STUDY OBJECTIVE To achieve consensus among pediatric sleep medicine practitioners on recommendations for the advancement of the field in the areas of research, clinical practice, education, and public policy. METHODS Leading pediatric sleep medicine researchers and clinicians, in collaboration with Brown Medical School, convened a conference to discuss the state of the field. Participants eng...

“What are we doing here?” Brad Pitt asks a table full of weathered scouts in a memorable scene in the movie Moneyball. Playing Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane, he goes on to critique the scouts’ traditional, subjective ranking of players as “looking for Fabio.” The fi lm is based on a book of the same name that chronicles the record-breaking success of the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball ...

This article was written to give health-care providers working in the field of nuclear medicine some background information on pediatric PET/CT. Specifically, it provides information regarding patient preparation and acquisition techniques necessary to obtain high-quality pediatric PET/CT images. It is targeted primarily at nuclear medicine technologists and CT technologists but may be benefici...

1Division of Pediatric Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA; 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; 3Children’s Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA; 4Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; 5Department of Pathology, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AZ; 6Department and Division of Pediat...

From the *Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine/Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and xDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases/Division of Heart Rhythm Services, Mayo ...

Yasemin Altuner Torun1, Edip Torun2, Ayşe Betül Ergül3, Musa Karakükçü4, Türkan Patıroğlu4 1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 2Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey 3Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatrics, Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayser...

Scott R. Ceresnak, MD, Kara S. Motonaga, MD,* Ian S. Rogers, MD, Mohan N. Viswanathan, MD From the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Electrophysiology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and Division of Cardiology–Electrophysiology, Dep...

Received for publication: May 10, 2007. Revised: Nov. 05, 2007. rEZUMat 1 3rd Pediatric Clinic, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, 2 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu Mures, 3 Children Clinical Hospital Oradea, 4 Medical and Health Science Centre, University of Debrecen, Hungary

1Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gaziantep, PK 34, 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey 2Division of Nephrology, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 3Nephrology and Dialysis Unit and Postgraduate School of Nephrology, Messina University, Via Consolare Pompea No. 1867 Ganzirri, 98165 Messina, Italy 4Department of Pediatric Nephrology, ...

Yeşim Oymak1, Bülent Güzel2, Hüseyin Gümüş2, Erdem Dağlıoğlu3, Ali Ayçiçek2, Ahmet Koç2, Derya Özyürük4 1Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Hematology, İzmir, Turkey 2Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Hematology, Şanlıurfa, Turkey 3Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Şanlıurfa, Turkey 4Şanlıurfa Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Pe...