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Improved therapy for atopic eczema. New immunomodulators clear the rash with few side effects.

Tags: 2004, Adjuvants, Atopic/*drug therapy/pathology, Brodell Robert T, Dermatitis, Female, Humans, Immunologic/*therapeutic use, Immunosuppressive Agents/*administration & dosage/adverse effects, Infant, Postgraduate medicine, Smith Jennifer S, Tacrolimus/*administration & dosage/adverse effects, Treatment Outcome

Substantia nigra MR imaging signal changes and cardiomyopathy following prenatal exposure to cocaine and heroin.

Exposure to cocaine in utero results in behavioral and neurodevelopmental abnormalities that persist into adulthood. Conventional MR imaging has generally failed to reveal the expected structural lesions to explain these clinical findings. We report…

Outcomes in pharyngoplasty: a 10-year experience.

OBJECTIVE: The outcomes of 61 patients who underwent a pharyngoplasty for velopharyngeal insufficiency were reviewed to determine potential risk factors for reoperation. DESIGN: This was a retrospective chart review of 61 consecutive patients over…

Buprenorphine Exposures Among Children and Adolescents Reported to US Poison Control Centers.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate buprenorphine exposures among children and adolescents

Heparin free dialysis in critically sick children using sustained low efficiency dialysis (SLEDD-f): A new hybrid therapy for dialysis in developing world.

BACKGROUND: In critically sick adults, sustained low efficiency dialysis [SLED] appears to be better tolerated hemodynamically and outcomes seem to be comparable to CRRT. However, there is paucity of data in critically sick children. In children, two…

Human quadrupeds, primate quadrupedalism, and Uner Tan Syndrome.

Since 2005, an extensive literature documents individuals from several families afflicted with "Uner Tan Syndrome (UTS)," a condition that in its most extreme form is characterized by cerebellar hypoplasia, loss of balance and coordination, impaired…

Analyzing the most frequent disease loci in targeted patient categories optimizes disease gene identification and test accuracy worldwide.

BACKGROUND: Our genomewide studies support targeted testing the most frequent genetic diseases by patient category: (1) pregnant patients, (2) at-risk conceptuses, (3) affected children, and (4) abnormal adults. This approach not only identifies most…

Repackaging of Intravenous Fat Emulsions: A Clinical Conundrum.

To accommodate small fluid volumes, repackaging of intravenous fat emulsions (IVFEs) is frequently performed in institutions providing parenteral nutrition to neonates and smaller pediatric patients. However, some consider this an unsafe practice.…

Screen Exposure During Daily Routines and a Young Child's Risk for Having Social-Emotional Delay.

This cross-sectional study assessed associations between social-emotional development in young children and their number of daily routines involving an electronic screen. We hypothesized children with poor social-emotional development have a…

The Case of the Previously Shaky, Unimmunized, Itchy Infant With Rash and Pancytopenia.

Temporal artery temperature measurements in healthy infants, children, and adolescents.

A noninvasive temporal artery thermometer that uses arterial heat balance technology has been compared to rectal and ear thermometry and is available in the marketplace. This study was undertaken to establish mean temperatures and temperatures 2…

Central nervous system integration of sensorimotor signals in oral and pharyngeal structures: oropharyngeal kinematics response to recurrent laryngeal nerve lesion.

Safe, efficient liquid feeding in infant mammals requires the central coordination of oropharyngeal structures innervated by multiple cranial and spinal nerves. The importance of laryngeal sensation and central sensorimotor integration in this system…

Isolated Post-Shunt Metopic Synostosis and Neural Tube Defects.

BACKGROUND: Craniosynostosis is an uncommon complication after shunting procedures for congenital hydrocephalus. We report a case of a child with myelomeningocele and normocephaly at the time of birth. She underwent ventricular shunting for Chiari…

Tags: 2018, Abouhassan William, Arnold-Chiari Malformation/complications/*surgery, Chao John Kuang, Craniosynostoses/*etiology, Female, Humans, Hydrocephalus/complications/congenital/*surgery, Infant, Meningomyelocele/complications/*surgery, Murthy Ananth S, Newborn, Postoperative Complications/*etiology, Slit Ventricle Syndrome/etiology, The Journal of craniofacial surgery, Third Ventricle, Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt/*adverse effects

Cutaneous abscesses in children: epidemiology in the era of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric emergency department.

OBJECTIVE: Skin and soft tissue infections are a major public health issue. Previous literature suggests a recurrence rate of 4% in children. The purpose of this study was to examine the epidemiology, body location, and history of previous infections…

Calcium channel blocker toxicity.

Calcium channel blockers continue to be used for the management of a wide variety of adult and pediatric conditions including hypertension, angina pectoris, atrial arrhythmias, Raynaud phenomenon, and migraine headaches. With increased use comes…

New recommendations for the treatment of tuberculosis.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this article is to give practicing physicians a practical approach to the treatment of latent and active tuberculosis and to review newer recommendations and common problems encountered in the treatment of patients with…

Tags: 2005, Adult, Antitubercular Agents – Administration and Dosage, Antitubercular Agents – Adverse Effects, Antitubercular Agents – Pharmacodynamics, Antitubercular Agents – Therapeutic Use, Antitubercular Agents/adverse effects/pharmacology/*therapeutic use, Bacterial, Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury, Child, Current opinion in infectious diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Drug Resistance, Female, Hepatitis, HIV Infections – Complications, HIV Infections/complications, Humans, Infant, Microbial, Multiple, Myers Joseph P, NEOMED College of Medicine, Practice Guidelines, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Preschool, Prescribing Patterns – Standards, Tuberculin Test, Tuberculosis – Drug Therapy, Tuberculosis – Epidemiology, Tuberculosis – Prevention and Control, Tuberculosis/*drug therapy/epidemiology/prevention & control, United States

A thyroglossal duct cyst causing apnea and cyanosis in a neonate.

This is a case of a 3-week-old male who presented to the emergency department with intermittent apnea and cyanosis. While in the emergency department, he had respiratory compromise with stress and required intubation. Further evaluation confirmed the…

Tags: 2005, Airway Obstruction/etiology/therapy, Akron Children's Hospital, Apnea/*etiology/therapy, Christopher Norman C, Cyanosis/*etiology/therapy, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Diaz Maria Carmen G, Humans, Infant, Intratracheal, Intubation, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Newborn, Pediatric emergency care, Stormorken Anne, Thyroglossal Cyst/*complications/*congenital

A comparison of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) measurement approach with direct observation of outpatient visits.

BACKGROUND: The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) informs a wide range of important policy and clinical decisions by providing nationally representative data about outpatient practice. However, the validity of the NAMCS methods has not…

Automated bladder scan urine volumes are not reliable in complex neonatal cases.

PURPOSE: We investigate the accuracy of urine volumes obtained by an automated bladder scan in complex neonatal cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Automated bladder scan determinations of urine volumes were obtained by neonatal intensive care unit nursing…

Tags: 2005, Androulakakis Voula, Automation, Humans, Infant, Intensive Care Units, McMahon Daniel R, Nasrallah Phillip F, Neonatal, Newborn, Predictive Value of Tests, The Journal of urology, Ultrasonography/*instrumentation, Urinary Bladder/*diagnostic imaging, Urinary Catheterization, Urodynamics, Wyneski Holly K

Streptococcus pneumoniae antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

Tags: *Drug Resistance, 2000, Anti-Bacterial Agents/*pharmacology, Child, Humans, Infant, Microbial, Microbial Sensitivity Tests/*methods, Preschool, Sensitivity and Specificity, Streptococcus pneumoniae/*drug effects/isolation & purification, The Pediatric infectious disease journal, Venglarcik J S 3rd

The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.

Tags: *Culture, *Medical History Taking, *Professional-Family Relations, *Seizures/diagnosis/drug therapy/psychology, 2001, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, Infant, Medical Records, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nixon L L, Thailand, United States, Wear D

CBTRUS Statistical Report: Primary Brain and Other Central Nervous System Tumors Diagnosed in the United States in 2009-2013.

Automated identification of antibiotic overdoses and adverse drug events via analysis of prescribing alerts and medication administration records.

Objectives: Electronic trigger detection tools hold promise to reduce Adverse drug event (ADEs) through efficiencies of scale and real-time reporting. We hypothesized that such a tool could automatically detect medication dosing errors as well as…

Tags: *Algorithms, *Medical Order Entry Systems, 2017, Adolescence, Adolescent, adverse drug event, Adverse Drug Event – Prevention and Control, Age Distribution, Algorithms, Anti-Bacterial Agents/*administration & dosage/adverse effects, Antibiotics – Administration and Dosage, Antibiotics – Adverse Effects, Child, Clinical, Computer Assisted, Computer-Assisted, Courter Joshua D, CPOE, Damania Rahul, Decision Support Systems, Demography, Dexheimer Judith W, Drug Overdose/diagnosis/*prevention & control, Drug Therapy, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions/*prevention & control, electronic health record, Electronic Health Records, electronic medical record, Electronic Order Entry, Female, Funding Source, Hagedorn Philip, Hospitals, Humans, Infant, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Kirkendall Eric S, Kouril Michal, Li Dan, Male, medical order entry system, Medication Errors – Prevention and Control, Medication Errors – Statistics and Numerical Data, Medication Errors/*prevention & control/statistics & numerical data, Minich Thomas, Newborn, Overdose – Diagnosis, Overdose – Prevention and Control, Patient Safety, Pediatric, Preschool, Risk Management, Spooner S Andrew, Szczesniak Rhonda, Young Adult

Defining Success in Pediatric Palliative Care While Tackling the Quadruple Aim.

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, 2017, Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics, Bogetz Jori F, Child, Friebert Sarah, Health Personnel/*psychology, Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing/*organization & administration, Humans, Infant, Journal of palliative medicine, Newborn, Organizational Objectives, Palliative Care – In Infancy and Childhood, Pediatric Nursing/*organization & administration, Preschool, Success

Neonatal renal cystic diseases.

PURPOSE: Neonatal renal cystic diseases have a great impact on the morbidity and mortality of the affected neonates and infants. A good insight into the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment options of various neonatal renal cystic diseases aid in…

Antiphospholipids antibodies in a 12-month-old presenting with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

A 12-month-old Caucasian female with a history of recurrent ear infections presented to the emergency room with petechiae, severe thrombocytopenia (4000/microL), and abnormally prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time. Further autoantibody…

Tags: 2008, Antibodies, Antinuclear/blood/immunology, Antiphospholipid/*blood/immunology, Female, Humans, Idiopathic/*blood/*drug therapy/immunology, Immunoglobulins, Immunologic Factors/*administration & dosage, Infant, Intravenous/*administration & dosage, Nseir Bacel, Panicker Jyoti, Pediatric hematology and oncology, Purpura, Thrombocytopenic

Common eye disorders: six patients to treat, pitfalls to avoid.

Primary care physicians have an important role in diagnosing and treating eye disorders–including dacryocystitis, blepharitis, and conjunctivitis–and in determining when ophthalmologic referral is needed. Fundus examination for diagnosis of glaucoma…

Tags: 1996, Adolescent, Adult, Allergic/drug therapy, Bacterial/drug therapy, Blepharitis/therapy, Conjunctivitis, Dacryocystitis/therapy, Eye Diseases/*diagnosis/*therapy, Eye Foreign Bodies/diagnosis, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Postgraduate medicine, Viral/therapy, Weinstock F J, Weinstock M B

Electromagnetic fields and infant incubators.

Two models of infant incubators were studied to determine the strength of the magnetic field generated by the heater and fan motors. Measurements were taken at intervals along the center line of the incubator. The results show that fields greater…

Tags: *Electromagnetic Fields, *Incubators, 1994, Archives of environmental health, Bearer C F, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Premature

The epidemiology of respiratory tract infections.

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are the most common, and potentially most severe, of infections treated by health care practitioners. Lower RTIs along with influenza, are the most common cause of death by infection in the United States. Risk…

Direct care staff and parents'/legal guardians' perspectives on end-of-life care in a long-term care facility for medically fragile and intellectually disabled pediatric and young adult residents.

OBJECTIVE: Children and young adults with severe disabilities and their families are faced with enormous challenges throughout the lifespan, including admitting the child to a long-term care facility (LTCF) and making end-of-life (EOL) care…

Selected principles of perinatal-neonatal glucose metabolism.

While the fetus is completely dependent on his/her mother for glucose and other nutrient transfer across the placenta, the adult is completely independent, especially one who is neither pregnant nor diabetic. The neonate is considered to be in a…

Tags: 2004, Blood Glucose/metabolism, Cowett Richard M, Farrag Hussien M, Female, Fetus/*metabolism, Glucose/*metabolism, Humans, Hyperglycemia/embryology/physiopathology, Hypoglycemia/embryology/physiopathology, Infant, Liver/*embryology/*metabolism, Newborn/*metabolism, Pregnancy, Seminars in neonatology : SN

Inhaled corticosteroid use in asthmatic children receiving Ohio Medicaid: trend analysis, 1997-2001.

BACKGROUND: In 1997, national guidelines emphasized that inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) are key therapy for individuals with all classes of persistent asthma, including children. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of these guidelines via time-trend…

Tags: 2008, Administration, Adolescent, Adrenal Cortex Hormones/administration & dosage/*therapeutic use, African Americans/statistics & numerical data, Ambulatory Care/statistics & numerical data, Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, Asthma/diagnosis/*drug therapy/ethnology, Bean Judy A, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Drug Utilization/statistics & numerical data/trends, Emergency Service, European Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data, Female, Heaton Pamela C, Hospital/statistics & numerical data, Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data, Humans, Infant, Inhalation, Male, Medicaid/*statistics & numerical data, Moomaw Charles J, Newborn, Ohio, Preschool, Regression Analysis, Retrospective Studies, Ruddy Richard M, Sex Factors, Stevenson Michelle D, United States

Evaluation of the patient with seizures: an evidence based approach.

Statistics tell us that as many as 1 in 20 members of the population will suffer a seizure at some point in their lifetime, a figure which becomes even more likely if one lives to the age of 80. Thus, a careful evidence based approach to the patient…

Management of Bilateral Undescended Bilobed Testes and Review of the Literature.

Polyorchidism is a rare anomaly of testicular development. Particularly, a bilobed testis is an extremely rare congenital malformation, which is thought to be a variant expression of polyorchidism. Only 5 cases of bilobed testis have been reported in…

Tags: *Abnormalities, 2017, Abnormalities, Agard Hannah, Clark Curtis, Cohen Tal, Cryptorchidism – Complications, Cryptorchidism – Surgery, Cryptorchidism/*complications/surgery, Humans, Infant, Male, Multiple – Surgery, Multiple/surgery, Parekh Neel, Testis – Abnormalities, Testis – Surgery, Testis/*abnormalities/surgery, Urology

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the penis: a case report and review of the literature.

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are rare soft tissue sarcomas that arise from peripheral nerve fibers and are derived from Schwann cells, perineural cells, or fibroblasts. MPNST is an aggressive neoplasm in which local recurrence is…

Technique for preservation of penile skin in genital reconstruction: free graft to the scrotum.

OBJECTIVE: To describe a new technique to preserve the penile epithelium with good cosmetic results when additional surgery is a significant possibility. Complex genital reconstruction can require multiple procedures. METHODS: Seven patients…

Pilot Study of Intensive Chemotherapy With Peripheral Hematopoietic Cell Support for Children Less Than 3 Years of Age With Malignant Brain Tumors, the CCG-99703 Phase I/II Study. A Report From the Children's Oncology Group.

BACKGROUND: The primary goals of the Children's Cancer Group 99703 study were to assess the feasibility and tolerability of-as well as the response rate to-a novel dose-intensive chemotherapy regimen. METHODS: Between March 1998 and October 2004, 92…

Tags: *Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/adverse effects, 2015, Antineoplastic Agents/administration & dosage/adverse effects, Brain Neoplasms/*therapy, Carboplatin/administration & dosage/adverse effects, Child, Children's Oncology Group, Cisplatin/administration & dosage/adverse effects, Cohen Bruce H, Combined Modality Therapy/adverse effects/methods, Consolidation Chemotherapy, Curran John G, Cyclophosphamide/administration & dosage/adverse effects/therapeutic use, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Dunkel Ira J, Etoposide/administration & dosage/adverse effects, Feasibility Studies, Female, Finlay Jonathan L, Gajjar Amar, Geyer J Russell, high-dose chemotherapy, Hilden Joanne, Holmes Emi, Humans, Induction Chemotherapy, Infant, infant brain tumor, Ingles Sue Ann, Male, Miller Douglas C, NEOMED College of Medicine, Packer Roger J, Pediatric neurology, Pilot Projects, Pollack Ian F, Preschool, stem-cell support, Thiotepa/administration & dosage/adverse effects, Treatment Outcome, Vincristine/adverse effects/therapeutic use, Zhou Tianni

Use of next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for congenital myasthenic syndrome.

BACKGROUND: The clinical presentation of congenital myasthenic syndromes is similar to many other neuromuscular disorders of infancy, and with 12 known discrete genetic forms of congenital myasthenic syndromes, both the diagnosis and treatment…

Tags: 2014, Agamanolis Dimitri P, Cohen Bruce H, congenital myasthenic syndrome, Congenital/*genetics/therapy, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure/methods, Das Alvin S, Humans, Infant, Male, Muscle Proteins/*genetics, Mutation/*genetics, Myasthenic Syndromes, next-generation sequencing, Pediatric neurology, pyridostigmine, rapsyn

Diffuse infantile hemangiomatosis of the ileum presenting with multiple perforations: a case report and review of the literature.

Hemangiomas of the small intestine are rare, accounting for only 0.05% of all intestinal neoplasms (Jarvi et al. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2008;46:593-597). The jejunum is the most common site of involvement in the small intestine (Levy et al. Am…

Tags: 2010, Female, Hemangioma/complications/*surgery, Humans, Ileal Diseases/complications/*surgery, Infant, Intestinal Perforation/etiology/*surgery, Journal of pediatric surgery, Mirkin David L, Pence Jeffrey, Peritonitis/etiology/*surgery, Rao Anita B

High Body Mass Index in Infancy May Predict Severe Obesity in Early Childhood.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize growth trajectories of children who develop severe obesity by age 6 years and identify clinical thresholds for detection of high-risk children before the onset of obesity. STUDY DESIGN: Two lean (body mass index [BMI] 5th…

Tags: *BMI percentile, *Body Mass Index, *infant growth, *obese, *weight for length, 2017, Age Factors, Bansal Danesh, Bliss Sherri, Body Mass Index, Bolling Christopher, Case Control Studies, Case-Control Studies, Child, Comparative Studies, Crimmins Nancy A, Daniels Stephen R, Evaluation Research, Female, Human, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Klein Jillian, Logistic Models, Logistic Regression, Male, Morbid – Diagnosis, Morbid – Epidemiology, Morbid/*diagnosis/*epidemiology, Multicenter Studies, Newborn, Obesity, Obesity – Diagnosis, Obesity – Epidemiology, Obesity/diagnosis/epidemiology, Predictive Value of Tests, Preschool, Reference Values, Reproducibility of Results, Risk Assessment, Scales, Sex Factors, Smego Allison, Suh Christina, The Journal of pediatrics, Validation Studies, Weight Gain, Woo Jessica G

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