Pulmonary infections
Bilateral congenital midureteri ...
We report a case of bilateral congenital midureteric strictures diagnosed using MR urography. The severity of obstruction differed in the two ureter ...
Infection in pediatric interven ...
Interventional radiology in children involves nearly every aspect of infectious disease. Diagnosis, treatment, prophylaxis and disease transmission ...
MR findings of synovial disease ...
Synovial diseases in children can be classified into normal structures as potential sources of pathology (synovial folds: plicae, infrapatellar fat ...
Radiation exposure monitoring: ...
A method is described for gathering and distributing radiation exposure data from X-ray-based imaging procedures such as CT, angiography, fluoroscop ...
Pulmonary infections
This paper reviews the most common imaging findings of pulmonary infection in children. Pneumonia is a leading cause of mortality in children in dev ...
Paediatric radiology seen from ...
Radiologists in developing countries cite numerous reasons for poor research output including heavier workloads, poor remuneration (resulting in “br ...
Pediatric digital radiography s ...
On Feb. 4, 2010, the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Radiology held a Pediatric Digital Radiography Summit. The goal was for radiologists ...
Functional imaging of infection ...
A growing body of literature suggests that 18- fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET), particularly when combined wi ...
MRI findings in multifetal preg ...
Background Twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence (TRAP) is a rare complication in multifetal monochorionic pregnancies in which a normal “pump” ...
The genetic and clinical signif ...
Purpose MYCN amplification (MYCN-A) is a strong prognostic factor in neuroblastoma (NB). MYCN gain which is a low level of MYCN-A as determined by F ...
Testicular epidermoid cysts in ...
Background Testicular epidermoid cyst is a rare benign tumor in children. Although this entity is widely described in adults in literature, there ar ...
Pediatric sellar and suprasella ...
Masses arising in the sella turcica and the suprasellar region are common in children. The type and frequency of the various lesions encountered in ...
Plasma therapy for atypical hae ...
Atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS) is frequently associated with mutations in the gene encoding complement factor H (CFH). The clinical re ...
Difficulties in diagnosing urin ...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children appear to be simple and straightforward matters, but there is as yet no consensus on UTIs in this patien ...
Infant with gross hematuria and ...
Our differential diagnosis was acute glomerulonephritis due to infections known to cause nephrotic syndrome (NS) in the first year of life, includin ...
Hypertension in infancy: diagno ...
Advances in the ability to identify, evaluate, and care for infants with hypertension, coupled with advances in the practice of Neonatology, have le ...
The origin of interstitial myof ...
Chronic kidney diseases (CKD), independent of their primary cause, lead to progressive, irreversible loss of functional renal parenchyma. Renal path ...
Transition from pediatric to ad ...
The number of young patients graduating from paediatric to adult renal care has progressively increased due to improved management resulting in pati ...
Is fibroblast growth factor 23 ...
Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) is a novel hormone produced by bone with known functions to regulate urinary phosphate excretion, as well as vit ...
Bartter- and Gitelman-like synd ...
Salt-losing tubulopathies with secondary hyperaldosteronism (SLT) comprise a set of well-defined inherited tubular disorders. Two segments along the ...
The PDGF family in renal fibros ...
The platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) family plays an important role in embryonic development, malignancy, wound healing, atherosclerosis, and f ...
Genetic testing in renal diseas ...
A revolution is happening in genetics! The decoding of the first genome in 2003 was a large international collaborative effort that took about 13 ye ...
Long-term renal function under ...
In a paper byWaters and Licht published recently in Pediatric Nephrology, eculizumab is presented as the emerging drug to replace plasma exchange (P ...
Clinical presentation and metab ...
Although pediatricians are frequently confronted with patients presenting urolithiasis symptoms without obvious stones, the syndrome of occult uroli ...
Distinct metalloproteinase excr ...
Metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and metalloproteinase- 9 (MMP-9) degrade type IV collagen, and represent important tissue remodeling enzymes in several ...