The association between Down syndrome and psoriasis is unclear. Immunological abnormalities that present in individuals with Down syndrome result in mild immune debilitation, thus the risk of infectious complications during immunosuppressive therapy might be higher in this group of patients. We present a case of 12-year-old girl with severe plaque psoriasis and Down syndrome, who was initially ...

OBJECTIVE The number of children surviving in a persistent vegetative state is increasing with advances in medical technology. Caring for a neurologically devastated child presents unique challenges not previously described. Our objective was to gain an understanding of the pediatric nurse's experience of caring for children in a persistent vegetative state. DESIGN Qualitative phenomenologic ...

left side. When separated, the placenta had a gritty feel, as if calcareous deposits were in it at the places where it was adherent. The woman did well. That these two cases should form the subject of one paper, may at first sight appear strange, but they have in reality one feature in common which unites them very closely. It is evidently not the method of procedure which possesses this, for t...

a Health System Development, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Monir Islam (email: [email protected]) Introduction Globally, and particularly in South East Asian countries, child and infant health and survival has improved significantly over recent decades. Improved nutrition including breastfeeding, successful immunization programm...

New challenges coming from the public sphere, which family must face, can originate processes occurring in society or political economic institutions. They be seen as spontaneous deliberate actions. bottom-up top-down nature. When it comes to their subject matter, they mainly concern issue of redefining marriage, broadly understanded fertility and role parents child-rearing process. The redefin...

This paper outlines the risk of mental health disorders in adults with Down syndrome and considers the practical ways in which positive well-being can be promoted. It emphasises that prevention begins at birth and parents need to be alerted to positive child-rearing strategies from infancy.

Children with right-to-left shunts or valvular malformations from congenital heart disease are at risk for embolic stroke. Primary cerebrovascular disease is rare in children. We describe a child with Down syndrome and complex congenital heart disease presenting with multiple nonembolic infarctions over a 7-year period , during which subtle internal carotid artery stenosis progressed to an adva...

Pediatricians are the first contact of a child with genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome. After diagnosis, parents often express and wish that if it was possible to detect it during pregnancy and could it be avoided in the future pregnancy. This makes it essential that pediatricians should have some idea about the basic screening methods and strategy used during pregnancy.

If you believe this document infringes copyright then please contact the KAR admin team with the take-down information provided at http://kar.kent.ac.uk/contact.html Citation for published version Rutland, Adam and Cameron, Lindsey and Milne, Alan B. and McGeorge, Peter (2005) Social norms and self-presentation: Children’s implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes. Child Development, 76 (2). p...