[A prospective randomized controlled study on probiotics for the prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in infants and young children].

Objectives: To evaluate the preventive effects of powder and tetragenous viable tablets on antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) in infants and young children.

Methods: Children under three years old admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University due to non-gastrointestinal infections and requiring antibiotic treatment from July to December 2023 were enrolled. The children were randomly divided into a control group (=47), a group (=70), and a group (=65) using a random number table method.

[Protective effect of early intervention with lipoxin A4 on septic mice].

Objective: To study the effect of early intervention with lipoxin A4 (LXA4) on septic mice.

Methods: Healthy male Balb/c mice aged 6-8 weeks were randomly divided into sham-operation group, sepsis group, 1-hour intervention group (intervention at 1 hour after sepsis), and 6-hour intervention group (intervention at 6 hours after sepsis) (n=8 each). A sepsis model was prepared by cecal ligation and puncture.

Septic hip dislocation in a child.

A 4-year-old girl presented with pain and disability of right side hip of about 1-week duration. High-grade fever and upper respiratory tract infection were also noted. A pelvic computed tomography scan showed a dislocated hip accompanied by a huge intrapelvic abscess.

Iliac vessel injury by a cement spacer: report of a case.

The use of antibiotic-impregnated acrylic cement as a bone spacer between the intervals of revision hip arthroplasty for infection has been widely practiced. Vascular injuries caused by the migration of a cement spacer with subsequent erosion of the vessel wall have never been reported. A 67-year-old woman presented with tense swelling over her left lower extremity and hemarthroses of the left hip after implantation of a cement spacer for infected hip arthroplasty.