Add-on treatment with nebulized hypertonic saline in a child with plastic bronchitis after the Glenn procedure.

Plastic bronchitis (PB), although a rare cause of airway obstruction, has mortality rates up to 50% in children after Fontan-type cardiac surgery. We present the case of an 18-month-old female patient with PB following pneumonia. At 6 months of age, the patient underwent the Glenn procedure due to functionally univentricular heart.

Exhaled eicosanoid profiles in children with atopic asthma and healthy controls.

Rationale: Chronic endobronchial inflammation is a hallmark of pediatric asthma and involves the arachidonic acid pathway. Its non-volatile metabolites can be quantified in the exhaled breath condensate (EBC), and single substances have been studied as non-invasive biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of children with asthma. The aim of this study was to compare the content and profile of a wider range of eicosanoids in the EBC between patients and a control group.

[Bronchopulmonary dysplasia -- early and long-term pulmonary sequelae].

Improvement in perinatal care have resulted in significantly increased survival of premature infants. Discontinuation of correct intrauterine lung development and a necessity of oxygen-therapy and/or mechanical ventilation become a reason of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). In the first period of life the main complaint of these patients is oxygen dependence.

[Risk factors of retinopathy of prematurity in newborns treated in neonatal intensive care unit of University Children's Hospital Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University].

Background: A persistent progress in perinatal care and a large increase in infants' survival rate have been observed recently. As a result, the number of neonates requiring ophthalmologic examinations due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) increased as well.

Method: A retrospective survey including 206 neonates with mean birth weight 1342 g and mean gestational age 30 weeks.