V.G.C. is a 2-year-old child, who was hospitalized following tubercolar meningitis. His condition was serious: altered awareness state, signs of intracranial hypertension, blindness. During the convalescence, as well as a specific antituberculosis and cortisonic treatment, a permanent liquor drainage to peritoneal ventricle was carried out and the child healed progressively, retrieving also visual functionality. TheRead more
E. is 14 years old and suffers from a severe form of chronic osteomyelitis to the right femur, which results in the right leg measuring 12 cm less than the left one. She walks using crutches or she uses a wheel chair. She arrived in Italy accompanied by her aunt hoping one day to beRead more
M. was suffering from chronic thrombocytopenic purpura, an autoimmune disease characterized by thrombocytopenia due to a peripheral destruction of platelets. She arrived in Italy, accompanied by her mother, to confirm the diagnosis and define the correct therapy. The pediatricians of the Burlo Garofolo hospital studied the case and determined that the pathology had healed byRead more
B., whom we assisted in 2007, comes from Kosovo and was born with a malformation to the urinary apparatus, for which he underwent nephrectomy when he was only one year old. Thanks to our intervention, B. made huge progress. The child, who has always been very collaborative, followed a process of functional habilitation, learning toRead more