İnfluenza, sağlıklı çocuklarda genellikle kendi kendini sınırlayan bir enfeksiyon olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır; ancak birçok çocuk hastada komplikasyonlar görülür. İnfluenza virüsleri, solunum sekresyonları ile temas (hapşırma, öksürme, konuşma, dokunma) veya kontamine nesneler yoluyla insandan insana bulaşır. Genellikle; hava, damlacık ve yolu Titreme yükselen ateş, baş ağrısı, miyalji, halsiz...

Rhabdomyolysis may result from various factors, namely trauma, exercise, medications, infections, endocrine disorders, congenital myopathies, and metabolic diseases. Among the latter, mitochondrial fatty acid b-oxidation (FAO) defects frequently cause recurrent rhabdomyolysis. FAO disorders are recessively inherited and have a combined incidence of 1:9,300, estimated after implementation of new...

Reye's syndrome, an uncommon childhood encephalopathy of uncertain aetiology, is an important cause of mortality and permanent handicap. Since its recognition treatment has changed, current management focusing upon prevention or control of raised intracranial pressure. Prognosis is radically improved by early recognition and prompt transfer to a specialist centre.

Serological evidence for hepatic cellular injury may occur during uncomplicated varicella. The magnitude of abnormalities may be helpful as a guide in the management of children with progressive varicella or varicella-associated Reye's syndrome, but liver function tests may be in the normal range. Viraemia was not detected during the acute stage of varicella-associated Reye's syndrome.

The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study identified 37 cases of Reye's syndrome in children aged between 2 and 36 months in a 3-year period, giving an estimated incidence in Great Britain of 0.7/100 000 children a year. The diagnostic features were neither consistently positive in these cases, nor negative in 11 others later considered not to have Reye's syndrome. The prognosis was poor; the...

CONGENITAL STENOSIS of individual pulmonary veins as they join the left atrium is a rare cause of pulmonary venous and arterial hypertension. Cases have been reported by Reye,1 Ferencz and Dammann,2 Andrews,3 Bernstein and associates,4 and Edwards.5' 6 Emslie-Smith and associates7 reported a patient with membranous occlusion of the pulmonary veins associated with pulmonary hypertension. The pur...