Namık Özbek1, Arzu Yazal Erdem1, Özlem Arman Bilir1, Fatma Karaca Kara2, Mutlu Yüksek3, Neşe Yaralı1, Meltem Özgüner4, Nazmiye Yüksek5, Bahattin Tunç1 1Ankara Children’s Hematology and Oncology Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Hematology, Ankara, Turkey 2Ankara Children’s Hematology and Oncology Hospital, Clinic of Biochemistry, Ankara, Turkey 3Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Medicine, Departm...

Boris Schmitt, Tieyan Li, Shelby Kutty, Alireza Khasheei, Katharina R. L. Schmitt, Robert H. Anderson, Paul P. Lunkenheimer, Felix Berger, Titus Kühne,* and Björn Peters* Department of Congenital Heart Disease/Pediatric Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Oma...

Mansi Jain1, Shalini Garg2*, Abhishek Dhindsa2, Mandeep Kaur2, Sanjay Kumar3 and Rajveer Singh4 1Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, MNDAV Dental College and Hospital, India 2Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Maharishi Markandeshwar College of Dental Sciences and Research, India 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, MNDAV Dental College and Hospital, India...

VOLUME 3 • ISSUE 2 www.hospitalpediatrics.org EIA is a recurring section of Hospital Pediatrics where expert pediatric hospitalists give their interpretation of the recent evidence in reference to common clinical questions encountered in their daily practice. EIA s a recurring section of Hospital Pediatrics where expert pediatric hospitalists give their interpretation of the recent evidence in ...

1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623, Guangdong, China; 2Division of Birth Cohort Study, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510623, Guangdong, China; 3Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory and Department of Laboratory Medic...

S. Moreno, E.M. Galván, N. Vázquez, G. Fiorilli and P.A. Cáceres Guido 1 Institute Leloir Foundation (ex Campomar Foundation)-Biochemistry Institute Research of Buenos Aires (IIBBACONICET), Av. Patricias Argentinas 435, CABA Argentina 2 Maimónides University, Hidalgo 755, CABA, Argentina 3 Microbiology Service, Garrahan Pediatric Hospital, Combate de los Pozos 1881, CABA, Argentina 4 Integrativ...

Freestanding urgent care centers are increasing as a source of after-hours pediatric care. These facilities may be used as an alternative to hospital emergency departments for the care and stabilization of serious and critically ill and injured children. The purpose of this policy statement is to provide recommendations for assuring appropriate stabilization in pediatric emergency situations an...

Consult-liaison psychiatrists often encounter difficult clinical scenarios. We present a pediatric case of presumptive coprophagia. After a negative medical work-up, the pediatrics team asked psychiatry to assist them in managing this relatively rare disorder in the hospital setting. Little is known about the etiology and treatment of coprophagia in the pediatric population. Using the case as a...

PURPOSE The growing use of CT as a diagnostic imaging tool has led to increased concern over radiation dose, particularly in pediatric patients. The ALARA concept has been popularized in dose reduction. ALARA supports the use of low-dose, pediatric-specific protocols. Strict adherence to low-dose protocols can be challenging, particularly in a high-volume radiology department that scans both pe...

OBJECTIVE It is widely accepted that, when feasible, nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) is preferable to radical nephrectomy (RN) for treatment of renal tumors in adults. However, RN is more frequently used in children. We sought to compare in-hospital outcomes after NSS and RN for malignant pediatric renal tumors. MATERIAL AND METHODS The pediatric health information system (PHIS) combines data f...