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Pietro Vajro
Researcher at University of Salerno
Publications - 275
Citations - 8557
Pietro Vajro is an academic researcher from University of Salerno. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liver disease & Hepatitis. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 260 publications receiving 7447 citations. Previous affiliations of Pietro Vajro include University of Naples Federico II & Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli.
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Diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children and adolescents: position paper of the ESPGHAN Hepatology Committee.
Pietro Vajro,S. Lenta,Piotr Socha,Anil Dhawan,Patrick J. McKiernan,Ulrich Baumann,Ozlem Durmaz,F. Lacaille,Valérie Anne Mclin,Valerio Nobili +9 more
TL;DR: Indications for liver biopsy include the following: to rule out other treatable diseases, in cases of clinically suspected advanced liver disease, before pharmacological/surgical treatment, and as part of a structured intervention protocol or clinical research trial.
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Liver Involvement in Obese Children (Ultrasonography and Liver Enzyme Levels at Diagnosis and During Follow-up in an Italian Population)
Adriana Franzese,Pietro Vajro,Argenziano A,Alessandro Puzziello,M. P. Iannucci,Saviano Mc,Brunetti F,Rubino A +7 more
TL;DR: A short duration of obesity emerged as apotentially new risk factor of liver involvement in thepediatric obese population and needs to be confirmed infuture studies.
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Effects of Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain GG in pediatric obesity-related liver disease.
Pietro Vajro,Claudia Mandato,Maria Rosaria Licenziati,Adriana Franzese,Dino Franco Vitale,S. Lenta,M. Caropreso,Gianfranco Vallone,Rosaria Meli +8 more
TL;DR: Probiotic L rhamnosus strain GG warrants consideration as a therapeutic tool to treat hypertransaminasemia in hepatopathic obese children noncompliant with lifestyle interventions.
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Long-Term Course of Chronic Hepatitis C in Children: From Viral Clearance to End-Stage Liver Disease
Flavia Bortolotti,Gabriella Verucchi,Calogero Cammà,Giuseppe Cabibbo,Lucia Zancan,Giuseppe Indolfi,Raffaella Giacchino,Matilde Marcellini,Maria Grazia Marazzi,Cristiana Barbera,Giuseppe Maggiore,Pietro Vajro,S. Bartolacci,Fiorella Balli,Anna Maccabruni,Maria Guido +15 more
TL;DR: Over the course of a decade, few children with chronic HCV infection cleared viremia spontaneously, and those who did were more likely to have genotype 3, leading to end-stage liver disease in a small subgroup characterized by perinatal exposure, maternal drug use, and infection with HCV genotype 1a.
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Probiotics Reduce the Inflammatory Response Induced by a High-Fat Diet in the Liver of Young Rats
Emanuela Esposito,Anna Iacono,Giuseppe Bianco,Giuseppina Autore,Salvatore Cuzzocrea,Pietro Vajro,Roberto Berni Canani,Antonio Calignano,Giuseppina Mattace Raso,Rosaria Meli +9 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that VSL#3 administration could limit oxidative and inflammatory liver damage in patients with NAFLD.