Discussion. Septic pulmonary embolism is an uncommon disorder in the pediatric population.
To date 27 children with SPE were reported in the English literature. 1-10 The most …

… antibiotics within one hour of the child’s presentation, 98% reported starting initial …
These findings may lead to changes in practices regarding the choice of vasoactive agents …

… May S Chehab … May S Chehab … Acute episodes of hyperbilirubinaemia leading to
kernicterus are a permanent threat to these patients, who sooner or later may develop irreversible …

… Third, we studied only 175 patients, and this may have limited our power to detect further
independent associations. And fourth, studying only patients having a Foley catheter may …

The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a new human disease caused by a novel
coronavirus (CoV). The disease is reported mainly in adults. Data in children are scarce. The …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to report our experience of the first 29 consecutive
living-related liver transplants in pediatric recipients and to demonstrate the feasibility of …

Considerable progress has been made over the last 2 decades in diagnosing and treating
sepsis. Although the mortality rate is beginning to decline with the development of new …

Respiratory syncytial virus RSV, a nonsegmented, single stranded ribonucleic acid virus,
infects one-half of all infants within the first year of life. Respiratory syncytial virus possesses …

… that we studied; bedside intensivists may not add to the quality of … may not have the necessary
expertise for this critical task. … It must also be conceded that the results of our study may not …

… It is also possible that the increase in pair feeding after day 45, possibly due to leptin
resistance, may have resulted in stabilization of body weight above that of leptin-treated mice. …