[Usefulness of long-term monitoring of neonatal arterial pressure]. / Utilità del monitoraggio, a lungo termine, della pressione arteriosa neonatale.

30 newborns were studied, whose systolic arterial pressure has been controlled every 30 minutes 48 hours long, with oscillometric automatic technique. The resulting average of oscillation was 45.1 +/- 12.8 mmHg for systolic pressure and 36 +/- 11.4 mmHg for diastolic pressure. Wide pressure oscillations, you can find in some newborns, could be related with the development of a future pressure hypertension, and therefore a long term pressure monitoring would turn to a real useful test to single out future hypertensive subjects.

[A case of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis treated with thymopentin]. / Un caso di artrite reumatoide infantile (ARI) trattato con timopentina.

The case of a ten year old girl with JRA presenting a systemic onset and resistant to non-steroid therapy is described. After one course of thymopentin the patient responded satisfactorily. After ten months from the beginning of treatment and a third course she is still doing well. The authors comment the modalities of therapy.

Chronobiology of blood pressure in childhood: implications for tracking.

Chronobiology, in its methodological evolution, developed data series analyses paying particular attention to blood pressure (BP), because of the importance of this biorhythmic variable for assessing the risk of developing hypertension. An example of the potentiality of the chronobiologic procedures is given in the present report which deals with the inferential analysis of the BP 24-h patterns in 3-12 year-old children. By using the chronobiologic methodology, time-qualified standards for BP are calculated. Rhythmometric parameters for circadian rhythm of systolic and diastolic components of BP are also computed. Data presented are a tangible outcome for emphasizing the introduction of chronobiology in epidemiology and pediatrics in order to optimize the primary prevention and care of hypertension taking as reference the chronobiologic standards of BP.