Reflective Practice About Retroperitoneal Laparoscopy in Comparison to Open Surgery for Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction Repair in Children Less Than 1 Year of Age.

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：:Severe accidental hypothermia has been demonstrated to affect ventricular systolic and diastolic functions, and rewarming might be responsible of cardiovascular collapse. Until now, there have been only a few reports on severe accidental hypothermia, none of which involved children. Herein, we describe here a rare cas...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Vicinanza A,De Laet C,Rooze S,Willems A,Beretta-Piccoli X,Vens D,Voglet C,Jacquemart C,Massin M,Biarent D

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bloodstream infection (BSI) is one of the significant causes of morbidity and mortality encountered in a neonatal intensive care unit, especially in developing countries. Despite the implementation of infection control practices, such as strict hand hygiene, the BSI rate in our hospital is still high. The us...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Rundjan L,Rohsiswatmo R,Paramita TN,Oeswadi CA

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, combined immunodeficiency, and oculocutaneous telangiectasia. The hyper-IgM phenotype of A-T, correlating with a class-switch recombination defect, IgG and IgA deficiency, T helper and B cell lymphopenia, immune dysregul...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Szczawińska-Popłonyk A,Ossowska L,Jończyk-Potoczna K

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To evaluate serial ferritin levels measured in the initial 72 h of admission as a biomarker for new and progressive multi organ dysfunction syndrome (NPMODS) and mortality (unfavorable outcomes) in critically ill children with sepsis due to tropical infections. Material and Methods: In this prospective obse...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Williams V,Menon N,Bhatia P,Biswal M,Sreedharanunni S,Rawat A,Jayashree M,Nallasamy K

更新日期：2020-12-03 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: Mounting evidence suggests that childhood asthma is closely associated with maternal weight before pregnancy and gestational weight gain (GWG), yet the results are not often reproducible. Objectives: We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis, aiming to evaluate the association of pre-pregnancy maternal ob...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Liu S,Zhou B,Wang Y,Wang K,Zhang Z,Niu W

更新日期：2020-04-03 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：:Fetal sex is associated with striking differences during in utero development, fetal-to-neonatal transition, and postnatal morbidity and mortality. Male sex fetuses are apparently protected while in utero resulting in a higher secondary sex rate for males than for females. However, during fetal-to-neonatal transition ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Lorente-Pozo S,Parra-Llorca A,Torres B,Torres-Cuevas I,Nuñez-Ramiro A,Cernada M,García-Robles A,Vento M

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic inflammatory diseases of the airways. In the pathogenesis of this disease, the interplay among the genes, intrinsic, and extrinsic factors are crucial. Various combinations of the involved factors determine and modify the final clinical phenotype/endotype of asthma. O...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Jesenak M,Zelieskova M,Babusikova E

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor kappa-B subunit 2 (NF-κB2/p100/p52), encoded by NFKB2 (MIM: 164012) belongs to the NF-κB family of transcription factors that play a critical role in inflammation, immunity, cell proliferation, differentiation and survival. Heterozygous C-terminal mutations in NFKB2 have been associated with early-onset...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Aird A,Lagos M,Vargas-Hernández A,Posey JE,Coban-Akdemir Z,Jhangiani S,Mace EM,Reyes A,King A,Cavagnaro F,Forbes LR,Chinn IK,Lupski JR,Orange JS,Poli MC

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is a rare monogenic disease with a severe phenotype often presenting prenatally or in early childhood. With its obligate renal and hepatic involvement, ARPKD is one of the most important indications for liver and/or kidney transplantation in childhood. Marked pheno...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ebner K,Schaefer F,Liebau MC,ARegPKD Consortium.

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract associated with significant morbidity. While IBD occurs in genetically susceptible individuals, the etiology is multifactorial, involving environmental influences, intestinal dysbiosis, and altered immune respon...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Foster A,Jacobson K

更新日期：2013-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a potentially curable form of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) resulting from incomplete resolution of pulmonary thromboemboli. We describe an 11-year-old boy with homozygous sickle cell disease with an indwelling catheter found to have severe PH on routine scr...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Spencer R,Valencia Villeda G,Takeda K,Rosenzweig EB

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Pediatric sepsis causes significant global morbidity and mortality and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the bulk of the burden. International sepsis guidelines may not be relevant in LMICs, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), due to resource constraints and population differences. There is a...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Kortz TB,Sawe HR,Murray B,Enanoria W,Matthay MA,Reynolds T

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fped.2018.00230.]. ...

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：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cardiac catheterization are diagnostic tools for right ventricle dysfunction (RVD), but those are expensive and often unavailable techniques. Thus, our objective was to identify clinical and/or echocardiographic variables capable of predicting a catheterization-based dia...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Márquez-González H,Vargas MH,Yáñez-Gutiérrez L,Almeida-Gutiérrez E,Garduño-Espinosa J

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Improved diagnostic tests are needed for the early identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected young children exposed to an active TB (aTB) index case. We aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of new blood-based tests to that of the tuberculin skin test (TST) for the identification of all infe...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Dreesman A,Dirix V,Smits K,Corbière V,Van Praet A,Debulpaep S,De Schutter I,Felderhof MK,Malfroot A,Singh M,Locht C,Mouchet F,Mascart F

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To examine the understanding of the concept peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2) among children and adolescents at different ages from a developmental perspective. Methods: A total of 549 children and adolescents aged 8 to 16 were recruited and instructed to fill in a 20-item Peak VO2Understanding Inventory develo...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Wong SWL,Yu CCW,Li AM

更新日期：2021-01-14 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：:Introduction: Early-onset sepsis in neonates potentially results in substantial morbidity and mortality. A key player in sepsis a neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to limit dissemination of pathogens. Aim of this study was to evaluate markers of NET formation in umbilical cord blood as a predictor of neonatal seps...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Stiel CU,Ebenebe CU,Trochimiuk M,Pagarols Raluy L,Vincent D,Singer D,Reinshagen K,Boettcher M

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of patients with Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) have dramatically reduced levels of IgG, IgA, and IgE with retained or elevated IgM levels. Several reports suggest that these A-T patients with a "hyper-IgM phenotype" (HIgM) suffer more clinical immunologic consequences than other A-T patients. The immunopatholog...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Meyer AK,Banks M,Nadasdy T,Clark JJ,Zheng R,Gelfand EW,Abbott JK

更新日期：2019-10-24 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：:[This corrects the article on p. 82 in vol. 5, PMID: 28484690.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Tsabouri S,Mavroudi A,Feketea G,Guibas GV

更新日期：2017-09-11 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：: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：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an inherited, genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by defective phagocytic cell microbicidal function, leading to increased susceptibility to bacterial and fungal infections. CGD is caused by mutations in components of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (N...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： de Albuquerque JAT,Lima AM,de Oliveira Junior EB,Ishizuka EK,Aragão-Filho WC,Bengala Zurro N,Mayumi Chiba S,Fernandes FR,Condino-Neto A

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a common systemic vasculitis affecting children. It is managed in the outpatient setting and rarely associated with malignancy. We present a case of neuroblastoma in a 7-year-old boy diagnosed after suspected HSP. Our case highlights the importance of maintaining a broad differential ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Alfath Z,Ferdjallah A,Greengard E,Askari SK,Sadak KT,Correll CK

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This mini review provides an overview of the issues and challenges inherent in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), with a particular focus on the neurological factors and neurocognitive functioning of this population. ARPKD typically is discovered at the end of pregnancy or during the neonatal devel...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Hooper SR

更新日期：2017-05-15 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