Extrahepatic Portal Vein Thrombosis in Childhood: Risk Factors, Clinical Manifestations, and Management.

Objective: Extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis (EHPVT) is a common cause of portal hypertension in children. The aim of the present study was to identify the clinical manifestations and the risk factors for development of EHPVT in pediatric patients.

Subjects And Methods: This was a single-center retrospective cohort study.

Artificial Reproductive Technology - A Risk Factor for Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Background: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding vasoproliferative disease in premature babies. The presentation and course of ROP are determined by a complex interaction of a series of risk factors, including artificial reproductive technology (ART).

Aim: To analyse and combine the information relating ART as an independent risk factor for retinopathy of prematurity.

[Intrauterine hypotrophy and programming the health status. Late problems in newborns with intrauterine hypotrophy].

In recent years, accumulating more and more evidence demonstrating the programming effects of intrauterine development on the subsequent health of the individual. Intrauterine fetal hypotrophy is a consequence of the wide range of pathological processes in different periods of pregnancy. It is the second leading cause of perinatal death after prematurity.

[Small for gestational age newborns--definition, etiology and neonatal treatment].

Newborns with intrauterine hypotrophy are at particular risk group of neonates. Diagnosis based on an adequate estimated gestational age, compared with accurate anthropometric measurements after birth. Among children born with low birth weight (< 2500 g) stands in one particular group--those small for gestational age SGA (Small for Gestational Age-SGA), whose health problems are studied intensively in recent years.

[The late preterm infants--time to put our mind].

As late preterm infants are defined children born in the 340/7- 366/7 gestational age period. Their body mass is usually above 2500, that's why they are often incorrectly rated as mature by both parents and the medical professionals. Infants born in the period 34-37 g.