Issue 7/2011
Content (22 Articles)
Clinical practice guidelines: what they are, why we need them and how they should be developed through rigorous evaluation
Cristina Cecamore, Alessandra Savino, Roberta Salvatore, Alessandro Cafarotti, Piernicola Pelliccia, Angelika Mohn, Francesco Chiarelli
Assessing pain in ventilated newborns and infants: validation of the Hartwig score
Christoph Hünseler, Verena Merkt, Mandy Gerloff, Frank Eifinger, Angela Kribs, Bernhard Roth
Metabolic, inflammatory, endothelial and haemostatic markers in a group of Italian obese children and adolescents
Paola Giordano, Giovanni Carlo Del Vecchio, Valerio Cecinati, Maurizio Delvecchio, Maria Altomare, Fabrizia De Palma, Domenico De Mattia, Luciano Cavallo, Maria Felicia Faienza
Detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in different respiratory specimens
Dan Xu, Shuxian Li, Zhimin Chen, Lizhong Du
Down syndrome patients with pulmonary hypertension have elevated plasma levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine
Clifford L. Cua, Lynette K. Rogers, Louis G. Chicoine, Molly Augustine, Yi Jin, Patricia L. Nash, Leif D. Nelin
Transition from pediatric to adult health care: expectations of adolescents with chronic disorders and their parents
Christoph Rutishauser, Christina Akré, Joan-Carles Surìs
Serum asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), homocysteine, vitamin B12, folate levels, and lipid profiles in epileptic children treated with valproic acid
Ozlem Ozdemir, Ayten Yakut, Ener Cagri Dinleyici, Sultan Durmus Aydogdu, Coskun Yarar, Omer Colak
Insulin resistance is associated with at least threefold increased risk for prothrombotic state in severely obese youngsters
Assimina Galli-Tsinopoulou, Ioannis Kyrgios, Ioanna Maggana, Eleni Z. Giannopoulou, Eleni P. Kotanidou, Charilaos Stylianou, Emmanouil Papadakis, Ioannis Korantzis, George Varlamis
Cobalamin C defect presenting as severe neonatal hyperammonemia
Diego Martinelli, Andrea Dotta, Laura Massella, Stefano Picca, Alessandra Di Pede, Sara Boenzi, Chiara Aiello, Carlo Dionisi-Vici
Overweight, obesity and features of metabolic syndrome in children with diabetes treated with insulin pump therapy
Włodzimierz Łuczyński, Agnieszka Szypowska, Barbara Głowińska-Olszewska, Artur Bossowski
Low and high birth weight as risk factors for obesity among 4 to 5-year-old Australian children: does gender matter?
John Oldroyd, Andre Renzaho, Helen Skouteris
The impact of prophylaxis on paediatric intensive care unit admissions for RSV infection: a retrospective, single-centre study
Michelle L. Butt, Amanda Symington, Marianne Janes, LouAnn Elliott, Susan Steele, Bosco A. Paes
Management of pulmonary hypertension in Down syndrome
Amy Hawkins, Simon Langton-Hewer, John Henderson, Robert Michael Tulloh
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children chronically exposed to high level of vehicular pollution
Shabana Siddique, Madhuchanda Banerjee, Manas Ranjan Ray, Twisha Lahiri
Relevant factors influencing flatfoot in preschool-aged children
Kun-Chung Chen, Chih-Jung Yeh, Li-Chen Tung, Jeng-Feng Yang, Shun-Fa Yang, Chun-Hou Wang
A case report of hyperthyroid-associated thymic hypertrophy in a child, presenting as an anterior mediastinal mass
Yvette Nchung Achuo-Egbe, Irene Hong-McAtee, Vlad C. Radulescu
Shock: an unusual presentation of Kawasaki disease
Farah Thabet, Hend Bafaqih, Suleiman Al-Mohaimeed, Mariam Al-Hilali, Wafaa Al-Sewairi, May Chehab
Spinal epidural abscess in a young girl without risk factors
Elpis Mantadakis, Theodosios Birbilis, Lambros Michailidis, Vasileios Souftas, Athanassios Chatzimichael
Painful ulcers in a 5-year-old girl
Maria do Socorro Costa da Silva, Ellem Ramos Ferreira, Leonardo Rodrigues Campos, Márcio Tadeu Vieira Brito, Patricia Ferreira, Rodrigo Silva Grilo
Heavy alcohol consumption in children and adolescents: characteristics and gender differences
Sascha Meyer, Sven Gottschling, Ludwig Gortner
Adolescent alcohol intoxication in Dutch hospital centers of pediatrics: characteristics and gender differences
Selma H. Bouthoorn, Joris J. van Hoof, Nicolaas van der Lely