Diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents.

Objectives: To provide a narrative review of the main eating disorders (ED), specifically focusing on children and adolescents. This review also aims to help the pediatrician identify, diagnose, and refer children and adolescents affected by this medical condition and inform them about the multidisciplinary treatment applied to these disorders.

Data Source: The research was conducted in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline) databases via PubMed and Embase.

Pharmacokinetics of HD-MTX in infants, children, and adolescents with non-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A retrospective pharmacokinetic analysis was done of methotrexate serum levels after high-dose treatment (HD-MTX, four cycles at two-week intervals of 5 g/sq.1m. over 24 h i.