Sport activities for children and adolescents: the Position of the European Academy of Paediatrics and the European Confederation of Primary Care Paediatricians 2023-Part 1. Pre-participation physical evaluation in young athletes.

The European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) and the European Confederation of Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP) emphasize the importance of promoting healthy lifestyles within the pediatric population. Many health professionals have questions concerning adequate levels of physical activity for both the healthy pediatric population and for those who may have specific complications. Unfortunately, the academic literature that provides recommendations for participation in sport activities within the pediatric population that have been published during the last decade in Europe is limited and is mainly dedicated to specific illnesses or advanced athletes and not toward the general population.

Predictors of Long-Term Outcome in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.

To date limited data are available to predict the progression to end-stage heart failure (HF) with subsequent death (non-SCD), need for heart transplantation, or sudden cardiac death (SCD) in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We aimed to determine predictors of long-term outcome in children with HCM. A total of 112 children (median 14.

Prognosis in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension: 10-year single-centre experience.

Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare progressive disease of the pulmonary arterioles with an unfavourable prognosis.

Aim: To evaluate survival and prognostic factors in patients with PAH diagnosed and treated at a single centre in the years 2004–2013.

Methods: The study included 55 children (33 girls; 66%, 22 boys; 33%), with an average age 6.

Idiopathic ventricular arrhythmia in children and adolescents: early effectiveness of radiofrequency current ablation.

Background And Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate early effectiveness of radiofrequency (RF) current ablation for idiopathic ventricular arrhythmia (iVA) in children and to identify factors affecting treatment results.

Methods: Among over 600 children, 30 ablation procedures were performed for iVA. Patient age ranged from 2.

Persistent multifocal atrial tachycardia in infant with encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis: a case report.

Unlabelled: Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis (ECCL, Haberland syndrome, Fishman syndrome) is a very rare congenital disorder, involving skin, eye, bone and central nervous system malformations. In this paper we present a case of a 2-month-old boy with encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis diagnosed on the basis of characteristic clinical manifestations and neuroimaging findings. Neurologically, the child presented only with mild physical and mental retardation.

The usefulness of scintigraphy with (99m)Tc-anti-granulocyte antibody for diagnosis and follow-up in children with myocarditis.

Background And Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate whether scintigraphy with (99m)Tc-Anti-Granulocyte antibody is useful for diagnosis and follow-up in children with myocarditis, and to determine its correlation with endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) and clinical features.

Methods: A total of 11 children, mean age 13 years and presenting with symptoms of myocarditis, were evaluated at the time of initial presentation and 6, 12 and 24 months after the first study. In all patients, myocardial scintigraphy was performed with estimation of antigranulocyte antibody uptake.

Early screening for critical congenital heart defects in asymptomatic newborns in Mazovia province: experience of the POLKARD pulse oximetry programme 2006-2008 in Poland.

Background: Early diagnosis of critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) may be missed both during prenatal echocardiography and the short stay in the neonatal nursery, leading to circulatory collapse or death of the newborn before readmission to hospital.

Aim: To assess the usefulness of pulse oximetry as a screening test in early diagnosis of CCHD in newborns.

Methods: A prospective screening pulse oximetry test was conducted in 51 neonatal units in the Mazovia province of Poland as part of the POLKARD 2006-2008 programme between 16 January, 2007 and 31 January, 2008.

[Symptoms, diagnosis and characteristic abnormalities in the coronary arteries in Kawasaki disease in children].

Introduction: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis of unknown etiology, the diagnosis is based upon symptoms, characteristic abnormalities in the coronary arteries are the most important complications.

Aim: Establishment of a data base of the patients with KD, assignation of symptoms, and frequency of abnormalities in the coronary arteries according to the clinical manifestations and time of the diagnosis.

Materials And Methods: The patients'data from selected centres of paediatric cardiology were put into a questionnaire form in the Internet.

Progeria caused by a rare LMNA mutation p.S143F associated with mild myopathy and atrial fibrillation.

We present a 6-year-old girl with premature aging associated with mild myopathy, displaying muscle weakness, joint contractures and hyporeflexia. Genetic analysis revealed rare heterozygous point mutation in lamin A/C gene, g.428C>T.

Chromosome 22q11.2 microdeletion in children with conotruncal heart defects: frequency, associated cardiovascular anomalies, and outcome following cardiac surgery.

The association of conotruncal heart defects with 22q11.2 chromosomal microdeletions is well established. However, it is not clear whether particular types of conotruncal malformations or additional cardiovascular anomalies are associated with microdeletions.

Mutation of the MYH7 gene in a child with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) displays autosomal dominant inheritance with incomplete penetration of defective genes. Data concerning the familial occurrence of ventricular preexcitation, i.e.

[Psychomotor development rate of children with infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis].

Background: Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (LINCL) is the most common childhood progressive encephalopathy. Severe psychodegradation with diminish of cognitive functions together with ataxia, myoclonus, resistant epilepsy, paresis and blindness in aged 3-6 yrs are observed.

The Aim Of Study: Cognition of psychomotor development in children with LINCL.

Reversal of tacrolimus-related hypertrophic cardiomyopathy after conversion to rapamycin in a pediatric liver transplant recipient.

Tacrolimus (Tac)-related hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has been reported to be an unusual but serious complication affecting pediatric patients after solid organ transplantation. Herein, we present a case of young liver transplant recipient with Tac-induced HCM, treated by discontinuation of Tac followed by conversion to rapamycin (Rap). Our case report points out the potential but rather low risk of HCM during Tac immunosuppression in pediatric liver transplants and demonstrates that replacement of calcineurin inhibitors with mammalian target of Rap (mTOR) inhibitors may be an efficacious therapeutic tool to effect regression of established cardiac hypertrophy.

Risk factors for cardiac arrhythmias in children with congenital heart disease after surgical intervention in the early postoperative period.

Objective: Early postoperative arrhythmias are a recognized complication of pediatric cardiac surgery.

Methods: Diagnosis and treatment of early postoperative arrhythmias were prospectively analyzed in 402 consecutive patients aged 1 day to 18 years (mean 29.5 months) who underwent operation between January and December 2005 at our institute.

[Kawasaki disease in children--9 years experience].

Purpose: The aim of the study was assessment of the course and treatment of Kawasaki disease on the basis of own experience.

Material And Methods: Between November 1995 and December 2004 Kawasaki disease (KD) was diagnosed in 30 patients, (20 boys, 10 girls). The median age in acute stage was 20 months (range 1-96 months).