Timothy K. Ruttan, Eric Higginbotham, Nicole Higginbotham, Coburn H. Allen, and Sarmistha Hauger Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; Department of Neurosurgery, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; Departments of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dell ...

Background: We aimed to assess the effect of life-cycle management on satisfaction and health outcomes children with chronic diseases their parents, as well career benefits healthcare workers.
 Methods: Participants were who received long-term treatment at Three Gorges Hospital Affiliated Chongqing University from January 2021 November 2022. From first admission, compare children's disease...

We report the complete genome assembly of the Streptococcus pyogenes type emm4 strain MEW427 (also referred to as strain UM001 in the Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome [PANS] Research Consortium), a throat isolate from a child with acute-onset neuropsychiatric symptoms meeting clinical criteria for PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES ESRD in the young represents a heavy burden to patients, families, and health care systems. This nationwide retrospective study characterized the incidence of ESRD and analyzed diagnoses associated with renal survival in the young population in Taiwan. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Through use of Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, t...

Investigators from the Pediatric Status Epilepticus Research Group studied the time elapsed from onset of pediatric convulsive status epilepticus (SE) to administration of antiepileptic drugs (AED).

Postoperative analgesia is imperative in the youngest patients. Pain, especially if experienced during childhood, has numerous adverse effects-from psychological, through complications of the underlying disease (prolonged treatment, hospital stay, and increased costs of the treatment) to an increase in the incidence of death due to the onset of the systemic inflammatory response. Peripheral blo...

purpose: to assess the clinical course, determine the efficacy and safety of oral methotrexate in the control of intraocular inflammation and evaluate the outcomes of lensectomy-vitrectomy and goniosynechiolysis in pediatric vkh-associated panuveitis. methods: in this retrospective non-comparative interventional case series, 10 patients (20 eyes) with pediatric vkh-associated panuveitis (onset ...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation (LT) is a life-saving treatment for end-stage liver diseases (ESLD). Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is one of the important causes of morbidity after LT. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of late-onset (after 6 months of LT) CMV infection in pediatric recipients. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted to evaluate 50 pediatric patients who underwen...

The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has contributed to a co-occurring psychiatric epidemic. Children and adolescents have been particularly impacted, with disruptions in continuity of learning healthcare. Psychological stressors such as fear infection, boredom, decreased socialization, supply shortages, incomplete information low mood, irritability, insomnia, emotional exhaustion. Our s...