BACKGROUND The use of unrelated umbilical cord blood (UCB) has grown as an allogeneic source of hematopoietic cells for transplantation of patients with hematologic malignancies. As the number of UCB transplantation procedures has grown, an increasing number of publications have focused on disease-specific outcomes. METHODS This review focuses on the outcome data following UCB transplantation...

BACKGROUND Immunocompromised patients are at high risk for morbidity and mortality due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Increasingly, pediatric patients with malignancy or undergoing transplantation are managed primarily as outpatients. Data regarding the clinical presentation and outcomes of RSV in the outpatient pediatric immunocompromised population are limited. METHODS We p...

Background Septicemia is a serious condition in pediatric population which highly depends on immediate diagnosis and treatment in terms of mortality and morbidity rate. Developing adjunctive laboratory tests to help clinicians make appropriate decision is of great priority. In this study we aimed to evaluate the predictive value of each biomarker to find the most valuable one based of which a r...

Introduction: Anxiety is an individual's emotional state and subjective experience of obscure specific object due to the anticipation danger that allows individual take action deal with threat. The taken providing play therapy reduce anxiety in usis pediatric patients (3-6 years) by alphabetical puzzle therapy. Objective: Describe application children disorders. Method: This study used a descri...

A B S T RAC T In the present study, terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase was examined in the peripheral blood and (or) bone marrow of 115 children with a variety of neoplastic, hematologic, and other unrelated disorders. Terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase activity was present at 4.08+0.74 U/108 cells in 23 morphologically normal bone marrow samples from childhood controls. Terminal transferas...

To the Editor: Some hematologic markers, such as the neutrophil-tolymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, and mean platelet volume (MPV), have gained popularity as possible predictive factors in oncologic and nononcologic inflammatory processes [1-3]. We have read the letter about our recently published report, “Predictive Role of Hematologic Parameters in Testicular Torsion” [4]....