Is the cochlear implant a successful long-term solution for single-sided deaf and asymmetric hearing-impaired patients?

Purpose: We investigated the long-term results of cochlear implant (CI) recipients with asymmetric hearing loss (AHL) or single-sided deafness (SSD). We focused on wearing behavior, audiometric hearing rehabilitation, and subjective benefits of the CI. CI is expected to improve audiological results, subjective hearing perception, and tinnitus burden.

Adverse reactions to food additives in children: A retrospective study and a prospective survey.

Background: Allergic reactions to food additives are often suspected by families. The aim of this study was to describe oral food challenge (OFC) outcomes in a pediatric cohort with a suspected diagnosis of allergy to food additives (food dyes or sodium benzoate).

Methods: All patients who underwent an open OFC to carmine red, cochineal red, erythrosine, patent blue V, tartrazine, yellow sunset S, and/or sodium benzoate were included.

[Allergy to cow's milk protein hydrolysates: apropos of 8 cases].

Background: The use of extensively hydrolyzed protein formulas is the best alternative for children with cow's milk allergy, though cases of allergies to hydrolyzed proteins have been reported. The aim of this study was to clarify from our experience the diagnostic, evolutive and therapeutic aspects of allergies to extensively hydrolyzed protein formulas.

Patients And Methods: We report eight cases of allergy to extensively hydrolyzed protein formulas seen between 1985 and 1998.

[Severe hyponatremia associated with anorexia nervosa: role of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion?].

Background: Anorexia nervosa may be revealed by hyponatremia or associated with it. This hyponatremia can be due to diuretics or laxatives abuse, potomania or inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone as in the case reported here.

Case Report: A 15 year-old girl was admitted for anorexia nervosa.

[A review of four cases of Branhamella catarrhalis bacteremia in children].

Branhamella catarrhalis was recovered from one blood culture each from three infants and one neonate admitted to the Trousseau Hospital (Paris) between 1986 and 1988. Clinical features included fever in every case, otitis in three cases, pneumonia in two cases, diarrhea in one case, and enterocolitis in one case. All the strains were beta-lactamase producers.

[Clinical and pharmacokinetic study of imipenem/cilastatin in children and newborn infants].

Imipenem, a new carbapenem (thienamycin) beta lactam antibiotic which is clinically used in a 1:1 combination with cilastatin, an inhibitor or renal metabolism of imipenem, was evaluated in 25 patients; 11 children and 14 neonates. A mean daily dose of 60 mg/kg was given to children and the dose in neonates was 50 mg/kg. Clinically, 21 patients were cured, two failed to respond to treatment and two were not evaluable.

[Infective endocarditis in children. Apropos of 13 cases].

From 1978 through 1987, thirteen pediatric patients aged 14/12 years to 16/12 years were hospitalized for infective endocarditis (IE). Ten cases presented as acute septicemia with modification or development of a murmur and/or heart failure. Three patients had subacute endocarditis.

[Conservative surgery of rheumatic mitral insufficiency in children. Remote results].

Between 1977 and 1986, 38 children aged from 3.8 to 16.4 years underwent mitral valvuloplasty for symptomatic mitral valve incompetence of rheumatic origin.

Pharmacokinetic and clinical evaluation of imipenem/cilastatin in children and neonates.

Imipenem, a new carbapenem (thienamycin) beta-lactam antibiotic which is clinically used in a 1:1 combination with cilastatin, an inhibitor of renal metabolism of imipenem, was evaluated in 25 patients; 11 children and 14 neonates. A mean daily dose of 60 mg/kg was given to children and the dose in neonates was 50 mg/kg. Clinically, 21 patients were cured, two failed to respond to treatment and two were not evaluable.

[Regressive hypertrophic myocardiopathy in an infant with Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis].

A case of neonatal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) without obstruction is reported. Von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis in the mother and several relatives and the occurrence of café-au-lait spots in the child at 6 weeks of life led to the association of HCM with this phacomatosis. The spontaneous regression of the myocardial hypertrophy after 6 weeks makes this first report of neonatal HCM in the course of Von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis peculiar.