Advances in understanding the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases have led to the discovery
of mechanisms of inflammation and autoimmunity and have made possible the invention …

During the last decades the description of autoinflammatory syndromes induced great interest
among the scientific community. Mainly rheumatologists, immunologists and pediatricians …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence and describe the characteristics of acute rheumatic
fever (ARF) in the pediatric population in a community-based healthcare delivery system of …

Objective To examine the relationship between electrographic seizures and developmental
outcome at 18 and 24 months in neonates with moderate and severe hypoxic-ischemic …

Objective. To investigate the effect of 1-year treatment with the anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)
drug etanercept on lipid profile and oxidative stress in children and adolescents with …

Gradenigo's syndrome (GS) is a rare disease characterised by the triad otitis media, pain in
the region innervated by the first and the second division of trigeminal nerve and abducens …

Hemiplegic migraine is a rare form of migraine characterized by periodic attacks of migraine
with neurologic aura and transient hemiplegia. There are familial and sporadic cases, both …

Background There is large body of evidence on the correlation between chronic inflammatory
diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD…

Non-ischemic cardiomyopathies represent a heterogeneous group of myocardial diseases
potentially leading to heart failure, life-threatening arrhythmias, and eventually death. …

2. Materials and methods Twenty-one patients with CA and 44 with AS were randomly
extracted by our database. All patients underwent CCT scans (Revolution CT; GE Healthcare, …