New Methods for Imaging Evaluation of Chest Wall Deformities.

abstract：:Background: Placenta shows high transcription levels of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) that are overexpressed during embryonic and fetal development. Methods: In order to gather further information on the degree of HERV activation in maternal and fetal tissues we assessed the transcription levels of pol genes o...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Bergallo M,Marozio L,Botta G,Tancredi A,Daprà V,Galliano I,Montanari P,Coscia A,Benedetto C,Tovo PA

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia and pancytopenia, occurring in patients with Fanconi anemia (FA), are interpreted either as progression to bone marrow failure or as developing myelodysplasia. On the other hand, immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) represents an acquired and often self-limiting benign hematologic disorder, associated with p...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Karastaneva A,Lanz S,Wawer A,Behrends U,Schindler D,Dietrich R,Burdach S,Urban C,Benesch M,Seidel MG

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose of Review: A significant number of pregnancies are complicated by a fetus with a life-limiting diagnosis. As diagnoses are made earlier in the pregnancy, families experience anticipatory grief and are faced with navigating goals of care for a baby that has yet to be born. With the support of the care team, fam...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Cortezzo DE,Ellis K,Schlegel A

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired sleep is associated with negative effects on quality of life and daytime functioning. Higher rates of sleep disturbance are reported in children with various developmental disorders. However, little is known about sleep in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a condition characte...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Wiggs L,Sparrowhawk M,Barnett AL

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Data regarding the safety of using therapeutic hypothermia (TH) with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in neonates with both hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and respiratory failure are lacking. TH is not associated with an increased incidence of hemostatic complications, but hypothermia may impair coag...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Okulu E,Erdeve O,Pekcici BB,Kendirli T,Eyileten Z,Atasay B,Arsan S

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Lactate is often used as a surrogate marker of inappropriate oxygen delivery. It has been shown that hyperlactatemia is associated with worse clinical outcome in children after cardiac surgery. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association of hyperlactatemia, low systemic oxygen delivery, and hyp...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Klee P,Rimensberger PC,Karam O

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy is a useful first-line treatment for Kawasaki disease (KD); however, 10-20% of patients fail to respond and require additional IVIG. Soluble CD163 (sCD163) is considered a biomarker for macrophage activation. There are no reports measuring serum sCD163 in KD patient...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Azuma Y,Suzuki Y,Okada S,Matsuguma C,Wakiguchi H,Ohnishi Y,Furuta T,Miyake A,Yasudo H,Ichihara K,Ohga S,Hasegawa S

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Timely diagnosis of child physical abuse is of paramount importance. The added value of bone scintigraphy (BS) after a negative radiological skeletal survey (RSS) in children with suspected physical abuse has never been evaluated. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the extent to which BS ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Blangis F,Poullaouec C,Launay E,Vabres N,Sadones F,Eugène T,Cohen JF,Chalumeau M,Gras-Le Guen C

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pontocerebellar hypoplasia (PCH) type 2 is a very rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder with prenatal onset that disrupts brain development. We present three patients (two siblings and one unrelated child) with PCH 2 linked to the most common mutation c.919G > T (p.Ala307Ser) in TSEN54 gene. The disease ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Pacheva IH,Todorov T,Ivanov I,Tartova D,Gaberova K,Todorova A,Dimitrova D

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal lipoblastomas are uncommon soft tissue tumors in children and rarely arise from the mesentery. Due to intraabdominal location and slow growth, these masses can go unnoticed for long periods of time and often found on surgical exploration. We present a case of a 12-year-old male with years of abdominal disten...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Squillaro AI,Chow MD,Arias F,Sadimin ET,Lee YH

更新日期：2020-07-24 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：:Sensory processing difficulties are common among many special needs children, especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The sensory sensitivities often result in interference of daily functioning and can lead to social isolation for both the individual and family unit. A quality improvement (QI) project wa...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Kong M,Pritchard M,Dean L,Talley M,Torbert R,Maha J

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: To explore the lung function of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in premature infants to guide clinical prevention, early diagnosis and treatment. Methods: Thirty infants with BPD at 4-36 months of corrected gestational age were enrolled and divided into mild BPD and moderate and severe BPD groups. Thirty ful...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Chen D,Chen J,Cui N,Cui M,Chen X,Zhu X,Zhu X

更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA repair defects are inborn errors of immunity that result in increased apoptosis and oncogenesis. DNA Ligase 4-deficient patients suffer from a wide range of clinical manifestations since early in life, including: microcephaly, dysmorphic facial features, growth failure, developmental delay, mental retardation; hip...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Staines Boone AT,Chinn IK,Alaez-Versón C,Yamazaki-Nakashimada MA,Carrillo-Sánchez K,García-Cruz MLH,Poli MC,González Serrano ME,Medina Torres EA,Muzquiz Zermeño D,Forbes LR,Espinosa-Rosales FJ,Espinosa-Padilla SE,Orange JS,Lu

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) form the basis for monitoring the physiological state of patients. Although norms have been published for healthy and hospitalized children, little is known about their distributions in critically ill children. The objective of this study was to report the distributions of these...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Eytan D,Goodwin AJ,Greer R,Guerguerian AM,Laussen PC

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common life-threatening gastrointestinal condition among very and extremely preterm infants. Stem cell therapy has shown some promising protective effects in animal models of intestinal injury, including NEC, but no systematic review has yet evaluated the preclin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Villamor-Martinez E,Hundscheid T,Kramer BW,Hooijmans CR,Villamor E

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) over 40 years ago, there has been increasing interest in the use of the extracorporeal circuit as a platform for providing multiple organ support. In this review, we will examine the evidence for the use of continuous renal replacement therapy, therapeutic...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Canter MO,Daniels J,Bridges BC

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase deficiency (CACTD) is a rare and life-threatening autosomal recessive disorder of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation caused by variation of the Solute carrier family 25 member 20 (SLC25A20) gene. Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase is one of the crucial transport prote...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Chen M,Cai Y,Li S,Xiong H,Liu M,Ma F,Xiao X,Hao H

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood asthma is actually defined as a heterogeneous disease, including different clinical variants and partially sharing similar immune mechanisms. Asthma management is mainly focused on maintaining the control of the disease and reducing the risk of adverse outcomes. Most children achieve good control with standa...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Licari A,Manti S,Castagnoli R,Marseglia A,Foiadelli T,Brambilla I,Marseglia GL

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Informed consent is a process ensuring that subjects enrolled in research are appropriately informed of the risks and benefits. While this process is well-defined when it is possible and practical to obtain consent prior to the research intervention, it can be less clear in cases of deferred or waived consent. Definin...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Rich WD,Katheria AC

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To identify postnatal risk factors for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) development in preterm infants with gestational age ≤32 weeks. Methods: Seventy-two preterm infants(30 with BPD and 42 non-BPD controls) admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the Children's Hospital of Soochow Universit...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ding L,Wang H,Geng H,Cui N,Huang F,Zhu X,Zhu X

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Cystinuria is an inborn error of metabolism that manifests with renal stones due to defective renal epithelial cell transport of cystine which resulted from pathogenic variants in the SLC3A1 and/or SLC7A9 genes. Among nephrolithiasis diseases, cystinuria is potentially treatable, and further stone formatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Alghamdi M,Alhasan KA,Taha Elawad A,Salim S,Abdelhakim M,Nashabat M,Raina R,Kari J,Alfadhel M

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The effective diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) pneumonia (MPP) in children has been hampered by the difficulty of achieving an early diagnosis. The simultaneous amplification and testing (SAT) has the potential for early diagnosis of MP in children. Methods: Of the 1,180 children enrolled in this stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Li J,Sun L,Wu X,Guo Y,Jiao W,Xiao J,Xu B,Shen A

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In genome science, the advancement in high-throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics analysis is facilitating the better understanding of Mendelian and complex trait inheritance. Charting the genetic basis of complex diseases - including pediatric cancer, and interpreting huge amount of next-generation seq...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Manwar Hussain MR,Khan A,Ali Mohamoud HS

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension after kidney transplant is a frequent occurrence in pediatric patients. It is a risk factor for graft loss and contributes to the significant burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in this population. The etiology of posttransplant hypertension is multifactorial including donor factors, recipient factors,...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Charnaya O,Moudgil A

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Pertussis, caused by Bordetella (B.) pertussis, a Gram-negative bacterium, is a highly contagious airway infection. Especially in infants, pertussis remains a major health concern. Acute infection with B. pertussis can cause severe illness characterized by severe respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, leucocytos...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Zlamy M

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal residual disease (MRD) by multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC) has been recently shown as a strong and independent prognostic marker of relapse in pediatric AML (pedAML) when measured at specific time points during Induction and/or Consolidation therapy. Hence, MFC-MRD has the potential to refine the current s...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Buldini B,Maurer-Granofszky M,Varotto E,Dworzak MN

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Exertional dyspnea is a common complaint in general pediatric practice. While a high proportion of the general pediatric population has asthma, other diagnoses, including exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction should be considered, especially when asthma therapy is not sufficient to control symptoms. This review descr...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Olin JT

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During early post-natal life, neonates must adjust to the transition from the sheltered intra-uterine environment to the microbe-laden external world, wherein they encounter a constellation of antigens and the colonization by the microbiome. At this vulnerable stage, neonatal immune responses are considered immature a...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Tsafaras GP,Ntontsi P,Xanthou G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00