- 4.2 l/kg, and 468 +/- 52 ng/ml/h, respectively. Our study, therefore, demonstrated that a dose of 1 mg/kg/day oxatomide was effective in reaching therapeutic plasma levels in preterm infants without inducing adverse effects...
Haemodynamic changes in the brain after vaginal delivery and caesarean section in healthy term infantsC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital of Florence, University of Florence School of Medicine, Italy
BJOG 109:202-6. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: A decrease of cerebral blood volume occurs after birth and this occurs both in infants born by vaginal delivery and by caesarean section...
Perfluorocarbons attenuate oxidative lung damageC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital of Florence, University of Florence School of Medicine, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134 Florence, Italy
Pediatr Pulmonol 36:322-9. 2003..We conclude that animals treated with TLV showed lower oxidative lung damage compared to animals treated with CMV...
Prolonged hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in a small for date pretermM Pezzati
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Minerva Pediatr 55:79-82. 2003..Hypoglycemia was continued until 2 months of age when it resolved spontaneously and completely...
Effect of blood transfusions on cerebral haemodynamics in preterm infantsC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital of Florence, Italy
Acta Paediatr 91:938-41. 2002..To assess the possible cerebral haemodynamic changes occurring in preterm infants after blood transfusions...
Plasma bilirubin level and oxidative stress in preterm infantsC Dani
Division of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital of Florence, Florence, Italy
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 88:F119-23. 2003..To assess the hypothesis that changes in plasma total bilirubin levels (Btot) can influence the antioxidant system and oxidative stress in preterm infants...
Prediction of early tolerance to enteral feeding by measurement of superior mesenteric artery blood flow velocity: appropriate- versus small-for-gestational-age preterm infantsM Pezzati
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Section of Neonatology, University of Firenze, Careggi University Hospital, Firenze, Italy
Acta Paediatr 93:797-802. 2004..To evaluate whether serial Doppler measurements of superior mesenteric artery blood flow velocity could predict early tolerance to enteral feeding in preterm infants...
Coding defect and a TATA box mutation at the bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase gene cause Crigler-Najjar type I diseaseM Ciotti
Heritable Disorders Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 9S 242, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1830, USA
Biochim Biophys Acta 1407:40-50. 1998..e. paired with itself, as previously reported in the literature, it is far less repressive and generates the mild Gilbert's phenotype...
Transcutaneous bilirubin measurement: a multicenter evaluation of a new deviceF F Rubaltelli
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Section of Neonatology, Careggi University Hospital, University of Florence Medical School, Florence, Italy
Pediatrics 107:1264-71. 2001..The accuracy and precision of the TcB measurement in this study was observed to be comparable to the standard of care laboratory test...
Prevention of bilirubin encephalopathyG Bertini
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
Biol Neonate 79:219-23. 2001..Full-term neonates who lose a significant amount of weight are especially at risk of significant hyperbilirubinemia and must be treated with ad libitum feeding and intensive phototherapy...
Neonatal bilirubin production-conjugation imbalance: effect of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and borderline prematurityM Kaplan
Department of Neonatology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, PO Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 90:F123-7. 2005..To evaluate relations between production and conjugation of bilirubin in the pathophysiology of jaundice in glucose-6-phosophate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficient neonates...
