Long-term Prognosis in Infantile Eczema

Long-term morbidity of infantile eczema.

The role of foods in determining and/or aggravating the clinical manifestations of infantile eczema has been stressed in the last decades. Elimination diets induce a dramatic improvement in children with food allergy, but the long-term prognosis may be challenging.

Infantile Eczema

Hand eczema extent and morphology--association and influence on long-term prognosis.

Hand eczema extent was a strong negative prognostic factor in a previously published follow-up study of 868 individuals. The present aims were to study in the same cohort the association between the extent and the morphology of the hand eczema and to examine whether registering both improves the prediction of long-term prognosis. The cohort was divided into subgroups regarding eczema extent and...

Probiotics and infantile atopic eczema

Pediatric eczema is a common disease which causes economic and social burden. Its incidence differs among the societies, with an incidence reported to reach up to 20% in developed countries. Eczema is the first allergic disease seen in the childhood, and it is recognized as a precursor for the development of atopic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, and food allergy in the forthcoming ...

Long-term outcomes of infantile spasms

Purpose : The aims of this study were to investigate the long-term outcomes in children with infantile spasms (IS) and to identify the prognostic factors influencing their neurodevelopment. Methods : We retrospectively evaluated seventy two children over five years old who were treated for IS at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, between 1994 and 2007. Forty-three children were contacted by tel...