Paracetamol Overdoses Among Danish Adolescents: A COVID-19 Perspective.

Aim: This study examines trends in paracetamol overdoses among Danish adolescents during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted using data from the national databases, covering all paediatric departments in Denmark from January 2016 to December 2023. Patients between 10 and 19 years of age diagnosed with paracetamol overdose were stratified by sex, age and number of hospital admissions.

Paracetamol overdose in Danish children and adolescents during the Covid-19 restrictions.

Introduction: To assess the effect of long-term isolation on the mental state of Danish youth. This study aimed to investigate trends in paracetamol overdoses among people under 18 years of age in Denmark during Covid-19 restrictions as an indicator of mental health.

Methods: All patients under the age of 18 years presenting with paracetamol overdose at one of the 18 paediatric departments in Denmark from 2016 to 2021 were included.

Ovarian morphology and function during growth hormone therapy of short girls born small for gestational age.

Objective: To study the effect of growth hormone (GH) treatment on ovarian and uterine morphology and function in short, prepubertal small-for-gestational-age (SGA) girls.

Design: A multinational, randomized controlled trial on safety and efficacy of GH therapy in short, prepubertal children born SGA.

Setting: Not applicable.

[Neck pain in children can be caused by a retropharyngeal abscess].

A six-year-old boy presented with fever, neck pain, and ear pain. Within days, the motility of his neck limited, his temperature rose, and blood samples showed signs of infection. On suspicion of cervical spondylodiscitis, a bone scintigraphy was performed, but gave negative results.

Uterus and ovaries in girls and young women with Turner syndrome evaluated by ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.

Objective: To determine uterine and ovarian size in Turner syndrome (TS) and to compare uterine and ovarian size evaluated by transabdominal ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in girls with TS and two groups of controls.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Patients: Forty-one girls with TS (17·0 ± 3·3 years, range 11·2-24·9 years), 50 healthy age-matched controls (16·9 ± 3·2 years, range 12·5-25·0 years) and 107 Tanner-stage-matched controls (15·0 ± 3·2 years, range 10·1-24·2).

[Generalized seizures as onset of Gitelman's syndrome].

Gitelman's syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome presenting with hypocalciuria, hypomagnesiemia and hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. This case reports a patient admitted with generalized seizures with the above-mentioned biochemical abnormalities, thus representing a rare onset of Gitelman's syndrome which - to our knowledge - has not been described previously. The patient had a homozygote deletion of the CLC-KB gene, CLCNKB.