Intraabdominal infection can be a life-threatening condition that occurs spontaneously or as a result of intraabdominal disease, injury, or surgery. Given the compartmental anatomy and physiology of the abdominal cavity,…
Pancreatitis was thought to be an uncommon cause of abdominal pain in children and a disease primarily of adults. Because of better recognition of symptoms in children and the more…
Pyogenic liver abscesses are encountered infrequently in healthy children and generally have been reported more commonly in the compromised pediatric host. The rarity of liver abscesses may be explained partly…
The ability to diagnose appendicitis accurately in a child continues to be one of the most fundamental skills that a pediatric surgeon has to master, although making the diagnosis often…
A syndrome involving the acute onset of encephalopathy associated with fatty metamorphosis of the liver and occurring primarily in children was described first by Reye and colleagues in Australia and…
Over the past 20 years there has been an explosion of knowledge about Whipple disease. It is now known that Whipple bacillus causes not only classic Whipple disease, a rare,…
Cholangitis The term cholangitis refers to inflammation of the extrahepatic or intrahepatic biliary system. Acute cholangitis is most often a consequence of infection in the setting of biliary tract disease…
More than 130 million courses of antibiotics are prescribed in the United States each year, and diarrhea is a common side effect of antibiotic therapy. Clostridium difficile is the most…
Gastrointestinal infections can be caused by a wide array of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Chemical food poisoning further broadens the spectrum of diseases. The cardinal symptoms of enteric…
