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The SIVI (Italian Society of Videosurgery in Infancy) guidelines are clinical practice guidelines edited and approved by the Society's steering committee. They are the products of a detailed systematic review of the literature, integrated with expert opinion in the field of pediatric minimally invasive surgery. These guidelines are intended to assist the pediatric surgeons experienced or not experienced in minimally invasive surgery, with the goal to inform choices related to the indications, approach, and techniques to use when treating the major pediatric surgical pathologies. Given the complexities of congenital malformations and other pediatric surgical conditions, as well as large variations in available regional health services, we must note that these guidelines are not intended as a cookbook recipe to follow for all possible patients. Rather, the guidelines should serve as a flexible framework, to be used by the physician in concert with the parents, to choose the best approach for each individual patient. Decisions tailored to available scientific knowledge and the needs and desires of the patient's family serve both patient autonomy and medical science. All guidelines are published in this scientific Journal, in order to ensure their availability to all physicians. The Guidelines project has been approved by the SIVI General Assembly of the 2016 Madrid congress. Review of guidelines has been performed by the Steering Committee of SIVI and experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SIVI (Italian Society of Videosurgery in Infancy) guidelines are clinical practice guidelines edited and approved by the Society's steering committee. They are the products of a detailed systematic review of the literature, integrated with expert opinion in the field of pediatric minimally invasive surgery. These guidelines are intended to assist the pediatric surgeons experienced or not experienced in minimally invasive surgery, with the goal to inform choices related to the indications, approach, and techniques to use when treating the major pediatric surgical pathologies. Given the complexities of congenital malformations and other pediatric surgical conditions, as well as large variations in available regional health services, we must note that these guidelines are not intended as a cookbook recipe to follow for all possible patients. Rather, the guidelines should serve as a flexible framework, to be used by the physician in concert with the parents, to choose the best approach for each individual patient. Decisions tailored to available scientific knowledge and the needs and desires of the patient's family serve both patient autonomy and medical science. All guidelines are published in this scientific Journal, in order to ensure their availability to all physicians. The Guidelines project has been approved by the SIVI General Assembly of the 2016 Madrid congress. Review of guidelines has been performed by the Steering Committee of SIVI and experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SIVI (Italian Society of Videosurgery in Infancy) guidelines are clinical practice guidelines edited and approved by the Society's steering committee. They are the products of a detailed systematic review of the literature, integrated with expert opinion in the field of pediatric minimally invasive surgery. These guidelines are intended to assist the pediatric surgeons experienced or not experienced in minimally invasive surgery, with the goal to inform choices related to the indications, approach, and techniques to use when treating the major pediatric surgical pathologies. Given the complexities of congenital malformations and other pediatric surgical conditions, as well as large variations in available regional health services, we must note that these guidelines are not intended as a cookbook recipe to follow for all possible patients. Rather, the guidelines should serve as a flexible framework, to be used by the physician in concert with the parents, to choose the best approach for each individual patient. Decisions tailored to available scientific knowledge and the needs and desires of the patient's family serve both patient autonomy and medical science. All guidelines are published in this scientific Journal, in order to ensure their availability to all physicians. The Guidelines project has been approved by the SIVI General Assembly of the 2016 Madrid congress. Review of guidelines has been performed by the Steering Committee of SIVI and experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SIVI (Italian Society of Videosurgery in Infancy) guidelines are clinical practice guidelines edited and approved by the Society's steering committee. They are the products of a detailed systematic review of the literature, integrated with expert opinion in the field of pediatric minimally invasive surgery. These guidelines are intended to assist the pediatric surgeons experienced or not experienced in minimally invasive surgery, with the goal to inform choices related to the indications, approach, and techniques to use when treating the major pediatric surgical pathologies. Given the complexities of congenital malformations and other pediatric surgical conditions, as well as large variations in available regional health services, we must note that these guidelines are not intended as a cookbook recipe to follow for all possible patients. Rather, the guidelines should serve as a flexible framework, to be used by the physician in concert with the parents, to choose the best approach for each individual patient. Decisions tailored to available scientific knowledge and the needs and desires of the patient's family serve both patient autonomy and medical science. All guidelines are published in this scientific Journal, in order to ensure their availability to all physicians. The Guidelines project has been approved by the SIVI General Assembly of the 2016 Madrid congress. Review of guidelines has been performed by the Steering Committee of SIVI and experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mircea Eliade is a Faustian, odysseic and Dionysian character, marked in his destiny by the madness of omnipotence, by peregrination and contradiction. In this paper we propose facing various moments of his inner life during the period of Portugal basing on the ideas exposed in his Jurnal portughez (The Portugal Journal1). From a reflection on women as a virtual subject and object of desire and enamourment, he moves to other thoughts related to physics and the metaphysics of sex. This matter can be finally connected with broader philosophical and historico-religious realities on the wake of Italian esotericist Julius Evola. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on Raffaele Pettazzoni, a scholar and founder of the study of the history of religions in Italy.

The article presents an obituary for French historian Jean-Pierre Vernant who died on January 9, 2007.

The article presents an obituary for Gilles Quispel, professor of early Christian history at Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

The most appropriate treatment for the infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (HPS) is still debated. The non-surgical conservative treatment with oral or intravenous administration of atropine does not enjoy a widespread appreciation for several factors (...).

In the last three decades, fetal ovarian cysts were diagnosed more frequently, due to technological improvement and the increasing use of prenatal screening ultrasound. Nonetheless, treatment uncertainties are still present, either prenatally or postnatally. Recently, significant innovations on diagnosis and treatment have been proposed and a more conservative, minimally invasive approach may be offered to the Pediatrician or the Surgeon who face with this condition during prenatal or neonatal age. (...).

Throughout history, the pediatric laparoscopic nephrectomy was first described at the beginning of the Nineties by Erlich and colleagues in a child and by Koyle and colleagues in an unweaned patient. (...).

Esophageal Atresia (EA) is defined as an interruption in esophageal continuity that results in a proximal tract that ends in a blind pouch in 98% of cases, and a distal tract that in 87% of cases arises via a Fistula from the Trachea (TEF). (...).

The hydronephrosis, characterized by the dilation of the renal pelvicalyceal system with possible functional damage to the renal parenchyma, is the most common congenital abnormality of the urinary system detected in utero through the prenatal ultrasound screening. (...).

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Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common surgical emergency in newborns and it is still a leading cause of death despite the improvements reached in the management of the critically ill neonate. The purpose of this study was to evaluate risk factors, surgical treatments and outcome of surgical NEC., Methods: We retrospectively evaluated a multicentric group of 184 patients with surgical NEC over a period of 5 years (2008-2012). Indications to operation were modified NEC Bell stages IIIA or IIIB. The main outcome was measured in terms of survival and postsurgical complications., Results: Data on 184 patients who had a surgical NEC were collected. The majority of patients (153) had a primary laparotomy (83%); 10 patients had peritoneal drainage insertion alone (5%) and 21 patients had peritoneal drainage followed by laparotomy (12%). Overall mortality was 28%. Patients with lower gestational age (P=0.001), lower birth weight (P=0.001), more extensive intestinal involvement (P=0.002) and cardiac diseases (P=0.012) had a significantly higher incidence of mortality. There was no statistically significant association between free abdominal air on the X-ray and mortality (P=0.407). Mortality in the drainage group was 60%, in the laparotomy group and drainage followed by laparotomy group was of 23-24% (P=0.043). There was a high incidence of stenosis (28%) in the drainage group (P=0.002). On multivariable regression, lower birth weight, feeding, bradycardia-desaturation and extent of bowel involvement were independent predictors of mortality., Conclusions: Laparotomy was the most frequent method of treatment (83%). Primary laparotomy and drainage with laparotomy groups had similar mortalities (23-24%), while the drainage alone treatment cohort was associated with the highest mortality (60%) with statistical value (P=0.043). Consequently laparotomy is highly protective in terms of survival rate. Stenosis seemed to be statistically associated with drainage. These findings could discourage the use of peritoneal drainage versus a primary laparotomy whenever the clinical conditions of patients allow this procedure.