Lung ultrasound score in the decision of patent ductus arteriosus closure in neonates.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the role of lung ultrasound (LUS) score in the closure of hemodynamically insignificant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) and the clinical findings of the patients before and after closure.

Methods: The study groups (107 preterm neonates under 34 gestational weeks) were classified as hemodynamically significant PDA (group 1), hemodynamically insignificant PDA with closure therapy (group 2), hemodynamically insignificant PDA without closure therapy (group 3), and no PDA group (group 4) based on the echocardiography. 6- and 10-region LUS scores were compared for each group.

Early diagnostic clues of mucolipidosis type II: Significance of radiological findings.

Mucolipidosis type-II (ML-II) is an ultra-rare disorder caused by deficiency of N-acetylglucosaminyl-1-phosphotransferase enzyme due to biallelic pathogenic variants in GNPTAB gene. There are a few known about the natural history of ML-II. In this study, we presented the natural course of 24 patients diagnosed with ML-II.

Cardiac effects of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: One-year follow-up.

Aim: Cardiovascular involvement is common among children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) and can cause shock and death. In this study, we evaluated the early and long-term cardiac effects of MIS-C.

Methods: In this observational cohort study, we included all children treated for MIS-C from October 2020 to November 2021 in the Department of Paediatric Infectious Disease at Cukurova University School of Medicine Hospital.

Infective endocarditis in childhood: a single-centre experience of 26 years.

The aim of this study was to present the clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with infective endocarditis.A retrospective evaluation was made of patients diagnosed with infective endocarditis between 1995 and 2021. The clinical and laboratory characteristics of the patients were recorded together with conditions constituting a risk for the development of endocarditis, treatment, and surgical outcomes.

Brucella Case That Led to Atlantoaxial Spinal Instability in Childhood.

Background: Atlantoaxial subluxation caused by Brucella infection is rarely seen in children.

Case Description: C1-C2 dislocation, erosion in the odontoid bone, and compression to the brainstem were detected on cervical computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in a 6-year-old patient who suffered neck pain, deviation to the right in the neck, fever, and pain in his extremities. He was hospitalized in the Clinic of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

Propionic acidemia: a Turkish case report of a successful pregnancy, labor and lactation.

Although propionic acidemia (PA) is a devastating inherited metabolic disease, with early diagnosis and advanced treatment strategies prognosis gets better and girls can survive to child-bearing ages. We share the detailed follow-up data of the pregnancy, successful labor with cesarean section and a healthy baby of a Turkish patient with PA.