[Food allergy in pathogenesis of chronic abdominal pain in children].

Food allergy has been implicated lately in the etiopathogenesis of abdominal pain in children, with particular attention pain to gastritis and/or duodenitis. The aim of the study was to analyse the cause-and-effect relationship between chronic abdominal pain in children, endoscopic and histopatological picture, and food allergy, as well as to evaluate the applied elimination diet and/or antiallergic treatment on the improvement of both the clinical status and endoscopic picture. In 71 children gastrofiberoscopic examinations, food skin tests, and specific and total IgE allergen serum tests were performed.

[Evaluation of treatment efficacy in gastritis and duodenitis in children with Helicobacter pylori infection].

The efficacy of Ventrisol treatment in gastritis and duodenitis in children infected with Helicobacter pylori was evaluated. Eighty-six children aged 3 to 18 years with chronic abdominal pain were examined. All children underwent gastrofiberoscopic examination.

[Diagnosis of hemorrhage of Meckel's diverticulum using technetium scintigraphy].

A 5-year-old boy is described with bleeding from Meckel's diverticulum diagnosed preoperatively by technetium scintigraphy. Despite limited indications to radioisotope methods in children they are valuable diagnostic procedures in preoperative diagnosis of the presence of ectopic tissue in Meckel's diverticulum.