Publications by authors named "A Brodzisz"
Epilepsy is one of the most frequent serious brain disorders. Approximately 30,000 of the 150,000 children and adolescents who experience unprovoked seizures are diagnosed with epilepsy each year. Magnetic resonance imaging is the method of choice in diagnosing and monitoring patients with this condition.
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- A six-year-old boy presents to a doctor with diarrhea, abdominal pain, and a fever, only to show worsening symptoms, leading to an acute abdomen diagnosis.
- Imaging tests, including X-rays and ultrasounds, indicate bowel obstruction, with a computed tomography scan revealing intestinal dilation and gas collections.
- During surgery, he’s diagnosed with perforated gangrenous appendicitis and other complications like abscesses and peritonitis, but his condition improves significantly post-surgery, highlighting the challenges of diagnosing acute abdomen accurately without surgery.
Primary symptoms of Crohn's disease usually include, among others, abdominal pain and cramping, recurrent diarrhea, fever and weight loss. The aim of this study was to show the effectiveness of ultrasound in the diagnosis and assessment of the extent of perianal complications in Crohn's disease. Five patients (four boys and one girl) aged from 13 to 16 years, with prolonged pain in the perianal area, which worsened when sitting, were admitted to the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology between 2017 and 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Medullary sponge kidney (MSK) is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by cystic dilatation of the medullary collecting tubules. The disorder is likely to be complicated by nephrocalcinosis, urolithiasis, tubular dysfunctions, and urinary tract infections. In addition, it may be rarely associated with extrarenal anomalies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: By now, two-dimensional contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography (ceVUS) has become a well-established method for the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of vesicoureteral reflux in children, particularly after the recent approval for this application in children in the USA and in Europe. The introduction of three-dimensional static (3D) and real-time (4D) techniques with ultrasound contrast agents opens up new diagnostic opportunities for this imaging modality.
Objective: To analyze whether 3D and 4D ceVUS is a superior technique compared to standard 2D ceVUS in diagnosing vesicoureteral reflux in children.