Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to V Balsamo.
A case of ring chromosome 4 in an eleven months old male child with severe mental retardation, microcephaly and craniofacial anomalies is described. The karyotype was: 46,XY, r(4) p16----q35). The patient shows only few elements of the Wolf syndrome, whose phenotype is observed in most of the other cases with analogue karyotype.
One thousand eighty-five children with atopic dermatitis were enrolled in a multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy of 4 weeks of oral sodium cromoglycate or 4 weeks of a restricted diet. One thousand-eleven children (93%) concluded the study. At the end of the trial there was a significant improvement in skin lesions in the two groups: 61% of the patients in the sodium cromoglycate group and 69% in the restricted diet showed a significant improvement in atopic dermatitis. We concluded that, at least in our experimental design, both sodium cromoglycate and a restricted diet are equally effective in atopic dermatitis.