Publications by authors named "Alina-Marilena Lazarescu"
Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic and the containment and mitigation measures taken were feared to be associated with increased child abuse.
Objective: To investigate the trend of abusive head trauma (AHT) incidence and severity in infants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design, Setting, And Participants: In a time-series analysis of a longitudinal, population-based, cohort study, all consecutive cases of AHT in infants younger than 12 months old referred between January 2017 and December 2021 to Necker Hospital for Sick Children, the single regional pediatric neurosurgery center for the Paris metropolitan area, were included.
Article Synopsis
- - Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a major gastrointestinal issue leading to hospitalizations globally, with 10-20% of cases becoming severe, risking higher mortality; age is identified as a significant risk factor in various scoring systems.
- - A systematic review analyzed 33 studies involving 194,702 AP patients to examine how aging affects the severity and mortality of the disease, utilizing various analytical methods for data assessment.
- - Results showed that severe AP incidence increases with age, from 1.6% in patients under 30 to 9.6% in those aged 70, and mortality rates escalated dramatically, particularly after age 60, indicating that aging poses a considerable risk factor for worse outcomes in AP. *