ON JULY 7, 2006, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the following publication: Kavey REW, Allada V, Daniels SR, et al. Cardiovascular risk reduction in high-risk pediatric populations: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science; the Councils on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Epidemiology and Prevention, Nutrition, ...

OBJECTIVE We retrospectively reviewed 104 consecutive patients who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation between November 1989 and February 2004. PATIENTS AND METHODS From November 1989 to February 2004, the total number of heart transplantations were 1,340 cases at our institute. One hundred four (7.8%) of these 1,340 patients were pediatrics. Average age was 6.2 years, ranging from 4 m...

a National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 2300 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA 50010, USA b University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Pediatrics and the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, Galveston, TX 77555, USA c Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY ...

Children 6 through 23 Months of Age at the Time of Diagnosis of an Episode of Acute Otitis Media (1999-2014) Judith M. Martin, MD; Alejandro Hoberman, MD; Timothy Shope, MD, MPH; Karen A. Barbadora, BS, MT-ASCP; Marcia Kurs-Lasky, MS; Michael Green, MD, MPH; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Chi...

Enzymes in Dried Blood Spots: Application to Newborn Screening for Krabbe Disease, Yijun Li, Knut Brockmann, Frantisek Turecek, C. Ronald Scott, and Michael H. Gelb (Departments of 1 Chemistry, 3 Pediatrics, and 4 Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; 2 Department of Pediatrics and Neuropediatrics, Children’s Hospital, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany; * address corr...

ON MARCH 13, 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the publication: Jenkins KJ, Correa A, Feinstein JA, et al. Noninherited risk factors and congenital cardiovascular defects: current knowledge. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young. Endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Circulation. 2007; 115:2995–3014. A...