The aim of this update is to describe the paediatric highlights from the 2010 European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Abstracts from the seven groups of the Paediatric Assembly (Respiratory Physiology; Asthma and Allergy; Cystic Fibrosis; Respiratory Infection and Immunology; Neonatology and Paediatric Intensive Care; Respiratory Epidemiology; Bronchology) are presente...

The aim of this article is to describe paediatric highlights from the 2014 European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich, Germany. 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, an...

Department of Paediatric Urology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Department of Paediatric Urology, Great Ormond Street Children Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK Department of Paediatric Surgery, The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, UK Department of Neonatology, The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, UK Department of Paediatri...

BACKGROUND The subject of death and bereavement in the context of randomised controlled trials in neonatal or paediatric intensive care is under-researched. The objectives of this phase of the Bereavement and RAndomised ControlLEd Trials (BRACELET) Study were to determine trial activity in UK neonatal and paediatric intensive care (2002-06); numbers of deaths before hospital discharge; and vari...

PURPOSE To review and compare the preoperative characteristics and postsurgical outcomes in paediatric and adult patients who underwent surgical resections from 2001 to 2009. METHODS Combined data from noninvasive measures such as ictal semiology, interictal/ictal scalp EEGs, MRI and SPECT were utilised to identify the epileptogenic zones (EZ). When noninvasive investigations produced inconcl...

The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging metrics of paediatric-onset multiple sclerosis to adult-onset multiple sclerosis. It was a prospective comparison of clinical and magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of two paediatric onset multiple sclerosis and two adult onset multiple sclerosis groups that were matched for disease duratio...

PURPOSE To survey the current transitional epilepsy services in tertiary paediatric neurology centres in the UK within the principles of transitional care for young people with epilepsy. METHODS An online web-based questionnaire was sent to the lead epilepsy clinicians in tertiary paediatric neurology centres on behalf of the British Paediatric Epilepsy Group, the specialist epilepsy group of...

BACKGROUND Although acceptable outcomes have been reported in kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death (DCD), little is known about kidney transplantation from paediatric DCD. The objective of this study was to compare the outcome of kidney transplantation using paediatric DCD with the outcome of paediatric donation after brain death (DBD). METHODS Recipients from DCD and DBD ...

INTRODUCTION The transition from paediatric to adult HIV care is a particularly high-risk time for disengagement among young adults; however, empirical data are lacking. METHODS We reviewed medical records of 72 youth seen in both the paediatric and the adult clinics of the Grady Infectious Disease Program in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from 2004 to 2014. We abstracted clinical data on linkage, re...

Over recent years there has been increasing concern over the level of radiation exposure to the population from diagnostic radiology, and this is particularly the case for paediatric radiology. In addition, many regulatory authorities place particular importance on the optimization of exposures to paediatric patients. This lecture aims to review and summarise the existing guidance for radiation...