M Krajcírová, A Cernák, A Kasanická, D Behulová, I Cierna
{"title":"[Hyperamylasemia and pancreatic diseases in children].","authors":"M Krajcírová, A Cernák, A Kasanická, D Behulová, I Cierna","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Elevated alpha-amylase activity in serum was thought for a long time to be a laboratory standard in diagnosis of acute pancreatic disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of routine measurement of total serum amylase (using the Boehringer Mannheim EPS method) and pancreatic isoamylase (using Boehringer Mannheim EPS method) and lipase (Kodak Eastman) in children. Authors examined the group of 93 children with abdominal pain whose age ranged from 5 to 17 years. In previous laboratory measurements using Spofa test (Slovakofarma) they were found to have elevated alpha-amylase in serum, thus the pancreatic disorder was put in question. A pancreatic disorder was proven in 9 children (9.7%) from this group. The authors consider the measurements given above to be the markers significantly improving the specificity of routine biochemistry in children with pancreatic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 11","pages":"648-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18516433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The pediatric part of the National Cholesterol Education Program--one of the important aspects of modern nutrition of children and adolescents].","authors":"F Stozický","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 11","pages":"678-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19286621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The hemolytic-uremic syndrome in enterocolitis caused by Campylobacter jejuni].","authors":"Z Dolezel, J Stejskal, D Dostálková","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the submitted case-history the authors describe the clinical course of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS) during Campylobacter infection in a two-year-old boy. On the described case the authors wish to confirm that in the manifestation of HUS in childhood not only infections caused by the usual microbial agents can participate but also Campylobacter jejuni.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 11","pages":"659-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19286616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Prevention of type I diabetes mellitus in children and risks in infant nutrition].","authors":"H Pribylová","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 11","pages":"662-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19286617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Thorax--an atlas of radiographic images of childhood lung diseases].","authors":"J P Naidr, K Krepela, J Mikulec","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the Paediatric Clinic of the Institute for Postgraduate Medical Training in the University Thomayer Hospital in Prague an extensive archive of rare X-ray findings from the field of child pneumology was assembled which is used for postgraduate medical training. To facilitate physical manipulation of the documents the X-ray pictures were transferred to a computer data base. For storage the Thorax programme was used which is distributed on CD-ROM. The authors discuss the use of this programme in practice. At present the data base comprises 529 digitalized X-ray pictures of 149 case-histories of pulmonary diseases of child patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 11","pages":"680-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19286622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Liquid ventilation--1].","authors":"R Nekvasil, M Dressler, Z Vecera, Z Penková","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors investigated in detail the sorption and desorption of oxygen and carbon dioxide in a solution of perfluorocarbons (solution RM 101, Miteni, Italy). From the results of the investigation ensues that maximal oxygen saturation of 77.3 vol.% can be achieved at 8 degrees C. With rising temperature the oxygen concentration in the solution declines (67.6 vol.% at 37 degrees). The saturation of the RM 101 solution corresponds to a linear equation of seventh order (fig. 2). Desorption of the RM 101 solution fully saturated with carbon dioxide, is on the other hand, most rapid at 37 degrees C (after the 13th minute the RM 101 solution contains less than 2% carbon dioxide as compared with 25 vol.% at 8 degrees C during the same period. In general the kinetics of desorption of carbon dioxide in solution correspond to a linear equation of fifth order (fig. 4). From the practical aspect it is not expedient to saturate the RM 101 solution with oxygen longer than 15-20 minutes. The mentioned kinetic parameters are important for the construction of a special liquid membrane or bubble oxygenator. In particular the latter is useful as with its use the authors achieved a 1.9 x higher oxygen concentration in the RM 101 solution than declared by the manufacturer.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 10","pages":"617-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19257942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The 5th nation-wide anthropological study of children and adolescents held in 1991 (Czech Republic)--selected anthropometric characteristics].","authors":"P Bláha, L Lhotská, J Vignerová, R Bosková","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Vth nation-wide survey of children and adolescents which was conducted in autumn 1991 under new conditions comprised again, similarly as the four previous ones, a representative sample selected by random sampling. As compared with the 1981 survey, the anthropometric parameters were extended by the circumference of the relaxed left arm and the hip circumference. A questionnaire for parents was elaborated where by a quite new approach was used. The still positive action of the secular trend of increasing height was confirmed. The action of the trend shifts to younger age groups, as compared with former surveys. The present survey confirmed also a tendency towards slimness in both sexes, however, in particular in girls a shift of this tendency to younger age groups was apparent. It will be certainly necessary to evaluate in future whether this trend reflects also a more favourable ratio of body composition. With regard to these changes the authors submit new percentile charts for evaluation of height, proportionality, and for children under three years, also head circumference.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 10","pages":"621-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19257943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Snajdauf, B Sintáková, R Fryc, L Zeman, M Kabelka, E Cumlivská, K Cerný, A Zapletal
{"title":"[Surgical treatment of pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum].","authors":"J Snajdauf, B Sintáková, R Fryc, L Zeman, M Kabelka, E Cumlivská, K Cerný, A Zapletal","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present their experience with surgery of deformities of the chest wall in childhood. In the course of 1986 to 1992 they operated 93 children with the diagnosis of pectus excavatum. This number comprised 66 boys and 27 girls. The mean age of the operated children was 10.5 years. During the same period 17 patients (12 boys and 5 girls) were operated on account of pectus carinatum. The mean age of the latter group of patients was 13.5 years. 23% of the patients with a pectus excavatum had before operation mild scoliosis, two patients suffered from severe scoliosis. 76 patients after operation of pectus excavatum were followed up for more than one year after operation. In 44 patients the result was excellent (58%), in 31 patients the result was good. One patient developed a relapse. Fifteen patients after operation for pectus carinatum were followed up for more than one year. In 12 patients (80%) the result of the operation is excellent, in three patients (20%) the result is good. From the group as a whole seven patients had dehiscence of the wound after surgery, four patients developed a seroma in the surgical wound, three patients developed pneumothorax after operation and in one instance an abscess developed in the surgical wound. In the course of 1987 the authors changed the surgical technique in pectus excavatum from Jensen's to Holcomb jun. operation.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 10","pages":"581-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19256798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Essential fatty acids in neonates at risk and in the mother's milk].","authors":"J Mourek, A Mydlilová, J Base, L Smídová","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The participation of essential fatty acids and their derivatives in the blood (serum) of physiological healthy neonates (physiological pregnancy, physiological delivery) is compared with the spectrum of essential fatty acids of risk newborns (prematurity, prematurity with the tocolytic therapy and hypotrophic newborns). In the following part the presence and participation of essential fatty acids in the human maternal milk were measured. The milk of healthy mothers, of mothers with preterm delivery (37 week of gestation), of diabetic mothers were mutually compared and finally the values of mentioned essential fatty acids in formula Feminar and in the milk from the bank were established. As a consequence of our observations, they point out the absence or serious deficit of some essential fatty acids in certain groups of risk newborns as well as in the milk of diabetic mothers, of mothers with preterm delivery and in Feminar and Milk-bank. The presented facts--after their opinion--could be well judged as a rational basis for adequate nutritional therapy in risk newborns.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 10","pages":"600-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19256802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hepatobiliary disorders in chronic nonspecific intestinal inflammation].","authors":"P Dĕdek, O Pozler, J Cihula","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1977-1992 chronic inflammatory bowel disease was diagnosed in the gastroenterological department at the Clinic of Pediatrics in 31 children. Idiopathic proctocolitis was diagnosed in 16 children--mean age at the time of diagnosis was 13 years and 9 months. Fifteen children were treated for the diagnosis of Crohn's disease. Their mean age was 12 years and 9 months. During the investigation period all patients were examined regularly with special attention to hepatobiliary disease. Elevated aminotransferase values were observed in four children, three of these children have had permanent elevation of aminotransferase. Percutaneous liver biopsy revealed chronic persistent or active hepatitis. The authors investigated the course of the liver disease in relation to GIT disease. In the discussion they analyze the incidence, etiopathogenesis and type of liver lesions in inflammatory bowel disease with regard to the case-histories of their three patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":39741,"journal":{"name":"Cesko-Slovenska Pediatrie","volume":"48 10","pages":"590-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19256800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}