ERASMO BARBANTE CASELLA
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Instituto da Criança, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico
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- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and restless leg syndrome across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis(2023) MIGUEIS, D. P.; LOPES, M. C.; CASELLA, E.; SOARES, P. V.; SOSTER, L.; SPRUYT, K.This systematic review aims to assess the association between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and restless legs syndrome (RLS) in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Sys-tematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Databases were searched for original articles that reported prevalence data on ADHD and RLS until January 24th, 2023. Two independent reviewers evaluated the quality of the articles using the National Institutes of Health assessment tool. Among the 208 articles identified between 1996 and 2022, 29 were included. In large general population studies, 2.6-15.3% of participants met the RLS criteria, of which 3.2-17.4% presented with ADHD. In the ADHD group, RLS symptoms ranged from 11 to 42.9% in children and 20-33.0% in adults. This suggests a strong co-occurrence between RLS and ADHD. A common characteristic of these conditions is sleep fragmen-tation, as discussed in the reviewed papers. Although large-scale studies with comparable diagnostic criteria across the lifespan are required, our findings may advocate a possible common physiological pathway, including sleep fragmentation and dopaminergic system impairment.(c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Efficacy and safety of methylphenidate in treating ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents with uncontrolled seizures: A Brazilian sample study and literature review(2011) KONESKI, Julio A. S.; CASELLA, Erasmo B.; AGERTT, Fabio; FERREIRA, Maria GabrielaObjective: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is observed in 30% of children and adolescents with epilepsy. Recent studies have demonstrated the safety of methylphenidate (MPH) in patients with controlled epilepsy. There are few studies of patients with uncontrolled epilepsy. The goal was to study the efficacy and safety of MPH use in children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD and uncontrolled epilepsy. Methods: We evaluated 24 patients ranging from 7 to 16 years of age who took MPH for 6 months. Inclusion criteria were at least two epileptic seizures in the previous 6 months and a diagnosis of ADHD based on DSM-IV criteria. Conclusion: Patients were classified according to ADHD subtype as follows: 41.7% inattentive type, 37.5% combined, and 20.8% hyperactive/impulsive type; 58.3% had partial epilepsy and 41.7% generalized epilepsy. There was an overall improvement in ADHD symptoms in 70.8% of patients, and there was no increase in frequency of epileptic seizures in 22 patients (91.6%).
- Health-related physical fitness children with severe and moderate developmental coordination disorder(2013) NASCIMENTO, Roseane O.; FERREIRA, Lucio F.; GOULARDINS, Juliana B.; FREUDENHEIM, Andrea M.; MARQUES, Juliana C. Bilhar; CASELLA, Erasmo B.; OLIVEIRA, Jorge A.The present study aims to examine physical fitness among children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) with varying degrees of severity (moderate and severe mDCD, sDCD), and a group of children without DCD (wDCD), in the city of Manaus, Brazil. Initially, 180 children aged 6-10 years old participated in this study. After being diagnosed according to the DSM-IV-TR, 63 children were then divided into three groups (21 in each group). Health-related physical fitness was measured by means of the Fitnessgram, which included several core components, namely, body composition, muscle strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory resistance. The results showed no statistically significant differences between both groups in any of the assessed components. However, when analyzing the results of each component according to the criteria of the Fitnessgram, we observed that, regardless of the classification group, less than half of the children achieved scores that, according to the motor tests, would classify them as having a healthy fitness. Children with sDCD, mDCD and wDCD presented similar levels of health-related physical fitness, with an unsatisfactory performance for the component strength and muscular endurance. We therefore emphasize the importance of further research in this area, more particularly when it comes to following the development of motor skills and physical fitness in children with DCD, as well as the observation of the interactions between these variables over time.