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The development of acquired inhibitors against the factor VIII protein in childhood period, is a very rare disorder in nonhemophiliac persons but may be clinically important condition due to potential serious bleedings. We have investigated acquired hemophilia development frequency in children with potential high risk groups. Totally 483 nonhemophiliac children including healthy controls were e...

AIMS To examine the disease burden and epidemiology of community acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis in Austrian children treated in a paediatric practice. METHODS A prospective, population based, multicentre study in four paediatric practices and two children's hospitals (Innsbruck and Leoben). Children </= 48 months of age presenting with gastroenteritis during a six month period of rotaviru...

  Background and Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the role and characteristics of nosocomial and community acquired Staphylococcus sepsis in admitted children in tertiary centers in Iran. Patients and Methods: A cross sectional descriptive-analytic study was performed since March 2008 to March 2009 in which all blood cultures from various admitted patients were checked for Sta...

congenital vascular lesions occur most often in children. parents of these children take them to maxillofacial surgeons directly or during the treatment of other complications such as infection or jaw bone disorders. various terms now used are unable to describe the pathogenesis and mechanism of the effect of vascular lesions on growth and development of facial bone.  term of hemangioma is used...

The many excellent reports from East Africa on the obscure cardiopathies, endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and heart muscle disease, might suggest that these are the most important cardiac disorders encountered there; relatively little has been written on the other cardiac disorders of childhood. This communication presents results of a one-year clinical survey of acquired heart disease in Ugandan...

The discovery that several demyelinating disorders in children may be associated with autoantibodies to astrocytes, myelin, and/or synaptic proteins has opened the possibility of their use as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. The identification of aquaporin 4 (AQP4) antibodies as specific diagnostic markers of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) led to an expansion of the clinical spectrum of this d...