A psychologist-led educational intervention results in a sustained reduction in neonatal intensive care unit infections.

abstract：Aim:The purpose of this study is to describe the development of an external 3-dimensional (3D) scanner as a noninvasive method for imaging chest wall deformities. It allows objective assessment, reconstruction of the area of interest, and evaluation of the severity of the deformity by using external indexes. External ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Lain A,Garcia L,Gine C,Tiffet O,Lopez M

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is reported as an innovative strategy for children with end-stage heart failure (ESHF) to bridge to transplantation or recovery. We report our early experience with PAB to evaluate outcomes, indications, and limitations. Materials and Methods: This is a single-center prospect...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Di Candia A,Castaldi B,Bordin G,Cerutti A,Reffo E,Biffanti R,Di Salvo G,Vida VL,Padalino MA

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection (CAEBV) is an EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disease characterized by repeated or sustainable infectious mononucleosis (IM)-like symptoms. EBV is usually detected in B cells in patients who have IM or Burkitt's lymphoma and even in patients with X-linked lymphoprol...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Tanita K,Hoshino A,Imadome KI,Kamiya T,Inoue K,Okano T,Yeh TW,Yanagimachi M,Shiraishi A,Ishimura M,Schober T,Rohlfs M,Takagi M,Imai K,Takada H,Ohga S,Klein C,Morio T,Kanegane H

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study aimed to assess the prevalence of picky eating among preschool children and to evaluate the association between eating behavior and growth, physical activity, development, and health status. Methods:A structured questionnaire was used to conduct a cross-sectional descriptive study of 300 primary ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Chao HC

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Viral respiratory tract infections (VRTI) may cause severe respiratory and sepsis-like symptoms in infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Little is known about the frequencies of VRTI in relation to visiting policies in the NICU. Objective: Aim of this study was to evaluate the fr...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Kidszun A,Neurohr A,Gröndahl B,Tippmann S,Schreiner D,Winter J,Mahmoudpour SH,Gehring S,Mildenberger E

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Childhood refractory mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) pneumonia (RMPP) is a lung disease with elevated level of C-reactive protein and severe clinical and radiological deterioration. Whether bacterial co-infection contributes to disease of RMPP and whether inclusion of non-anti-MP antibiotics in treatment regime...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Liu JR,Lu J,Dong F,Li HM,Liu H,Tang XL,Guo YL,Zhao SY

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the results of a literature review regarding the indications and results of operations to increase bladder outlet resistance to achieve dryness in children with neurogenic sphincter incompetence (NSBD). The relative advantages and disadvantages of injection of bulking agents, periurethral slings, bladder ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ludwikowski BM,Bieda JC,Lingnau A,González R

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: This paper presents design and results from preliminary evaluation of Tangible Geometric Games (TAG-Games) for cognitive assessment in young children. The TAG-Games technology employs a set of sensor-integrated cube blocks, called SIG-Blocks, and graphical user interfaces for test administration and real-t...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Lee K,Jeong D,Schindler RC,Hlavaty LE,Gross SI,Short EJ

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: High parent education is protective against youth health risk behaviors such as tobacco use. According to the Minorities' Diminished Returns theory, however, higher parent education seems to exert less protection for the ethnic minority relative to the majority groups. Objectives: To explore ethnic differe...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Assari S,Boyce S,Caldwell CH,Bazargan M

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that gut microbiota development is influenced by human biogeographic factors such as race, ethnicity, diet, lifestyle or culture-specific variations, and other environmental influences. However, biogeographic variation in gut microbiota assembly remains largely unexplored in Latin Amer...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Chew C,Barros KV,Weffort VRS,Maranhão HS,Laranjeira M,Knol J,Roeselers G,de Morais MB

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Intussusception is a common abdominal emergency in infancy and childhood, and the recurrence rate is reported to be up to 20%. Numerous potential risk factors for recurrence have been reported, although some of them are still controversial. Objective: The present study was conducted to identify the risk fa...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ye X,Tang R,Chen S,Lin Z,Zhu J

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel homozygous JAK3 mutation in two female Brazilian SCID infants from two unrelated kindreds. Patient 1 was referred at 2 months of age due to a family history of immunodeficiency and the appearance of a facial rash. The infant was screened for TRECs (T-cell receptor excision circles) and KRECs (kappa-d...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Barreiros LA,Segundo GRS,Grumach AS,Roxo-Júnior P,Torgerson TR,Ochs HD,Condino-Neto A

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, food allergies are considered as a wide spectrum of disorders that need different approaches. The "one size fits all" approach is giving way to a "targeted approach," based on the identification of the patient's phenotype. Thus, the approach of nutritional management of food allergy has moved on from simply ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： D'Auria E,Pendezza E,Zuccotti GV

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure processing (HPP) is a non-thermal technology that is being increasingly applied in food industries worldwide. It was proposed that this method could be used as an alternative to holder pasteurization (HoP; 62.5°C, 30 min) in milk banks but its impact on the immunologic, enzymatic and hormonal components ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Wesolowska A,Sinkiewicz-Darol E,Barbarska O,Strom K,Rutkowska M,Karzel K,Rosiak E,Oledzka G,Orczyk-Pawiłowicz M,Rzoska S,Borszewska-Kornacka MK

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Pediatric acute encephalopathy (AE) was sometimes attributed to virus infection. However, viral infection does not always result in AE. The risk factors for developing infantile AE upon virus infection remain to be determined. Here, we report an infant with AE co-infected with human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) and...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Nakata K,Kashiwagi M,Masuda M,Shigehara S,Oba C,Murata S,Kase T,Komano JA

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Childhood obesity is occurring at alarming rates in both developed and developing countries. "Obesogenic" environmental factors must be associated with variants of different risk alleles to determine polygenic or common obesity, and their impact depends on different developmental stages.The interaction b...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Mǎrginean CO,Mǎrginean C,Meliţ LE

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that children with congenital heart defects (CHD) are at risk for adverse intellectual functioning. However, factors related to lower intellectual functioning in this group are largely unknown. This study describes intellectual functioning in children with CHD in relation to severity of the h...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ryberg C,Sunnegårdh J,Thorson M,Broberg M

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relationship between influenza seasonality and outcome of very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) in a large observational cohort study of the German Neonatal Network. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Within the observational period (July 2009 until December 2014), five influenza seasons occurred (mea...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Härtel C,Humberg A,Viemann D,Stein A,Orlikowsky T,Rupp J,Kopp MV,Herting E,Göpel W

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Allostatic load (AL) refers to the physiological response associated with the burden of chronic stress. Excessive weight is an important source of physiological stress that promotes a detrimental chronic low-inflammation state. In order to define a correlation between cumulative biological dysregulation ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Calcaterra V,Vinci F,Casari G,Pelizzo G,de Silvestri A,De Amici M,Albertini R,Regalbuto C,Montalbano C,Larizza D,Cena H

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is a primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by the early onset of recurrent infections and persistent severe neutropenia, with or without genetic defect. We aimed to study the different clinical features and hematological and bone marrow characteristics of patien...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Gong RL,Wu J,Chen TX

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Acute respiratory infections with cough (ARIwC) contribute considerably to childhood morbidity, yet few studies have examined the cost of these illnesses among Australian children. Moreover, of the few studies that have, none are inclusive of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children, despite thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Lovie-Toon YG,McPhail SM,Au-Yeung YT,Hall KK,Chang AB,Vagenas D,Otim ME,O'Grady KF

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed an optimal machine learning (ML) method for predicting intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) resistance in children with Kawasaki disease (KD) using commonly available clinical and laboratory variables. We retrospectively collected 98 clinical records of hospitalized children with KD (2-109 months of age). ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Kuniyoshi Y,Tokutake H,Takahashi N,Kamura A,Yasuda S,Tashiro M

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the development of the male and female brain are an evolving area of investigation. We are beginning to understand the underpinnings of male and female advantages due to differences in brain development as well as the consequences following hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in the newborn. The two main fact...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Rosenkrantz TS,Hussain Z,Fitch RH

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although antibiotics confer significant health benefits in treating or preventing bacterial infections, an accumulating wealth of evidence illustrates their detrimental effect on host-microbiota homeostasis, posing a serious menace to the global public health. In recent years, it is becoming evident that infants, who ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Shekhar S,Petersen FC

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Despite the pandemic, data are limited regarding COVID-19 infection in pregnant women and newborns. This report aimed to bring new information about presentation that could modify precautionary measures for infants born of mothers with a remote history of COVID-19. Methods: We report two infants with possi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Hascoët JM,Jellimann JM,Hartard C,Wittwer A,Jeulin H,Franck P,Morel O

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To investigate the relationship of overnutrition (obese and overweight) with severity of illness in children hospitalized with acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs), frequency of viral coinfections and leptin levels. Methods: We studied 124 children <2 years old that were hospitalized for ALRI. Nutriti...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Arias-Bravo G,Valderrama G,Inostroza J,Reyes-Farías M,Garcia-Diaz DF,Zorondo-Rodríguez F,Fuenzalida LF

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic kidney diseases comprise a varied collection of hereditary disorders, where renal cysts comprise a major element of their pleiotropic phenotype. In pediatric patients, the term polycystic kidney disease (PKD) commonly refers to two specific hereditary diseases, autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARP...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Sweeney WE Jr,Avner ED

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Amount of parenchymal involvement in patients with interstitial pneumonia Covid-19 related, seems to be associated with a worse prognosis. Nowadays 3D reconstruction imaging is expanding its role in clinical medical practice. We aimed to use 3D lung reconstruction of a young lady affected by Sars-CoV2 infe...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Borro L,Ciliberti P,Santangelo TP,Magistrelli A,Campana A,Carducci FC,Caterina M,Tomà P,Secinaro A

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric critical care services in India have grown with leaps and bounds. There has been a growing need of physicians specially trained in pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) in India. Physicians returning to India after their formal training in PCCM abroad have partly supported this growing need. Development of...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Bhalala U,Khilnani P

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftolozane-tazobactam is a novel fifth-generation cephalosporin/β-lactamase inhibitor combination recently approved for treatment of both complicated intra-abdominal and urinary tract infections in adults. Considering its potent bactericidal activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, it might represent an important opt...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Garazzino S,Altieri E,Silvestro E,Pruccoli G,Scolfaro C,Bignamini E

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00