The side effects of phototherap ...
Neonatal phototherapy (NNPT), a noninvasive, easily available therapy, has been widely used for the treatment of neonatal jaundice for more than hal ...
Medical students’ views on sele ...
Despite increasing numbers of UK medical students, the number of trainees selecting paediatrics as their specialty choice has decreased. Previous st ...
Interval between onset of sympt ...
Hospital-based studies have reported long delays in the diagnosis of paediatric brain tumours. Our objective was to describe the duration between on ...
Economic burden of neural tube ...
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are the second most common group of serious birth defects. Although folic acid has been shown to reduce effectively the r ...
Management of ligneous conjunct ...
Plasminogen deficiency, a rare autosomal recessive disorder, is classified as type I (hypoplasminogenemia) or type II (dysplasminogenemia). Hypoplas ...
Solid food refusal as the prese ...
Dietary vitamin B12 (vitB12) deficiency, although common in the elderly, is rare in childhood. We report on an exclusively breastfed 8-month-old inf ...
An old drug for use in the prev ...
Reflex vagal hypertonia (RVH) has been identified as a possible cause of sudden unexpected death in infants during the first year of life. Homatropi ...
Informative privacy and confide ...
Confidentiality is a major issue in adolescent healthcare, and its perceived absence may be the main barrier for an adolescent to seek medical care. ...
Clinical practice The approach ...
Approximately 1 child in 1,000 is deaf or severely hard of hearing from birth, and the prevalence rises to about 1.6 per 1,000 in adolescents. Provi ...
Bilateral reexpansion pulmonary ...
Reexpansion pulmonary edema is an uncommon complication following rapid reexpansion of the lungs. The risk increases with a prolonged duration of pu ...
Noroviruses in children seen in ...
Noroviruses (NoVs) are second only to rotaviruses (RVs) as causative agents of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in children. The proportional role of NoV ...
Development of quality indicato ...
Several clinical guidelines for childhood functional constipation have been developed, but none of them is accompanied by a set of quality indicator ...
Identification of high-risk gro ...
The outcome of children with liver abscess (LA) depends upon prompt diagnosis and intervention. We evaluated the etiology, clinical profile, various ...
The effect of socioeconomic dep ...
We aimed to retrospectively evaluate the efficacy of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) therapy in relation to social deprivation in an ...
Magnetic resonance imaging of t ...
Adenylosuccinate lyase (ADSL) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of purine metabolism. Patients may present with a wide range of neur ...
Acute hemorrhagic edema of youn ...
Acute hemorrhagic edema of young children is an uncommon but likely underestimated cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis. The condition typically af ...
Desferrioxamine treatment of ir ...
Intrauterine transfusion is the standard of care in the management of severe Rh isoimmunization. Desferrioxamine has been used for the treatment of ...
A novel SOX10 mutation in a pat ...
We describe a male infant with a novel SOX10 mutation and a severe course of PCWH—a special phenotype of Shah-Waardenburg syndrome involving periphe ...
Proportion of malformations and ...
Genetic disorders and birth defects account for a high percentage of the admissions in children’s hospitals. Congenital malformations and chromosoma ...
Postnatal parental smoking: an ...
Background Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation of the c ...
Vaccination coverage among adol ...
The compliance with vaccination recommendations in adolescence has not been well documented in Greece. The aims of the present study were to estimat ...
Growth and obesity in 7-year-ol ...
The study analyses secular changes in body weight, height and body mass index (BMI) in children in the Splitsko-dalmatinska County, Croatia, in the ...
PFAPA syndrome in siblings. Is ...
PFAPA syndrome” is an autoinflammatory entity composed of periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis. There have been m ...
Assessment of brief interventio ...
Nighttime fears (NF) and sleep problems continue to be major problems in clinical services. The aim was to assess the effects of two brief intervent ...
Life-threatening disseminated t ...
17-year-old girl who was treated with the TNF-ل blocker adalimumab for refractory SAPHO syndrome. The patient presented to the emergency department ...