Recurrence of abdominal distension due to fluid accumulation in a child: Ascites or a cyst?

Background: Abdominal distension in children can be caused by fluid accumulation due to ascites or large cysts.

Case Presentation: A 25-month-old girl was brought to the pediatric gastroenterology clinic with the chief complaint of nontraumatic acute abdominal pain. She had undergone paracentesis last year with a diagnosis of suspected ascites in another medical clinic.

Short exposure to collagenase and coculture with mouse embryonic pancreas improve human dermal fibroblast culture.

The dermal fibroblast as a major component of connective tissue has attracted much attention in the past few years, and application of these very fast growing cells in several fields has been intensively studied. Isolating dermal fibroblasts is an appropriate way to expand these fast growing cells in vitro. Although using a dissociated fibroblast culture method is more convenient than skin explant culture, its enzymatic digestion is critical because a large number of cells can be lost over prolonged exposure to collagenase.

The Effect of Performing Preoperative Preparation Program on School Age Children's Anxiety.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine effects of performing preoperative preparation program on children's anxiety.

Methods: This study was performed in Amirkola Pediatrics Hospital, Mazandaran. A randomized controlled trail was performed on 122 children (7-12 years of age) admitted for elective surgery during 15 months.