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Background. Pediatric abdominal pain accounts for more than 1 million emergency department (ED) visits annually, and appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency. Guidelines recommend ultrasound as the initial imag...

Con la presente comunicación nos proponernos mostrar algunas de las características que presenta la asistencia psiquiátrica en un hospital general, a través de la evolución y funcionamiento actual del Servicio de Ne...

Inborn errors of immunity are a group of genetic disorders caused by mutations that affect the development and/or function of several compartments of the immune system, predisposing patients to infections, autoimmunity, ...

Background/Aim: The aim of the research was to examine the general attitude, knoweledge and practice of pediatricians about caries in children of preschool age. Material and Methods: The research was conducted from Novem...

ABSTRACT Background and Aim Tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures on children. Indications for tonsillectomy include recurrent tonsillitis, obstructive sleep apnea, and peritonsillar abs...

ObjectivePediatric direct inguinal hernia (DIH) is an extremely rare congenital abdominal wall defect, accounting for less than 4% of all pediatric inguinal hernias. Its clinical manifestations overlap highly with indire...

Saliva as a microfluidic system offers numerous advantages for both general and oral health diagnostic and therapeutic procedures since its assembly is quick, stress-free, inexpensive and non-invasive. Moreover, saliva i...

Aim: Emergence delirium (ED) is a common behavioral disturbance during recovery from general anesthesia in pediatric patients. This retrospective observational study aimed to evaluate the effect of intraoperative bispect...

Classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is a lymphoid neoplasm in which the immune microenvironment contributes to the lymphomagenesis process. Epstein Barr virus (EBV) presence also influences cHL microenvironment composition an...

BackgroundX-linked hyper IgM syndrome (XHIGM) is a rare primary immunodeficiency (PID) caused by pathogenic variants in the CD40 ligand (CD40LG) gene, resulting in defective immunoglobulin class-switch recombination, cau...

Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, is generally milder in children than adults, but concerns remain regarding potential long-term pulmonary sequelae, even in non-pneumonic case...

Introduction: Collaborative clinical trials have enlarged the knowledge base about pediatric tumors; however, this is not the case for rare tumors (RT).Objective: To describe the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and...

IntroductionActivated Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Delta Syndrome (APDS) is a rare disease characterized by progressive symptoms that begin early in life, including lymphoproliferation, recurrent and persistent infections, ...

RESUMO O objetivo do presente trabalho foi relatar a eficácia do fluralaner no tratamento da demodicidose juvenil generalizada canina. Dois caninos, apresentando dois e três meses de idade, com diagnóstico clínico e ...

Foreign bodies in the external auditory canal (EAC) are a common pediatric emergency, especially in children aged 1–4 years due to exploratory behavior and limited risk awareness. Common objects include beads, toy part...

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEE) is a tumor of vascular origin, infrequent in the pediatric age and even more infrequent at intestinal level. To our knowledge, there are no previous reports of pediatric patients wi...

BackgroundReducing under-5 mortality remains a global health priority. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used by the public to access medical information. However, current evidence evaluating LLMs’ performa...

ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the correlation between trace element concentrations, 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels, and the severity of tic disorders (TD) in children from the Hubei region. Additionally, ...

Background/Aim: The requirements for dental specialties and the number of specialists in each country are unique and strong indicator of the availability and affordability of primary health care for children and adolesce...

A ansiedade manifestada pela criança durante o atendimento odontológico constitui um elemento potencialmente prejudicial à realização do tratamento bucal. O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever e analisar os compor...

Background and objective: The protein energy malnutrition represents as a major health problem in the Iraq. It occurs particularly in weaklings and children in the first year. This study aims to identify the nurses' know...

Objetivos: Evaluar la función del TUI en pacientes pediátricos con RVU primario grados III-V con exámenes VUDs efectuados desde los 1ros meses de vida hasta la edad en que se adquiere la continencia. Analizar la evolu...

BackgroundCommon variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most prevalent inborn error of immunity. Although CVID is most commonly diagnosed in adulthood, a subset of patients is diagnosed in childhood. Autoimmune and end-...

The role of the different lymphocyte populations in liver microenvironment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients is still matter of debate. Since Th17 and Treg have opposite functions, their balance could affect disease ...