Infantile Haemangioma in the Romanian Paediatric Population-Characteristics and Therapeutic Approaches.

Infantile haemangioma (IH) is the most common benign tumour in childhood, with an incidence of 4% to 12%. Aim: to describe the characteristics of infantile haemangioma in a sample of Romanian children <2 years old at diagnosis, types of treatment applied, recorded complications and the response to the therapeutic approach. A two-year prospective case series study (August 2019 to August 2021) was carried out.

Validation of a Quality of Life Assessment Questionnaire for Patients with Infantile Hemangioma and Their Families - the IH-QOL-RO.

Despite the fact that infantile haemangioma is one of the most common benign tumour of the child, the impact of this pathology on the quality of life of patients and their families has not aroused much interest in health services research. Several tools have been proposed to date to assess this, but there is no Romanian standardised instrument yet. Taking as a model the questionnaire developed and validated in English by Chamlin (2015), we translated, culturally adapted and piloted this instrument into Romanian.

Infantile Haemangioma - Elaboration and Piloting a Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire.

Infantile haemangiomas are the most common benign tumours of the child with clinical manifestations in the first two years of life, which is an additional cause of parents' concerns. This study describes the first stage in elaborating a specific instrument to evaluate the quality of life of both patients with infantile haemangioma under two years of age and their parents, adapted to the reality of the Romanian context. Items were generated from a literature review - from both the current generic pediatricians' instruments and specific tools in dermatology for assessing quality of life and the existing consensus among experts - as well as from a qualitative analysis of parents' concerns.