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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Management of ligneous conjunct ...
Plasminogen deficiency, a rare autosomal recessive disorder, is classified as type I (hypoplasminogenemia) or type II (dysplasminogenemia). Hypoplas ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Breastmilk ghrelin, leptin, and ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in the ghrelin, leptin, and fat levels in the foremilk and hindmilk and the possible relationship ...
Declining prevalence rates for ...
To estimate the development of prevalence rates for overweight and obesity in children starting school in Germany, data for children’s height and we ...
The European Paediatric Life Su ...
We tested the hypothesis that application of the principles learned from the European Paediatric Life Support (EPLS) course improves child health as ...
Outcome of ventilator-associate ...
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacteriarelated nosocomial infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) presents an emerging challen ...
A disappearing neonatal skin le ...
A preterm baby girl was noted at birth to have a firm, raised, non-tender skin lesion located over her right hip. She developed three similar smalle ...
Effect of exclusive breastfeedi ...
The main goal of the study was to assess the effect of exclusive breastfeeding on the neurodevelopment of children over a 7-year follow-up period an ...
Discordant expression of a new ...
Congenital nephrotic syndrome (CNS) is a heterogeneous group of diseases with different causes and prognoses. Two thirds of cases of NS in the first ...
Tetrasomy and pentasomy of the ...
We describe a newborn girl with a life-threatening laryngomalacia and extreme hypotonia. Genetic analysis revealed the very rare genetic condition m ...
Coexistence of polyarteritis no ...
Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a non-frequent vasculitis of small- and medium-sized vessels. Psoriatic arthritis (PA) is described as a “unique infla ...
Is respiratory viral infection ...
We performed a prospective cohort study from September 2003 to December 2004 to delineate attributing the effect of different respiratory viral infe ...
Thrombus obstructing the right ...
At her first day of life, a neonate presented with severe cyanosis and a mass obstructing the right ventricle outflow tract. Prostagladin E1 was nec ...