Impaired growth is still a problem that needs attention in Indonesia. There are many incidents of children with short stature due to lack nutrition, undernourished toddlers, and even malnutrition. Therefore, the detection child be improved. The Covid-19 pandemic has made parents patients afraid anxious take their health facilities, so monitoring neglected, especially pediatric chronic diseases....

The article presents data on the main causes of muscle weakness in children and discusses clinical features diseases that may be accompanied by weakness. Emphasis is placed possibilities differential diagnosis syndrome through use various methods examination. algorithm diagnostic search at muscular offered. possibility its application pediatric practice demonstrated examples. Despite certain co...

1Department of Mother and Child Care, Pediatric Surgery, Unit Universityof Palermo , AOU Policlinico Paolo Giaccone 2Department of Mother and Child Care, Division of Infecious Diseases, University of Palermo, AOU Policlinico Paolo Giaccone 3Department of Radiology, Section of Radiological Sciences, Universityof Palermo , AOU Policlinico Paolo Giaccone Journal of Urology and Nephrology Open Acce...

1Paediatric Rheumatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for children NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Child Health, London; 2Paediatric Rheumatology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester; 3Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Institute of Child Health, London; 4National Amyloidosis Centre, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London; 5Immunolog...

Niemann-Pick group of diseases are rare lysosomal storage disorders. The clinical phenotype is variable. We report a child who first time presented with tremors of tongue and tremors of one side of the body. On examination child had hemiparesis and hepatosplenomegaly. Bone marrow examination shows storage cells suggestive of Niemann-Pick cells and enzyme assay confirmed the diagnosis.

Elizabeth Sumamo,1* Paul Emerson,2 Krystal Harvey3 and Matthew Burton4 1Alberta Research Centre for Child Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2The Carter Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 3Cochrane Child Health Field, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 4Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Med...

OBJECTIVE Analyze the feelings of hospitalized children and adolescents with chronic diseases towards death. METHODOLOGY Qualitative research, with four children and one teenager with chronic diseases, aged between 11 and 13 years old, who were admitted at a teaching hospital in Brazil, in the period from January to March 2009. In-depth interviews were carried out using a ludic material for t...

Ippei Miyata, Takahiko Kubo, Isao Miyairi, Akihiko Saitoh, and Noriko Morimoto Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Subspecialties, Division of Obstetrics, Center of Maternal-Fetal, Neonatal and Reproductive Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Department of Pediatrics, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, an...

Conventional methods of classifying causes of death suggest that about 70% of the deaths of children (aged 0-4 years) worldwide are due to diarrhoeal illness, acute respiratory infection, malaria, and immunizable diseases. The role of malnutrition in child mortality is not revealed by these conventional methods, despite the long-standing recognition of the synergism between malnutrition and inf...

Urgent attention is required to tackle the problem of child and adolescent injury across the world. There have been considerable shifts in the epidemiological patterns of child deaths; while great progress has been made in preventing infectious diseases, the exposure of children and adolescents to the risks of injury appear to be increasing and will continue to do so in the future. The issue of...