Community-Acquired and Bacterial Pneumonia in Children Stephen I. Pelton Worldwide, community-acquired pneumonia is a leading cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in children.1 Studies that employ blood culture,…
Health Care Management for the Child with Cardiovascular Disease Mark Cocalis The number of people living with congenital heart disease is rising yearly. Approximately 1 in 300 children…
Burkholderia and Pseudomonas Jane L. Burns Pseudomonas and Burkholderia species are nonlactose fermenting gram-negative bacilli that were previously classified in the same genus. The name Burkholderia was proposed…
Vascular, Systemic, and Other Disorders Affecting the Gastrointestinal Tract Grzegorz Telega, Vincent F. Biank, and B U.K. Li GASTROINTESTINAL VASCULAR DISORDERS ISCHEMIC BOWEL DISORDERS Ischemic bowel disease is…
Abdominal Masses John C. Densmore and Keith T. Oldham The abdominal mass in an infant or child is most commonly an incidental finding first observed by a parent…
Well-Child Care Judith S. Shaw and Judith S. Palfrey Health supervision visits, the cornerstone of primary care pediatrics, provide health care professionals the opportunity to promote the optimal…
Ureaplasma urealyticum Infections Tara M. Randis and Adam J. Ratner Initially referred to as T-strain (“tiny strain”) mycoplasma, these pleomorphic organisms measure less than 500 nm in diameter,…
Poisonous Bites and Stings Dee Hodge, III and Carl R. Baum Although a large proportion of the morbidity and mortality from bites and stings occurs in the pediatric…
Moraxella catarrhalis Basim I. Asmar Moraxella catarrhalis is a gram-negative aerobic diplococcus that belongs to the Neisseraceae family. It has been known as Micrococcus catarrhalis, Niesseria catarrhalis, and…
Febrile Seizures Masanori Takeoka EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL FEATURES A febrile seizure is defined by ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) as “a seizure in association with absence of an…
