Relationship between preoperative nutritional status assessed using anthropometric measures and postoperative complications in pediatric surgical patients.

Aim: To determine the relationship between preoperative nutritional status assessed using anthropometric measures and postoperative complications in pediatric surgical patients.

Methodology: This prospective observational cohort study included 650 patients from 6 months to 18 years undergoing elective surgery at our institution. Elective surgery included procedures such as herniotomy, orchidopexy, urethroplasty, cystoscopy, PUV fulguration, pyeloplasty, ureteric reimplantation, stoma formation/closure, anorectoplasty, pull-through, choledochal cyst excision and repair, VP shunt insertion, lipomyelomeningocele repair, diastematomyelia excision and repair, and cyst excision.

Effect of Cytomegalovirus Infection on Initial Presentation and Overall Prognosis of Biliary Atresia Patients.

Background And Aim: Biliary atresia is known to have a multifactorial etiology and perinatal infection with hepatotropic viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a probable trigger in a subset of patients. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the effects of CMV association of biliary atresia on the initial presentation of patients and their response to Kasai portoenterostomy.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a retrospective, single-center study on 20 patients of biliary atresia and classified them into two groups based on their CMV immunoglobulin M (IgM) positivity.

The understated issue of caregiver anxiety for pediatric surgical hospital admissions: opening the blindfolds.

Key Message: Hospitalization is a nerve-wrecking experience for patients and their families (Lam et al. in Int J Nurs Stud 43:535-545, 2006). The financial burden of hospitalization is the prime perpetrator, however, multiple other factors also contribute significantly to the underlying problem which can be eliminated by efforts of the doctors and other healthcare workers and by modifying the hospital policies (Bassett et al.

Clear cell sarcoma of kidney in a neonate.

A neonate presented with abdominal mass in left flank was investigated and operated upon. Histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of clear cell sarcoma of the kidney. Post-operatively, chemotherapy was given according to the NWTS-5 protocol.