In this review, we provide a state of the art of liver transplantation in children, as the procedure is now carried out for more than 30 years and most of our paediatric colleagues are managing these ...

Aim This literature review seeks to establish whether sufficient evidence showing an additional benefit of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) on diabetes outcomes compared to intermittent self ...

Our aim was to develop guidance for general paediatricians and primary care physicians in diagnosing and managing cow’s milk protein allergy in infants. The guidelines were developed by discussion ...

Objectives Babies born to mothers living in more deprived areas are at a higher risk of dying during the neonatal period.1 Pre-term and unwell term babies are cared for in neonatal intensive units ...

Aims Up to 2% of all pregnancies are conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the UK. IVF methodologies include fresh and frozen-thawed embryo transfer. Neonates conceived by frozen-thawed IVF are ...

Objective Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is an inherited adrenal steroid synthesis ...

Charts are presented which give centile standards for boys' and girls' heights at ages 2 to 9 when parents' height is allowed for. Mid-parent height is used (i.e. the average of father's and mother's ...

Introduction With approximately 50% of the drugs being prescribed off-label, the pediatric population is in need for an innovative approach to establish harmonized, best evidence-based dosing ...

AIM To determine the incidence of hypocalcaemia in critically ill children with meningococcal disease. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, 70 of 80 patients admitted consecutively with a clinical ...

Genetic mutations affecting proteins required for normal surfactant protein function are a rare cause of respiratory disease. The genes identified that cause respiratory disease are surfactant protein ...

Methods All children (under 16 year) who had a DMSA scan following UTI in 2007 (Jan-July) prior to the introduction of the NICE guidelines were identified, and compared with those undergoing DMSA ...

Background Most guidelines recommend the use of capillary refill time (CRT) as part of the routine assessment of unwell children, but there is little consensus on the optimum method of measurement and ...