The European Paediatric Association and Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations, the umbrella organization of the 49 national pediatric member societies from across Europe, invites pediatricians and other professionals involved in child health to attend the Eighth EUROPAEDIATRICS Congress, jointly cohosted by the Romanian Paediatric Society (http:// www.europaediatrics2...

Paediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) represents a particular MS subgroup with unique diagnostic challenges. Due to the narrow window of environmental exposures and clinical disease expression, children with MS may represent an important study population for gaining a better understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease. The International Paediatric MS Study Group (IPMSSG) was formulated to cla...

Paediatric liver transplantation is a highly effective therapy for children with end-stage liver disease; 1-year survival rates currently exceed 90% and long-term survivors enjoy an almost-normal quality of life. Key to the success of paediatric liver transplantation has been the technical refinement to provide children with suitably sized grafts. Adult-to-paediatric living donor liver transpla...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common systemic vasculitis of childhood. The following presentation of a 4-year-old Irish boy referred to a secondary care paediatric service from the community with prolonged fever, oral mucous membrane changes and painless blistering lesions of the hands and feet in the presence of elevated inflammatory markers serves as an opportunity to discuss the diagnost...

The child was admitted in the paediatric department with complaints of fits for one month and altered level of consciousness for two days prior to admission. Mother had also noticed changes in behaviour for one month. He became unusually frightened when he was alone and in a dark room. Fits were not controlled for two days when he came to Abbasi Shaheed hospital and child became drowsy. He was ...

OBJECTIVES Juvenile localized scleroderma (JLS) is a rare condition that is often difficult to assess and for which a variety of monitoring tools have been described. We aimed to describe how monitoring tools are used and perceived by clinicians in the UK, to ascertain treatments used for JLS and to provide a description of transition arrangements to adult care. METHODS An e-survey of UK paed...

Source: Adapted from: Abantanga FA, Amaning EP. Paediatric elective surgical conditions as seen at a referral hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. ANZ J Surg 2002 72(12):890–892. Introduction In Africa, children constitute more than half of the population,1 and therefore much effort is devoted to the prevention and treatment of childhood diseases. Emphasis is placed on diseases that cause the greatest mo...

The “first do no harm” ethics of medical care has its age-long influence manifested in the continual search for the least invasive method of administering treatment to the patient. The advancement of the minimally invasive surgery has therefore been a very welcome development in surgical specialities with paediatric surgery not left behind in this quest. Laparoscopy is the visual inspection of ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in paediatric intensive care units using the modified RIFLE score (pRIFLE). DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING A paediatric intensive care unit in a regional Hong Kong hospital. PATIENTS; All paediatric patients aged 1 month to 18 years admitted to a local paediatric intensive care unit in the years 2005 to 2007. M...

This update will describe the paediatric highlights from the 2013 European Respiratory Society (ERS) annual congress in Barcelona, Spain. Abstracts from the seven groups of the ERS Paediatric Assembly (Respiratory Physiology and Sleep, Asthma and Allergy, Cystic Fibrosis, Respiratory Infection and Immunology, Neonatology and Paediatric Intensive Care, Respiratory Epidemiology, and Bronchology) ...