13 results on '"Prampolini L."'
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2. Long-term remission in patients with dermatitis herpetiformis on a normal diet
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BARDELLA, M. T., FREDELLA, C., TROVATO, C., ERMACORA, E., CAVALLI, R., SALADINO, V., and PRAMPOLINI, L.
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- 2003
3. Does breast feeding protect against the development of clinical symptoms of celiac disease in children?
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Auricchio, Salvatore, Follo, Daniela, Ritis, Giorgio de, Giunta, Annamaria, Marzorati, Donata, Prampolini, Luigia, Ansaldi, Nicoletta, Levi, Patrizia, Dall'Olio, Domenico, Bossi, Anna, Cortinovis, Ivan, Marubini, Ettore, Auricchio, S, Follo, D, de Ritis, G, Giunta, A, Marzorati, D, Prampolini, L, Ansaldi, N, and Levi, P
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- 1983
4. Body composition and dietary intakes in adult celiac disease patients consuming a strict gluten-free diet.
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Bardella MT, Fredella C, Prampolini L, Molteni N, Giunta AM, and Bianchi PA
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BACKGROUND: Celiac disease responds to dietary gluten withdrawal, but data on the long-term effects of gluten-free diets are discordant. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to evaluate the nutritional status and body composition of adult celiac disease patients consuming a gluten-free diet who were in clinical, biochemical, and histologic remission. DESIGN: We studied 71 patients (51 women and 20 men; mean age: 27 y; range: 17-58 y) and 142 healthy control subjects matched by sex and age. The subjects' height, weight, body mass index, fat and lean mass, and bone mineral content (evaluated by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) were measured; a 3-d dietary questionnaire was administered; and total daily energy, fat, carbohydrate, and protein intakes were calculated. RESULTS: The weight, height, and body mass index of male celiac disease patients and the weight and body mass index of female celiac disease patients were significantly lower than the corresponding measurements in control subjects. The fat and lean mass of both male and female patients was significantly different from that of control subjects; however, bone mineral content was significantly lower only in females in whom celiac disease was diagnosed in adulthood. Total energy intake was lower in the patients than in the control subjects (9686 +/- 1569 and 11297 +/- 1318 kJ/d in males and 6736 +/- 1318 and 7740 +/- 1715 kJ/d in females), and the diet of the patients was unbalanced, with a higher percentage of energy as fat and a lower percentage of energy as carbohydrates. CONCLUSIONS: Although strictly compliant with their gluten-free diet and in complete remission, patients with celiac disease showed differences in body composition and dietary intakes compared with control subjects. Strict follow-up and dietary advice in terms of the choice and composition of foods seem necessary to prevent malnutrition. Copyright © 2000 American Society for Clinical Nutrition [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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5. Need for follow up in coeliac disease.
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Bardella, M. T., Molteni, N., Prampolini, L., Giunta, A. M., Baldassarri, A. R., Morganti, D., and Bianchi, P. A.
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The use of follow up studies was evaluated in 128 patients with coeliac disease during their first visit to a department for adults. The original diagnosis had been made in childhood in all patients. Fifty eight (45%) of the subjects were following a gluten free diet, 23 (18%) were following a gluten free diet but with occasional gluten consumption, and 47 (37%) had adopted an unrestricted, gluten containing diet for a mean of 11.2 years. There was no correlation in individual subjects between the presence of symptoms, biochemical and immunological abnormalities, severity of histological findings, and the amount of dietary gluten, despite the greater frequency of symptoms in the group following an unrestricted diet than in the other two groups. Short stature and epilepsy with cerebral calcifications only occurred in patients following an unrestricted diet. As only diagnosis based on two or three biopsy samples and regular follow up correlated positively with dietary compliance, it is suggested that a histologically confirmed diagnosis of coeliac disease and regular lifelong follow up are essential in the management of these patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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6. P0427 RISK FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS IN CHILDREN WITH CELIAC DISEASE.
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Roggero, P. A., Pozzi, E., Prampolini, L., Fredella, C., and Lionetti, P.
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- 2004
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7. P0387 DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS: DATA ON INCIDENCE AND OUTCOME FROM A LARGE SERIES OF PATIENTS.
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Fredella, C., Prampolini, L., Arban, D., Bardella, M., and Colombo, C.
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- 2004
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8. Experiences of healthcare providers from a working week during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Villa G, Dellafiore F, Caruso R, Arrigoni C, Galli E, Moranda D, Prampolini L, Bascape B, Merlo MG, Giannetta N, and Manara DF
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- Disease Outbreaks, Health Personnel, Humans, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Background and Aim of the Work: The delivery of care to patients with COVID-19 enhanced many psychological issues among healthcare workers (HCWs), exacerbating the risk of burnout and compromising the efficacy and quality of services provided to patients. In this context, the peculiarities regarding professional roles in delivering care to patients with COVID-19 might reflect daily lived experiences that could impact psychological outcomes in specific professional groups. However, daily lived experiences considering different groups of HCWs have been poorly investigated, especially with a longitudinal qualitative study. Accordingly, our study aims firstly to longitudinally explore perceptions and experiences of HCWs about their daily working life during the initial COVID-19 outbreak, highlighting the specific lived experiences of physicians, nurses, radiology technicians, and healthcare assistants., Methods: A longitudinal qualitative content analysis was conducted to analyse the comments and quotations made on a daily diary lasting seven days by physicians, nurses, radiology technicians, and healthcare assistants during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. According to Elo and Kyngäs recommendation, the data analysis process was developed in three main phases: preparation, organising, and reporting., Results: Four main generic categories emerged by data analysis: 'Clinical practice in COVID-19 patients'; 'The importance of relationship'; 'Navigating by sight'; and 'Good always pays off'. Several differences emerged from the sentences of the HCWs, which require further investigation., Conclusions: Understanding the profession-specific experiences of the involved HCWs in facing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic is key for boosting reflections, research, and actions to adequately support each professional group.
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- 2021
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9. Silent celiac disease is frequent in the siblings of newly diagnosed celiac patients.
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Bardella MT, Elli L, Velio P, Fredella C, Prampolini L, and Cesana B
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- Adolescent, Adult, Biopsy, Celiac Disease genetics, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Prevalence, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Celiac Disease epidemiology, Siblings
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Background/aims: Celiac disease is caused by environmental and genetic factors, and the relatives of celiac patients are at higher risk of developing celiac disease than the general population. This prospective study evaluates the prevalence of celiac disease in the asymptomatic siblings of celiac patients., Methods: Forty-eight siblings (22 males; mean age 13 years) of 39 celiac children (20 males; mean age 4 years), and 120 siblings (55 males; mean age 33 years) of 55 adult celiac patients (12 males; mean age 31 years) were serologically screened for celiac disease. Positive cases were considered for endoscopic duodenal biopsies., Results: Forty of the 168 asymptomatic siblings (23.8%) were affected by celiac disease. There were no differences between the index cases with and without affected siblings in terms of age at diagnosis, symptoms at onset, order of birth, associated disorders or other affected relatives. The male siblings of pediatric patients were affected in 40.9% of cases and female siblings in 26.9%; the corresponding figures for adults were 16.4 and 23.1%., Conclusions: Silent celiac disease is 24-48 times more frequent in the siblings of celiac patients than in the general population. No predictive factors for sibling involvement were found. Adult females seem to tolerate gluten less than adult males., ((c) 2007 S. Karger AG, Basel)
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- 2007
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10. Gluten intolerance: gender- and age-related differences in symptoms.
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Bardella MT, Fredella C, Saladino V, Trovato C, Cesana BM, Quatrini M, and Prampolini L
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- Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Anemia, Iron-Deficiency diagnosis, Anemia, Iron-Deficiency therapy, Biopsy, Needle, Celiac Disease diagnosis, Child, Child, Preschool, Cohort Studies, Comorbidity, Confidence Intervals, Dermatitis Herpetiformis diagnosis, Dermatitis Herpetiformis therapy, Female, Glutens adverse effects, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, Incidence, Intestine, Small pathology, Male, Probability, Prognosis, Retrospective Studies, Severity of Illness Index, Sex Distribution, Anemia, Iron-Deficiency epidemiology, Celiac Disease diet therapy, Celiac Disease epidemiology, Dermatitis Herpetiformis epidemiology, Glutens metabolism
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Objective: Gluten intolerance is a common, immunologically mediated disorder with a widely variable clinical presentation that affects genetically predisposed subjects. Women seem to be more frequently affected although data on sex differences are poor. In this study the prevalence of different clinical pictures according to sex and age is analysed in a large series of patients., Material and Methods: A total of 1436 patients with gluten intolerance were retrospectively considered, diagnosed from January 1975 to August 2001 based on compatible small-bowel biopsy and response to a gluten-free diet, plus immunofluorescent detection of granular IgA in papillary derma for dermatitis herpetiformis. The clinical picture at onset (classic, non-classic, silent) and age at diagnosis (< or = 2 years, > 2 and < or = 14 years, > 14 years) was recorded; 362 parents of coeliac probands undergoing a familial screening were also studied. The relations among sex, age class and symptoms were analysed using the chi2 test with Yates's correction., Results: The overall female/male ratio was 2.3:1 but the inter-sex difference was significant only when the diagnosis was made in adulthood where a significant association between iron-deficiency anaemia as manifestation at onset in adult women (34% versus 7%) was found. Low weight, dyspepsia and hypertransaminasaemia were more common in adult men than women (20%, 14% and 7% versus 13%, 3% and 2%, respectively). Dermatitis herpetiformis was present more frequently in men (16% versus 9%). The prevalence of silent cases was 6% in men and 3% in women. Familial screening showed the same prevalence (9.3%) of current coeliac disease in fathers and mothers., Conclusions: Diagnosis of coeliac disease is more frequent in women but physicians' awareness of sex- and age-related differences in clinical presentation could improve diagnostic performances in men.
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- 2005
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11. Gluten sensitivity in monozygous twins: a long-term follow-up of five pairs.
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Bardella MT, Fredella C, Prampolini L, Marino R, Conte D, and Giunta AM
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- Adult, Celiac Disease genetics, Celiac Disease immunology, Child, Child, Preschool, Cystic Fibrosis complications, Dermatitis Herpetiformis genetics, Dermatitis Herpetiformis immunology, Female, Food Hypersensitivity complications, Food Hypersensitivity genetics, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Diseases in Twins, Food Hypersensitivity physiopathology, Glutens immunology, Twins, Monozygotic
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of genetic factors and the characteristics of five monozygous twin pairs with at least one member affected by gluten sensitivity., Methods: Five pairs of monozygous female twins, of whom one or both were affected by gluten sensitivity (i.e., celiac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis), were followed-up for 11-23 yr., Results: Three pairs were concordant for celiac disease: the onset was comparable and synchronous in two pairs; in the third, one member presented an overt malabsorption syndrome, and the other developed iron deficiency anemia 10 yr later. Discordance for gluten sensitivity was found in the remaining two pairs, one of whose members was diagnosed as having, respectively, celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis., Conclusions: As no environmental factors were found to affect the phenotypic expression of the disease, genetic factors seem to play a major role. The presence of overt or latent celiac disease in three of the four siblings of the three concordant twins, and the association with cystic fibrosis in all three siblings of one of these families, further supports this hypothesis.
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- 2000
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12. Long-term follow-up of dermatitis herpetiformis in children.
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Ermacora E, Prampolini L, Tribbia G, Pezzoli G, Gelmetti C, Cucchi G, Tettamanti A, Giunta A, and Gianotti F
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- Child, Child, Preschool, Combined Modality Therapy, Dapsone adverse effects, Dapsone therapeutic use, Dermatitis Herpetiformis diet therapy, Dermatitis Herpetiformis drug therapy, Dermatitis Herpetiformis pathology, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Glutens, Humans, Jejunum pathology, Male, Recurrence, Dermatitis Herpetiformis therapy
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Dermatitis herpetiformis was diagnosed in seventy-six children by its clinical features and by detection of granular IgA deposits in the papillary dermis of perilesional skin. Enteric alterations demonstrated by measurement of D-xylose absorption and by small intestinal biopsies were detected in over 90% of all patients. A complete follow-up was obtained for all children who were followed for 3 to 10 years. Treatment with a gluten-free diet alone led to a reversal of the intestinal abnormality in 100% of our children and to the disappearance of cutaneous lesions in 82% of reported cases. This suggests that a complete remission of symptoms can be obtained with a gluten-free diet alone. Dapsone alone is effective therapy for the rash but does not affect the intestinal alterations. Furthermore, the lack of side effects to dietetic therapy for a long period of time makes the diet the treatment of choice in this disease.
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- 1986
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13. Paediatric coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis: differences in complement activation in relation to diet.
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Cefalo A, Pietrogrande M, Schiavo G, Prampolini L, Berti E, and Ermacora E
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- Antigen-Antibody Complex blood, Celiac Disease diet therapy, Celiac Disease pathology, Child, Child, Preschool, Complement C3 analysis, Complement C3d analysis, Complement C4 analysis, Dermatitis Herpetiformis diet therapy, Dermatitis Herpetiformis pathology, Female, Glutens adverse effects, Humans, Infant, Intestinal Mucosa pathology, Jejunum pathology, Male, Celiac Disease immunology, Complement Activation, Dermatitis Herpetiformis immunology, Glutens administration & dosage
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We studied complement (C') involvement in paediatric coeliac disease (CD) and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) in relation to lesions and function of enteric mucosa and to diet. For this purpose, 50 children affected by CD and 42 affected by DH were subdivided in 3 groups: in the first (I) were included subjects in free diet, in the second (II) children during gluten-free diet (GFD) and in the third (III) subjects after gluten reintroduction in diet. Only in CD we found significant modifications of some C' parameters. In fact C3 and C4 levels increase in II group in GFD (respectively p less than 0.02 and p less than 0.03) and result inversely correlated to an arbitrary score for the evaluation of the enteric histological lesions (p less than 0.02 and p less than 0.01). C3d/C3 ratio levels, as catabolic index of C3, result always greater than normal in both diseases, but significantly decrease only in II group of CD children (p less than 0.02), where they result also positively correlated to the histological score (p less than 0.05). Circulating immune complex-like material is higher in DH, but incidence of pathological values decrease in II group only in CD (p less than 0.04). These data suggest probable significant differences in the pathogenetic mechanisms of CD and DH involving C'.
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- 1989
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