Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding Richard J. Noel Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding occurs rarely in children; severity varies from the insidious bleed, with only iron-deficiency anemia suggestive of occult…
The Adolescent Visit Charles E. Irwin Jr. Establishing herself or himself as the primary care physician for an adolescent patient is a formidable task for a pediatrician. A…
Constipation and Fecal Incontinence Manu R. Sood Constipation is a common problem in children and is often associated with maladaptive behavior triggered by a painful or otherwise unpleasant…
Actinomycosis Nahed Abdel-Haq and Ashir Kumar Actinomycosis is a slowly progressive suppurative infection characterized by fistula formation. A number of gram-positive, non-spore-forming bacteria from the genus Actinomyces are…
Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes Yukiko Kimura With a prevalence as high as 15%, chronic pain is increasingly being recognized as a common problem in children and adolescents,1 but one…
Histoplasmosis Martin B. Kleiman Histoplasmosis, the most common endemic fungal infection in the United States, is caused by a thermal dimorphic fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum.1,2 The spore-bearing mold form…
Heart Transplant Beth D. Kaufman EPIDEMIOLOGY From its inception in the early 1980s, heart transplantation had seen a steady rise in the numbers of operations performed. However, about…
Drug, Toxin, and TPN Liver Disease DRUG- AND TOXIN-INDUCED LIVER INJURY Christopher D. Jolley and Regino P. González-Peralta DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY Adverse drug reactions in children are uncommon….
Disorders of Eating DISORDERED EATING Kim Peter Norman Disordered eating can be defined operationally as any eating behavior, or food or body image obsession, that negatively affects health,…
Viral Infections of the Central Nervous System John F. Modlin Viral infections of the central nervous system (CNS) may be variously categorized by type of onset (ie, acute,…
