[Motor skills as the basis of sensorimotor development, an essential dimension according to André Bullinger].

In neonatology and pediatric intensive care units, as in pediatric units, development support care practiced according to the approach of psychologist André Bullinger takes into account sensorimotor and psychological aspects. Considering the quality and quantity of movements, from the antenatal period, allows for individualized and early care. Sensitive periods of sensorimotor development, during which brain plasticity is optimal, are decisive for psychomotor and cognitive development.

Renovascular hypertension: results in adulthood of renal autotransplantation performed in children.

Background: This study describes the long-term results of renal autotransplantation for renovascular hypertension performed in children who are now 21 years of age or older.

Methods: Sixteen children (4 boys, 12 girls) with a mean age of 11.2 years at the time of the procedure underwent ex-vivo surgery at the university hospital of Saint-Etienne between 1992 and 2008.

Renal function can be impaired in children with primary hyperoxaluria type 3.

Background: Primary hyperoxaluria type 3 (PH3) is characterized by mutations in the 4-hydroxy-2-oxoglutarate aldolase (HOGA1) gene. PH3 patients are believed to present with a less severe phenotype than those with PH1 and PH2, but the clinical characteristics of PH3 patients have yet to be defined in sufficient detail. The aim of this study was to report our experience with PH3.

Inaugural cerebral sinovenous thrombosis revealing homocystinuria in a 2-year-old boy.

Cerebral sinovenous thrombosis is unusual during childhood and requires early and accurate management because of its detrimental consequences. We report on the case of a 2-year-old boy with mild psychomotor delay, who presented with nonfebrile acute ataxia. A brain computed tomographic (CT) scan showed complete thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus, confirmed by magnetic resonance angiography and associated with a right frontal hemorrhagic infarction.

Pseudohypoaldosteronisms, report on a 10-patient series.

Background: Type 1 pseudohypoaldosteronism (PHA1) is a salt-wasting syndrome caused by mineralocorticoid resistance. Autosomal recessive and dominant hereditary forms are caused by Epithelial Na Channel and Mineralocorticoid Receptor mutation respectively, while secondary PHA1 is usually associated with urological problems.

Methods: Ten patients were studied in four French pediatric units in order to characterize PHA1 spectrum in infants.

Surgery of the abdominal aorta and its branches in children: late follow-up.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the late results in adult patients who underwent surgery of the abdominal aorta as children.

Methods: During a 17-year period, eight children underwent surgery for lesions of the abdominal aorta. There were 6 boys and 2 girls, with an average age of 10 years.

Implication of a healthcare worker with chronic skin disease in the transmission of an epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric intensive care unit.

This outbreak of colonization of neonates in a 10-bed pediatric intensive care unit illustrates the probable role of a healthcare worker (HCW) in the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, despite good hygienic practices. It raises the issue of preventive exclusion of HCWs affected by chronic skin disease from high-risk units.