Central Nervous System Involvement in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura in Children and Adolescents.

Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is rare but poses diagnostic difficulties. The aim of the study was to establish the frequency of CNS involvement in HSP, to analyze its clinical characteristics and do a literature review. Medical files of patients with HSP admitted at the Department of Pediatrics, Plovdiv, were studied retrospectively for a five-year period (2009-2013).

Psychomotor development after ganciclovir selectively treated congenital and perinatal cytomegalovirus infection.

Aim: To study the development of children with selectively treated cytomegalovirus infection.

Patients And Methods: We studied prospectively a risk group of 12 children with cytomegalovirus infection. These children were diagnosed by serological screening in the first three months after birth and are defined as congenital and perinatal infections.

Spontaneous motor activity three months after birth in comparison with clinical and ultrasound studies.

Unlabelled: The introduction of the general movement assessment into pediatric practice as a prognostic method (HFR Prechtl, et al., 1997) has prompted the necessity of further, more extended study of spontaneous motor activity. Possible correlations of this method with the well-established diagnostic and prognostic methods in the neonatal and early post-neonatal period need also more extensive study.