[Children and pregnant women at high altitude].

Nowadays, high altitude resorts have become popular destinations for family vacations. Based on a limited number of publications and international guidelines, this article summarizes the effects of high altitude on children and pregnant women. Children also suffer from high altitude-related diseases, however their presentation and clinical significance are different from their adult counterparts.

Hepatic trauma in children: long-term follow-up.

The purpose of this report is to assess the role of long-term clinical and hepatic ultrasound (US) follow-up in children who sustained blunt liver trauma. Forty-three children with blunt hepatic injury were prospectively studied between 1976 and 1994 in our institution. Four patients died (9%).

[Chronic meningococcemia and IgA deficiency in an adolescent].

Background: Chronic meningococcemia, defined as a meningococcal septicemia without meningeal symptoms with persistence of fever for at least one week prior to any antibiotics, is uncommon. Its pathophysiology remains unclear and a defect in host immunity has been suggested.

Case Report: A 15 year-old adolescent was examined because he suffered from fever for 6 days, headache, arthralgias.

"C" trigonocephaly syndrome with diaphragmnatic hernia.

We report on a 6-year-old girl with C-trigonocephaly syndrome and diaphragmatic hernia. She is severely mentally retarded and shows the characteristic findings of this syndrome, including trigonocephaly, unusual facial features, especially intra-oral anomalies, low set and dysplastic ears, cardiac anomaly and neonatal hypotonia. Following our presentation at the 5th European meeting of dysmorphology in Strasbourg, P.