abstract：:Isoflavones are dietary phytoestrogens commonly found in soy-based products. The widespread presence of isoflavones in soy infant formula and breast milk may have long-lasting effects on the development of sex hormone-sensitive organs like the skeleton. Animal early-life programming models are suitable for testing the...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Chin KY,Pang KL

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Mutations in the contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CNTNAP2) gene (MIM#604569) encoding for CASPR2, a cell adhesion protein of the neurexin family, are known to be associated with autism, intellectual disability, and other neuropsychiatric disorders. A set of intronic deletions of CNTNAP2 gene has also...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Falsaperla R,Pappalardo XG,Romano C,Marino SD,Corsello G,Ruggieri M,Parano E,Pavone P

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 crisis has pressured hospital-based care for children with high-risk asthma as they have become deprived of regular clinical evaluations. However, COVID-19 also provided important lessons about implementing novel directions for care. Personalized eHealth technology, tailored to the individual and the heal...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： van der Kamp MR,Tabak M,de Rooij SEJA,van Lierop PPE,Thio BJ

更新日期：2020-09-08 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: Craniofrontonasal syndrome is a rare, X-linked disorder in which heterozygous females ironically reported the majority of patients and is caused by in the EFNB1 gene located at chromosome Xq13.1. Unlike previous reports, we present a female infant with a de novo EFNB1 missense mutation that was demonstrate...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Han JY,Kim HJ,Jang JH,Lee IG,Park J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidosis (SD) is a systemic granulomatous condition that is especially encountered in young adults and rarely in children, affecting predominantly the lungs and lymph nodes. We report the case of a 14-year-old teenage boy admitted to our clinic for nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. Clinical examination at the time...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Mărginean CO,Meliţ LE,Grigorescu G,Puiac C,Simu I

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Aim: Intestinal failure-associated liver disease (IFALD) affects one-fifth of neonates receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) for more than 2 weeks. We aimed to define the effect of IFALD on hemostasis of preterm infants. Methods: This is an ancillary analysis of a prospective study aimed at defining coagu...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ghirardello S,Raffaeli G,Scalambrino E,Cortesi V,Roggero P,Peyvandi F,Mosca F,Tripodi A

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: To evaluate the effects of pressure levels on cerebral hemodynamics in premature infants receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) during the first 3 days of life. Methods: Forty-four preterm infants treated with nCPAP were divided into two groups: very preterm infants [gestational age 1 ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Zhou H,Hou X,Cheng R,Zhao Y,Qiu J

更新日期：2020-08-21 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：:Asthma is the most frequent chronic disease in children, and its pathogenesis involves genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors. The rapid rise in the prevalence of asthma registered over the last few decades has stressed the need to identify the environmental and modifiable factors associated with the developme...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Trambusti I,Nuzzi G,Costagliola G,Verduci E,D'Auria E,Peroni DG,Comberiati P

更新日期：2020-08-18 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：:Background: Histological chorioamnionitis (HCA) is an infection/inflammation of fetal membranes and complicates 5.2-28.5% of all live births. Exposure to HCA can have long-term consequences including abnormal neurodevelopment and an increased risk for allergic disorders and asthma later in childhood. HCA may incite ep...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Fong G,Gayen Nee' Betal S,Murthy S,Favara M,Chan JSY,Addya S,Shaffer TH,Greenspan J,Bhandari V,Li D,Rahman I,Aghai ZH

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of orthostatic hypertension in children was first proposed in 2012. The pathogenesis is not clear by now. Orthostatic hypertension is one of the important causes of orthostatic intolerance in children and is related to the development of essential hypertension in the future. It is commonly seen in older ch...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Hu Y,Jin H,Du J

更新日期：2020-07-29 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：: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：:Objective: 11β-hydroxylase deficiency (11βOHD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the CYP11B1 gene. It is characterized by virilization, hypertension, and significant final height impairment. In this study, we aim to investigate the clinical and molecular characteristics of four unrelated Ch...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Zhou Q,Wang D,Wang C,Zheng B,Liu Q,Zhu Z,Jia Z,Gu W

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) is an X- linked recessive disorder and the most common error of the urea cycle, caused by the mutations in the OTC gene. Due to X-inactivation, 15-20% of female carriers present symptoms of OTCD at late onset. Early diagnosis of OTCD by molecular analysis in fem...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Nguyen HH,Khanh Nguyen N,Dung Vu C,Thu Huong Nguyen T,Nguyen NL

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, immune-mediated, non-curable disease. The incidence of IBD appears to have risen over the last few decades especially in the pediatric age group. IBD usually presents with gastrointestinal symptoms, including abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bleeding per rectum but can also ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： El-Matary W,Bernstein CN

更新日期：2020-07-17 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：:Therapeutic strategies for severe hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) are currently either inconsequent or deficient in evidence. We retrospectively surveyed HFMD outbreaks in Xiangyang from June 2008 to December 2013. HFMD is staged from I to V according to clinical severity. Severe HFMD is defined as a case involvi...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Liu J,Qi J

更新日期：2020-07-10 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：:Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of disability in childhood. Respiratory illness is the most common cause of mortality, morbidity, and poor quality of life in the most severely affected children. Respiratory illness is caused by multiple and combined factors. This review describes these factors and discuss...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Marpole R,Blackmore AM,Gibson N,Cooper MS,Langdon K,Wilson AC

更新日期：2020-06-24 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：:Background: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare diffuse lung disease. Reports of rare cases of PAP due to Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii) exist in infants with immunodeficiency diseases, but no cases have been reported to date in pediatric patients with type 1 hyper-IgM syndrome (HIGM1). Case Presenta...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Zhang FZ,Yuan JX,Qin L,Tang LF

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress results from excessive reactive oxygen species formation and/or inadequate antioxidant defense. Premature and critically ill infants are especially susceptible due to an immature intrinsic antioxidant system that cannot fully compensate for a free radical load. Oxidative stress is also associated with...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Stefanov G,Briyal S,Pais G,Puppala B,Gulati A

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Febrile urinary tract infections (FUTIs) are common among children, and are associated with a bacteraemia between 4 and 7% of cases. No data is available concerning the management of children with a bacteraemic FUTI. Objectives: To compare the antibiotic treatment (parenteral and total duration) among chil...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Goeller C,Desmarest M,Garraffo A,Bonacorsi S,Gaschignard J

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatrics, among all the branches of medicine, is a sector not particularly affected by a high number of claims. Nevertheless, the economic value of the compensation is significantly high, for example, in cases of children who suffered multiple disabilities following perinatal lesions with a long life expectancy. In ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Bertozzi G,Maglietta F,Baldari B,Besi L,Torsello A,Di Gioia CRT,Sessa F,Aromatario M,Cipolloni L

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Environmental issues lead to serious health problems in young growing children. This study aims to determine the association between a country's level of environmental health, ecosystem vitality, and prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC). Methods: This was an ecological study. The data for the explana...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Folayan MO,El Tantawi M,Schroth RJ,Kemoli AM,Gaffar B,Amalia R,Feldens CA,ECCAG.

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal Encephalopathy (NE) describes neonates with disturbed neurological function in the first post-natal days of life. NE is an overall term that does not specify the etiology of the encephalopathy although it often involves hypoxia-ischaemia. In NE, although neurological dysfunction is part of the injury and is m...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： O'Dea M,Sweetman D,Bonifacio SL,El-Dib M,Austin T,Molloy EJ

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

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：:Premature births continue to rise globally with a corresponding increase in various morbidities among this population. Rates of respiratory distress syndrome and the consequent development of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) are highest among the extremely preterm infants. The majority of extremely low birth weight pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Sammour I,Karnati S

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Hospital response to the COVID-19 outbreak has involved the cancellation of elective, deferrable surgeries throughout Europe in order to ensure capacity for emergent surgery and a selection of elective but non-deferrable surgeries. The purpose of this document is to propose technical strategies to assist...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Pini Prato A,Conforti A,Almstrom M,Van Gemert W,Scuderi MG,Khen-Dunlop N,Draghici I,Mendoza-Sagaon M,Giné Prades C,Chiarenza F,Steyaert H

更新日期：2020-05-07 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

abstract：:Background: The impact of a sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle on cardiovascular health is well-documented, however the current obesity and hypertension trends among children is concerning. The ExAMIN Youth SA study aims to investigate the impact of lifestyle behaviors (physical fitness/activity, dietary intake and psy...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Kruger R,Monyeki MA,Schutte AE,Smith W,Mels CMC,Kruger HS,Pienaar AE,Gafane-Matemane LF,Breet Y,Lammertyn L,Mokwatsi GG,Kruger A,Deacon E,Hanssen H

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe invasive infections such as brain abscess in a child should prompt an immune evaluation. Specific granule deficiency (SGD) is a rare morphologic neutrophil granular defect characterized by reduced granules within neutrophils, absence of granule proteins, and bilobed nuclei. Patients are susceptible to invasive ...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Leszcynska M,Patel B,Morrow M,Chamizo W,Tuite G,Berman DM,Potthast K,Hsu AP,Holland SM,Leiding JW

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Hepatic arteriovenous fistula (HAVF) is an abnormal communication between the hepatic arteries and hepatic veins. This condition is treated mainly using interventional closure and surgery. However, these procedures are associated with many postoperative complications and high mortality. Propranolol and o...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Ba H,Xu L,Peng H,Lin Y,Li X,Qin Y,Wang H

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: The incidence and the prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) are increasing, and healthcare utilization among children with EoE is high. This study provides novel insights into the health services and the treatments, including complementary medicines (CMs), used by carers to manage their children's E...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Hannan N,Steel A,McMillan SS,Tiralongo E

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To highlight severe adenovirus pneumonia in immunocompetent patients by analysis of severe adenovirus pneumonia associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome in whom extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support is required. Methods:Pediatric patients with adenovirus pneumonia and ECMO supports i...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Chen X,Lv J,Qin L,Zou C,Tang L

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Malignant brain tumors in infants less than 12 months of age are extremely rare, and they have poor prognosis. We evaluated genetic characteristics and response rates of infants with congenital brain tumors subjected to high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant after gross total tumor re...

journal_title：Frontiers in pediatrics

authors： Guidi M,Giunti L,Buccoliero AM,Santi M,Spacca B,De Masi S,Genitori L,Sardi I

更新日期：2020-04-09 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