Gynecologic Bleeding Complications in Postmenarchal Female Adolescents Receiving Antithrombotic Medications.

Study Objective: The prevalence, clinical features, and management of gynecologic bleeding complications and health care provider awareness of these in postmenarchal adolescents receiving antithrombotic medications has rarely been addressed in the literature. We sought to address these issues in a review of our experience in a pediatric tertiary care center.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A retrospective chart review was conducted with institutional review board approval from 2004 to 2014, on eligible postmenarchal adolescents receiving antithrombotic medications.

Assessment of an Electronic Intervention in Young Women with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding.

Unlabelled: STUDY OBJECTIVE, DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, INTERVENTIONS, AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Bleeding disorders (BD) occur in up to 50% of adolescents with heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB). This presents unique challenges to health care providers because of the complexity of treating the condition and such complexity can result in difficulty with patients understanding basic information about their condition, limit communication with medical providers, and patient compliance. The aim of the study was to use an electronic approach to enhance patient compliance with medications used to treat their HMB, and to provide educational access to adolescents with BD.

Medical therapy for pediatric vascular anomalies.

Vascular anomalies (VAs) comprise a large variety of individual diagnoses that in different phases of treatment require a diverse number of medical specialists to provide optimal care. Medical therapies include agents usually associated with cancer chemotherapy, such as vincristine, as well more immunomodulatory types of drugs, such as glucocorticoids and sirolimus. These immunomodulating drugs are being successfully applied in cases that are typically categorized as vascular tumors, including kaposiform hemangioendothelioma (KHE) and tufted angioma (TA), as well as some of the more invasive types of vascular malformations (i.