Pediatric intracranial empyema complicating otogenic and sinogenic infection.

Objective: To describe and compare clinical and microbiological features, surgical and medical management, and outcomes of children with otogenic and sinogenic intracranial empyema (IE) in an institution with an established multidisciplinary protocol. To use the study findings to inform and update the institutional algorithm.

Methods: Retrospective analysis was carried out on the electronic healthcare records of all children with oto-sinogenic IE admitted in a 5-year period.

Acute bronchiolitis: Experience of home oxygen therapy in "Hospital at Home" care from 2012 to 2014: Home oxygen therapy in "Hospital at Home" for bronchiolitis.

Aim: To describe the management of home oxygen therapy for infants with acute bronchiolitis through a home care network: Hospital at Home (HAH).

Methods: A retrospective observational study was carried out during two consecutive winters from 2012 to 2014.

Results: A total of 141 patients were eligible for home oxygen therapy, and 54 were discharged on home oxygen therapy through HAH.

Discharge of newborns with risk factors of severe hyperbilirubinemia: description of a hospital at home-based care monitoring and phototherapy.

Neonatal jaundice is common and associated with delay in hospital discharge and risk of neurological sequelae if not treated. The objectives of the study were to report on our experience of the monitoring and treatment of neonatal jaundice in a home care setting and its feasibility and safety for neonates with high risk of severe hyperbilirubinemia. The 2-year study has been led in the greater Paris University Hospital At Home (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris).

[Infantile choriocarcinoma: an uncommon and curable tumor].

Choriocarcinoma is a malignant growth of trophoblastic cells characterized by secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Infantile choriocarcinoma is a very rare tumor, which is a complication of gestational choriocarcinoma and usually had very poor prognosis before chemotherapy was used. We report 1 new case as well as a review of the literature since 1945.