Alfredo di Pino, MD, Elio Caruso, MD, Federica Censi, PhD, Gianfranco Gaudenti, EEng, Alessio Gargaro, MS, Giovanni Calcagnini, PhD From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital Centro Cardiologico Pediatrico del Mediterraneo, San Vincenzo Hospital, Taormina, Italy, Department of Technology and Health, Italian National Institute of Health, Rom...

1. Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8126, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 54, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. 2. University Hospital CHUV, Pediatric Oncology Research, Department of Pediatrics, Lausanne, Switzerland. § Current address: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Rd., MS-977-225A, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3....

TARA J. GLENNON, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA,1 HEATHER MILLER KUHANECK, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA,2 AND DAVID HERZBERG, PhD3 1Department of Occupational Therapy, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, and Center for Pediatric Therapy, Fairfield and Walling ford, CT 2Occupational Therapy Department, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 3Research and Development Department, Western Psychological Services, Los Angeles...

Prevention: A Survey of Healthcare Workers and Patients Nadia Masroor, BS; Summer Donovan, DO; Kakotan Sanogo, MS; Leah Couture; Janis Ober RN, MSN; Michael Stevens, MD, MPH; Michael Edmond, MD, MPH, MPA, FIDSA, FSHEA; Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH; Epidemiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between metabolic syndrome (MS), other metabolic features and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) in a population of obese children and adolescents with MS. METHODS Two hundred and eight obese children and adolescents (119 females and 89 males, mean age: 11.9±2.7 years) and control subjects (24 females and 26 males, mean age: 11.4±2.9 years) were enro...

Mani N. Pavuluri, MD PhD, Alessandra M. Passarotti, PhD, Jacklynn M. Fitzgerald, BA, Ezra Wegbreit, PhD, and John A. Sweeney, Ph.D. Drs. Pavuluri, Passarotti, Wegbreit, and Ms. Fitzgerald are with the Pediatric Brain Research and Intervention Center, Institute for Juvenile Research, Berger-Colbeth Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Sweeney is with the University of Texas South Western.

Acquired demyelinating syndromes (ADS) represent acute neurologic illnesses characterized by deficits persisting for at least 24 hours and involving the optic nerve, brain, or spinal cord, associated with regional areas of increased T2 signal on conventional MRI. In contrast to the 75% of adult patients presenting with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) who are eventually diagnosed with clinica...

A collaborative study was conducted to determine total iodine in infant formula and adult/pediatric nutritional formula by inductively coupled plasma-MS (ICP-MS) using AOAC First Action Official Method(SM) 2012.15. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the method's intralaboratory and interlaboratory performance and submit the results to AOAC INTERNATIONAL for adoption as a Final Action Off...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study was to report clinical features, neuroimaging, and visual outcome in pediatric optic neuritis (ON) in Indian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of children up to the age of 16 years, diagnosed with ON, that presented at pediatric and neuroophthalmology clinic of a tertiary eye care center, in South India, within the p...