1Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey 2Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey 3Department of Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey Gülçin Bayramoğlu1, Faruk Aydın1, Gülay Karagüzel2, Mustafa İmamoğlu3, Ayşenur Ökten2 Case R...

Respiratory Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy ENT Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Imaging, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Pediatric Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Pathology, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Department of Ped...

In this paper I will address two subjects: the use of portal diversion as a palliative treatment of some selected inborn errors of metabolism, and the actual provision of these patients with a missing enzyme by transplantation of a phenotypically normal new liver. Both are interesting new developments in surgery and pediatrics that, although controversial and not accepted initially, have been l...

Spontaneous intramural hemorrhage in a patient with severe hemophilia A Ken-Hsyuan Shan, Li-Mien Chen, Cheng-Ming Peng, Jiaan-Der Wang Division of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Armed Forces General Hospital, Division of General Surgery, Center of Hemophilia and Rare Disease, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, School of Medicine, China Me...

BACKGROUND With the evolution of healthcare services in Saudi Arabia, there has been an increase in the number of medical practice litigations. The author analyzed the medical malpractice litigation that was referred to the National Medico-Legal Committee (MLC) in order to evaluate the magnitude and underlying factors of the problem in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the off...

The EEG, entirely harmless and relatively inexpensive, is the most important investigation in the diagnosis and management of epilepsies, providing it is properly performed and carefully interpreted in the context of a well described clinical setting. 2 The current practice in paediatrics of not requesting an EEG after the “first afebrile seizure” may need revision. An epileptiform EEG abnormal...

Laparoscopic surgery has several advantages over conventional surgery for the patient. An increasing number of diagnostic and surgical procedures are being done laparoscopic not only in adults but also in paediatrics patients. In addition to the routine anaesthetic considerations for any surgical patient, the choice of the anaesthetic technique in patients undergoing laparoscopic procedures sho...

Emigration has contributed to a shortage of doctors in many sub-Saharan African countries. Specialty training is highly valued by doctors and a potential tool for retention. Yet not all types of training may be valued equally. In the first study to examine preferences for postgraduate training in depth, we carried out a discrete choice experiment as part of a cross-sectional survey of all Malaw...

AIM To analyze the physician labor market in Croatia with respect to the internship and employment opportunities, Croatian needs for physicians and specialists, and trends in physician labor market in the European Union (EU) in the context of EU enlargement. METHODS Data were collected from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Croatian Employment Service, and the Croatian Institute ...

Abstract Background There is lack of epidemiological data in regard to the accurate situation Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) Brazil. It known that both diseases' progression variable chronic iinflammation results structural bowel damage. Comparative between adult pediatric patients IBD field, regarding different outcomes, lacking globally. We ...