The Effect of Iron Deficiency Anemia on Emergency Department Admission in Asthmatic Children.

Background: Iron deficiency (ID) is the most common nutritional deficiency and cause of anemia in childhood. Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common public health problem in Turkey as in the rest of the World. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract, affecting approximately 10% of the population in developing countries.

Clinical and Treatment Evaluation of Anaphylaxis in Children Aged 0-2 Years: Multicenter Study.

Background: Diagnosing anaphylaxis in children within the first 2 years of life can be difficult due to the often confusing and nonspecific signs and symptoms.

Objective: This study focuses on the phenotype of anaphylaxis in children within the first 2 years of life and aims to increase awareness of anaphylaxis in this age group.

Methods: The study included children between 0 and 2 years who were diagnosed as having anaphylaxis by pediatric allergists in 11 tertiary hospitals.

Factors affecting the use of salbutamol before hospital admission in children with asthma exacerbation.

Background: Early home intervention for asthma exacerbation (AE) in children is associated with more favorable outcomes. Inhaled short-acting beta agonists (SABA) are the cornerstones of AE treatment.

Objectives: We aimed to determine what proportion of parents administered salbutamol to their children to treat asthma exacerbation at home, and the factors affecting the decision to administer the medication.

Evaluation of accompanying allergic disease in children with proven drug allergies.

Background/aim: Data on the prevalence of allergic diseases in children with proven drug allergies are limited. We aim to evaluate the frequency of allergic comorbidity in children with proven common drug allergies.

Materials And Methods: Children with drug hypersensitivity confirmed by diagnostic allergy tests at our center between January 2010 and December 2020 were screened retrospectively.

The frequency of sleep-disordered breathing in preschool children with asthma and its effects on control of asthma.

Conclusion: The frequency and score of SDB were higher in patients with uncontrolled asthma. Frequency and score of SDB were significantly affected by the severity of asthma. SDB must be evaluated in preschool children with uncontrolled asthma.

Evaluation of Hypersensitivity Reactions with Leuprolide Acetate and Triptorelin Acetate in Children.

Introduction: Gonadotropin releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa) are commonly used to treat central precocious puberty (CPP). Generally, they are well-tolerated; however adverse reactions have been reported. Local adverse events occur in 10-15% of the patients who were treated with GnRHa.

Evaluation of Unscheduled Return Visits to the Pediatric Emergency Department and Risk Factors for Admission After Return Visit.

Objective: Unscheduled return visits to the emergency department (unscheduled RTED) increase both the workload and overcrowding in the emergency department. The aim in the present study is to identify the patient groups that require more careful and closer follow-up to reduce the rates of unscheduled RTED and hospital admissions after a return visit.

Methods: Among the patients admitted to the emergency department of our hospital between 2016 and 2017, those who made an unscheduled RTED within 72 hours after their first visit to the emergency department were evaluated retrospectively.

Immediate local anesthetic reactions and diagnostic test results in pediatric patients.

Background/objectives: Adverse reactions to local anesthetics are relatively common, but proven IgE-mediated allergy is extremely rare. We aimed to determine the frequency of local anesthetic allergy in pediatric patients.

Patients And Methods: The medical records of 73 patients who presented to our clinic with a history of suspected allergic reaction to local anesthetics and underwent diagnostic testing between 2012 and 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.

Clinical Phenotypes of Severe Cutaneous Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions.

Drug hypersensitivity reactions are clinically heterogenous ranging from mild to severe. Most drug hypersensitivity reactions are accompanied by cutaneous manifestations. Fever, mucous membrane involvement, large blisters, facial oedema, pustulosis and visceral involvement are clinical features that lead to suspicion of severe adverse drug reactions.

Genetic variability human respiratory syncytial virus subgroups A and B in Turkey during six successive epidemic seasons, 2009-2015.

Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is most important viral respiratory pathogen of acute lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children worldwide. The circulating pattern and genetic characteristics in the HRSV attachment glycoprotein gene were investigated in Turkey during six consecutive seasons from 2009 to 2015. HRSVA was dominant in the all epidemic seasons except 2011-2012 season.

Frequency of selective immediate responders to aminopenicillins and cephalosporins in Turkish children.

Background: Beta-lactam antibiotics (BLA) are the most commonly prescribed antibiotics and are responsible for the majority of immediate hypersensitivity reactions to drugs in children. Cross-reactivity is important in hypersensitivity to BLAs because these drugs all share a common beta-lactam structure and some share similar side chains.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients who are diagnosed with immediate-type BLA hypersensitivity and frequency of patients with side chain hypersensitivity, "selective responders.

Clinical and etiologic evaluation of the children with chronic urticaria.

Background: Chronic urticaria (CU) is a skin disorder defined as daily or almost daily exhibition of pruritic and transient wheals that last for 6 weeks. CU is divided into two subtypes: chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and chronic inducible urticaria (CIndU).

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical features, possible causes, associated findings, and laboratory results of different subtypes of CU in children according to a new classification.

The patterns and clinical relevance of contact allergen sensitization in a pediatric population with atopic dermatitis.

Background/aim: Data about contact allergen sensitization (CAS) in children with atopic dermatitis (AD) are limited. The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency and patterns of CAS in children with AD by using a ready-to-use patch test system.

Materials And Methods: After receiving the history of CAS in the patients, the severity of AD and IgE-mediated allergen sensitization were determined.

Pulmonary Functions in Children With Thalassemia Major.

Background: Thalassemia major (TM) is a chronic disease requiring regular transfusions that may result in generalized iron loading, such as in the heart, the liver, endocrine organs, and the lungs. We aimed to determine pulmonary function abnormalities in children with TM in our center.

Patients And Methods: In this study, pulmonary function tests (PFTs) of 49 patients with TM who received regular blood transfusion and had no history of chronic respiratory disease were evaluated.

Subjective and objective assessments of seasonal effect in children with seasonal allergic rhinitis.

Background: Epidemiological and clinical studies suggest a relationship between rhinitis and asthma. Upper and lower airways may be influenced by a common inflammatory process.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between rhinitis symptom scores, and both nasal and bronchial airflow among children with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) by means of spirometric and rhinomanometric measurement during and outside the pollen season.