M. Rebuzzi, F. Fasano, V. Vinicola, G. Hagberg, M. Di Mario, B. Maraviglia, and S. Capuani Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Rome, Italy, CNR-INFM SOFT, Rome, Rome, Italy, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Rome, Italy, Rehabilitation Hospital, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Rome, Italy, Neuroimaging laboratory, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Rome, Italy, Radiology, IRCCS S...

It is a great pleasure to introduce the commentaries by Drs Kellow and Quigley on the pros and cons of the new Rome III criteria. Perhaps most of the readership is only familiar with these published diagnostic criteria. However, the Rome Foundation has a larger mission and directive to move the field of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders forward through research and educati...

In this paper we introduce a new spatio-temporal methodology for biosurveillance entitled the Repeated Two-sample Rank (RTR) procedure. It is designed to sequentially incorporate information from individual observations and thus can operate on data in real-time as it arrives into an automated biosurveillance system. In addition, upon a signal of a possible outbreak, the methodology suggests a w...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aims of this study were to investigate the proportion of clinical irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) at a tertiary hospital in China, to compare the Rome III and Rome IV criteria with regard to IBS diagnosis, to describe the agreement between the Rome III and Rome IV criteria, and to identify differences between Rome IV-positive and -negative IBS patients. METHODS A cross-...

a CNR ISC UOS Roma Sapienza, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy b SAIMLAL Dept., Morpho-functional Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy c MIRCen, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Fountain Aux Roses, France d ImpAct Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, France e SAIMLAL Dept., Morphogenesis & Tissue Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy f Neu...

Respiratory Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy ENT Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Imaging, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Pediatric Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Pathology, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Ped...

Author details Viral Hepatitis Unit, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. Epidemiology Unit, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. Center for Immunobiologicals Resea...

Antonio Carbone , Giovanni Palleschi , Giulio Tomiselli , Maurizio Inghilleri , Rocco Rago , Andrea Lenzi , Antonio Luigi Pastore * Neuro-Urology Unit, University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza’’ Polo Pontino, Rome, Italy Department of Neurosciences, University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Rome, Italy Andrology Unit, S. Maria Goretti Hospital, Latina, Italy Department of Endocrinology, University of Rome ‘‘...

Molecular Neurobiology Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00143 Rome, Italy Neurophysiopathology Unit, Department of System Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy Proteomics and Metabonomics Unit, IRCCS-Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00143 Rome, Italy Experimental Neurology Unit...

OBJECTIVES Revisions of the diagnostic criteria for irritable bowel syndrome have led to varying prevalence estimates. The Rome III criteria require a lower symptom frequency than Rome II (at least 10% of the time for Rome III, compared with at least 25% of the time for Rome II). In an epidemiological survey of a representative sample of Israeli adults using Rome II, we reported the prevalence ...