BACKGROUND Many medications used for children have not undergone evaluation to assure acceptable standards for optimal dose, safety and efficacy. As a result, the majority of children admitted to hospital wards receive medications outside the terms of their license (off-label) or medications that are not specifically licensed for use in children (unlicensed). The extent of unlicensed and off-la...

* Equally contributed to the paper Department of Pediatrics, IRCCS Gaslini Children’s Hospital, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy; Department of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology Services, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; IRCCS Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy; Department of Pediatrics, 2nd University of Naples, Naples, Italy; Pediatric Division, Brotzu Hospital, Caglia...

4 Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical 5 Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands 6 Research Center, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 7 München, Germany 8 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of 9 Groningen, Groni...

1Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University hospital Motol and 2nd Medical School, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Pediatrics, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany; 3Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, CHU Ste-Justine, Montreal, QC; 4Department of Pediatrics, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan; 5Assistance Publique–...

Author Affiliations:Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (Agwu); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (Agwu, Voss); Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC (Neptune); Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Uni...

Best MCOM Med II Student Poster Presentation: Clinical Sciences Compatibility of Heparin with Ethanol for Ethanol-Lock Therapy of Central Venous Catheters Daniel Restrepo, BS1, Norma Alcantar, PhD3, Mark L. Kayton, MD4, Saumil Patel2 1University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Dept of Pediatrics, 2University of South Florida, Dept of Surgery, 3University of South Florida, College of Engi...

Background: During interventional cardiology processes, patients especially women and children receive high radiation doses due to their sensitivity.Objective: In this study, we evaluated a pediatric patient dose separately in those undergone intervention cardiac procedure. Material and Methods: In this cross sectional study, a public hospital with 252 patients, Entrance Skin Dose (...

1Department of Pediatrics, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan; 2Laboratory of Clinical, Epidemiological and Health Services Research, National Hospital Organization, Nagoya Medical Center Clinical Research Center, Aichi, Japan; 3Department of Hematology/Oncology, Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan; 4Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, ...

background the present data show a global increase in the rate of cardiovascular disease. cardiac ct angiography has developed as a fast and non-invasive cardiac imaging modality following the introduction of multi-slice computed tomogaraphy. conclusions the total mean radiation dose to the thyroid and gonads was 0.36 msv, and 96.5 μsv, respectively for the subjects. these values were high for ...

a Chonnam National University Medical School, Chonnam National University Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Gwangju, South Korea b Chonnam National University Medical School, Chonnam National University Hospital, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gwangju, South Korea c Chonnam National University Medical School, Chonnam National University Hospital, Department of Internal Med...