Publications by authors named "Francesca Castelletti"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates bronchiolitis-related hospitalizations in infants from Sept 2018 to March 2023 across six Italian hospitals, noting a significant rebound in cases post-COVID-19 lockdowns.
- In the winter of 2022-2023, there were 953 hospitalizations, a 70% increase from the previous year, with longer hospital stays and more patients needing invasive respiratory support.
- Coinfections also rose, highlighted by a prevalence of 42% this winter, indicating a trend towards more severe bronchiolitis cases compared to the past five years.
Background: Norwegian scabies is a rare dermatological manifestation that usually affects the most fragile populations, such as elderly and immunocompromised patients, and its diagnosis is quite complex, due to its low prevalence in the general population and because of a broad spectrum manifestation.
Case Presentation: Here we describe a rare case of Norwegian scabies that was previously misdiagnosed in a sixteen year old patient affected by Down syndrome and we conducted a non-systematic literature review about this topic. Lesions were atypical, pruritic and associated with periodic desquamation of the palms and soles and after a series of specialist evaluations, she finally underwent topical treatment with complete remission.