Epidemiology of B/C virus infection hepatitis in the Northern Moldavian correctional facilities risk factors.

Aim: To identify the specific risk factors for chronic hepatitis B/C virus infections in the correctional system in Moldova (Romania).

Material And Methods: The study included 533 subjects imprisoned in three correctional facilities located in the Northern region of Moldova. The subjects were divided into 2 groups: HBV/HBC group--108; Control group--425.

[Contributions to the implementation of screening tests for assessing the neuropsychic development in children].

Unlabelled: Currently, in Romania the general practitioner does not use screening tests to detect the developmental problems in children. That might be the reason why many cases are diagnosed too late.

Aim: To evaluate the impact and the usefulness of a screening tool for neurodevelopmental disorders in primary care.

[Clinical and epidemiologic aspects of overweight and nutritional habits of schoolchildren and teenagers].

Unlabelled: Obesity is a complex, pluricausal disease that develops through the interaction of social,'behavioural, cultural, physiological, metabolic and genetical causes.

Material And Methods: The study was conducted on 1764 school age children from Iaşi city. Data was collected by measuring their weight, height and arterial pressure.

[Assessment of complications of excess weight in school-age children and adolescents].

Unlabelled: Due to the higher incidence of children obesity, in the last decade, the scientific community as well as mass media have increased their interest towards obesity and eating habits.

Material And Method: The study has been made on a number of 108 pediatric patients with intercurrent affections that has been diagnosed with obesity or weight excess between 2005 and 2008. The evaluation of the pacients has been done with the use of anamnesis, full clinical examination and biochemical investigations.

[Correlations between the level of bacterial resistance and the rate of clinical efficiency in the therapy of community-acquired respiratory tract infections].

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the first-line antibiotic treatment of the community-acquired respiratory tract infections in a population of young adults from an urban setting and to establish the pattern of antibiotic resistance of the germs involved. The bacteria most frequently identified have been: S. pneumoniae, H.

[Severe hypoglycemia in children and adolescents suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus].

Unlabelled: Hypoglycemia is the main fear of diabetic children and their parents. Severe hypoglycemia and diabetes ketoacidosis are medical emergencies that concern a patient's life prognosis.

Aim: To determine the rate of occurrence of severe hypoglycemia and identification of the latter's causes.

[Clinical and epidemiologic aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome (ADHD) in ambulatory practice].

The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and to describe the clinical presentations of Attention Deficit Hyperkinetic Syndrome in the pediatric patients of the Outpatient Specialty Clinic of the "Sf. Spiridon" University Hospital of Iaşi (a pediatric neuro-psychiatry practice and a general pediatric practice). The studied group consisted of 51 children and adolescents ages 2 years 6 month-18 years of age (urban environment 34 children--66%, rural environment 17 children--34% ; male gender 36 children--70%, female gender 15 children--30%).

[Can the child with congenital heart disease have a normal life-style?].

Is it possible for the child with Congenital Heart Disease to have an adequate life-style? The life-style of the child mainly depends on the life-style of his/her family. Consecutively, the parents themselves must adopt a healthy life-style to be a good example for their children; on the other side, certain restrictions (hyponatremic regimen, the limitation of the physical activity) must be shared among entire family, the education of the parents being essential. To accomplish this, there must be an interdisciplinary team, including the GP, the cardiologist, the psychotherapist and the physiotherapist.

[Headache in children and adolescent in ambulatory practice].

Headache in children and adolescent represents one of the most frequent and potentially severe pathological conditions, requiring a paediatric consult. The purpose of the study was to establish the headache prevalence from the total paediatric consultations in ambulatory practice as well as to establish the main etiological causes of the headache. The study, including 400 children and adolescents (M/F ratio=150/250, U/R ratio=290/110) with headache selected from 3100 cases between 2003 and 2004, in two practices (one general paediatric office and one paediatric neuropsychiatry office) from the Outpatient Clinic of the "Sf.

[The study of two immunological markers in patients with type-1 diabetes and in their first degree relatives].

Unlabelled: The prediction of diabetes mellitus is mostly based on the existence of plasma markers. The aim of this preliminary study was to determine islet cell antibodies (ICA) and glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GADA) in 28 diabetic children (12 of them having an evolutive disease of 1 year and 16 at the beginning of the diabetes) and to 47 of their first-degree relatives. There have been determined the levels of these two autoantibodies using the ELISA technique.

[Aspects of the children's candidiasis in outpatient practice].

Candidiasis are conditions caused by fungi from Candida genus. The most frequently involved in humans pathology is Candida albicans, which, even if is in balance with endogenous bacterial flora, became pathogenic in certain conditions. The hereby study aims to evaluate retrospectively on a period of 5 years (1999-2003), an group of 101,000 children aged 14 days-18 years, the prevalence of candidiasis, the clinical aspects determined in pediatric population diagnosed and treated in the paediatric offices of the outpatient clinic of "Sf.

[Recurrent abdominal pain and genital diseases in young girls].

Recurrent abdominal pain represents one of the most frequent syndrome met in pediatrics pathology at all ages, sometimes raising difficulties in establishing the diagnosis. One of the most frequent causes of recurrent abdominal pain is the genital disease at young girls. A retrospective study realized on a 10,000 girls lot, consulted in pediatrics offices from St.

[Atrio-ventricular canal: possibilities of recovery].

Unlabelled: The evolution and prognosis of the atrioventricular canal (AVC) depend very much on the clinical type of the disease and its recovery is sometimes an extremely difficult problem.

Methods: The evolution of the 24 cases with atrioventricular canal (10 boys and 14 girls), registered in the files of pediatric cardiology consulting room from the Outpatient Department of the "Sf. Spiridon" Hospital from Iaşi, has been studied.

[Early detection of diabetic nephropathy in children and teenagers with type I diabetes].

Microalbuminuria (MA) is a noninvasive marker which has to be effected for all the patients in order to watch the appearance of the kidney disease. The aim of this study was the identification of the MA and of its associated factors within a lot of 110 children and teenagers suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus. Persistent MA (the incipient diabetic nephropathy) was detected in the case of 10 patients (9%) and the intermittent one at 13 of them (11.

[Abnormal positions of the heart. An analysis on 1039 cases].

The aim was to study the impact of the cardiac malpositions into the group of the 1039 congenital heart diseases registered in the Pediatric Outpatient Department of "Sf. Spiridon" hospital. All patients were investigated noninvasively using clinical examination, electrocardiogram, routine Roentgenogram, two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography, abdominal echography and, only in two cases, cardiac catheterisation.

[Clinical aspects of hypertension in children with aortic coarctation].

Unlabelled: Our study is focused on blood pressure before and after repair of aortic coarctation in childhood.

Methods: A group of 26 children (13 boys, 13 girls, range 1-18 years, of which 12 operated: 9 boys and 3 girls) was studied, blood pressure being followed before and after operation. The recorded blood pressure was compared to normal values for age and height.