A randomised trial of high-flow nasal cannula in infants with moderate bronchiolitis.

Background: The objective was to determine whether high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), a promising respiratory support in infant bronchiolitis, could reduce the proportion of treatment failure requiring escalation of care.

Methods: In this randomised controlled trial, we assigned infants aged <6 months who had moderate bronchiolitis to receive either HFNC at 3 L·kg·min or standard oxygen therapy. Crossover was not allowed.

[Necrotizing community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia].

Acute necrotizing pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine secreting Staphylococcus aureus was identified as a clinical entity by Gilet et al., in 2002. This severe acute necrotizing pneumonia occurring in previously healthy children and adolescents can lead to a rapid fatal outcome even if quickly diagnosed and treated.

[Management of antenatal fetal abdominal tumors. Clues for the diagnosis of a congenital mesoblastic nephroma].

The prenatal diagnosis of abdominal mass poses the problem of its origin. Renal tumors are rarer than neuroblastoma but they are most often congenital mesoblastic nephroma. The congenital mesoblastic nephroma has a good forecast in spite of a sonographic impressive aspect.